Sentences with phrase «as oil and gas extraction»

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The spill also highlighted awareness of the risks associated with oil and gas production — sure, oilsands might have appeared relatively better as a result, but in absolute terms, they were easily portrayed as yet another example of the high costs and high risks associated with oil extraction.

After falling for four consecutive months, support activities for mining and oil and gas extraction rose 9.9 % in April, as both rigging and drilling services advanced.

The Company's Sand segment consists of the production and sale of various grades of industrial sand primarily used in the extraction of oil and natural gas, as well as the production of building products and foundry materials.

For years, Nigeria has actually been burning vast quantities of gas, which is a by - product of crude oil extraction and can not be brought to potential markets like Europe as easily as oil.

Likewise, Mr. Astorino seems intent on making an issue of hydraulic fracturing, the gas and oil extraction method known as fracking.

MPA rules vary, but may have restrictions on human uses such as fishing, habitat alteration, or oil and gas extraction in order to protect different ecosystems.

That surge has coincided in time and place with the boom in unconventional oil and gas extraction such as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» in which high - pressure fluid is injected into the ground to break up the underlying rock and release trapped gas or oil.

Employment has not yet dropped substantially, but the Conference Board expects the labor market to soften, as indicated by «a significant drop in new job ads in oil and gas extraction - related occupations,» the post says (emphasis in original).

Injecting wastewater deep underground as a byproduct of oil and gas extraction techniques that include fracking causes human - made earthquakes, the lead author of new research from Arizona State University said Thursday.

Image courtesy: Top of the Mitt Watershed CouncilANN ARBOR — University of Michigan researchers today released the final version of a report analyzing policy options for the state of Michigan regarding high - volume hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas and oil extraction process commonly known as fracking.

As it decreases, the lack of Arctic sea ice could reshape the economy of the region, opening previously inaccessible areas for oil and gas extraction and shipping.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Increases in oil and gas extraction as well as support activities for the mining and energy sector more than offset a drop in mining and quarrying.

The details of the report show that declines in manufacturing and mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction were the reasons for the negative month - on - month reading, with the 0.8 % contraction in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector being the main drag as well as the most disappointing since it marked the third consecutive monthly decline.

Arkady was said to have been trying to get some placing shares in the last fund raise but was too late getting the paperwork in as it was oversubscribed.Roman Abramovich gave an interview to i think a dubai newspaper in early jan where he stated he is actively seeking new oil and gas assets in siberia and he also mentioned the new proposed changes to the mineral extraction tax.So putting two and two together he must think the smaller companies in the region are prime for picking off some assets or take over.

The continued extraction of coal, oil and gas following the «business - as - usual mode» will soon create grave existential risks for the poorest three billion, and for generations yet unborn.

«Like other forms of resource [extraction] in Papua New Guinea, oil and gas extraction is promoted as a model of development,» said Natalie Lowrey, Communications Coordinator for the Deep Sea Mining Campaign.

As we noted last week, it's about the politics of «the handful of folks who profit off of the oil, coal and gas extraction industries, and the personal pain theywould like to avoid in cutting into a single cent of the most profitable industry the world has ever known.»

Some outlets have incorrectly reported that the World Bank Group will eliminate only their finance for fossil fuel exploration, but it's even bigger than that: the World Bank described it as a commitment to end «upstream oil and gas finance,» which means they're planning to phase out all of their extraction - related finance.

Depending on their location, such offshore installations may compete with a variety of other ocean activities, such as fishing, recreational activities, sand and gravel extraction, oil and gas extraction, navigation, and aquaculture.

Credits for using giant machines to remove the gas are not likely to be accepted internationally for a long time, if at all, not least because the industrial infrastructure needed for extraction would need to be about as big as the infrastructure that puts it there — oil wells, coal mines, railways, pipelines, power plants, refineries and so on.

The researchers told Mongabay.com in an email that they were surprised to learn that — perhaps due to the novelty of wind technology — there have been far fewer studies looking at its ecological impacts as compared to oil and gas extraction.

Gazprom's (OTCQX: GZPFY) reaction to shale gas, until recently, has been to dismiss it as a short lived phenomenon while pushing ahead as hard as possible with the extraction of coal bed methane and going full steam ahead with the game changing vista of Arctic oil and gas, which I will look at in a separate blog.

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

Moreover, in a world where fossil fuel resources are shrinking every year, and where the extraction of «residual» sources such as deepwater oil, tar sands and shale gas come with great environmental and safety risks, bioenergy production can also contribute to national energy security.

Oil and gas extraction would drop as well, but more gradually, as federal lands and waters represent a smaller fraction of national production, and these resources take longer to develop.

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Solar jobs now outnumber coal mining jobs two - to - one and are quickly catching up to jobs in oil and gas extraction, as well.

Under the bill, there would be no new leases for extraction of fossil fuels — such as coal, oil, and gas — on all federal lands.

Orsted A / S, the Danish company built on oil and gas extraction, will issue its first green bonds as it moves toward completing a transition to renewable energy.

In addition, while the oil and gas industry provides needed employment in low economic, rural and minority community areas and also finances significant percentages of state funds such as education, responsible resource extraction is vital as society moves toward greater conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Since Boulder County's five - year embargo was lifted in May, there has been an application from 8 North LLC, a subsidiary of Extraction Oil and Gas LLC, for a state drilling and spacing order on a 1,280 - acre area between Arapahoe and Baseline roads in the Lafayette - Erie area; as well as a proposal from Crestone Peak Resources to drill on 12 square miles near U.S. 287 and Colo. 52 between Lafayette and Longmont.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Since 2012 the PRRT applies to both onshore and offshore oil and gas, but it is set up as a tax on profits after all the exploration and extraction costs have been recouped, so it is usually many years before there is any benefit to Australia from the PRRT.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

As reported in the Los Angeles Times in late April 2015, the US Geological Survey (USGS) released a map of earthquakes «thought to be triggered by human activity in the eastern and central United States» — coinciding with the emerging view of officials «that wastewater disposal following oil and gas extraction is causing more earthquakes.»

The ratio of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for fossil energy production has tended to fall as high - quality deposits of oil, coal, and natural gas are depleted, and as society relies more on unconventional oil and gas that require more energy for extraction, and on coal that is more deeply buried or that is of lower energy content.

Meanwhile, numerous industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the extraction of coal, oil and gas, oil shale and tar sands, and liquefied natural gas development — as well as uranium mining and milling and the construction of energy corridors and long - distance electric transmission lines.

However, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that fewer than 200,000 people were employed in the oil and gas extraction industry as of May 2016, indicating that the industry employs far fewer Americans that Mr. Trump suggests.

The idea was to let the American people know that Rex Tillerson, as a lifetime employee and CEO of the ExxonMobil Corporation from 2006 to 2016, has taken little to no action to reduce Exxon's carbon burden, instead working actively to defeat climate legislation in Congress and to maximize Exxon's oil and gas extraction activities and profit at the expense of Earth's climate system.

This can help in the conservation of these functionally rich areas as oil and gas exploration and extraction increase in the tundra regions.

Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.

This is as a result of increased growth, not only in the traditional areas of the extraction industries (those being oil and gas and mining) and major infrastructure projects funded by international institutions (such as the World Bank), but also in new growth areas reflective of the growth in sophistication of African economies.

This includes such lines of work as mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.

The top - paying aircraft mechanics salaries are with major airlines; couriers and express delivery services such as FedEx or UPS; companies that manufacture navigational, measuring, electro - medical and control instruments; scientific research and development services; and gas and oil extraction companies.

The word «Development (s)» in this document means any exploration for or extraction of minerals (including oil, petroleum and gas) and all associated activities, such as construction of infrastructure, undertaken on Country.

By law, MLPs can currently only invest in energy as it pertains to oil, natural gas, coal extraction and pipeline projects.