Sentences with phrase «gas well operations»

The summer brings back hurricane season, with the threat that such storms bring to the oil and gas well operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

Not exact matches

The world's largest publicly - traded oil and gas company by market value has ridden out a collapse in crude prices better than most, its vertically - integrated model allowing downstream businesses to capture the value that upstream operations lose when oil prices are low.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The Middle Eastern firm is going the extra mile, however, utilizing other electric vehicles, machines that run on compressed natural gas and biodiesel, as well as solar - powered boats that are capable of cleaning lakes and other bodies of water for its operations.

Three such examples are Aimsio, a digital ticketing software that streamlines field operations by enabling users to file reports, dispatch resources and track project progress all from one central location; DarkVision, which developed a new ultrasound technology that allows companies to create 3D images of the inside of oil wells, enabling them to make more informed and cost - effective production decisions; and Unsist, which uses artificial intelligence to help oil and gas companies make better production and operational choices.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is engaged in contract drilling of oil & gas wells for others & in the ownership, development & operation of commercial real estates.

This statewide program guides California «s wineries and winegrape growers to adopt an integrated system for their operations based on tested «best practices» in alternative energy, packaging, transportation, production and farming practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints in the state with the most stringent environmental laws in the country.

The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources has shut down operations at the five oil and gas injection wells of the company involved in the Vienna Twp.

Meanwhile, following renewed attacks on oil platforms and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta, the Nigerian Navy, yesterday, commenced modalities to train its officers and ratings in the use of un-manned maritime vessels, UMVs, as well as un-manned aerial vessels, UAVs, to be incorporated soon into its operations.

Rather, most of the small earthquakes have been linked to injection wells, which dispose of huge quantities of water used to flush out oil and gas in extraction operations.

Waters produced from unconventional oil and gas wells typically have radium isotope ratios (radium - 228 to radium - 226) that are different than those from conventional oil and gas operations, he said.

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

Milind Deo and colleagues set out to design a better facility for handling gas associated with oil operations.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

While oil and gas companies work to minimize the amount of methane emitted by their operations, almost no attention has been paid to wells that were drilled decades ago.

Uinta had 4,300 oil and 6,900 gas wells in operation, and Helmig used a 20 - foot - diameter balloon to hoist his measurement apparatus to 200 yards over the fields.

And there are many thousands of aging underground gas storage wells throughout the United States, but there had been no federal safety regulations governing their operation and maintenance.

But Rick Kessy, operations manager for Fortuna Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Talisman Energy and the largest gas producer in New York, says his company has assessed worker exposure at two of the company's well sites in Pennsylvania, where it found no serious risk.

This ability could make them better at determining current speed and direction, which have major effects on the shipping industry, oil and gas operations, and global weather.

In both the DFW sequence and the Cleburne sequence, the operation of injection wells used in the disposal of natural gas production fluids was listed as a possible cause of the seismicity.

The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.

A Feb. 24, 2014 Rice University news release (also on EurekAlert) and on Azonano as a Feb. 25, 2014 news item) describes a technique tracks which wells are producing oil or gas in fracking operations,

Overview Fully electric car is surprisingly refined and is pretty easy to live with Pros It uses absolutely no gas (zero emissions), refined operation, cheerful personality, government rebates make Leaf more affordable, and in many cities, you get preferred parking spots and access to HOV lanes Cons Lack of charging infrastructure (not a huge issue if you have a short commute) Value for money Good (especially with government incentives) What would I change?

Very reliable operation, comfortable ride, good gas efficiency.

The system has four modes of operation from low - speed pure EV to Normal to Eco and Sport and the RX 450h can operate in electric - only or gas - engine - only modes as well as a combination of both.

The entire operation of switching back and forth between electric power and gas power is seamless, detectable mainly by ear if one is listening inside the well - muted cabin.

Pressing the button on the centre console, the driver is able through Dynamic Damping Control to choose his preferred damper setting, the appropriate operation of DSC Dynamic Stability Control, the degree of gearshift dynamics on the automatic transmission, as well as the control maps on the gas pedal and Servotronic steering.

And finally, the available materials didn't always fare well under the high - heat, high - rpm operation of a turbocharger, which gets its energy from hot, flowing exhaust gases and typically spins well past 100,000 rpm.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is engaged in contract drilling of oil & gas wells for others & in the ownership, development & operation of commercial real estates.

The integrated oil and gas giant has refining operations that do better when crude prices decline, partly offsetting its exploration and production losses.

The study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

Postscript Readers interested in the extent and significance of the regional pollution from the well failure would do well to visit the Medium.com posts of Rob Jackson, a Stanford University scientist who's been digging deep on methane issues related to natural gas operations for many years.

The study, combining ground and aerial sampling of the gas with computer modeling, is the most comprehensive «top down» look so far at methane levels over the United States, providing a vital check on «bottom up» approaches, which have tallied estimates for releases from a host of sources — ranging from livestock operations to gas wells.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

In its analysis, the E.P.A. concluded that the amount emitted by routine operations at gas wells... is 12 times the agency's longtime estimate of nine billion cubic feet.

But there is still huge untapped potential for capturing emissions from gas wells, oil tanks, coal mines, landfills, livestock operations and other sources.

Around that time, in its New Mexico fields, BP began shifting to systems that constantly monitored operations done periodically to purge liquids that can accumulate in a gas well and impede the flow of gas.

Entitled «The Sky's Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production,» the report says that just burning fossil fuels from projects presently in operation will produce enough greenhouse gas emissions to push the world well past 2 °C of warming this century.

In the United States, methane regulations established under the Obama administration are currently slated for elimination or modification, including the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) rules for managing methane from new oil and gas sources as well as the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) rules for reducing methane from oil and gas operations on federal land.

They note that the lignin plant structure that is left after cellulose and carbohydrates are taken can be burned to help fuel the conversion process, giving the whole operation a much better greenhouse gas advantage than simply fermenting corn.

Finding ways to capture carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels in power plants and other industrial operations — better and more affordable ways — could be a significant help in the bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Key state regulations include: Review and approval of permits; well design, location and spacing; drilling operations; water management and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health and safety; and inspection and enforcement of day - to - day oil and gas operations.

The center is a clear demonstration of the oil and natural gas industry's commitment to safe operations and understanding that when it comes to safety, there is no room for second best.

Sources of methane emissions in the U.S. include the waste management and operations industry, the agricultural industry, as well as leaks and emissions from the oil and gas industry itself.

k Basis for estimate: 10 GJ / t NH3 difference between the average plant and the best available technology (Figure 7.2) and operation on natural gas (Section 7.4.3.2).

Recent research has indicated that leakage of methane into the atmosphere from gas wells and particularly from coal - seam - gas operations, might do more climate - changing harm even than coal.

It is worth pointing out that the Gates may well be no more dramatic than a single large gas - fired (or perhaps a moderate coal - fired) power plant, of which there are a great many in operation for 40 years or more around the world.

Geothermal power production has a carbon footprint associated with the construction and operation of the plant, but also because global warming gasses leak from the wells dug for heat extraction.

Methane concentrations were detected generally in 51 of 60 drinking - water wells (85 %) across the region, regardless of gas industry operations, but concentrations were substantially higher closer to natural - gas wells (Fig. 3).