Sentences with phrase «from natural gas operations»

API reiterated its support for cost - effective regulation that target emissions of volatile organic compounds — which provide the co-benefit of methane emissions reductions — from natural gas operations.

Experts agree that methane leaked or vented from natural gas operations is a real concern, yet estimated emission rates vary greatly 3/4 from 1 to 8 percent of total production.

EDF has been active in trying to quantify the amount of methane leaking from natural gas operations.

Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a Washington Post opinion piece in favor of natural gas development in New York state and awarded a $ 6 million grant from his philanthropic organization to the Environmental Defense Fund for work to minimize adverse environmental impacts from natural gas operations.

Not exact matches

In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.

Under McClendon, Chesapeake Energy grew from a small operation into the second - biggest natural gas producer in the United States, exceeded only by Exxon Mobil, according to The New York Times.

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»).

A U.S. District Court judge has blocked the Interior Department from suspending an Obama - era rule meant to prevent planet - warming methane from escaping during oil and natural gas operations.

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

I really like that D has shifted its portfolio in recent years to reduce its exposure to commodity prices and that 90 % of the company's sales are from regulated operations, Also, I'm a high believer in natural gass (partly because that's what I studied in engineering so probably biased), but Management is investing heavily in natural gas, including massive projects such as the Cove Point LNG export terminal and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

In recent months Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and former federal natural resources minister Joe Oliver have all advocated for more bitumen export pipelines, while British Columbia premier Christy Clark has lauded the benefits of LNG projects and natural gas pipelines from fracking operations in northern B.C.

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

The state also just happens to have operating oil fields already taking CO2 from natural sources, so Kemper will just add more greenhouse gas to existing operations.

Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to release natural gas and oil from underground rock.

The trick to lowering natural gas's global warming quotient is to tighten up leaks in upstream operations, from extraction to use, say the authors of a World Resources Institute report released today.

The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.

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.

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.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

Postscript Readers interested in the extent and significance of the regional pollution from the well failure would do well to visit the Medium.com posts of Rob Jackson, a Stanford University scientist who's been digging deep on methane issues related to natural gas operations for many years.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

Lisa McKenzie of the Colorado School of Public Health, who — like Hill — has expressed concerns about the health risks posed by natural gas operations and has done research pointing to health effects from drilling, declined to directly critique the paper.

As we look at the Obama administration's plan to impose new regulations on methane emissions from oil and natural gas operations, some important points.

Safety is a core value of the oil and natural gas industry — safety for workers, communities near active operations and the environment, from protecting plants and animals to reducing emissions for cleaner air.

Industry executives and analysts foresee a dramatic move away from diesel for drilling operations that could lead to at least half all of US rigs being powered by natural gas in the next five years.

Part of the U.S. success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the significant drop in emissions of methane, the primary component in natural gas, from development operations.

Both hydraulic fracturing and the underground disposal of produced waters from oil and natural gas operations have proven safe and environmentally reliable.

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal today reported on a new study by the University of Texas that found leakage rates of methane from natural gas fracking operations are lower than previously stated by US EPA.

Doniger's call to crackdown on methane from gas operations is one the natural gas industry and lawmakers would be remiss to ignore.

Much of the wastewater injected there came from drilling operations in Pennsylvania, where energy companies are tapping the vast formation of natural - gas - rich Marcellus Shale.

Last week EPA launched a new program it hopes will encourage U.S. oil and natural gas companies to voluntarily focus on reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations.

Coal producers say they are scaling back operations and laying off thousands of workers due to fierce competition from natural gas, falling coal prices and tougher power plant regulations.

(New York, NY — September 25, 2017) XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the largest natural gas producer in the United States, today announced a set of commitments to reduce methane emissions from its production and midstream operations nationwide.

Might add, after reading about the burg from your link, that natural gas production, in the area, once in operation will offer abundant, further employment to the locals along with their current employment opportunities in the local oil - extraction industry.

-- An owner or operator of a facility conducting natural gas operations in unconventional formations including development, production, transmission and processing shall submit to the department a source report identifying and quantifying actual air contaminant emissions from any air contamination source.

The other study from this year on this there: Back in January a lifecycle analysis of natural gas by the EPA showed that in fracking operations methane emissions were up to 9,000 times higher than previously reported.

Saudi Basic, the Middle East's dominant chemical maker, said on Saturday that it wants to build a Houston headquarters for its Western Hemisphere operations as the company capitalizes on the surge in cheap natural gas supplies from North American shale fields.

Other states have not been so direct, but nonetheless, coal plants have been shutting down in droves even as multiple nuclear plants have also opted to wind down operations in the past five years, citing difficult market structures and competition from low - priced natural gas.

South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale gas and oil operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by drilling deep into the soil.