Sentences with phrase «from shale gas»

It's estimated that the UK could meet around 10 % of its current gas needs from shale gas, if it can be extracted at a commercial rate.

Back in 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than coal.

Rising production from shale gas resources has been credited with both lower natural gas prices and declining dependence on imported natural gas.

[75] The American Chemistry Council determined that a 25 % increase in the supply of ethane (a liquid derived from shale gas) could add over 400,000 jobs across the economy, provide over $ 4.4 billion annually in federal, state, and local tax revenue, and spur $ 16.2 billion in capital investment by the chemical industry.

the likely ultimate production from shale gas wells, the resulting conclusions are not significantly

Pacsi, A.P., Sanders, K.T., Webber, M.E., Allen, D.T., Spatial and temporal impacts on water consumption in Texas from shale gas development and use, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2014.

In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than...

To be sure, there's still plenty of federally unregulated greenhouse gas pollution within American borders — perhaps most notably, growing methane emissions from the shale gas boom — but the rule helps plug a big regulatory gap.

In the United States, chemical companies use ethane and propane, NGLs derived from shale gas, as key feedstocks.

Shell's complex will use low - cost ethane from shale gas producers in the Marcellus and Utica basins to produce polyethylene, which is used in a variety of products, from food packaging and containers to automotive components.

In its online debate this week on hydraulic fracturing, The Economist poses this question: «Do the benefits derived from shale gas outweigh the drawbacks of fracking?»

No mention of the quick drop off of well production from shale gas.

In recent years, natural gas from shale gas deposits has become a major new source in the United States.

The current letter also implies that emissions from shale gas are higher than those for conventional gas, a notion convincingly dispelled by last year's University of Texas study, sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund, that measured actual — not estimated or modeled — emissions from hundreds of gas wells at dozens of sites in the US.

Palmer believes there are four major drivers for changing basis differentials: changes in supply from shale gas development, the potential growth in liquefied natural gas shipments, planned Gulf Coast chemical plant investments, and swelling exports to Mexico.

(One recent study confirmed that methane leaks from shale gas wells can travel great distances in aquifers and that regulators aren't doing enough to monitor the risks to climate change or water.)

Krupnick's primary research methodology is in the development and analysis of stated preference surveys (such as contingent valuation and choice experiments), which include eliciting preferences for reductions in mortality risks, environmental risks, tradeoffs involved in improving community drinking water quality with respect to removal of carcinogens versus microbiological agents, and, most recently, the risks from shale gas development as seen by experts and the general public.

According to the Natural Gas Annual, gross withdrawals from shale gas wells increased from 5 Bcf / d in 2007 to 33 Bcf / d in 2013, representing 40 % of total natural gas production, and surpassing production from nonshale natural gas wells.

In the journal Climatic Change (where the first study by Howarth was published), Cathles lays out several fundamental errors that led Howarth to unreliable conclusions about the emissions from shale gas production:

... [I] t seems especially pertinent for this committee to consider the water budget of energy from shale gas compared with other sources... Natural gas, from both shale gas and conventional reservoirs requires less water per MMBtu of energy generated from combustion than any other common fuel.

The advantage of natural gas applies whether it comes from a shale gas well or a conventional gas well.

The latest EPA estimate for methane emissions from shale gas falls within the range of our estimates but not those of Cathles et al, which are substantially lower.

The study, «Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development,» was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and undertaken by Dana R. Caulton and Paul B. Shepson of Purdue and a host of co-authors, including Anthony Ingraffea and Robert Howarth, Cornell scientists who are prominent foes of fracking, along with Renee Santoro of Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy, a nonprofit group that has been critical of fracking * (Ingraffea is affiliated with the group, as well).

In April 2011, my colleagues Tony Ingraffea, Renee Santoro, and I published the first comprehensive analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shale gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing, with a focus on methane emissions, in the journal Climatic Change Letters.

I'm cross-linking because these posts relate nicely to examinations here of the «dread to risk ratio» in arenas ranging from shale gas drilling (a k a fracking) to nuclear power, toxic chemicals to climate.

The researchers found most of the salt, organic and other minerals that appear in produced water from shale gas reservoirs originate in the connate waters trapped in the dense rock over geologic time scales.

The paper, «Organic compounds in produced waters from shale gas wells,» was written by Samuel J. Maguire - Boyle and Andrew R. Barron of Rice University (Maguire - Boyle and just published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.

Stefan Schwietzke, a research associate at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., said Howarth may be overestimating methane emissions from shale gas because his 12 percent leakage rate estimate is based mostly on a single satellite study.

«We need to develop a way to objectively measure emissions from shale gas development that includes the full range of operator types, equipment states and engineering approaches,» Shepson said.

Shell's complex will use low - cost ethane from shale gas producers in the Marcellus and Utica basins to produce polyethylene, which is used in a variety of products, from food packaging and containers to automotive components.

LONDON (Reuters)- The risks to public health from exposure to emissions from shale gas extraction or fracking are low as long as operations are properly run and regulated, the British government's health agency said on Thursday.

The study came under heavy criticism from Cornell researcher Robert Howarth, who two years prior had published work that claimed methane emissions from shale gas operations were far more significant.

The risks to public health from exposure to emissions from shale gas extraction or fracking are low as long as operations are properly run and regulated, the British government's health agency said on Thursday.

A new study finds that methane emissions from shale gas production are nearly 50 times lower than previous estimates, improving the climate benefit of switching from coal to natural gas.

EPRI assumes an escalating price for natural gas — even with new deliveries from shale gas and other unconventional sources, James said.

With access to low - cost ethane from shale gas, the US is on its way to becoming one of the world's cheapest chemical producers, predicts the American Chemistry Council.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Produced water from shale gas fields in Texas is rich in lithium.

The report recommends «regulators should explore the option of mandating alternative fracturing methods to reduce the wastewater usage and contamination from shale gas extraction in the Marcellus Shale.»

LONDON (ICIS)-- The UK chemical sector stands to benefit from shale gas more than any other European country thanks to a positive political environment and its large reserves, according to UK trade association the Chemical Industries Association (CIA).

From an eyewitness account of the Tuesday Town of Sanford Board meeting, we heard the following: «People speaking included those with land and with leases who had signed the petition asking for the resolution that was passed to be rescinded, for board members with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves from shale gas decisions, and for no resolutions on shale gas extraction to be passed without notifying the public a week in advance and allowing full participation.

Thanks to cheaper supply from shale gas production, projects are already underway to convert to natural gas.

The government has already promised 100,000 pounds in compensation funding for local communities as well as a share of revenue raised from shale gas sales.

The British oil giant reported huge figures from the shale gas well, suggesting the Mancos could provide a massive new source of U.S. shale gas.

The LNG Canada and Kitimat LNG projects, as well as a fourth plant proposed for the northern B.C. coast by Malaysian state energy company Petronas and Calgary - based Progress Energy, will likely have to wait for new pipelines to be built directly from the shale gas fields of northeastern B.C. Kitimat LNG's owners are separately developing the Pacific Trails pipeline to their terminal.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

It encompasses aging projects in the North Sea, factory - like shale fields from Texas to Pennsylvania, and, oh, by the way, 43,000 gas stations ringing the planet — a larger retail network than that of either McDonald's (mcd) or Starbucks (sbux) x.

Finally, one from the Fortune archives: Brian O'Keefe's 2012 magazine story on ExxonMobil's big bet on shale gas.

Hope for exporting Canada's surplus production, especially from the mammoth shale fields in northeastern B.C., now rests on the construction of terminals on the B.C. coast to liquefy the gas and ship it to Asia, where prices are currently six times higher than they are here.

To get the oil, producers fracture, or «frack,» the earth below with a high - pressure liquid mixture to untap oil and gas from shale rock.