Sentences with phrase «from oil and gas development»

He moved to protect many of these same regions from oil and gas development and the potential ecological devastation they bring.

Among them are seismologists who study the possible link between earthquakes in Azle and injection wells that hold wastewater from oil and gas development.

4) The reduced seasonality (e.g. 3) will likely place additional stress on human populations already under pressure from oil and gas development.

In the last few years, I've focused on the impacts of noise from oil and gas development on arthropod and bird communities, and the cascading effects on sagebrush physiology.

Money from oil and gas development is an important source of income in Alaska, which has suffered from recent fiscal woes as the price of oil has plummeted.

McMorris Rodgers would have the power to reverse Obama administration efforts to protect federally managed waters from oil and gas development as well as end the research into how coal mining affects the climate.

Polasky said that it's important to account for landscape changes resulting from oil and gas development, but many other types of development alter ecosystems and the use of land, including urbanization and expansion of cropland.

Not exact matches

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»).

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.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

Laredo Energy, a company engaged in the acquisition and development of natural gas and oil reserves in South and East Central Texas, has raised $ 130 million in private equity commitments from Avista Capital Partners and Liberty Energy Holdings

If Canada wants to benefit from Asia's development and growth, and remain a relevant and important energy partner in Asia, we must «think big» about exporting to multiple countries within the Asia Pacific, and «think beyond» oil and natural gas to include all of Canada's energy related assets, particularly the renewable and clean technologies that will help Asia mitigate its own climate - change challenges.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

We have: • normalized the domestic yield curve • issued the country's maiden 15 - year bond in April 2017 • improved external balances, driven by higher export earnings and lower imports • improved gross international reserves to US$ 7.2 billion, equivalent to 4.1 months of imports cover • improved primarybalanceto0.3 percent surplus in September 2017 against a deficit of 1.6 percent in September 2016 • received positive sovereign rating reviews from international ratings Agencies: Fitch, B / stable; Standard & Poor, B - / positive • successfully completed the 4th IMF / ECF program review, and • achieved positive developments in the oil & gas sector — favorable ITLOS ruling, and Sankofa producing 1st oil three months ahead of schedule.

If approved, New York would be exempt from a five - year program from the federal government that seeks to make up to 90 percent of the country's off - shore areas open to gas and oil development.

The Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York is stepping up efforts to educate New Yorkers about the financial benefits that come from increasing natural gas development throughout upstaGas Association of New York is stepping up efforts to educate New Yorkers about the financial benefits that come from increasing natural gas development throughout upstagas development throughout upstate.

«As technical and technically driven as GNPC's operations, the corporation is committed to supporting the development of human capacity among Ghanaians to ensure greater participation from citizens and locals in Ghana's oil and gas exploration...

Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, explains: «The basic idea is that more transparency about the revenues from oil and gas production would lower the chances of corruption and graft, and hence improve governance and development.»

«The Dakota gasification project is creating synthetic gas and taking the CO2 from that process,» then piping it to the Weyburn oil field, observes Kurt Waltzer, carbon storage development coordinator at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group based in Boston.

Oil and gas development has long drawn criticism for its environmental effects, which range from road - killed wildlife to unhealthy ozone levels.

Trump's energy plan reads like a wish list from the fossil fuel industry: it envisions unfettered oil, gas and coal development as a path to national prosperity and energy independence.

Data for coal, oil and gas - fired electricity generation are adapted from the World Bank World Development Indicators.

This session solicits presentations examining all aspects of air emissions and / or air quality or climate impacts of methane, volatile organic compounds, and nitrogen oxides from all stages of oil and gas development.

May 7, 2012 • Cash - strapped states are embracing the millions of dollars in new tax revenue coming from shale oil and gas development.

Mr. Pickens aims to address the energy conundrum and wean the United States from foreign oil by speeding development of, among other things, wind power for electricity generation and natural gas as transport fuel.

A much larger body of law, he said, is focused on development — on managing resource extraction, for instance (think oil and gas leases)-- but is not crafted from the ground up with broader consideration for social and environmental impacts.

But while this ranch seems idyllic from a wildlife perspective, it is increasingly an island: the llanos are well suited for large - scale industrial agriculture and oil and gas development.

The physical existence of oil and gas in shale rocks was known but its development was believed to be uneconomic and it was therefore excluded from the projections.

Ellen Baum, senior scientist with the Clean Air Task Force, said today's news makes it more urgent than ever that black carbon and methane from pending Arctic oil and gas development be minimized.

These anti-hydrocarbon policies also mean the U.S. Treasury will be deprived of hundreds of billions of dollars in lease bonuses, royalties, taxes and other revenues that it would realize from the development of our nation's vast oil, natural gas and coal deposits.

The Canadian media are full of speculation that the Canadian government will push for special treatment and protections from global warming regulation of its fastest - growing source of greenhouse gas emissions — the tar sands oil development in Alberta, where much of Canada's oil is derived.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

Habitat losses from oil, gas and wind energy development include well pads, turbine pads, roads, buildings, transmission lines and pipelines.

Subtitle B: Disposition of Allowances -(Sec. 321) Amends the CAA to set forth provisions governing the disposition of emission allowances, including specifying allocations: (1) for supplemental emissions reductions from reduced deforestation; (2) for the benefit of electricity, natural gas, and / or home heating oil and propane consumers; (3) for auction, with proceeds for the benefit of low income consumers and worker investment; (4) to energy - intensive, trade - exposed industries; (5) for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology; (6) to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy; (7) to be distributed to Energy Innovation Hubs and advanced energy research; (8) to invest in the development and deployment of clean vehicles; (9) to domestic petroleum refineries and small business refiners; (10) for domestic and international adaptation; (11) for domestic wildlife and natural resource adaptation; and (12) for international clean technology deployment.

There have been some high - profile setbacks recently for the expansion of oil and gas drilling into the Arctic, from the 2012 wreck of Shell's Kulluk prospecting platform to President Obama's plan to bar energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Industry takes seriously earthquake incidents that may be associated with the disposal of produced water from energy development — salty brines and other fluids that come to the surface during oil and natural gas production.

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

The Secretary shall define the term outer Continental Shelf oil and gas activities for purposes of this subparagraph to include, but not be limited to, construction of vessels, drillships, and platforms involved in exploration, production, and development on the outer Continental Shelf; support and supply bases, ports, and related activities; offices of geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and other professionals involved in support of exploration, production, and development of oil and gas on the outer Continental Shelf; pipelines and other means of transporting oil and gas production from the outer Continental Shelf; and processing and refining of oil and gas production from the outer Continental Shelf.

This would imply that investment in exploration, development, and extraction of new sources of oil and gas could move from the «controversial» category to «misaligned» in a future refinement of the methodology.

The criteria include: using natural pests and composting in place of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers whenever possible; implementing no - burn policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the risk of fires spreading into forest areas; sparing forests with high conservation value from development; taking measures to reduce air pollution; and creating catchment ponds to prevent palm oil mill effluent — a byproduct — from entering waterways where it would damage aquatic habitats.

Second, while the 2011 report focused exclusively on natural gas, recent developments in the United States highlight the role of shale formations and other tight plays as sources of crude oil, lease condensates, and a variety of liquids processed from wet natural gas.

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussOil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussoil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

This new report, carried out by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Green Budget Germany (GBG) monitors the different types of subsidies spent by 11 European governments and the EU from 2014 to 2016 in oil, gas and coal projects in Europe.

EPA has also indicated that the agency is reconsidering its 2016 standards limiting emissions from new oil and gas development.

On March 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dropped its development of a regulatory approach to reduce methane emissions from existing oil and gas infrastructure.

1) Primary Energy Overview [PDF / XLS] 2) Primary energy production by source [PDF / XLS] 3) Primary energy consumption by source [PDF / XLS] 4) Energy consumption by sector [PDF] 5) Petroleum Data [PDF] 6) Natural Gas Data [PDF] 7) Coal Data [PDF] 8) Nuclear Energy Data [PDF] 9) Renewable Energy Data [PDF] 10) Electricity generation and Consumption [PDF] 11) Energy Prices [PDF] 12) World Crude oil production, consumption and stocks [PDF] 13) Crude oil and natural gas resource development [PDF] 14) Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption [PGas Data [PDF] 7) Coal Data [PDF] 8) Nuclear Energy Data [PDF] 9) Renewable Energy Data [PDF] 10) Electricity generation and Consumption [PDF] 11) Energy Prices [PDF] 12) World Crude oil production, consumption and stocks [PDF] 13) Crude oil and natural gas resource development [PDF] 14) Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption [Pgas resource development [PDF] 14) Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption [PDF]

Development activities in the Arctic (for example, oil and gas, minerals, tourism, and shipping) are of concern to Indigenous communities, from both perceived threats and anticipated benefits.149 Greater levels of industrial activity might alter the distribution of species, disrupt subsistence activities, increase the risk of oil spills, and create various social impacts.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

(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.