Sentences with phrase «from natural gas facilities»

The first, from the Allegheny Front, explores how lessons learned in trying to cut pollution from natural gas facilities in Houston can be applied in Pennsylvania's fracking zone.
One option alluded to earlier in these pages could be citizen patrols to check for methane leaks from natural gas facilities: drilling operations, compressing stations or pipelines.

Not exact matches

Back when Uncle Sam thought it would have to import increasing volumes of natural gas from abroad (which was only a few years ago), it built a number of LNG import terminals on the Gulf Coast, including the Freeport facility and the only other one with the same export permit, the Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.
Houston - based Enterprise Products Partners announced two pipeline expansions Thursday that will transport natural gas liquids from Colorado to a storage facility in Texas.
The BC Liberals are under investigation by Elections BC and the RCMP after The Globe and Mail revealed the party is accepting illegal donations from lobbyists, specifically highlighting donations by Byng Giraud and Marian Ngo from Woodfibre LNG, which proposes to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the old Woodfibre Pulp and Paper Mill site near Squamish, British Columbia.
You can also find two additional forms on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE): UK Natural Gas Contracts and Title Transfer Facility (TTF) Futures, which come from the Netherlands.
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.
Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....
The plan includes wind farms offshore from Long Island instead of the proposed liquified natural gas export facility.
The owners of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant are planning to close the facility in January 2017 because competition from natural gas has driven down profits.
The county made reductions by boosting the use of natural gas vehicles, installing LED lighting around county facilities, but mostly by purchasing more electricity from cleaner sources.
A researcher is about to test a technology that he says could be a breakthrough for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, natural gas generators and other industrial facilities.
«Overall conversion rates from the [natural] gas to fuel - grade liquids is as high as 46 percent in optimal, real - world conditions,» Rolfe says — as good or better than established facilities employing Fischer - Tropsch, such as Johannesburg - based Sasol, Ltd.'s plants in South Africa.
UC Davis scientist and pilot Stephen Conley flies over Aliso Canyon in January 2016 measuring methane emissions from the natural gas storage facility near Porter Ranch in Southern California.
The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.
A clean, renewable alternative to fossil - fuel based natural gas, Bullfrog's green natural gas is produced in Canada from biogas facilities that have met strict environmental criteria as defined by ICF International.
The Transco Compressor Station 62 facility is located between Gibson and Houma, LA near Bayou Black, where it receives unprocessed natural gas via pipelines from offshore producers in the Gulf of Mexico.
MLPs, often spin - offs from energy companies, operate large parts of the nation's energy infrastructure, such as oil pipelines, natural gas processing facilities and storage depots.
With cap and trade and enough arm twisting, at todays ($ 4) natural gas prices, some of that might be produced from the available natural gas facilities.
«The scientific talent leading these studies, the partnership with industry and access to their facilities, and the diverse research methods used, gives us the confidence that when the project concludes in late 2014, we'll be able to greatly increase our understanding of the climate impacts of switching to natural gas from other fossil fuels, through this unprecedented collective research effort,» said EDF Chief Scientist Steve Hamburg.
Thousands of small generators, including rooftop solar panels and facilities that extract energy from garbage or sewage, could feed into the system, replacing or complementing big coal, nuclear or natural gas plants, they say.
I've done some writing in this arena, most notably in my coverage of opportunities to stanch vast leaks of natural gas (most of which is methane, a potent greenhouse gas) from oil and gas facilities around the world.
The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.
In California, natural gas - fired capacity is often used to help offset lower levels of generation from hydropower facilities.
Natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines that move natural gas from areas of supply to areas of Natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines that move natural gas from areas of supply to areas of natural gas from areas of supply to areas of demand.
Petroleum emissions have declined since the late 1990s largely because many facilities transitioned to natural gas; emissions from coal combustion are nominal.
Together, the avoided manure emissions and biogas offset of natural gas consumption reduces the carbon dioxide from the Calgren facility by over 15,000 metric tons per year, the same as removing about 3,100 cars from the road.
The Pixley Biogas, LLC anaerobic digester facility produces biomethane from cow manure to replace the natural gas used to heat Calgren Renewable Fuels» ethanol vehicle fuel.
Learn about the climate risks of natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines.
In addition to its carbon tax, which has been in place since 2008, in 2016, British Columbia put a limit and price on pollution from industrial facilities (especially targeting coal - fired power plants and liquefied natural gas facilities).
The proposed facilities would source the required energy and heat from natural gas generators, but capture CO2 emissions from combusting the fossil fuel.
Our costs have fallen 58 per cent in the last five years, and we know projects that tap into Alberta's high - quality wind resources can produce electricity more affordably today than any other generating technology aside from combined - cycle natural gas plants and gas co-generation facilities.
Policymakers worried the country was facing a natural gas supply crunch and encouraged the construction of facilities to import liquefied natural gas from abroad.
SCE obtains most of its natural gas supplies from Southern California Gas Company, which owns the underground Aliso Canyon facility that leaked more than 97,000 metric tons of methane from late October 2015 through mid-February this yegas supplies from Southern California Gas Company, which owns the underground Aliso Canyon facility that leaked more than 97,000 metric tons of methane from late October 2015 through mid-February this yeGas Company, which owns the underground Aliso Canyon facility that leaked more than 97,000 metric tons of methane from late October 2015 through mid-February this year.
The reliability of supply provided by our nation's network of storage and distribution facilities has contributed to the increased use of natural gas in many sectors of the U.S. economy, which has led to reductions in air emissions — ranging from criteria pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, to greenhouse gases.
They found a trend of measurement errors from the Bacharach Hi - Flow Sampler (BHFS), an equipment extensively utilized in natural gas facilities.
This report found that direct measurements of methane emissions from 190 onshore natural gas sites in the United States indicate that methane emissions from completed wells are are lower than commonly thought although the report also acknowledged that emissions from pneumatic controllers and other equipment associated with natural gas production facilities were higher than previously estimated.
51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup
The construction of such farm and ranch improvements within the Wind Flow Zone and the construction of improvements outside the Wind Flow Zone shall be deemed not to interfere with the free and unobstructed natural wind flow over the Premises to the WTG; provided however, Grantee shall not construct any WTG within one thousand four hundred (1,400) feet of the main residence on the Premises or one thousand (1,000) feet of any other existing, permanent residence or barn, either of which is located immediately adjacent to the main residence, or within one hundred fifty (150) feet from any other existing structures, pump jacks, tank batteries, or other above ground oil and gas facilities located on the Premises as of the Effective Date, without Owner's prior written consent.
Of the non-CO2 gases that contribute to energy - related greenhouse gas emissions, methane contributes the most (6 %)-- mainly from emissions that leak out of natural gas systems, coal mines, and petroleum exploration and production facilities.
This is a processing facility that strips carbon dioxide from natural gas.
Whereas previous greenhouse gas regulations have focused upon reductions for particular facilities, the CPP essentially forces shifts from EPA - disfavored facilities (coal - fired plants) to expansion of those EPA prefers (natural gas / renewables).
Capture is from a natural gas processing facility.
«Using the model optimization technique presented in this study, we find a weighted mean natural gas emission rate from unconventional production and gathering facilities of 0.36 % of production with a 2σ confidence interval from 0.27 to 0.45 % of production.
(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.
For example, could a permitting agency decide that an electric generating unit is not BACT - compliant unless the facility switches fuels from coal to natural gas, or from natural gas to a mixture of gas and wind?
It could mean new efficiency standards for power plants, or requirements that facilities consider switching from coal to natural gas.
Plentiful and affordable supplies of natural gas and NGLs are enabling companies from around the world to build new U.S. facilities or expand production capacity.
NERC warns that «Minimal dual - fuel capable units and immediate resource constraints from the outage at the Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage facility increase the risks associated with single - fuel dependency.»
Exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sabine Pass facility set a monthly record in January, with additional U.S. exporting facilities coming online.
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