Sentences with phrase «gas boom years»

It could have joined the natural gas boom years ago.

Not exact matches

Canada ships nearly all of its crude oil exports to the United States, and Mexico's appetite for natural gas has driven a boom in U.S. pipeline shipments in recent years.

In recent years, America's unprecedented oil and gas boom has been driven by one factor above all others — and that's shale.

A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.

The coal miner has been hurt as the world has turned to more environmentally - friendly energy sources such as natural gas — a trend that has accelerated in the last few years as gas prices have come down substantially due to surging supply from the U.S. fracking boom.

British Columbia is likewise feeling the pinch, as what was looking like a shale gas boom little more than a year ago has gone quiet.

Tallahassee has everything boomers say they want, from stellar health care and lower - than - average gas and food prices to weather that's sunny year - round.

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

His hunch about shipping a few years later stemmed from the oil and gas boom in the U.S..

A boom in natural gas drilling in the U.S. has caused prices of that commodity to fall precipitously in recent years.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

And for four years, the natural gas boom in Pennsylvania's Northern Tier crossed over the border and boosted Elmira's economy.

New York is in the forefront of the shale gas boom and has been working on regulations for more than three years.

«North Dakota's political leadership is still in the mold where a lot of our oil and gas policy reflects a strong desire to have another oil boom,» said Mark Trechock, who headed the Dakota Resource Council, a landowner group that has pushed for stronger oversight, until his retirement this year.

This recent shale natural gas boom has not only reversed the depletion trend of conventional natural gas production from a few years ago, but has actually flooded markets supplies.

In the few years following publication of the 2007 scenarios, at least three major energy - market events failed to fit the world energy model: the 2008 financial crisis; the U.S. shale - gas boom; and Germany's decision, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, to speed up its transition to renewables.

Thanks to the state's oil and gas boom, jobs in this state grew 2.8 percent over the past year, making it one of the quickest - growing job markets in the nation.

This past year saw President Obama's aggressive pronouncement of his climate agenda, more of the same for the Keystone XL pipeline, and some of the starkest evidence that America's oil and natural - gas boom is turning on its head almost every bit of conventional wisdom about the global energy landscape.

The low price for gas now, after the boom years since 2007 or so in other states (which produced the problems and anger distilled into the film «Gasland «-RRB-, will insure that any drilling effort plays out at a pace that will be manageable.

In that piece, Davenport observed that the president's attack on coal is not something that would have been politically viable even a few years ago, but she also notes the damage inflicted to the industry by the boom in natural gas:

OIL AND GAS: • A reporter discusses her book on the oil and gas boom in North Dakota, where she spent a year interviewing people affected by the industGAS: • A reporter discusses her book on the oil and gas boom in North Dakota, where she spent a year interviewing people affected by the industgas boom in North Dakota, where she spent a year interviewing people affected by the industry.

Thanks to an oil boom, gas prices at the pump have plummeted, and trucks and SUVs were the best - selling vehicles in the United States last year.

A few years ago, while poring over satellite images of the Earth at night, scientists spotted the bright glow of natural gas flares burning in the oil and gas fields that have fueled America's recent energy boom.

Driving this point home, the global climate cooled after 1940 until about 1975 — in spite of the copious emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the industrial boom years after World War II.

Moscow has for years used its giant energy reserves as a strategic tool to influence former satellite countries... The shale boom has reshaped the world energy market over the past decade, with the U.S. emerging as a new energy exporter, and the beginning of gas exports represents a big moment in this new world.»

What crushed green energy was the boom in shale oil and gas along with the steep decline in the price of fossil fuel that few saw coming just a few years ago.

This natural gas supply boom may lead to 67 billion cubic meters of natural gas exports per year from Queensland and Western Australia.

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As I wrote last year when the rule was initially announced, many states are already well on their way to achieving the required reductions, thanks in part to a recent boom in cheap natural gas and the Obama administration's choice of 2005 as the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissions.

This «fraccing», combined with horizontal drilling, produced the natural gas boom that has transformed North America's energy landscape, increasing natural gas reserves to a level high enough to supply current consumption levels for more than 100 years.

Proof is that wind and solar have boomed over the last five years when natural gas prices have been very low.

American politicians who really care about climate change — I'm assuming this includes our president, as well as a majority in Congress — should skip the summits and instead ask themselves why the oil and gas prices that started rising a couple of years ago (creating a boom in alternative - energy research) have once again dropped to an artificial low.

As the industry continues to boom, workers continue to make a decent living drilling for oil and gas; however, it is also a very dangerous industry that causes many serious injuries and deaths each year.

Housing prices in North Dakota have experienced sharp increases in recent years as the oil and gas booms have attracted more residents to the state.

The Hays Oil and Gas Salary Guide has found that 25 % of the overall oil and gas workforce (the Baby Boomer generation) are expected to retire in the next 5 - 10 yeaGas Salary Guide has found that 25 % of the overall oil and gas workforce (the Baby Boomer generation) are expected to retire in the next 5 - 10 yeagas workforce (the Baby Boomer generation) are expected to retire in the next 5 - 10 years.

But the oil and gas industry — booming in recent years — and industries allied to it are seeing significant recruitment issues as fields become less viable at lower prices.

The survey found that the largest price increases over the past year occurred in Saskatchewan, where jobs in the booming oil and gas, grain and potash industries are attracting record numbers of new residents.