Sentences with phrase «coming from shale»

Tar sands producers lost $ 30.9 billion from 2010 through 2013 due to transportation bottlenecks and the flood of crude coming from shale - oil fields.

May 7, 2012 • Cash - strapped states are embracing the millions of dollars in new tax revenue coming from shale oil and gas development.

Much of it comes from shale, deep petrified mud rich in organic matter that time, heat and pressure have turned into oil and gas.

Of the 800,000 b / d increase in actual field production of crude oil, almost all of the gain has come from shale and other tight formations that horizontal fracturing methods have only recently opened up.

The advantage of natural gas applies whether it comes from a shale gas well or a conventional gas well.

«Of the 900,000 barrels per day increase EIA has reported, 750,000 of it came from shale plays on non-federal lands in Texas and North Dakota.

The extra oil comes from shale and sandstone.

According to government studies, 50 percent now comes from shale and unconventional sources.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

Marathon's higher profit and its deal for Andeavor both come as U.S. refiners benefit from stronger demand thanks to U.S. shale output hitting record highs.

And second, competition will also be coming from China's own shale reserves, not to mention coal, which is the prime power - generating source gas producers aim to displace.

This is coming at a time when shareholders are demanding financial discipline and a better return on investment from shale drillers, another development that Papa believes will hold back production growth.

The extraordinary cost reductions achieved by North American oil and gas companies have likely reached their limit, and any boost in profitability for much of the U.S. shale and Canadian oil sands industries will have to come from higher oil prices, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.

Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.

The company last year said it would exit its underperforming U.S. shale oil and gas business after coming under pressure from Sydney - based Tribeca Investment Partners to sell the assets.

The bigger risk for Canada is competition from Appalachia, Bakken and Niobrara shale basins for the lucrative Midwest markets and eventually for Dawn / Toronto when Rover Phase 2 comes online.

Yes, the resurrection of Keystone XL comes amid predictions that U.S. light oil from shale formations in North Dakota and Texas is poised to surge again as crude prices improve and regulations are relaxed.

Specifically, oil coming from the U.S. oil shales have doubled and now represent almost 5 million barrels per day of the 9 million barrels per day of oil the U.S. produces.

Gains in Texas crude oil production come primarily from unconventional tight oil and shale reservoirs in the Eagle Ford Shale in the Western Gulf Basin and the Permian Basin in West Texas.

The higher supply has come largely from US and Canadian shale fields as well as the 2014 Saudis» decision to maintain production levels.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has come under increased scrutiny as questions have arisen over the agency's ability to oversee Hyrdraulic Fracturing, should the process of extracting natural gas from shale be legalized in the state.

Campaigners against fracking have been told they are ignoring the benefits that could come from the controversial technique of releasing shale gas.

«Because they allow us to distinguish if contaminants are coming from natural sources, fracking and shale gas development, coal mining, coal ash disposal, or other causes.»

Levels of contamination were just as high in wastewater coming from conventional oil and gas wells as from hydraulically fractured shale gas wells.

As some of the incentives for fracking come from the lower carbon emissions produced by gas - fired power stations, a key question is whether the extraction of shale gas has an additional impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The fossils come from black shales originally disturbed by road works at Waterloo Farm.

The study came under heavy criticism from Cornell researcher Robert Howarth, who two years prior had published work that claimed methane emissions from shale gas operations were far more significant.

Of the 6 mb / d increase in global oil production between 2006 and 2014, almost a fifth came from the Canadian tar sands, and the rest from the US «shale oil revolution» driven by fracking.

Reject Greenhouse Gas emissions reductions schemes that come from high - risk technologies which create irreversible damage to human and planetary health including tar sands, shale gas, nuclear energy, and geo - engineering;

In fact, this energy comes from oil shale rather than coal.

Since most of the shale gas in the foreseeable decade is coming from Sichuan, expect that a majority of these demo projects happen (or don't happen) there.

Between January and May, U.S. carbon emissions fell to a 20 - year low; 48 percent of that resulted from substituting coal for cheap shale natural gas, while little, if any, came from deploying subsidized wind and solar, according to Michael Levi, the director of the climate change program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In Australia much of the financial support for Abbott's Liberal Party comes from the coal industry while in Canada PM Harper's support comes from the highly polluting tar - sands and oil - shale mining businesses.

Even if other production comes on line, e.g. from unconventional sources such as tar sands in Alberta or shale in the American West, their relatively high cost of production could permit low - cost producers, particularly Saudi Arabia, to increase production, drop prices for a time, and undermine the economic viability of the higher - cost competitors, as occurred in the mid-1980's.

But the biggest factor making any shift possible is the abundance and affordability of natural gas coming from the country's shale fields.

And petroleum — there aren't any oil shales on the ocean floors, the precursors of petroleum, so where is the carbon for this coming from?

It has all the hallmarks of a new industry with ups and downs, but it is clearly here to stay — even with cheap natural gas coming from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in shale formations.

Some of the difference between the oil company scenarios and those from green NGO's and academics is due to fossil fuel lobby assumptions about demand and the role of gas (including shale gas), with CCS also seen as coming on line in a big way.

Investigators were able to do a kind of «fingerprinting» to determine the source, and concluded the gas did not come from the Marcellus shale.

The American Gas Association (AGA), flush with cash from increased consumption of shale gas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA).

Consider the Source (or, How to Swashbuckle Like a Pirate) The American Gas Association (AGA), flush with cash from increased consumption of shale gas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA).

(In its 2005 energy bill, Congress included an exemption from SDWA oversight for the water put into the ground for hydraulic fracturing — a provision that has come to be known as the «Halliburton loophole» after the oil and gas industry service company that is active in the shale industry.)

On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel - based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmentalists warn could make smog worse in communities already breathing air pollution from fracking, sicken workers, and expand the plastic trash gyres in the world's oceans.

One problem is that producing oil from shale or oil sands generates significant amounts of carbon dioxide — but a lot of that carbon dioxide comes from producing the hydrogen needed to process the raw materials.

While U.S. oil production is down from last year's highs and bankruptcies are up, the industry has become more efficient and the cost of extracting oil from shale is continuing to come down — resulting in the sixth straight week of an increased rig count and the 15th without a decrease.