Sentences with phrase «u.s. natural gas resources»

Those abundant U.S. natural gas resources, which can meet and exceed our domestic needs, while allowing for exports to a world that will need 40 percent more in supplies in the next decade.

Not exact matches

For instance, Mexico could rely on its own oil resources to displace some of the U.S. natural gas it is now buying, but she does see a 60 percent chance a new NAFTA deal will be approved.

The U.S. Department of the Interior is the steward and manager of America's natural resources including oil, gas, clean coal, hydropower, and renewable energy sources.

Range Resources is an exploration and production company focused on natural gas, mostly in Appalachia and the Southwestern U.S..

The finding is likely to shape how the U.S. regulates and develops natural gas resources across the eastern Appalachians

This new cold war is all about trade and resources: According to a 2008 study by the U.S. Geologic Survey, the Arctic has 20 percent of the planet's undiscovered and recoverable oil and natural gas deposits.

So in addition to using our naturally abundant natural gas in the U.S., we can also use a multitude of wasted resources that have no home today,» said Rebecca Boudreaux, president of Oberon Fuels, on the sidelines of a Capitol Hill briefing on DME last week.

Natural gas and domestic oil production got a shout - out in the address as part of the President's vision of supporting domestic energy resources, something that several Republican lawmakers were pleased, and perhaps surprised, to hear.What I thought was more interesting was the President specifically calling out how big of a consumer of energy the U.S.

While technology improvements have lessened the occurrence of oil spills in the last 40 years, the Mineral Management Service a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf, projects about one oil spill per year of at least 1,000 barrels in the Gulf of Mexico over the next 40 years.

Philip Sharp, president of Resources for the Future, calls it a «tremendous boon» to the U.S. natural gas supply.

In June 2016, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific associations sent a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers that reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

I suggest they look at what's happening in the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, which — with its emphasis on innovation and technology — continues to be a powerful resource on both of these fronts.

Imagine lobbyists for the Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Nature Conservancy controlled an EPA rulemaking panel that would decide whether a petition to cap greenhouse gas emissions sponsored by the U.S. Climate Action Partnership — an alliance that includes all three aforementioned environoia groups — would become law.

Modern hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling allows multiple wells to be drilled from one spot, reducing the size of the drilling area above ground by as much as 90 percent.4 Fracking is the key to unlocking vast U.S. shale resources, freeing up oil and natural gas that previously was inaccessible while protecting groundwater supplies and the environment.

The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) reports that over 1,300 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable shale and tight natural gas and 89 billion barrels 9 of technically recoverable shale oil resources currently exist in discovered shale and tight sandstone plays.

The U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is estimated to contain vast undiscovered oil and natural gas resources.

In a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific societies today reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

Increasingly favorable economics for renewable energy, natural gas and storage made that transition tolerable for U.S. utilities, and they planned to go big on those resources.

As Dr. Curtis mentioned, the U.S. natural gas revolution is the result of better knowledge of resources and advancements in well development and stimulation technologies.

Alaska «s North Slope accounted for 25 percent of U.S. domestic oil and natural gas production in 1988, but production has plummeted because the U.S. government has largely prevented exploration for new resources in the state both onshore and offshore.

Senator Inhofe (9/14/12) reports: «The letter outlines the Senators» view that «ownership and operation of U.S. business operations by foreign governments via their corporate proxies becomes particularly concerning when critical natural resources such as oil and natural gas are involved.

The CPP will accelerate the U.S. BPS resource mix transition to natural gas and renewables and «transform grid - level reliability services, diversity, and flexibility,»

Plentiful oil and natural - gas reserves exist around the world, but the U.S. is far ahead of every other country in bringing those resources out of the ground and onto the market, writes WSJ.

Judge Anthony W. Ishii of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled in favor of the state of California and environmental groups Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhouse gas law.

ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW Secretary of Environment & Natural Resources: Victor Lichtinger Total Energy Consumption (2000E): 6.18 quadrillion Btu * (1.6 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related Carbon Emissions (2000E): 103.2 million metric tons of carbon (1.6 % of world total carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 62.5 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 16,509 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.28 metric tons of carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.18 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (54.7 %), Transportation (24.8 %), Residential (15.9 %), Commercial (4.6 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (50.9 %), Transportation (31.1 %), Residential (13.2 %), Commercial (4.8 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Oil (63.2 %), Natural Gas (23.7 %), Coal (4.0 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (73.5 %), Natural Gas (20.4 %), Coal (6.2 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 713.7 trillion Btu * (1 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 6.9 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified March 11th, 1993).

Eighty percent of voters support increased development of U.S. oil and natural gas resources including 71 percent of Democrats, 94 percent of Republicans and 76 percent of Independents.

Well known for its vast oil and natural gas reserves, Oklahoma will come to be recognized for its wind resources as well, currently ranking in the top 10 U.S. states for wind - energy potential.

U.S. natural gas production over the past three years has exceeded even the high - end resource projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Over the past few years, wind, solar, and natural gas have made up nearly all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. And earlier this year, wind energy surpassed conventional hydropower to become the country's largest renewable resource, with enough installed to power 25 million homes.

Rather than invest where the best tax regime can be found, oil and natural gas companies invest where the resource is located, continuing to spend billions of dollars on new and existing domestic projects each year despite U.S. tax rates that are the highest in the developed world.

Breaking a streak of five years in which wind power was the second - largest new resource added to the U.S. electrical grid in terms of aggregate gross capacity, in 2010 wind power placed third, behind the 7,200 MW of new natural gas and 6,000 MW of new coal - fired generation capacity.

Natural gas is playing an increasingly important role in meeting U.S. and global energy needs and could serve as a «bridge fuel» for countries as they transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

Mr. Sweeney, who advises clients on a broad range of U.S. domestic and international oil and gas, coal, and other natural resource, infrastructure and finance transactions, comes to Akin Gump from K&L Gates, where he was a partner.