Sentences with phrase «gas flare on»

A gas flare on an oil production platform in the Soroush oil fields is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Gulf.

Since its launch in 2002, the MODIS on NASA's Aqua satellite has detected thermal anomalies such as wildfires, agricultural fires, and gas flares on a daily basis.

Andres, R.J., G. Marland, I. Fund, and E. Matthews, 1997: Geographic Patterns of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil - Fuel Brning, Hydarulic Cement Production, and Gas Flaring on a One Degree by One Degree Grid Cell Basis: 1950 to 1990.

Effect of Gas Flaring on Soil and Cassava Productivity in Ebedei, Ukwuani Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria

Not exact matches

We have Weber natural gas grill and after 5 years of grilling with very few flare - ups, I completely caught the grill on fire.

Ending the flaring of gas produced during oil extraction, on the other hand, would lower emissions of black carbon.

Such emissions are seen on vastly greater scales from aurorae on Jupiter and Saturn, flares on the sun, and binary stars that orbit closely enough to exchange charged gases.

But the images suggest that scientists will want to take advantage of the DNB's images in multiple ways: not just to study clouds, but also to assess disasters such as power outages (such as before and after Superstorm Sandy last month), to study gas flares and estimate volumes of CO2 emissions, or to keep an eye on illegal unreported fishing (the boats emit light to draw in their stocks).

Based on data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, it appears that the sun threw more tantrums than expected, in the form of powerful x-ray flares that zapped the surrounding disk of gas and dust.

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.

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.

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EPA standards should require well operators to capture this gas and sell it or use it on - site, instead of releasing it or flaring it.

Africa sits on vast deposits of natural gas (all those flares in Nigeria), along with the condensates that provide vital cooking fuels like propane and butane, but they're not being developed because there's no ready market.

I hope you'll read «Applying Creativity to a Byproduct of Oil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakota.

40 years ago I worked briefly in the North Sea and the two rigs I was on continuously flared associated condensate gas.

I find the use of the Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center data on «Global CO2 Emissions from Fossil - Fuel Burning, Cement Manufacture, and Gas Flaring», here:

At the behest of two congressmen, the Government Accountability Office has begun an analysis of federal revenue lost when natural gas produced on federal lands either escapes to the atmosphere or is burned in flares.

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.

Proposed measures include: undertaking of major energy efficiency measures on the supply and consumption sides, including reducing the large amounts of flared and vented gas; and minimizing the carbon footprint of the new capacity to be added.

Landfill methane emission rates are estimated using the first - order decay method recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to estimate both total emissions reductions for landfill gas - to - electricity generation and an increase in landfill gas flaring.

Article on latest World Bank findings (pointing out that the North Dakota is now a significant location of natural gas flaring as a result of development of the Bakken Shale for oil):

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Data from the World Bank site on global natural gas flaring (notice that Russia flares 3X the amount of the next country at the same time it attempts to corner natural gas supplies to Europe): Estimated Flared Volumes from Satellite Data, 2007 - 2011

The Times continues: Mr. Hacker touches on a reason sales have dropped: a growing sense of environmental responsibility that has flared along with gas prices.

Estimates produced for about 60 countries around the world revealed that gas flaring has remained largely stable over the last 12 years — in the range of 150 - 170 billion cubic meters annually — although 22 mostly lesser developed countries increased its use over that period (on the other hand, 16 other countries decreased its use).

More Resource On Flaring: World Bank: Global Gas Flaring Reduction Global Gas Flaring Satellite Survey Reveals Oil's Hidden Costs TreeHugger Looks Into The Carbon Offset Project At The Tontitown Landfill

The World Bank reports that for the first time since 2008 global gas flaring has increased, with the blame placed on increased shale gas drilling in North Dakota.

More Articles on Fossil Fuels Blending Diesel with Biomass - Based Nylon Precursor Cuts Soot by 50 % Because of Methane Leaks, Natural Gas Could be as Bad as Oil & Coal Uganda: Anything But Gas Flaring, Please

Earlier this year, President Obama ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to look into possible new regulations for methane emissions and ordered the Interior Department to ready new rules for flaring methane from oil and gas production on federal lands.