Sentences with phrase «from natural gas producers»

The Energy Department plan drew criticism from natural gas producers, grid operators and others who argued it would undermine competition in wholesale power markets.

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The Anglo - Dutch oil major, whose acquisition of BG Group transformed it into the world's top liquefied natural gas producer, has been under pressure from shareholders to cut annual spending to ensure it can maintain its dividend given the slow recovery in the oil prices.

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.

The dollar's weakness, however, failed to help global oil prices, which continued to fall in Monday trading following last Friday's data from Baker Hughes (BHI) showed U.S. oil and natural gas producers added 21 rigs over the past week,

Natural gas producers in the US Southeast are beginning to yield dividends from a bid to reverse declining production in one of the region's seemingly forgotten shale plays.

More shale natural gas from basins in Oklahoma can find its way to the market with increased network access, shale producer Continental Resources said.

Over more than two decades, he built Chesapeake from a small wildcatter into one of the world's biggest natural gas producers before resigning in 2013, after a corporate governance crisis and investor concerns over his heavy spending

Oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices have more than halved from peaks in 2014, eroding producer revenues and forcing cost cuts and layoffs.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

The natural gas industry is losing in New York, where a political wall has been erected to stop fossil fuel, which is not only costing producers opportunities to grow, but blocking nearby states from receiving vital supplies.

For the first part of your question only (national security threat), from an author I don't fully agree with on Uranium and Russia (he thinks the sanctions on Russia are really about natural gas and he thinks the sanctions are foolish)- he proves that Russia is a large producer of Uranium while the US is seeing a decline in production and imports quite a bit of Uranium for nuclear energy production (sourced from the EIA).

The market liberalization means that Mexican power producers could more easily buy cleaner, cheaper natural gas from abroad instead of burning domestic oil.

Conflicting numbers The study was funded by a partnership of nine natural gas producers and the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-profit environmental group based in Washington DC, as part of a broad effort to trace methane leaks all the way from the wellhead to the user.

When the cable technician and his wife moved to Dimock, an agricultural community of about 1,500 nestled in the rolling hills of northeastern Pennsylvania, they had no inkling they were sitting on top of a mother lode of natural gas — that is, not until an agent from Cabot Oil & Gas, a Houston - based natural gas producer, knocked on their door in May 20gas — that is, not until an agent from Cabot Oil & Gas, a Houston - based natural gas producer, knocked on their door in May 20Gas, a Houston - based natural gas producer, knocked on their door in May 20gas producer, knocked on their door in May 2008.

Of course, Exxon has a major investment in natural gas as one of its largest global producers and as recent purchaser of XTO, a firm which is active in developing ways to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale Formation in the Appalachian Basin.

Recently published research documents that nearly two - thirds of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil and natural gas, and 7 cement manufacturers.

The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics has received a $ 500,000 gift from the Oklahoma City - based natural - gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. to fund an endowed chair in geophysics at the school.

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.

The Natural Gas Gathering and Processing segment provides services — like removing contaminants from NGLs — to producers.

In fact, it's a major producer of everything from natural gas and oil to agriculture, and it has a strong biotechnology sector.

Farmers, ranchers and other food growers along with food producers, petroleum companies who either drill for oil or natural gas or refine these products - or both, financial institutions with enormous holdings in treasuries, equities or currencies, mining interests and their buyers - all these areas of production and distribution employ futures trading spreads from time to time as an important aspect of their businesses.

And, if it still had settled on Augustine, the university could have been more completely forthcoming about his substantial income from ConocoPhillips, a company that — as the NPR regional news project State Impact reported last week — calls itself «one of the nation's largest natural gas producers.»

You could also get hydrogen from natural gas (which would be more efficient than burning gasoline from a CO2 perspective, though that's assuming fuel cells are affordable), but you're back to having a fossil fuel problem (not to mention the national security problems this could cause to many countries, making them even more dependent on natural gas producers).

The industrial sector was the biggest producer of CO2 emissions from natural gas at 28 % for the January - March 2012 period, but those emissions were up only 2 million metric tons from a year earlier.

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.

Recently published research by Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute documents that nearly two - thirds, 63 percent, of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil, and natural gas, and seven cement manufacturers.

Showing data from financial firm Lazard and other sources, their presentation said natural gas, coal and even some nuclear power plants were the lowest - cost producers of electricity on the planet, cheaper than wind or solar.

The report was based on input from more than 100 energy experts, including officials from utilities such as NextEra, Sempra, and Southwest Power, and at least one major natural - gas producer, Anadarko.

A carbon tax could come back to bite natural gas producers big time if the EPA decides, along the lines of Cornell University research, that fugitive methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing make natural gas as carbon - intensive as coal.

introduced the «Managed Carbon Price Act of 2012» (MCP), a bill imposing a tax on carbon dioxide - equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producers of coal, oil, and natural gas, refineries, and other covered sources.

Reducing these substances may be easier than cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, which is so pervasive because the vast majority of our energy still comes from burning fossil fuels — as delegates at the talks have been continually reminded by their location in Qatar, one of the world's biggest producers of natural gas.

Recently published research documents that nearly two - thirds of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil and natural gas, and 7 cement manufacturers.

BloombergBusiness — The U.S. has taken Russia's crown as the biggest oil and natural - gas producer in a demonstration of the seismic shifts in the world energy landscape emanating from America's shale fields.

There are three key drivers that close deals between independent power producers and corporate buyers, McIntyre explained: Cost savings from increasingly competitive renewables, management of electricity price volatility risk due to rising natural gas penetration, and corporate sustainability goals.

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.

That projection — almost unimaginable less than a decade ago — results from the energy revolution, in which private investment and private producers are accessing vast quantities of oil and natural gas from shale and other tight - rock formations, safely and responsibly, via modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Florida, for instance, the third - largest electricity producer in the United States, now generates 62 percent of its electricity from natural gas — up from 44 percent just a few years ago.

Over two days this week the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee heard concerns from scientists, poultry producers, automakers, drivers, restaurant owners, tool makers, store owners, environmentalists and the oil and natural gas industry about problems with E15 and / or the current Renewable Fuel Standard.

Commentators who predict a surge in natural gas demand from electric utilities likewise overlook the scope that power producers have to switch between coal and natural gas at their plants, depending on which thermal fuel offers the best economics.

(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.

The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund and nine natural gas producers, is conducting an exhaustive study of methane emissions from natural gas production in an attempt to get a better handle on whether the environmental negatives outweigh the positives, at least when it comes to emissions.

The US Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors represent a wide range of companies with representation from energy companies, coal / oil / natural gas producers, pharmaceutical companies, chemical manufacturers, and the tobacco industry (see below).

Recent technological advancements in exploration, drilling, and hydraulic fracturing have transformed shale formations from marginal natural gas producers to substantial and expanding contributors to the natural gas portfolio.

The worksheets available below constitute the details each entity's production of oil & NGLs, natural gas, coal, and cement from as early as 1854 to 2010, as well as additional sources of emissions (such as vented CO2, flared CO2, own fuel use, and vented or fugitive methane), non-energy uses of oil, gas, and coal, emission factors for each fuel, calculation of emissions attributed to each Carbon Major producer, and several summary worksheets by fuel and for cumulative emissions by all entities.

Shareholder resolutions and calls for institutional and individual divestment from the primary producers of coal, oil, and natural gas are giving rise to growing public discourse on the climate responsibilities of these fossil fuels companies (Lubber 2012; Oreskes 2013; Rockefeller Brothers Fund 2014).