Sentences with phrase «at natural gas wells»

The spilling of several thousand gallons of chemicals at a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania shows a ban on hydraulic fracturing is necessary, Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, said this afternoon.

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CEO Randy Eresman noted in the Calgary - based company's 2011 year - end results: «For the industry as a whole, near - term natural gas prices are at levels below what it costs to add most new production, and in some places, may even be below what it costs to produce from existing wells.»

Under all five variations, plans call for the increase in solar as well as the addition of at least eight natural gas - fired facilities with a combined capacity of between 3,500 - 5,000 megawatts, Koonce said.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

Ty Wright Bloomberg Getty Images A rig hand removes a drill pipe from a natural gas well at a fracking site in Washington Township, Pa..

At $ 100 a barrel, prudent development of U.S. reserves could cut imports in half, and coupled with better use of abundant natural gas and wiser application of now available internal combustion technologies, the United States could become an energy exporter.

The other thing with natural gas is that well at least we know where the bottom is... and having fallen from close to $ 14 per 1000 cubic feet last year to just above $ 2.40 last Thursday, well the absolute bottom isn't too far off now... and I can't see suppliers giving gas away for free anytime soon!

I had gas and air as well as dimorphene with my first, my second was so fast I had no pain relief and this time I'm hoping to have another natural birth at home with a birthing pool all women are different and make their own choices with my first I begged for an epidural and my mum said no and in all honesty I'm glad I didn't have it

hello again yes we have a gorgeous little boy he born on due date 16th at 6.30 am weighing 7 lbs exactly measurin 32.5 cm length, breast feeding is going great he fed straight away for 1 hr 15 bt nw his latch is also getting better hes taking more areola instead of just nipple x the birth was fantastic natural no drugs or gas and air no interence physiological 3rd stage and 2 hrs 55 mins in labour just made the hospital.

The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources has shut down operations at the five oil and gas injection wells of the company involved in the Vienna Twp.

«You can't come here to Buffalo and criticize this governor, who is doing his best to look at this issue of natural gas opportunities and options called fracking.

They looked at more than 2,300 samples from 234 natural gas wells during mud gas logging, and 67 private groundwater supplies prior to natural gas development occurring nearby in a five county area.

The groups, which include the Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice and Frack Action, said using propane would create substantial risks because of the volatility of the gas, pointing to explosions at well sites in other states in recent years.

Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock by blasting a mix of water and chemicals at high pressure into underground wells.

As a result of the agreement, the Fund withdrew the shareholder proposal it had filed for consideration at Goodyear's annual stockholders» meeting, as well as with Nisource, which is one of the largest natural gas and electric utility companies in the United States.

That group is coordinating a number of studies aimed at better quantifying emissions from natural gas, although it was not involved in this one.

Limestone scrubbers deployed at natural gas power plants could help reduce carbon emissions as well as lower ocean acidification by pumping a byproduct of the scrubbing process back into the water, according to an experiment conducted by the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

But it's a gamble at best to think natural gas vehicles will roll out quickly enough to spread fueling stations across the country so that FCEVs can have access to hydrogen.

The researchers took direct emissions measurements of 230 randomly selected, representative leaks from underground pipelines as well as at 229 metering and regulating stations where natural gas is measured and regulated from higher pressure pipelines to lower pressure distribution pipelines.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

Local regulatory requirements may not help: for instance, although the researchers discovered methane contamination at homes within 1,000 meters of active natural gas wells, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection only holds drilling companies responsible for drinking water within 305 meters.

This means developing more of America's own energy resources, including wind, solar, clean coal, biofuels, nuclear energy, as well as oil and natural gas — which will reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil and create thousands of jobs here at home.

Lamb's methane emissions project is part of a group of ongoing studies that are looking at the entire natural gas supply chain, from the production wells to the transmission pipeline system to local distribution systems.

That's not bad, but it's still well short of the target volume - to - volume ratio, or v / v, of 263 set by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), an amount equivalent to compressing natural gas to 250 bar at 25 °C.

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.

Less encouraging was what the team discovered at 150 other well sites that were already producing natural gas.

Others, including Mark Tingay, a research fellow at Curtin University of Technology in Perth and the lead author of a study published in Geology [subscription required] in August, are fairly certain that the eruption was the result of an underground blowout in a natural gas well being dug nearby.

Although solar thermal collectors are better than photovoltaic panels or wind turbines at generating reliable power around the clock, solar thermal power is also expensive; at present energy costs, it would require government subsidies to compete with coal and natural gas, which can generate electricity much more cheaply.

The World Bank estimates that the 5.3 trillion cubic feet (150 billion cubic meters) of natural gas that bubbles up at oil wells worldwide adds some 400 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year — as well as more methane.

That is important because most oil wells do not spew a lot of natural gas, which makes the Synfuels approach useful even at smaller fields.

Increased use of natural gas is the best bet for cleaner energy in the near term, agreed fellow panelist John Reilly, a senior lecturer at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and co-director of the school's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

«Many reports have been written on the contamination of air and water by volatile organic compounds near natural - gas well sites,» said Verner, who is also a researcher at the Public Health Research Institute.

Global fossil - fuel emissions, like the CO2 emitted from the natural - gas flare at this North Dakota oil well, could show a decline this year, says a Stanford - led Global Carbon Project report.

«But there has been good progress on reducing coal consumption, often at (the) expense of more natural gas, but also renewables have done better than expected.»

Rice University scientists have discovered an environmentally friendly carbon - capture method that could be equally adept at drawing carbon dioxide emissions from industrial flue gases and natural gas wells.

At the state level, the Lab Team has been working with the Department of Conservation's Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) to provide technical expertise for the development of new beefed - up safety regulations for natural gas storage wells in CalifornGas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) to provide technical expertise for the development of new beefed - up safety regulations for natural gas storage wells in Californgas storage wells in California.

The Independent Petroleum Association of America argued in a statement that the ICR «should have been a real opportunity for the decision - makers at EPA to better understand the complexities of the U.S. oil and natural gas industry» but that «ended up not being the case.»

Natural gas is great at heating our houses, but it's not so good at fueling our cars — at least not yet.

But natural gas consists predominately of methane, so even small leaks from natural gas wells can create large climate concerns because methane is a potent greenhouse gas — it's about 30 times more effective at trapping solar heat than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period.

Researchers at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a new catalyst based on nickel oxide on magnesium oxide (NiO / MgO) that is effective for the bi-reforming with steam and CO2 (combined steam and dry reforming) of methane as well as natural gas... Read more →

A University of Texas study found last year that natural gas wells leak methane at about the rate reported in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency methane emission inventories, and the leaks can be contained with emissions control technology.

The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.

To determine emissions rates at natural gas fields in Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale gas fields, the researchers used emissions data gathered from an airplane that flew over natural gas wells in southwest Pennsylvania in June 2012, some of which were in the process of being drilled.

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Hyundai is focusing on fuel saving technology at the Paris Motor Show, with a mild hybrid i40 and compressed natural gas (CNG) i30 offering lower emissions and better economy.

The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.

The problem is, I know nothing about oil and gas, well, except for the fact that natural gas is currently at historic lows.