Sentences with phrase «gas operations»

That's why we see the trend and the decline over the last decade of emissions from natural gas operations while we are at the same time increasing our production.

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

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

This is relevant because the greenhouse impact of leaks and emissions from gas operations remains an important consideration, even as new research supports the role of gas in cutting emissions relative to coal.

The new rules target new and modified oil and gas production sources, but not all existing natural gas operations.

The Tyndall Centre has called on the UK government to put a moratorium on shale gas operations in the UK until the environmental implications are fully understood.

Perth - based Amity Oil NL has paved the way for a smoother gas operation on the Whicher Range permit in the South West.

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.

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

Nancy Yieh, Engineering 1979, was vice president of gas operations at Con Edison of New York.

With some of the lowest - cost gas operations in North America, the company has a bold new plan to sell its product straight to industrial clients

Growing carbon pollution from LNG and upstream shale gas operations constitutes the largest contributor to the size of the gap.

The 39 unreported emission sources, found in the analysis of satellite data from 2005 to 2014, are clusters of coal - burning power plants, smelters, oil and gas operations found notably in the Middle East, but also in Mexico and parts of Russia.

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

Methane and other pollutants, like benzene and toluene, that are released from oil and gas operations absorb infrared radiation at certain wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Just as important, there is no oil - and gas - service industry in place in Britain to quickly begin shale gas operations here.

When EPA announced a push for additional regulation on methane emissions from new oil and natural gas operations late last year, we said it looked like a solution in search of a problem — especially considering the agency's own data showing that since 2005 methane emissions from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells had fallen 79 percent.

There's much that impresses about hydraulic fracturing if you see it up close, which I did during a recent tour of Anadarko Petroleum natural gas operations near Williamsport, Pa.: the technology, the company's highly skilled workers, the game - changing resource opportunities in the Marcellus Shale and more.

That's why David Doniger, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, put forward a plan to restrict methane emissions from natural gas operations while also limiting carbon dioxide from power plants.

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.

Researchers found «no immediate health concerns from air quality» and concluded that «oil and gas operations do not cause harmful excess air emissions.»

Methane escaping from oil and gas operations totaled approximately 1,680 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2012, calculated based on methane's 100 - year global warming potential (GWP).

Methane emissions from oil and gas operations worldwide represent a significant loss of natural gas resources and is a material contributor to total GHG emissions and global climate change.

A recent study by Stanford scientists found that fracking and other oil and gas operations contaminated groundwater in Pavillion, Wyo..

The dead birds — hawks, owls, and waterfowl — were evidently exposed to hydrocarbons at drilling facilities and waste water storage plants at a number of Exxon's natural gas operations across the Midwest.

The first study found that the San Juan Basin has been a major source of U.S. methane emissions as far back as 2003, with coalbed methane and conventional natural gas operations largely to blame.

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's proposal to modify the Blowout Preventer System and Well Control Rule imposed following the 2010 Macondo deepwater well accident and crude oil spill reflects BSEE's recent work to revise flawed regulations and make offshore oil and gas operations safer, and Independent Petroleum Association of America official said.

Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures within gas operations & customer relations

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 rejig involves four new senior appointments, including former Origin Energy head of gas operations, Dawn Summers, who has been running the Lattice assets and will join as chief operating officer on Thursday.

In 2007, for example, it divested its natural gas operations into what is now Spectra Energy, and in 2012, it absorbed regional power producer Progress Energy.

Through a combination of cost - effective measures that build on white papers issued for public comment last year, EPA has set a goal of cutting methane emissions from oil and gas operations by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025.

«Taken together, state and federal requirements, along with the technologies and practices developed by industry, serve to protect human health and help reduce environmental impacts from shale gas operations,» the Ground Water Protection Council said in a primer prepared for the Department of Energy in 2009.

The firm is primarily focused on the natural gas operations in East Texas and North Louisiana, and the Permian and Delaware Basins of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico under lease for oil and gas exploration and development.

Perth - based explorer Hawkley Oil & Gas has entered into a binding term sheet for the sale of its Ukraine oil and gas operations to Black Star Petroleum in exchange for 600 million shares.

The dearth of new capital has so far not trickled down to oil and gas operations.

The firm had taken a bearish view on Exxon due to challenges in its European natural gas operations, «lackluster» growth in oil and gas production, a pricey acquisition in U.S. shale fields and the lack of share buybacks.

Some of Friedland's past money - makers include the 1996 sale of his Voisey's Bay nickel property to Inco for $ 3.1 billion and the 2009 sale of Ivanhoe Energy's American oil and gas operations to Seneca Resources Corp. in a $ 40 - million deal.

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.

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.

The Interior Department will delay for one year implementing rules meant to capture methane emissions from oil and gas operations.

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.

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.