Sentences with phrase «us oil and gas facilities»

It will be recalled that the militants have urged President Buhari to discontinue his pretentious plea to them to cease bombing oil and gas facilities and commence dialogue with their stakeholders to avert looming disaster.

The Nigerian Army had on Sunday announced the arrest of 10 suspected militants specialised in disruption of oil and gas facilities and their weapons.

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...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has condemned in strongest terms, the recent attacks on the oil and gas facilities across the...

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.

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.

«This operation was aimed at tackling the security challenges posed to safety of lives and critical oil and gas facilities in the region.

That work is ongoing, but suggests that methane emissions from oil and gas facilities exceed US government estimates1.

MethaneSAT is an offshoot of the EDF's research on greenhouse - gas emissions from US oil and gas facilities.

«There's a lot more opportunity with large - scale projects at these new oil and gas facilities that are being built.»

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.

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 ICR was part of the previous administration's plan to crack down on emissions from existing oil and gas facilities — a piece of President Obama's broader Climate Action Plan.

Regularly checking oil and gas facilities for leaky equipment is the most effective way to identify both big pollution sources — which our study focused on — but also smaller sources that together make up a significant share of industry emissions.

Herd - selection criteria included potential exposure to oil and gas facilities, herd size, quality of available records, an established relationship with a local veterinary clinic, and participant interest.

The Carbon Limits study, which analyzed records from over 4,000 surveys of oil and gas facilities, reported that 97 percent of the volume of leaks comes from leaks which are economic to repair — i.e., the revenues from the additional gas are greater than the cost of the repair.

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.

In a statement, Gary Wockner, of Clean Water Action, said «Fracking and operating oil and gas facilities in floodplains is extremely risky.

So will the 74,000 people within a half - mile of oil and gas facilities on public lands across America who deal with the smog - forming and toxic, cancer - causing air pollutants emitted along with methane during oil and gas operations.

«Many of the state's oil and gas facilities are old and decrepit.

The construction of such farm and ranch improvements within the Wind Flow Zone and the construction of improvements outside the Wind Flow Zone shall be deemed not to interfere with the free and unobstructed natural wind flow over the Premises to the WTG; provided however, Grantee shall not construct any WTG within one thousand four hundred (1,400) feet of the main residence on the Premises or one thousand (1,000) feet of any other existing, permanent residence or barn, either of which is located immediately adjacent to the main residence, or within one hundred fifty (150) feet from any other existing structures, pump jacks, tank batteries, or other above ground oil and gas facilities located on the Premises as of the Effective Date, without Owner's prior written consent.

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.

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) this week announced plans to launch a $ 40 million methane - detecting satellite that EDF President Fred Krupp touts «would be the first capable of monitoring worldwide all oil and gas facilities with precision.»

Most recently, the EPA announced that it would begin regulating methane from existing oil and gas facilities, with the ultimate goal of cutting methane from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025.

We guide and advise our clients through the process of developing, financing and operating a wide range of onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities; from licensing through to decommissioning.

Summary of Qualifications: 20 years of total field experience - Chemical Plants, Refineries, Oil and Gas facilities, Gas and Steam Turbines, Manufacturing Facilities

Not exact matches

The report comes as world oil and gas prices are falling and other major LNG developers, including Malaysian state - owned Petronas, put their B.C. LNG export facility plans on hold.

Perth - headquartered international oil and gas services firm ASCO Group has officially opened a $ 110 million supply base facility at Darwin Port.

Its 5,000 square metre purpose built hydro technical facility, positioned on a 10,000 sqm site, will provide hydraulic services to the booming oil and gas, marine and shipbuilding industries.

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.

Before their combination, both EQT and Rice operated midstream businesses — which transport oil and gas from wells to processing, transportation and shipping facilities — through limited partnerships.

(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 technology.

Suncor Energy (TSX: SU), Canada's largest oil and gas producer by market capitalization, said Wednesday an eight - week maintenance project at its Syncrude facility will begin Thursday almost three weeks ahead than originally planned.

From life sciences, aerospace, datacenters, oil + gas, luxury retail, sports technology + fitness, and commercial real estate, our team of nearly 1,750 professionals keeps these industries buildings and facilities operating efficiently, sustainably and on budget.

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 welAnd 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 weland gas wells.

Clients include mines and exploration camps, oil and gas open and rig camps, correctional institutions, military bases, restaurants and dining facilities.

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.

They can range from former gas stations or auto repair facilities where gasoline and oil has leaked into the ground, to large former factories.

It has been selected as Europe's research centre of excellence and has received over half a million pounds of European funding to enable researchers to make use of its oil and gas energy research facilities.

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 effluents.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

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).

Refineries, pipelines and remote fields of oil and gas wellheads can be hard to monitor, but an orbiting satellite traveling over 4 miles per second can measure a facility's emissions more cheaply, more accurately and more often.