Sentences with phrase «by natural gas companies»

In this follow - up, Fox is documenting the many ways property owners are being threatened and financially ruined by natural gas companies and how the government, in particular the EPA, is not doing enough to protect American citizens.

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The facts: This 10 - year investment by Exxon, which focuses on 11 natural gas projects, began in 2013 and is expected to continue through 2022, the company said.

But he also revealed plans to promote consumption by converting federal fleets to natural gas, offering tax incentives to transport companies for converting their vehicles, and creating five highway corridors, each with a string of natural gas fuel stations.

Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman said the company now needs to find ways reduce costs so the project will be approved by its board of directors.

Designed by Fitzsimmons Architects, the Oklahoma City regional office of natural gas company BP Lower 48 uses lots of wood, stone, and natural colors, and textures to create an organic look.

They are employed by pulp and paper processing companies, nuclear and hydro power generating companies, mining, petrochemical and natural gas companies, industrial instrument and other manufacturing companies, and by industrial instrument servicing establishments.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

(3) regulatory policy to keep the prices charged by natural monopolies such a railroads, power and gas companies in line with actual production costs plus normal profit.

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

Analysts excited about the company's exposure to the rapidly growing natural gas sector were pumping up the stock, ignoring its low and declining return on invested capital (ROIC), significant write - downs indicating poor capital allocation, and the high expectations implied by its stock price.

Australia is increasing natural gas production by roughly 150 percent over the next four years, as energy companies build half a dozen export terminals to serve dwindling demand.

(Reuters)- U.S. power producer Calpine Corp CPN.N said it would sell itself to a group of investors led by Energy Capital Partners for $ 5.6 billion, as the debt - laden company struggles with depressed natural gas prices.

In recent years, Browne has been chairperson of L1 Energy, a company operating out of Luxembourg, founded by Russian Jewish billionaire Mikhail Fridman, that invests in oil and natural gas ventures.

A view of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas Company (NLNG) near Finima village, during an aerial tour by the Royal Dutch Shell company, in Bonny March 22Company (NLNG) near Finima village, during an aerial tour by the Royal Dutch Shell company, in Bonny March 22company, in Bonny March 22, 2013.

Our team of experts supports companies across the ever - expanding energy industry, from oil and natural gas to renewable energy, by providing comprehensive legal analysis and solutions.

«In the future, companies may try to get around the environmental approval process by seeking approval to build a natural gas pipeline, then converting it into a pipeline for transporting heavy oil.

Energy company Royal Dutch Shell says first - quarter earnings rose 67 percent, boosted by a rebound in oil prices and growth in its natural gas business.

As is the case at many energy companies, growth is being driven by oil and liquids, while management limits spending on lower - return natural gas projects.

The price tag for a natural - gas project in Australia, called Gorgon and jointly owned by the three companies, has ballooned 45 % to $ 54 billion.

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

Although plans to close the plant are purely financial, largely spurred by competition from cheap natural gas, and will save the company $ 250 million in the next five years, Cuomo has threatened legal action against Entergy.

According to the same form, Percoco's wife — a former middle - school teacher — was paid by a Connecticut consultant with ties to a third company, Competitive Power Ventures, that is in the process of constructing a natural - gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

Meanwhile, Cox is being criticized by Democrats because he is on the board of directors of the Texas - based natural gas drilling company Noble Energy and holds about $ 3 million in its stock.

The State is considering allowing private companies to begin drilling for natural gas in upstate New York, while the City is shelling out more than $ 630 million between now and 2017 on «filtration avoidance» by protecting the Cat / Del watershed, where 90 % of our water comes from.

NRG is the largest taxpayer in Chautauqua County and the company's original proposal to repower the station with a combined cycle natural gas system was strongly supported by the city of Dunkirk.

Tracking Rep. John Faso in the Age of Trump from fivethirtyeight.com Disapprove Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers Rule — Vote Passed (235 - 187, 10 Not Voting) The measure would disapprove of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule issued in July 2016 that requires resource extraction issuers (companies that extract oil, natural gas or -LSB-...]

Investigators are seeking information from the PSC related to state approvals of a $ 1 billion project by the Competitive Power Ventures company to locate a natural - gas fired power plant in the Hudson Valley.

Ten companies or trade groups that lobbied on fracking and other issues of concern to the natural gas industry spent $ 4.5 million lobbying in Albany over the last three years, according to an analysis prepared by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Arizona Public Service's 15 - year plan called for adding 5.3 gigawatts of natural gas by 2032, bringing the company's total gas capacity to 8.7 GW.

The region just west of the Appalachian Basin — the Marcellus Shale formation — is rich in natural gas reserves and is being considered for development by drilling companies.

Oil and gas companies developing fields in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and North Dakota rely on a process called hydraulic fracturing, which produces natural gas by blasting water and chemicals into energy - rich rock formations deep underground.

By comparison, Chevron, the second-most profitable American company, told CDP it used such completions in 90 percent of its natural gas wells in 2013.

Financial support for this work was provided by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, BG Group PLC, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Pioneer Natural Resources Company, SWEPI LP (Shell), Statoil, Southwestern Energy and XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.

Luckily, the same exact molecule is more inexpensively created from natural gas by a few obscure Chinese chemical companies and a well - known German multinational corporation.

«It's a difficult time at the moment, and the policy uncertainty is the main cause of it,» said Shaq Mohajerani, an Australian spokesman for wind farm company Union Fenosa, owned by Spanish energy giant Gas Natural.

Findings from the most recent outing, which was funded by a local liquid natural gas company, will eventually be published in the proceedings of the Western Australian Museum.

Methane hydrates have been known since the 1930s, when natural gas companies found that their pipelines were sometimes clogged by a kind of ice composed of water and methane.

For example, natural gas companies add a smelly molecule called n - butyl mercaptan to natural gas, which is odorless by itself, so that people can sniff gas leaks.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

The infant solar power companies, however, must gain their foothold by taking business away from the incumbent and politically powerful coal, natural gas and nuclear power providers, at a time when overall growth in U.S. electricity demand is still slowed by an underperforming economy.

But chemical companies have also long had the technology to convert the primary hydrocarbons in natural gas — methane, ethane, and propane — into alcohols, the liquid starting materials for plastics, fuels, and other commodities made by the train load.

The company claims its technology can produce steam at a cost of $ 3 per million BTUs, based on U.S. National Renewable Laboratory calculations; natural gas currently costs some $ 4 per million BTUs, though that price may continue to fall as natural gas freed up by fracking floods the market.

Its U.S. mining operation saw pretax earnings decline by $ 44.3 million «primarily due to a volume reduction of 2.5 million tons largely driven by lower natural gas prices and a longwall move in Colorado,» the company said.

By Marianne Power for MailOnline Lynne and Bill Seligman thought they were protecting themselves in 2008 when they agreed to allow an Oklahoma company to explore for natural gas under

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

The subaccount pursues its objective of growth and income by targeting a wide range of utilities, including natural gas, electric, and communication services companies.

Earlier this month, Enbridge announced a $ 3.2 - billion sale of renewable power facilities and natural gas processing assets in North America, and the company has earmarked another $ 7 billion in divestitures as it aims to bring its debt down to five times EBITDA by the end of the year.

In 2012, it came to light that the company's CEO had received loans that were backed by his interest in the natural gas wells the company also owns.

SO says the deal will create the second - largest utility company in the U.S. by customer base, with 11 regulated electric and natural gas distribution companies providing service to ~ 9M customers with a projected regulated rate base of ~ $ 50B.