While natural gas reserves reached another record in 2014 and oil reserves were the highest since 1972, the technically recoverable resources from which they came are enormous and will continue to supply proved reserves for Americans for decades to come.
Not exact matches
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Natural Resources: Emerging markets enjoy an abundance of natural resources, while frontier markets (despite their currently small share of global GDP) possess over 40 % of the world's oil reserves & over 25 % of its gas r
Natural Resources: Emerging markets enjoy an abundance of
natural resources, while frontier markets (despite their currently small share of global GDP) possess over 40 % of the world's oil reserves & over 25 % of its gas r
natural resources,
while frontier markets (despite their currently small share of global GDP) possess over 40 % of the world's oil
reserves & over 25 % of its
gas reserves
While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting
While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse
gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand,
while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting
while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic
reserves of
natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.
I wonder, by the way, why oil should fall so precipitously
while natural gas increases: is this somehow related to known
reserves or other sorts of grounds?
While the US produces over 20 % of the world's
natural gas, we have only 4.5 % of the world's proved
natural gas reserves.
The map below makes clear that
while there's talk in Washington of an all - of - the - above approach to energy, there's much to be done in applying that concept to our outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and
natural gas reserves.
After all,
while he attempts to interfere with progress by making such statements, our entire energy infrastructure is crumbling, our
natural gas supplies continue to dwindle, we don't have nearly enough engineers and skilled labor to expand nuclear development the way they claim we can, and our decision - makers (until very recently) have been under the false assumption that we have 250 years worth of coal
reserves.