Sentences with phrase «including oil shale»

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There have been a number of high - profile derailments of trains — including one by UP — carrying shale oil, much of which is produced in new drilling areas without established pipeline networks and must be moved by rail.

While Tillerson has ties to Russia, he partly missed a key energy development back home in the United States by ceding growth potential in the shale oil industry to smaller, more nimble rivals, including Continental Resources.

Analysts interpreted this move as an attempt to squeeze higher - cost producers, including U.S. shale oil, out of the market.

The agreement does not include U.S. shale oil producers, and there are concerns that rising oil prices, largely thanks to the oil output cut, has allowed U.S. producers to come back online.

The so - called shale revolution could help to alleviate Washington's reliance on foreign oil, including from turbulent Middle Eastern states, while also supporting a bid to export to more countries around the world.

US - based shale producers including EOG Resources Inc., Continental Resources, Inc., and Pioneer Natural Resources are set to suffer as oil prices continue to be weighed down by the increased production Trump's policies imply.

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.

After becoming CEO in 2006, Tillerson led Exxon through more than a decade of ups and downs that included the late Hugo Chavez's seizure of Venezuelan oil fields, annual profits that set U.S. corporate records, and a 2010 shale acquisition that turned into a $ 35 billion wrong - way bet on natural gas.

The looming supply growth is mostly due to two factors: the scheduled end of OPEC / non-OPEC production cuts in March and US shale production, including NGLs, «growing like crazy,» said New York - based Mike Wittner, managing director and global head of oil research at Societe Generale.

Over the past five years, the economy has been through a number of shocks, including the eurozone crisis, the fiscal cliff, China's surprise currency devaluation in the summer of 2015, and the shale oil bust.

We explore the root causes of the oil collapse, including booming U.S. shale production and Saudi Arabia's decision to sell cheap oil rather than slash its output.

These include: the slowdown in China, the recessions in Brazil and Russia, the emergence of new supplies of energy such as US shale oil, Iran and Iraq ramping up production, and commodity investment projects in Chile and elsewhere coming on stream.

But ultimately oil fields decline, and we're going to need all sources of supply, including the shales, but also deepwater and other sources around the world».

Since 2008, he's called practically every major shale play before the mainstream press got wind of them — including the now - famous Bakken oil formation and the companies that have raked in billions in profits for their shareholders.

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

His research focus is on unconventional fuels, primarily shale gas and tight oil, but also coalbed methane and other unconventional sources, including oil sands, coal gasification and gas hydrates.

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.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Total oil production, including «unconventional» sources such as tar sands and shale oil, soon started to grow again.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Some of the features that were introduced on the Y - series Senator include oil and battery gauges on the centre stack, shale leather trim interior trim as well as white backing for the instruments.

Some of the factors the growth of railroad companies in the past few years include the shale oil boom in the U.S., limited pipeline...

Gasoline from traditional sources, including these harebrained schemes to go offshore and onto ANWR, is inseparable from tar sands and oil shale, which are far more abundant and destructive (as Raypierre pointed out).

Oil shale is not a solution given its energy and water extraction demands, environmental destruction (including residues), and GHG emissions.

My problem with Peak Oil is that once it is upon us it will trigger a desperate search for alternatives that will include making gasoline from coal, tar sands and oil shales (among otherOil is that once it is upon us it will trigger a desperate search for alternatives that will include making gasoline from coal, tar sands and oil shales (among otheroil shales (among others).

These include the U.S. - China Oil and Gas Industry Forum and a U.S. - China initiative on shale gas that he negotiated while at the State Department, which has broadened into the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program.

This includes not only oil sands, but Venezuelan extra-heavy and oil shale as well.

In the aftermath of the oil price fall in 2014, proposed new deepwater projects were generally among the first to be delayed or cancelled as the industry moved towards shorter cycle investments, including shale.

Total fossil fuel is close to a million EJ or about 500 years of the long - run thermal energy requirement in the high - growth scenario (at 60 TW (thermal) by 2100), but not including clathrates and oil shale, that is reduced to about 50 years of reserves at the 2100 rate (i.e. we're not even going to make it to 2100).

And that figure didn't include unconventional sources like tar sands, oil shale and methane hydrates»

Better yet would be to debate an energy policy for the USA, including opening up exploratory oil and gas drilling including shale deposits, limiting the exponential growth of regulations currently stifling new exploration, ending the EPA regulatory war on coal, reactivating the Keystone pipeline, etc.; these issues have direct impact on American jobs and future energy independence, both of which are more important issues for US voters (and presidential candidates) than any «climate» debate.

The quote from Mitt Romney's (allegedly «ghostwritten») book points to the conclusion that the USA should do more oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill») including shale deposits, to get more «energy independent» (combined, of course, with supporting basic research for new energy technologies).

Other impacts of tight oil include potentially significant water, air, and noise pollution around drilling sites, and the risk of oil spills by the trucks, trains, and pipes that transport extracted shale oil to refineries.

Cambridge Energy Research Associates estimate that the total recoverable oil resources in place are 3.74 trillion bbl (including non-conventional sources such as shale).

Table 9.3 used for tight oil and Table 9.2 dry unproved natural gas (shale gas) resource estimate was multiplied by 1.045 so as to include natural gas plant liquids for an unproved wet natural gas volume.

But according to government and scientific studies, all of these sources will yield at most a few million additional barrels of liquid fuels per day (this includes coal liquifaction [GTL], hydrogen, oil sands, oil shale, biofuels, and solar.).

alternative energy development, including bio fuels, coal - to - liquids, oil shale, tar sands, geothermal, geopressure, wind, waves, currents, hydro, and other renewable energy;

Comparison of the 2011 and 2013 reports ARI report coverage 2011 Report 2013 Report Number of countries 32 41 Number of basins 48 95 Number of formations 69 137 Technically recoverable resources, including U.S. Shale gas (trillion cubic feet) 6,622 7,299 Shale / tight oil (billion barrels) 32 345 Note: The 2011 report did not include shale oil; however, the Annual Energy Outlook 2011 did (for only the U.S.) and is included here for completeness.

It reported that the U.S. - based oil and gas industry invested more than $ 165 billion between 2000 and 2012 in technologies that helped reduce emissions, including those critical to the development of shale gas.

PA, your scenario for a 600 ppm cap involves leaving significant amounts of known coal resources in the ground, not developing Arctic oil or exploring for any other new oil fields, including shale oil, and not developing methyl clathrates as a methane source.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Some of the difference between the oil company scenarios and those from green NGO's and academics is due to fossil fuel lobby assumptions about demand and the role of gas (including shale gas), with CCS also seen as coming on line in a big way.

None of the models presented at the session included carbon dioxide emissions from unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands, methane hydrates or oil shale.

The U.S. shale boom masks threats to the global oil supply, including Middle East turmoil, conflict in Ukraine, and the difficulty of unconventional oil production beyond North America, according to the International Energy Agency.

(In its 2005 energy bill, Congress included an exemption from SDWA oversight for the water put into the ground for hydraulic fracturing — a provision that has come to be known as the «Halliburton loophole» after the oil and gas industry service company that is active in the shale industry.)

These include direct jobs in developing new oil and natural gas resources from shale.

``...... * FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $ 50 trillion dollars» worth of job - producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.

Although the amount of convential oil will continue to decline, there are estimated 10 - 15 trillion barrels of oil equivalent in unconvential oil which include heavy and extra heavy crude oils and the oil shale and sand.

The alternatives include shale oil and oil sands.

Unbelievably, according to the LA Times, the oil shale extraction industry was included in the Federal $ 700 - billion bailout package.