In a statement, Gary Wockner, of Clean Water Action, said «Fracking and operating
oil and gas facilities in floodplains is extremely risky.
«This operation was aimed at tackling the security challenges posed to safety of lives and critical
oil and gas facilities in the region.
Commander of the JTF in Niger Delta, Rear Admiral Suleiman Apochi who made this known in a statement, said, «In line with the Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) mandate to protect critical
Oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta region, a deliberate operation code named Op Ember Safe was conducted by the Force.
Embattled former militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, on Monday denied sponsoring the Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on
oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta.
A Niger Delta Militant Group under the auspices of Urhobo Liberation Force, ULF today threatened to blow up
Oil and Gas facilities in Urhobo land if the...
Not exact matches
Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred
and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used
in the energy industry, including at nuclear
facilities,
and oil and gas plants.
(The baseline applies to all
facilities in Alberta, not just the
oil and gas industry, as would be the case with federal regulation.)
Impact on
oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production
in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the
facility reduced production by 10 percent,
and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the
facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of
oil produced would also remain constant.»
Beyond the actual
gas project
and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake
in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technolog
in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers
and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese
oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported
oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player
in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technolog
in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction
and engineering prowess
and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93
In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technolog
In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG
and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import
facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national
gas producer
and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment
and technology.
This is despite the efficiency gains have been realized for
in situ
oil sands operations
and bitumen upgrading
facilities, driven
in part by Alberta's Specified
Gas Emitters Regulation.
And it was great that the rally was held right in our constituency, at the huge facilities of Packers Plus, a high - tech manufacturing company that produces downhole tools for completing oil and gas wel
And it was great that the rally was held right
in our constituency, at the huge
facilities of Packers Plus, a high - tech manufacturing company that produces downhole tools for completing
oil and gas wel
and gas wells.
The Nigerian Army had on Sunday announced the arrest of 10 suspected militants specialised
in disruption of
oil and gas facilities and their weapons.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has condemned
in strongest terms, the recent attacks on the
oil and gas facilities across the...
The
facility which operates
in the Jubilee
oil fields off the coast of Ghana has the capacity to process 120,000 barrels of
oil per day
and has a storage capacity of 1.6 million barrels, with an associated
gas production capacity of 160 million standard cubic feet a day.
But the administration has now taken a similar tack on a number of other controversial projects, staying silent rather than approving or blocking them, including a major proposed propane storage project
in the Finger Lakes, the construction of new liquefied natural
gas storage areas across the state
and a crude -
oil heating
facility at the Port of Albany.
The department has been sitting on a number of key decisions as well, including approvals of natural
gas pipelines, an underground
gas storage
facility in the Finger Lakes
and crude
oil heating
facility for the Port of Albany.
In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluent
In 2011,
in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluent
in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental
and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids
and other unconventional
oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment
facilities that release high salinity effluents.
At least one other similar crater has been found
in the area,
and there's concern that the next chasm could topple nearby
oil and gas facilities, or even homes.
According to a RAN report published
in June, 25 banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase
and BNP Paribas, have invested $ 784 billion
in coal mining, coal power, «extreme
oil»
and liquefied natural
gas facilities between 2013
and 2015 (ClimateWire, June 15).
Researchers have developed an infrared imaging system that could one day offer low - cost, real - time detection of methane
gas leaks
in pipelines
and at
oil and gas facilities.
The South African chemical
and oil giant Sasol wanted a permit to build the first U.S.
facility that converts natural
gas into diesel fuel — the largest industrial project
in the state's history.
I stumbled on an announcement from Park Systems for a webinar designed for the
oil and gas industry after my June 8, 2015 post featuring Abakan
and its new Alberta (Canada)- based cladding
facility designed for
oil and gas pipes
in particular.
The SMU Geothermal Lab is an active research
facility with a variety of ongoing geothermal resource projects which strive to broaden the understanding
and use of geothermal energy, from the simplest form - geothermal heat pumps for buildings, to the large - scale deployment of geothermal power plants providing energy for our cities while also exploring opportunities to integrate renewable geothermal projects
in an
oil &
gas setting.
The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse
gas emissions from the
oil and natural
gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such
facilities have increased
in the U.S. between 2011
and 2014, total greenhouse
gas emissions from
oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.
It provides essential services to
oil and gas producers
in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin through its integrated network of infrastructure, which includes gathering pipelines, natural
gas processing plants, natural
gas liquids processing, transportation,
and storage
facilities,
and an industry - leading condensate handling system.
JPMorgan likes Andeavor Logistics (ANDX, $ 48, 8.4 %), which operates
oil and gas pipelines, processing
facilities,
and storage centers
in the western
and mid-continent regions.
Now it's becoming clear that this simple
and affordable technology has played a two - pronged role
in helping the Environmental Protection Agency,
in the face of perpetual industry resistance, move toward clamping down on leaks of methane
and other compounds from
oil and gas wells, tanks
and other
facilities.
In the related Dot Earth post, I included some remarkable video shot for the Environmental Protection Agency showing the difference between looking at an
oil or
gas facility with a standard camera
and one tuned to the infrared wavelengths absorbed by
gases like methane — the main constituent of natural
gas:
I've done some writing
in this arena, most notably
in my coverage of opportunities to stanch vast leaks of natural
gas (most of which is methane, a potent greenhouse
gas) from
oil and gas facilities around the world.
The ProPublica piece expands on findings I reported
in the print paper
and on Dot Earth
in 2009 showing that the amount of
gas leakage from wells, pipelines
and storage
facilities for
gas and oil was vastly greater than longstanding Environmental Protection Agency estimates.
The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the
oil and natural
gas industry,
and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry
facilities, said the New York attorney general's office
in a statement.
Homes
and commercial
facilities in the Northeast rely on electricity,
oil, propane, or
gas to generate heat for hot water.
Who is actively fighting to ensure government policies shutter U.S. nuclear energy
facilities; keep domestic coal, natural
gas,
and oil in the ground; force up energy prices through taxes
and regulations;
and endanger national security by installing wind farms near military bases?
In January 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that Texas oil refineries, power plants, and other industrial facilities spewed out 294 million tons of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in 2010 — more than the next two top emitters, Pennsylvania and Florida, combine
In January 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that Texas
oil refineries, power plants,
and other industrial
facilities spewed out 294 million tons of carbon dioxide, methane,
and other greenhouse
gases in 2010 — more than the next two top emitters, Pennsylvania and Florida, combine
in 2010 — more than the next two top emitters, Pennsylvania
and Florida, combined.
The energy system is both a source of emissions that lead to global warming
and it can also be directly affected by climate change: through changes
in our energy consumption patterns, potential shutdowns of offshore
oil and gas production, changing ice
and snow conditions
in the
oil production regions of Alaska, changing sea ice conditions
in the Arctic Ocean
and the implications for shipping routes,
and impacts of sea - level rise on coasts, where so much of our energy
facility infrastructure is located.
Current official inventories of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse
gas released from landfills, livestock ranches
and oil and gas facilities, may be underestimated both nationally
and in California by a factor of about 1.5, according to new research from Berkeley Lab
and others.
Oil and gas facilities also typically wait until the last possible moment to shut down plants before major storms or other extreme weather events,
in order to maximize revenue.
In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented policies that will reduce methane pollution from new
oil and gas facilities that are developed.
Tim serves as a Senior Program Manager
and has been involved
in a wide range of projects, including power generation
and transmission,
oil &
gas development, site assessment
and remediation, CEQA
and NEPA anlyses,
and coastal zone permitting for industrial
facilities.
The National Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
and U.S. Forest Service (USFS),
in cooperation with the Departments of Commerce
and Defense, to designate new right - of - way corridors on federal lands for electricity transmission
and distribution
facilities,
and oil,
gas,
and hydrogen pipelines.
The flood that began late last week toppled dozens of
oil and gas storage tanks
and swamped other production
facilities at sites
in the flood plain.
The state
oil and gas commission is trying to compile a comprehensive list of
facilities in the flooded areas
and their status, including what chemicals they had on site.
Steve has represented clients
in the acquisition, development, financing
and divestiture of numerous properties, including
oil and gas fields, coal
and hardrock mines, energy transportation, refining
and processing
facilities,
and hydro,
gas and wind generation
facilities.
the administrative agent for the senior secured lender group to Memorial Production Operating LLC, an
oil and gas company operating
in the US
in connection with the restructuring of its US$ 925 credit
facility
the administrative agent for the sensor secured lender group under a US$ 700m loan to Atlas Resources Partners, an
oil and gas company operating
in the U.S.
in connection with a pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan
and the related exit
facility
Successfully represented Mexico's first independent
oil and gas company
in their co-investment to develop midstream
facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.
Representation of a U.S. independent
oil and gas company
in connection with its acquisition
and mezzanine financing of a federal offshore Gulf of Mexico
gas field for conversion to a natural
gas storage
facility.
Consulted with a major
oil and gas producer
in the resolution of contractor claims related to the design
and construction of a major
oil sands upgrading
facility.
In the oil and gas arena, our lawyers work with regulated and unregulated clients to develop innovative business solutions to ongoing challenges in regulation, including certification of new LNG facilities, exports and imports, ratemaking, tariff design, investigations, regulatory compliance, and trial and appellate litigatio
In the
oil and gas arena, our lawyers work with regulated
and unregulated clients to develop innovative business solutions to ongoing challenges
in regulation, including certification of new LNG facilities, exports and imports, ratemaking, tariff design, investigations, regulatory compliance, and trial and appellate litigatio
in regulation, including certification of new LNG
facilities, exports
and imports, ratemaking, tariff design, investigations, regulatory compliance,
and trial
and appellate litigation.
Barry has led or had a central role
in transactions involving more than 60 countries spanning a wide range of sectors, including power (coal,
gas, wind
and nuclear),
oil and gas (pipelines, petrochemical
and other
facilities), ports
and aviation, satellite / telecom
and other areas.