Sentences with phrase «from oil and gas facilities»

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.

That work is ongoing, but suggests that methane emissions from oil and gas facilities exceed US government estimates1.

Not exact matches

Before their combination, both EQT and Rice operated midstream businesses — which transport oil and gas from wells to processing, transportation and shipping facilities — through limited partnerships.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

From life sciences, aerospace, datacenters, oil + gas, luxury retail, sports technology + fitness, and commercial real estate, our team of nearly 1,750 professionals keeps these industries buildings and facilities operating efficiently, sustainably and on budget.

They can range from former gas stations or auto repair facilities where gasoline and oil has leaked into the ground, to large former factories.

MethaneSAT is an offshoot of the EDF's research on greenhouse - gas emissions from US oil and gas facilities.

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

The ICR was part of the previous administration's plan to crack down on emissions from existing oil and gas facilities — a piece of President Obama's broader Climate Action Plan.

I stumbled on an announcement from Park Systems for a webinar designed for the oil and gas industry after my June 8, 2015 post featuring Abakan and its new Alberta (Canada)- based cladding facility designed for oil and gas pipes in particular.

The SMU Geothermal Lab is an active research facility with a variety of ongoing geothermal resource projects which strive to broaden the understanding and use of geothermal energy, from the simplest form - geothermal heat pumps for buildings, to the large - scale deployment of geothermal power plants providing energy for our cities while also exploring opportunities to integrate renewable geothermal projects in an oil & gas setting.

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.

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.

Now it's becoming clear that this simple and affordable technology has played a two - pronged role in helping the Environmental Protection Agency, in the face of perpetual industry resistance, move toward clamping down on leaks of methane and other compounds from oil and gas wells, tanks and other facilities.

The Carbon Limits study, which analyzed records from over 4,000 surveys of oil and gas facilities, reported that 97 percent of the volume of leaks comes from leaks which are economic to repair — i.e., the revenues from the additional gas are greater than the cost of the repair.

The ProPublica piece expands on findings I reported in the print paper and on Dot Earth in 2009 showing that the amount of gas leakage from wells, pipelines and storage facilities for gas and oil was vastly greater than longstanding Environmental Protection Agency estimates.

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.

Using advocacy and litigation to secure strong national limits on emissions from new, modified and existing power plants, oil refineries, cement kilns, and oil and gas production facilities.

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.

African American communities, including workers, are most likely to be exposed to the pollution from fossil fuel based energy production through coal plants, oil and gas refineries, as well as pollution from energy production through nuclear facilities and waste incinerators.

Our patented technology allows for the low - cost capture of CO2 from stationary emissions sources such as oil production operations, power and steam plants and metals production facilities, while leveraging existing solvent - based gas scrubbing approaches already known to industry.

(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.

Current official inventories of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas released from landfills, livestock ranches and oil and gas facilities, may be underestimated both nationally and in California by a factor of about 1.5, according to new research from Berkeley Lab and others.

In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented policies that will reduce methane pollution from new oil and gas facilities that are developed.

Most recently, the EPA announced that it would begin regulating methane from existing oil and gas facilities, with the ultimate goal of cutting methane from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025.

We guide and advise our clients through the process of developing, financing and operating a wide range of onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities; from licensing through to decommissioning.

There was an expansion in industry from 2010 - 14 of approximately 1 million sq. ft.. Now there is 5 million sq. ft. total oil and gas occupancy downtown,» says Anthony Albanese, first vice president at CBRE who leads the firm's energy facilities group.