Sentences with phrase «crude oil and gas extraction»

Why would we leave the value chain of the Nigerian oil industry undeveloped beyond crude oil and gas extraction and export simply because we want to continue with an unsustainable subsidy?

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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.

Since the 1950s Ogoniland has suffered extreme environmental damage and degradation from crude oil extraction and waste dumping by multi-national oil and gas companies.

The dramatic rise in shale - gas extraction and the tight - oil revolution (mostly crude oil that is found in shale deposits) happened in the United States and Canada because open access, sound government policy, stable property rights and the incentive offered by market pricing unleashed the skills of good engineers.

Since the peak of crude oil production a decade ago, the fossil fuel industry has been forced to resort to costly and unconventional methods of extraction — arctic drilling and shale gas fracking among them — giving rise to unprecedented economic and environmental hazards.

In North Dakota, where oil drillers lack the equipment and pipelines to capture the gas that accompanies extraction of crude, the practice of flaring off the methane lights up some areas over the Bakken shale like big cities at night.

If combustion of the final products is included, the so - called «Well to Wheels» approach, oil sands extraction, upgrade and use emits 10 to 45 % more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.