Sentences with phrase «development of shale»

Following the much publicised development of shale gas in the US, many countries turned to non-conventional fields as a route to increasing their own production.

Crawley, the former Program Manager at the federal Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA, a precursor to the Department of Energy), oversaw a significant portion of the federal research that went into the development of shale gas fracturing technologies.

The results should emerge soon, but in its evidence to the Select Committee, Scottish and Southern Electricity plc said that, while shale gas was a viable if relatively small option for the UK (compared to the US), «there is a concern that with limited capital for investment in the energy industry, significant development of policy incentives to encourage development of shale gas resources in the UK, alongside uncontrolled growth in gas - fired generation could decrease investor certainty on UK policy direction towards renewables, CCS and / or nuclear.

In the United States, development of shale resources supported 600,000 jobs in 2010.

Under a new Shale Gas Initiative, the U.S. and China will «use experience gained in the United States to assess China's shale gas potential, promote environmentally - sustainable development of shale gas resources, conduct joint technical studies to accelerate development of shale gas resources in China, and promote shale gas investment in China through the U.S. - China Oil and Gas Industry Forum, study tours, and workshops.»

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.

What we're seeing, of course, are the positive supply impacts of the U.S. energy renaissance — dramatic increases in domestic oil and natural gas production over the past several years, thanks to the safe development of shale and other tight - rock formations using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

The difficulties faced in increasing CBM output have led China to increase its development of shale gas resources, taking a similar path toward shale development as it did with CBM.

As a result there was fortunately nothing government could do to stop the development of shale oil and gas other than to ban fracking, an effort which the CIC is indeed strongly backing.

In response, China's leaders are engineering a serious shift toward wind and solar energy, greater energy efficiency, and development of shale gas, based on political and economic self - interest.

It reported that the U.S. - based oil and gas industry invested more than $ 165 billion between 2000 and 2012 in technologies that helped reduce emissions, including those critical to the development of shale gas.

«Environmentalists who oppose the development of shale gas and fracking,» Muller said of the greenhouse gas fearmongers, «are making a tragic mistake... [and] concerns are either largely false or can be addressed by appropriate regulation... [S] hale gas is a wonderful gift that has arrived just in time.

The IEO2017 Reference Case projects that China's domestic natural gas production will reach 39 Bcf / d by 2040, driven primarily by the development of shale gas resources.

According to the report's summary, the development of shale gas would be superior to the development of renewable resources.

With the development of shale gas and the surge in natural gas liquids supply, the U.S. has moved from being a high - cost producer of key petrochemicals and resins to among the lowest - cost producers globally.

Wearing my academic hat, I'm currently helping * the new Center for Energy Governance and Security at Korea's Hanyang University develop partnerships here to examine how to foster responsible development of shale gas in China as a near - term path away from coal.

Greenpeace said earlier this month it would encourage British landowners to join together in legally opposing fracking, a move that could strengthen the opposition to exploration and development of shale oil and gas.

Meanwhile, continued development of shale oil and gas in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and elsewhere has helped reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy and brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs.

Not exact matches

Five years ago, says Gheit, the industry needed oil at $ 90 to justify the development of new production of U.S. oil shale.

While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal government people have been feverishly researching ways to facilitate the development of America's oilsands and oil shale.

Mark Papa, chairman and CEO of Centennial Resource Development, offers his insight on US shale production at the 2018 CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston

Papa, CEO of Centennial Resource Development, is a closely followed figure in the U.S. shale drilling world, where producers rely on advanced techniques to coax oil and gas from tight rock formations.

Unconventional gas development (UGD), characterized by advances in engineering, including horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing, enables extraction of large amounts of fossil fuel from shale deposits at depths that were previously unapproachable [1].

This study compares the early stage development of the Duvernay shale play in Alberta with the later stage development of the Eagle Ford shale play in Texas, looking for similarities between the two plays.

The biggest challenge facing the new government will be the scale of its Soviet - like subsidies for shale gas development and the missing science on hydraulic fracturing.

Discovering Shale Gas: An Investor's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale Plays explores in detail the environmental and social impacts of shale gas development in the United States, identifying key questions for investors and also broader issues about shale gas development's implications for extending the era of fossil fuel dominance.

That left the U.K. as one of the remaining countries that could spark shale development.

The British government led by Prime Minister David Cameron has embraced fracking and shale gas development in a way that much of the rest of Europe has not.

Right now several oil shale development companies are in various stages of insolvency or headed toward insolvency.

The strategy is designed to drive out higher - cost producers of heavy oil and shale, whose rapid development is squeezing Middle East crude out of the huge U.S. market and threatens to eat into its share of other lucrative growth markets.

This reaction from Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper — the Delaware River is part of the New York watershed — is pretty typical: «How can Governor Cuomo consider allowing shale gas development when the state's environmental study is so riddled with holes and unaddressed pollution and public health issues?

With the State's moratorium on (fracked shale) natural gas production, the only way we can receive natural gas is from the Constitution Pipeline and local distribution from the Leatherstocking Company... It is also important to note that a state agency, Empire State Development, has provided a $ 750,000 grant... to assist in degrading the costs of bringing the Leatherstocking gas line to our new facility.

A series of peer - reviewed comments took issue with the Duke team's conclusions, saying there was a «lack of data» to support their conclusions, and that the report «misrepresents potential risks» of shale development.

«While unemployment in New York's shale - rich Southern Tier remains high, safety regulated natural gas development has led to the creation of a quarter of a million new jobs across the border in Pennsylvania.»

Health professionals and scientists are out with two new independent summations of the risks and harms of shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing.

Emissions of methane — which is a potent greenhouse gas - are already subject to control, but I am today commissioning a study of the possible impacts of shale gas development on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

Some of the more intense campaigns in the Southern Tier were framed as referendums on shale gas development.

«My view is that shale gas development has outpaced the ability to ensure its safety,» said Fred Krupp, a member of the Energy Advisory Board subcommittee that issued the 40 - page report and president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

It called for the creation of a national database of all public information about shale gas development.

Its share of U.S. electricity generation fell from 52 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2012, thanks to a boom in shale gas development.

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

«Leadership from both industry and the U.S. government may be needed to assure that economic benefits of shale gas development are realized without significant regional impairment of water resource quantity and quality,» the authors conclude.

Increased water use in the rapidly growing oil industry in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale region, or play, is surprisingly due not only to oil well development but also to people, according to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

If such developments were to occur elsewhere, either because of shale gas or the advent of a truly global natural gas market, then, according to our analysis, this could have a major impact on the use of different fuels — oil, gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear.»

The two reported that 80 percent of the potential area to store CO2 underground in the United States could be restrained by shale and tight gas development.

Access to vast, new supplies of natural gas and natural gas liquids from shale formation is one of the most dramatic domestic energy developments in the last 50 years.

«We need to develop a way to objectively measure emissions from shale gas development that includes the full range of operator types, equipment states and engineering approaches,» Shepson said.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Methane leaks increase the climate impact of shale gas, but whether the leaks are sufficient to significantly alter the climate forcing by total natural gas development is uncertain [164].

This study is one of the first to demonstrate that shale gas development can affect songbird reproductive success and productivity, both directly through the presence of fracking infrastructure and indirectly through effects on habitat quality.