Sentences with phrase «from oil and gas operations»

Methane doesn't just emerge from leaks from oil and gas operations — it is also belched by ruminants (i.e., cows) and emerges from wetlands, landfills and much more.

In addition, the injection of wastewater from oil and gas operations for disposal into deep underground wells is also altering the stresses of geologic faults, unleashing earthquakes [140].22 Increases in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events can impact agriculture and ecosystems [71,141].

The authors estimated that the region's methane emissions were 3.7 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, almost five times greater than the 0.75 million metric tons previously estimated (according to the study, methane emissions from oil and gas operations are 2.3 - 7.5 times greater than earlier estimates).

Alberta is targeting a 45 % reduction in methane gas emissions from its oil and gas operations by 2025.

The analysis also included calculations of a producer's direct emissions via flaring and venting processes, emissions from entities using their own fuel, and fugitive emissions of methane from oil and gas operations and coal mining.

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.

Addition of a new oil and gas methane model to estimate emissions levels and abatement opportunities and costs for methane emissions from oil and gas operations globally.

That same year, the researchers found 7 million tons (7.2 teragrams) of methane came from oil and gas operations.

In the United States, methane regulations established under the Obama administration are currently slated for elimination or modification, including the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) rules for managing methane from new oil and gas sources as well as the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) rules for reducing methane from oil and gas operations on federal land.

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.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) today applauded House passage of a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act of a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule to regulate methane venting and flaring from oil and gas operations on public lands.

ACC issued the following statement in response to today's Senate vote regarding a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule to regulate methane venting and flaring from oil and gas operations on public lands.

«Could excess water from oil and gas operations help farmers and reduce seismicity?.»

The trick is making sure the water is safe, legal, and economically feasible to move to fields, say two groups of scientists studying what's called «produced water» from oil and gas operations in New Mexico and Colorado.

«The larger point here is that Administrator Pruitt is saying it's OK for industry to withhold basic information on pollution from oil and gas operations from the American people,» he told E&E News.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The United States and Canada agreed joint steps on Thursday to fight climate change, including cutting methane emissions from oil and gas operations and signing last year's Paris climate deal «as soon as feasible.»

Elevated iodide in surface water can promote the formation of highly toxic byproducts in drinking water when the iodide mixes with the chlorine used to disinfect the water at municipal treatment plants located downstream from oil and gas operations.

There is increasing evidence that these earthquakes are caused by injecting fluids from oil and gas operations deep into the earth.

Duke University scientists have discovered high levels of two potentially hazardous contaminants, ammonium and iodide, in wastewater being discharged or spilled into streams and rivers from oil and gas operations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Spills from oil and gas operations can contaminate local water and soil with high levels of toxic chemicals, salts and radioactivity, but in many cases there is insufficient information to determine how long ago the spill occurred and identify its source.

The cause, scientists say, is injecting wastewater from oil and gas operations into deep underground wells.

In 2011, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Prague, Oklahoma, damaged buildings — and was linked to wastewater injection from oil and gas operations.

The Trump administration will suspend a rule to limit methane leaks from oil and gas operations on federal land, but its true aim may be to kill the Obama - era requirement.

With CCS, instead of releasing carbon dioxide from oil and gas operations into the atmosphere, where the emissions contribute to global warming, that CO2 is converted into liquid and pumped underground to be sequestered indefinitely in porous rock formations.

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.

Rewriting rules to stop methane leaks from oil and gas industry March 28 Trump has attempted to roll back rules to prevent methane leaks from oil and gas operations, but the effort has faced challenges.

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.

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.

Three such examples are Aimsio, a digital ticketing software that streamlines field operations by enabling users to file reports, dispatch resources and track project progress all from one central location; DarkVision, which developed a new ultrasound technology that allows companies to create 3D images of the inside of oil wells, enabling them to make more informed and cost - effective production decisions; and Unsist, which uses artificial intelligence to help oil and gas companies make better production and operational choices.

His company, Knightsbridge Risk Management, a private security firm in Dallas that serves the oil and gas industry, is getting calls from companies that want to plan ahead in case they shut down drilling operations in North Dakota and the Bakken shale formation.

Alberta has a revenue problem and if we should have learned anything since the international price of oil collapsed in 2014, it is that we should not depend on royalty revenues from oil and gas to fund the day to day operations of our public services.

«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...

If the listing on the stock exchange is successful, MTN Ghana would be exempted from the capital market local content policy which enjoins companies operating in specific areas including telecom, mining, oil and gas to list a minimum percentage of their shares on the Ghana Stock Exchange within 5 years of commencement of operations in Ghana.

«A gap in satellite coverage could jeopardize everything from agriculture and aviation safety, to the oil and gas industry, to wildfire response and other search and rescue operations.»

Waters produced from unconventional oil and gas wells typically have radium isotope ratios (radium - 228 to radium - 226) that are different than those from conventional oil and gas operations, he said.

However, the disposal of treated wastewater from conventional oil and gas operations was allowed to continue.

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

At issue are draft rules that require annual greenhouse gas reporting from an estimated 13,000 sites, including refineries, other oil and gas sites, power plants, and many other types of industrial operations, such as cement and metals production.

Marine waters also receive wastes directly from offshore activities, such as ocean - based dumping (e.g., from ships and offshore oil and gas operations).

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 study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

More specifically, do your regional findings give a clue as to how much of what you see from energy sector is from drilling as opposed to other oil and gas operations?

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

But there is still huge untapped potential for capturing emissions from gas wells, oil tanks, coal mines, landfills, livestock operations and other sources.

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.

Months later, BLM finalized a similar rule requiring oil and gas companies to reduce wasteful venting, flaring and leaks from both new and existing operations on public and tribal lands.

However, Alberta environment office show that «greenhouse gas» emissions from oil sands plummeted 38 % between 1990 and 2009, and are now 5 % of Canada's total GHG emissions — and equal to or lower than CO2 / GHG emissions from petroleum operations in Nigeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

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