Sentences with phrase «by oil and gas development»

Supporters of this and similar measures have said that the measures were proposed on the premise that home values are negatively impacted by oil and gas development.

«In Nuiqsut,» Ahtuangaruak said, «we're completely surrounded by oil and gas development.»

Prenni is gathering better measurements and conducting particle analyses that will help park managers assess this threat, not just at Theodore Roosevelt but also at other parks in the West surrounded by oil and gas development.

Roosevelt, which lies in the heart of the Bakken shale formation, is surrounded by oil and gas development.

The plants and their carbon uptake help the landscape provide certain «ecosystem services,» including food production, biodiversity and wildlife habitat, all of which are severely degraded when the landscape is denuded by oil and gas development.

Not exact matches

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»).

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

British Columbia taxpayers are now subsidizing massive water allocations, road construction and basic scientific research for uneconomic shale gas development by multinational and Chinese national oil companies.

The profitability of oil and natural gas development activity depends on both the prices realized by producers and the cost and productivity of newly developed wells.

Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals...

We have: • normalized the domestic yield curve • issued the country's maiden 15 - year bond in April 2017 • improved external balances, driven by higher export earnings and lower imports • improved gross international reserves to US$ 7.2 billion, equivalent to 4.1 months of imports cover • improved primarybalanceto0.3 percent surplus in September 2017 against a deficit of 1.6 percent in September 2016 • received positive sovereign rating reviews from international ratings Agencies: Fitch, B / stable; Standard & Poor, B - / positive • successfully completed the 4th IMF / ECF program review, and • achieved positive developments in the oil & gas sector — favorable ITLOS ruling, and Sankofa producing 1st oil three months ahead of schedule.

Saraki make this known in Lagos at the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Research and Development Fair and Conference 2017, organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board.

The project involves the development, ownership, operation and management of the 400MW Combined Cycle Plant to be fueled by either Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Natural Gas (NG) for a 25 - year period by Early Power Limited in Tema, strategically close to the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).

Moody's noted that Ghana's key credit strengths include the economy's strong growth potential as a result of its abundant natural resources, further supported by the development of its oil and gas potential.

ALBANY, NY (07/17/2012)(readMedia)-- In response to a new report released by Earthworks» Oil & Gas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemeOil & Gas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemeGas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemeoil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemegas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemegas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statement:

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

«The committee took a positive step forward by passing this bill which recognizes the importance of additional offshore oil and natural gas development and Canadian oil to our nation's energy and economic security,» API President Jack Gerard said in a prepared statement.

In addition to stopping building new coal - to - gas projects, the policymaker also said in the media report that China will cool down the development of other forms of coal - to - chemicals projects, with a plan to produce 6.6 million tons of coal to oil and 15 million tons of coal to olefins by 2020.

In April, President Trump signed an executive order that reversed the Obama administration's ban on oil and gas development in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, though it is being contested in court by environmental groups.

Oil and gas development activities, including underground disposal of wastewater and hydraulic fracturing, may induce earthquakes by changing the state of stress on existing faults to the point of failure.

-- The Secretary shall carry out a program to establish Energy Innovation Hubs to enhance the Nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by promoting commercial application of clean, indigenous energy alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the United States maintains a technological lead in the development and commercial application of state - of - the - art energy technologies.

Map shows the entire area where oil and gas development has reduced the land's ability to fix carbon, measured in «net primary production,» which is the net amount of carbon fixed by plants and stored in biomass.

Both are threatened by oil and gas drilling, livestock grazing, development and off - road vehicles.

Over the past 200 years, agriculture, oil and gas drilling, livestock grazing and development have reduced sage grouse range by nearly half, and sage grouse populations have steadily declined.

Today, after oil and gas development, native Qataris now number about 225,000, with another 1.5 million or so European and American managers, English - speaking Filipinos working in hospitality, and Pakistanis and Sudanese holding shovels and loading bricks by hand onto flatbed trucks.

At that time, there were «approximately 26,000 hydraulically fractured wells» in the United States, which accounted for «less than 7 %» of all U.S. marketed natural gas.11 By 2011, fracking had become the primary method for oil and natural gas development in the United States.

Mr. Pickens aims to address the energy conundrum and wean the United States from foreign oil by speeding development of, among other things, wind power for electricity generation and natural gas as transport fuel.

Supported by some of the nation's largest energy companies, as well as by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the drilling program seeks new technologies that develop gas and oil in a safe and environmentally friendly manner... [Read the rest.]

These are only partly natural phenomena and they have been made worse by settlement decisions, canal development, loss of barrier wetlands, extraction of groundwater, oil, and natural gas, internal rainfall storage, and the design, construction, and failure of protective structures and inside levees rainfall storage.

The plaintiffs contended that the fossil fuel development plans for the vast Miles City, Montana, and Buffalo, Wyoming, federal tracts violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to account fully for the damage the coal, oil and gas would do to the environment, including the climate.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

As mentioned in the press release:» -LRB-...) these groups released a briefing titled «Dirty Dozen: How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through Oil, Gas, and Coal Expansion», highlighting fossil fuel projects by the World Bank Group, other multilateral and national development banks and export credit agencies.

Ocean noise pollution caused by shipping, oil and gas development, and other human activities is making...

Proceedings: Friday 4 May Opening remarks Welcome by Mr, Sefa Sadık AYTEKIN, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey Keynote address by H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Workplan of WEO - 2012 Iraq Energy Outlook by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA Session 1: Energy in Iraq — fuelling Iraq's reconstruction and development Chair: Mr. Simon STOLP, World Bank Introductory interventions: H.E. Martin KOBLER, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq Dr. Usama KARIM, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Iraq Dr. Kamal AL - BASRI, Chairman of the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform Open discussion Session 2: Iraq's electricity sector — short term needs and long - term interests Chair: Mr. Hamish MCNINCH, International Expert Introductory interventions: Dr. Majeed ABDUL - HUSSAIN, Parsons Brinckerhoff Dr. Abdul Qader AHMED, Mass Global Open discussion Special address: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Session 3: Iraq's oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA

Delhi Sustainable Development Summit [Founded by Teri under Dr. Rajendra Pachauri chairman of the IPCC until Feb. 2015] 2011: Star Partner — Rockefeller Foundation 2007: Partners — BP 2006: Co-Associates — NTPC [coal and gas power generation] Function Hosts — BP 2005: Associate — Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, India Co-Associate Shgas power generation] Function Hosts — BP 2005: Associate — Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, India Co-Associate ShGas Corporation Limited, India Co-Associate Shell

For example, CDP's annual climate change questionnaire has a module tailored to the oil and gas industry that calls on companies to disclose production and reserves by reserve type, emissions by stage in the value chain and development strategy.

Clean energy development produces new income streams for farm communities and, by displacing oil and natural gas imports, improves U.S energy security.

This new report, carried out by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Green Budget Germany (GBG) monitors the different types of subsidies spent by 11 European governments and the EU from 2014 to 2016 in oil, gas and coal projects in Europe.

1) Primary Energy Overview [PDF / XLS] 2) Primary energy production by source [PDF / XLS] 3) Primary energy consumption by source [PDF / XLS] 4) Energy consumption by sector [PDF] 5) Petroleum Data [PDF] 6) Natural Gas Data [PDF] 7) Coal Data [PDF] 8) Nuclear Energy Data [PDF] 9) Renewable Energy Data [PDF] 10) Electricity generation and Consumption [PDF] 11) Energy Prices [PDF] 12) World Crude oil production, consumption and stocks [PDF] 13) Crude oil and natural gas resource development [PDF] 14) Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption [PGas Data [PDF] 7) Coal Data [PDF] 8) Nuclear Energy Data [PDF] 9) Renewable Energy Data [PDF] 10) Electricity generation and Consumption [PDF] 11) Energy Prices [PDF] 12) World Crude oil production, consumption and stocks [PDF] 13) Crude oil and natural gas resource development [PDF] 14) Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption [Pgas resource development [PDF] 14) Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption [PDF]

The new administration and Congress should take note of the progress made by the market and continue to build, not hinder, the development of our nation's enormous supply of oil and natural gas resources, rather than pursue policies that either restrict production or add unnecessary regulatory regimes that limit the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

We need an energy policy in California that will sharply reduce the use of fossil fuels by no longer granting new permits for exploration and allowing oil and gas infrastructure development.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

(Sec. 388) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant, on either a competitive or noncompetitive basis, a lease, easement, or right - of - way on the outer Continental Shelf for activities not otherwise authorized under specified laws, if those activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas; (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas; or (3) use, for energy - related or marine - related purposes, facilities currently or previously used for activities authorized under this Act, unless prohibited by moratorium.

coal, oil and natural gas will continue to be sources of development and progress for a long time yet — and it is unacceptable that its growing use be hindered by an imaginary threat.

The agency should follow this up by moving swiftly to improve the permitting process for natural gas and oil development on federal lands, as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke ordered earlier this month.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Given the recent developments in the continent - wide oil and gas markets and regulatory structures, and the pledges and policies by all three countries to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the time is right to revisit the energy integration issue.

Over 500 activists peacefully demonstrated against the negative impacts of offshore exploration and exploitation, under discussion at the MCE Deepwater Development summit by representatives from big oil and gas companies including Total, Shell, BP, Exxon, and Repsol.

Trump highlighted the Obama administration's regulatory onslaught on the energy industry — and, indeed, our industry faces dozens of initiatives by agencies across the breadth of the government that could needlessly constrain energy development and derail an energy renaissance that has made the U.S. the world's leading oil and natural gas producer.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.