Sentences with phrase «most of the natural gas»

Although most of the natural gas produced is consumed domestically, exports have also flourished.

There is unexplored oil on the order of 90 billion barrels and 1.67 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report, but most of the natural gas lies in the Arctic Ocean closest to Russia.

Until about 1950 most of the natural gas pipelines in New York and elsewhere were made of molded cast - iron.

SCE obtains most of its natural gas supplies from Southern California Gas Company, which owns the underground Aliso Canyon facility that leaked more than 97,000 metric tons of methane from late October 2015 through mid-February this year.

Instead, they import most of their natural gas from states like Pennsylvania, where hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus shale has brought jobs, prosperity, and lower energy bills — New York's electric bills are 36 percent higher than neighboring Pennsylvania's.

NYISO has added over 11.6 GW of generation since 2000, most of it natural gas - fired.

Not exact matches

Harvard's Michael Porter argues that cutting coal in favour of natural gas is the most pragmatic solution at the moment

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.

Beyond climate change, low - cost natural gas has been one of the most important transformations to have occurred for the energy industry in the United States.

When it comes to the natural gas side of things, then I think it's a question of what is the most efficient market dynamic.

China claims most of the South China Sea, an important trade route which is believed to contain large quantities of oil and natural gas, and has been building artificial islands on reefs, some with ports and air strips.

It's a low - cost producer, it's in four of the five most attractive natural gas basins in North America and it pays a 3.56 % yield.

The oil, natural gas, and petroleum company focuses most of its energy on exploration and production.

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

In the last federal budget, Natural Resources Canada was allocated $ 2.5 million over the next two years to study regional clean energy cooperation, with the aim of identifying «the most promising electricity infrastructure projects with the potential to achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions.»

Imagine a world in which most of the vehicles are electric and yet they are powered off the grid by natural gas and solar.

For most of the past decade, in fact, the number of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) on North American roads has been declining.

Woodside Petroleum has moved to bolster its expansion plans at the $ 13 billion Pluto liquefied natural gas project with a deal to take sole control of its four most significant recent gas discoveries.

After the end of the Cold War, Russia's economy had been buoyed by a rapidly expanded international market for its vast natural resources, most notably oil and natural gas.

Cheap natural gas has been an important source of fuel for the oilsands, but most of Canada already had abundant hydro - electrical endowments to power homes and businesses at relatively low cost, so shale hasn't been much of a revolution over here (pdf).

Most recently she served as director of external affairs and communications for Spectra Energy's Canadian LNG business, responsible for development of natural gas infrastructure investment opportunities related to liquefied natural gas in Western Canada, as well as development of strategies to address market, regulatory, and stakeholder risks associated with potential LNG projects.

Lending to oil and natural gas producers poses a bigger threat to U.S. banks than most other industrial sectors, said Bill Haas, deputy comptroller for midsize bank supervision at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates 1,620 national banks and thrifts.

Whereas today most British Columbians burn natural gas to heat their homes, 15 years from now many of those furnaces will be replaced by high - efficiency heat pumps — electric units that transfer heat from outside your home to warm the air indoors, and work even when it's much cooler outside.

Until recently, many thought the West was running out of gas — most of the easily accessible natural gas finds were being depleted, making the West reliant on ever more distant, ever more difficult reserves to exploit.

For most of the 2000s, China experienced extremely high growth in natural gas consumption (17.4 % in 2013 for example).

Most of FPL energy is generated through natural gas (70 %) and nuclear (23 %).

I like the regional focus, and this resource focus of natural gas and the East Coast for the most part.

Natural gas futures allow investors the opportunity to trade in one of the hottest, most in - demand energy commodities in the global economy today — a commodity that is likely to continue to increase in value as the years go by.

Regular readers of the financial press know that most energy analysts often focus on two commodities: oil and natural gas.

Mr. Weilinger said most of Mr. Hill's work with the company - which began almost two months before Ms. Clark's leadership victory - has to do with «getting the natural gas story out in B.C. from a whole bunch of different perspectives.»

The timing couldn't be worse for the first production of natural gas from Australia's $ 54 billion Gorgon project — the world's most expensive.

Most of the current attention is focused on the lack of adequate pipeline capacity to carry the oil and natural gas to markets.

Solar, wind and hydropower, along with natural gas, will make up most of the difference.

Many of the most recent contacts, arranged between December 2015 and September 2016, target the Ministry of Natural Gas the Oil and Gas Commission, and Premier Christy Clark's office.

Most of the energy Emmi currently consumes comes from the fossil fuel natural gas.

From more than a thousand of reviews by parents in various websites, the most rated and appreciated baby bottle specifically designed for colic and gas is much likely to be the Dr. Brown's Natural Flow.

Most of our business owners have developed oil and natural gas — or provided goods and professional services to the industry in New York — for decades.

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

She said she was most proud of fighting for the so - called Safe Act, a gun - control law that New York enacted after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a process known as fracking.

One of the most contentious areas of debate over the expansion of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas concerns a spike in seismic activity in unlikely areas that have begun fracking nearby.

«I called for a ban on fracking for natural gas as the Green gubernatorial candidate in 2010 at a time when most environmentalists urged a moratorium so that the health and environmental impacts of fracking could be studied,» Hawkins wrote.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

One of the most active journalists covering the story of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale Region says it's become controversial partly because of a spotty environmental record for the industry, and partly because of a lack of openness on the part of gas drilling firms about what they're doing and how they're doing it.

«New York is facing some of the most complex sustainability challenges in a generation, particularly in the areas of natural gas drilling and reductions in environmental staff and programs,» New York League of Conservation Voters President Marcia Bystryn said, adding that Martens «will be up to the challenge.»

He didn't mention two of the most controversial issues facing the Legislature: Independent redrawing of election districts that could threaten the Republicans» slim majority in the Senate, and the regulation of «hydrofracking» for natural gas upstate that concerns the Assembly Democrats and environmental groups.

Some greenhouse gases (most of the halocarbons, for example) have no natural source.

The study, published online today in Environmental Science & Technology, provides the most comprehensive set yet of direct measurements of emissions from the distribution system and, with a series of partner studies, is helping to determine the natural gas industry's contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to global warming.

While most scientists agree that the surge has been triggered by the injection of wastewater from oil and gas production into deep wells, some have suggested these quakes are natural, arising from faults in the crust that move on their own every so often.