Sentences with phrase «gas imports»

By 2030 GDP will increase by nearly a full percentage point, billions of pounds will be saved on natural gas imports, and carbon emissions drop two - thirds.

For many countries it would require an increased dependency on gas imports, which raises concerns about energy security.

This would be the cheapest way to combat carbon emissions, slash gas imports and solve fuel poverty.

The new South Korean administration says it will increase natural gas imports to replace nuclear energy.

Expansion of the west - east pipeline (WEP) along China's northwest border is already underway to increase the level of natural gas imports from Central Asia still further.

For his part, Deutch sits on the board of Cheniere Energy, which owns liquefied natural gas import terminals on the Gulf Coast, and used to sit on the board of oil services giant Schlumberger.

Business Secretary John Hutton told the Labour Party conference that clean coal technology and a «renaissance in nuclear power» were needed if we weren't to leave ourselves at the mercy of gas imports from unstable and unfriendly foreign regimes.

For example, the stoneware bowl shown is likely made with Illinois clay but fired with natural gas imported by pipeline from the Gulf Coast states.

He also accused the company of mismanaging its gas pipeline system to justify keeping Aliso operating, citing three major gas importing pipelines that the company took offline for unplanned maintenance before peak winter demand.

The pipeline project would reroute supplies, transporting 80 percent of Russian gas imports through a new single avenue, and most notably, bypassing the Ukrainian network that currently channels about half of Russian's natural gas.

The United States also imported about 2.2 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of Canadian natural gas in the first seven months of 2002, with 93 % of total U.S. gas imports coming from Canada.

In the longer - term, investment in oil and gas remain essential to meet demand and replace declining production, but the growth in renewables and energy efficiency lessens the call on oil and gas imports in many countries.

China will need to continue raising its LNG and pipeline gas imports after they hit a record last year amid the government's efforts to curb pollution by cutting the use of coal for power generation.

Engineering group Clough has won a contract to provide its services to a joint venture which is building a liquid petroleum gas import terminal in South Africa.

The contract «particularly important» at a time when Europe has threatened to cut gas imports and reduce its dependence on Russia because of the Ukraine crisis, said Alexander Lukin, a deputy head of the Russian Diplomatic Academy under the country's Foreign Ministry, quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency.

The joint statement by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the Investor Network on Climate Risk, and the Investors Group on Climate Change also encourages intensive gas users and governments in oil and gas importing regions to consider playing a role in encouraging control of methane emissions.

Resource - poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports jumped after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster shut almost all of Japan's nuclear reactors.

Our continued over-reliance on increasingly expensive gas imports would threaten to blow our emissions out of the water — at great cost to consumers and to the economy as we miss out on a clean energy revolution and thousands of UK jobs.

As Ma of Greenpeace explained, China has already signed many natural gas import deals with overseas suppliers.

Reduced reliance on foreign gas imports and «intermittent generation'technologies, strengthening the country's energy security

For example, meeting the EU's full cost - effective potential would reduce gas imports by 40 % over the next fifteen years, and increase GDP by 4.45 %, compared to business as usual projections.

Brook Riley, climate and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «It's baffling to see governments putting gas in prime position when these plans were born out of a desire to end gas import dependency.

If you consider that in 2008 when we had the high prices, and I believe it was one of the reasons for the run - up to the financial crisis, the EU's oil and gas import bills to the GDP ratio was 2.3 percent,» he said.

Replacing nuclear with natural gas would require $ 23 billion as up - front investment in new plants and $ 10 billion per year to pay for gas imports.

Assuming that 20 % of this is recoverable, this would mean at a stroke that current UK gas reserves would be quadrupled and gas imports which sre currently estimated to rise to 80 % of consumption by 2020 could be virtually eliminated.

«The U.S. Supreme Court should reject New Jersey's attempts to carve away a chunk of Delaware [bottom center of picture] to benefit energy giant BP's plans for a liquefied natural gas import pier on the Delaware River, attorneys for Delaware argued in an interstate boundary dispute document made public Monday.»

Similarly, companies have gotten permits from the government to transform liquefied natural gas import terminals into export facilities that would commit the U.S. to decades of large, fixed export volumes.

Russian gas imports are not just a geopolitical risk for Germany: They contribute to energy companies» losses.

Gaffney's group calculates that if by 2025 all cars are hybrids, half of them plug - ins and all of them running on an 80 % ethanol blend, U.S. gas imports could drop from the projected 20 million bbl.

Some have suggested that Japan, in addition to boosting coal - fired power generation, may seek to increase natural gas imports from Russia.

This is having a major impact on oil and gas markets, challenging incumbent suppliers and provoking a major reorientation of global trade flows, with consumers in Asia accounting for more than 70 % of global oil and gas imports by 2040.

12) Coal fired power stations should be encouraged to be built to reduce our reliance on gas imports from dubious sources.

North American nations are considering a combined total of 64 liquefied natural gas import terminal proposals.

Gas imports, most of which arrive in pipelines from Canada and Mexico, peaked in 2007 at 3.8 trillion cubic feet.

In addition, Russia wields substantial «soft power» in Belarus, supplying all of its gas imports and taking nearly half of Belarus» exports.

Despite some reforms, energy inefficiency continues to play a major role in Ukraine's dependence on natural gas imports and stymies the overall growth of the Ukrainian economy.

Gas imports, a virtually unknown phenomenon for the Netherlands in the 20th century, are becoming a staple of Amsterdam's 21st century energy matrix.

The failure of solar developers to deliver on planned projects in Japan will cost the country's utilities close to $ 3.5 billion annually in additional coal and gas imports to generate power.

The government's stance determines whether oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil and Wintershall get a chance to assess the potential of shale gas in Germany, which in the long run could use the resource to lower its dependency on gas imports that come mainly from Russia.

Without nuclear power, Japan has relied on liquefied natural gas imports, which impose higher costs on households and industry and weaken the yen's value.

The analysis shows that while the existing infrastructure in Germany could support rapid switching from coal to gas, there is a lack of political will to switch from coal to gas imports.

She refers to natural gas imports from Russia — to this point the primary and dominant source of gas for a number of European countries.

The same goes for the natural gas we import from Mexico.

EIA expects natural gas imports from Russia on the new 3.7 Bcf / d Power of Siberia pipeline to begin in late 2019.