Dissident shareholders are seeking to shake up the board of Empire Oil &
Gas at the energy company's annual general meeting next month.
Not exact matches
Instead of hedging away from
gas, as TransCanada and many other
companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that
gas will play a much bigger role in our
energy future, probably
at the expense of oil.
• BP
Energy Partners will sell portfolio
company Pinnacle Midstream, a Houston, Texas - based oil and
gas exploration
company, for
at least $ 300 million, according to Reuters.
Shares in oil and
gas explorer 88
Energy have surged after the
company completed an oversubscribed $ 25 million capital raising to fund ongoing work
at its Icewine project in Alaska.
I have had, over my time
at the University of Alberta, representatives from the Alberta Ministries of Environment,
Energy, and Finance and Enterprise, many major oil, gas, energy services, pipeline and electricity companies, Epcor, the Pembina Institute, and many others speak in my cl
Energy, and Finance and Enterprise, many major oil,
gas,
energy services, pipeline and electricity companies, Epcor, the Pembina Institute, and many others speak in my cl
energy services, pipeline and electricity
companies, Epcor, the Pembina Institute, and many others speak in my classes.
In a recent example, an oil and
gas company issued a green bond aimed
at funding projects focusing on
energy efficiency and low emissions technologies.
Mayan
Energy, the AIM listed oil and
gas company, has announced a new
gas discovery
at Stockdale field, in Wilson County, Texas, as part of its ongoing development activities
at the Morris 1 well.
RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse
gas and other air emissions
at its
energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (
at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants
at Berkshire - held
companies.
Shares of small independent oil and
gas producer SM
Energy Company (NYSE: SM) are down 12.1 % at 12:45 p.m. EST on Thursday, following the release of the company's fourth - quarter results yesterday after market close, and conference call with investors before market open
Company (NYSE: SM) are down 12.1 %
at 12:45 p.m. EST on Thursday, following the release of the
company's fourth - quarter results yesterday after market close, and conference call with investors before market open
company's fourth - quarter results yesterday after market close, and conference call with investors before market open today.
Shares of SDX
Energy Inc. [SDX - TSXV, AIM] advanced Thursday April 12 after the North Africa - focused oil and
gas company said a
gas discovery has been made
at its Ibn Yunus - IX... Read more»
Cenovus
Energy, a Canadian oil and natural
gas company, will award a $ 5,000 scholarship to two Canadian students with
at least 2 years of undergraduate study completed.
At Inverness, Kurt pursued opportunities in a wide variety of industries and executed transactions with
energy and financial services
companies including the IPO of National Oilwell Varco (formerly National Oilwell, Inc.), today a $ 30 billion oil and
gas services
company, and the acquisition and sale of Financial Alliance, Inc., a merchant payment processor with over 60,000 accounts.
As is the case
at many
energy companies, growth is being driven by oil and liquids, while management limits spending on lower - return natural
gas projects.
Centrica, the
company that owns British
Gas, is looking
at ways to use blockchain
energy to help consumers, with the announcement of a new exploratory trial.
Chesapeake
Energy Corp. (CHK - $ 6) The downturn in oil and
gas prices since late 2014 has created an opportunity to buy well - managed exploration and production
companies at discounted values.
Cation Capital, a private investment firm, plans to nominate four directors
at the upcoming annual meeting of Calgary - based Crescent Point
Energy Corp., part of its plan to bring «focused leadership with a refreshed board» to the underperforming oil and
gas company.
«Our industry's continued focus on environmental stewardship and the role that growers, manufacturers, logistics
companies, retailers and others play is driving heightened awareness and actions aimed
at reducing greenhouse
gas emissions, while simultaneously boosting cost and
energy efficiencies.»
In his showpiece speech
at the party's conference on Tuesday, Ed Miliband said he would freeze
gas and electricity bills for 20 months, prompting
energy companies to claim blackouts would follow and investment in new plant would stall.
-LRB-... In a presentation Thursday
at the Broome County Office Building, a representative from GasFrac
Energy Services Inc. said the firm, which has worked on natural
gas and oil rigs in Canada and Texas, has had discussions with
gas companies about contracting to tap into the state's portion of the Marcellus.
But while the hacks and the lobbyists all marveled
at this bold / bonkers (depending on your political slant) pledge, the membership were mostly complaining that it hadn't gone far enough; why wasn't Ed promising to re-nationalise the
energy companies and give electricity and
gas away to everyone for free?
That year, prosecutors alleged, the first bribe scheme began not long after Percoco, who had been a member of Cuomo's tiny inner circle, had dinner
at a Connecticut restaurant with Peter Galbraith Kelly, an executive with an
energy company that
at the time was trying to build a
gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.
This is a win - win:
companies will be able to reduce their
energy bills, improve their competitiveness and
at the same time create huge benefits for wider society by reducing their greenhouse
gas emissions.»
What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in
at least one case, «insulted» a major
energy -
company president by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the
gas - drilling issue with the governor.
According to Ghana's
Energy Commission, Ghana National
Gas Company's (GNGC) Atuabo gas supply, as at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total fuel supply mix for generation plants, with the West Africa Gas Pipeline having 9.1
Gas Company's (GNGC) Atuabo
gas supply, as at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total fuel supply mix for generation plants, with the West Africa Gas Pipeline having 9.1
gas supply, as
at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total fuel supply mix for generation plants, with the West Africa
Gas Pipeline having 9.1
Gas Pipeline having 9.1 %.
«It's a difficult time
at the moment, and the policy uncertainty is the main cause of it,» said Shaq Mohajerani, an Australian spokesman for wind farm
company Union Fenosa, owned by Spanish
energy giant
Gas Natural.
A privately funded
company called Tri Alpha
Energy has built a machine that forms a ball of superheated
gas —
at about 10 million degrees Celsius — and holds it steady for 5 milliseconds without decaying away.
If the
company's scientists can scale the technique up to longer times and higher temperatures, they will reach a stage
at which atomic nuclei in the
gas collide forcefully enough to fuse together, releasing
energy.
No one knows what went wrong or why,» Carlos Henrique Abreu Mendes, environmental manager for the Brazilian Petroleum
Gas and Biofuels Institute, a trade association for
energy companies, told reporters
at a press conference in May.
But Rick Kessy, operations manager for Fortuna
Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Talisman
Energy and the largest
gas producer in New York, says his
company has assessed worker exposure
at two of the
company's well sites in Pennsylvania, where it found no serious risk.
The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser
at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil,
gas and coal the world's major
energy companies hold in reserve.
The goal for most oil and
gas juniors is to be taken over by a bigger
company at a nice premium for the shareholders, says Aroway
Energy CEO Chris Cooper in an interview with OilPrice.com.
Len Edgerly, a graduate of Harvard College (1972) and the Harvard Business School (1977) has worked as a business journalist
at The Providence (R.I.) Journal - Bulletin, editor of an
energy magazine in Casper, Wyoming, and an executive
at a natural
gas company based in Denver.
Looking closer
at Cooking with
gas, you will see that CIBC
Energy and Bissett
Energy have scored the best results, buoyed by high exposure to Canadian small - and mid-cap
companies.
The 4 - 1/2 year competition is being co-sponsored by NRG, an
energy company, and COSIA (Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance) and will separate the new technologies for testing
at either a coal power plant or a natural
gas facility.
At the same time, the world's biggest
energy companies, according to a report from Carbon Tracker, are sitting on a virtual mountain of coal, oil, and
gas.
Regardless of what the Heritage Foundation thinks, the government can and does have a role to play... cut taxes on businesses and individuals who help us build a green future, conduct research or provide subsidies for private
companies to do it, help people make their homes
energy efficient, and educate, educate, educate the American people as to what's
at stake if we don't pry ourselves away from the oil / coal /
gas faucet.
Second, if divestment were to reduce the financial resources of coal, oil, and
gas companies (which it would NOT do), this would only reduce research and development
at those same
companies of: carbon capture and storage technologies; other key technological breakthroughs; and renewable sources of
energy (the fossil fuel
companies are carrying out much of the R&D on renewables).
According to utility
company APS, the Solana Generating Station solar power plant in Gila Bend, Ariz. will produce enough
energy to serve 70,000 customers when operating
at full capacity and will not emit greenhouse
gases.
Carbon dioxide data from Pieter Tans, «Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide — Mauna Loa,» NOAA / ESRL,
at www.cmdl.noaa.gov, viewed 16 October 2007, with historical estimate in data from Seth Dunn, «Carbon Emissions Dip,» in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 1999 (New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 1999), pp. 60 — 61; fossil fuel emissions calculated from International
Energy Agency, World
Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006), p. 493; deforestation emissions from Vattenfall, Global Mapping of Greenhouse
Gas Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007), p. 27.
«The reality of any technology development, particularly in the
energy space, is it's very difficult to move technologies into the marketplace without some sort of push,» said Walker Dimmig, spokesperson for NET Power, a
company now testing carbon capture technology
at its natural
gas plant in Texas.
Exxon's principal investment in clean
energy research appears to be support of the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University, which the company describes as the «largest - ever privately funded research effort in low - greenhouse - gas energy.&
energy research appears to be support of the Global Climate and
Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University, which the company describes as the «largest - ever privately funded research effort in low - greenhouse - gas energy.&
Energy Project (GCEP)
at Stanford University, which the
company describes as the «largest - ever privately funded research effort in low - greenhouse -
gas energy.&
energy.»
With the nation's
energy sector turning decisively away from coal and nuclear
energy, these
companies are betting natural
gas will be the dominant fuel for
at least the next several decades.
One, as the
energy companies pointed out to DECC, is that it will be amazingly costly and wildly uneconomical, since the dedicated power plants will often have to run
at a low rate of efficiency, burning
gas but not producing electricity.
Exchange, natural
gas: A type of
energy exchange in which one
company agrees to deliver
gas, either directly or through intermediaries, to another
company at one location or in one time period in exchange for the delivery by the second
company to the first
company of an equivalent volume or heat content
at a different location or time period.
Sets forth the Office's duties, including authorizing the Office to represent the interests of
energy customers, and appeal on behalf of such customers, on matters concerning rates or service of public utilities and natural
gas companies under FERC's jurisdiction
at specified hearings.
The French government, according to the group, is complicit in the climate - killing activities of the big oil and
gas companies present
at the summit, and needs to act like the climate champion it claims to be — by investing in renewables and
energy efficiency.
-- Instruct the new
Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four
Energy Secretary to work with oil and
gas industry to put together and implement an
energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four
energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of
energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four
energy products within four years,
at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning
companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new
Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four
Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years
At retirement, I was President of a sizable
energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable
energy plants, an oil and
gas drilling and production subsidiary, a natural
gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.
The
company expects
energy demand to grow
at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission
energy sources:
Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.
Because natural
gas may produce less CO2 equivalent per unit of
energy produced, natural
gas companies are pushing natural
gas as
at least a short - to medium - term solution to climate change