Sentences with phrase «including shale gas»

Given these facts we need to honestly consider the moral and environmental issues about transporting gas, including shale gas, across oceans and continents and being increasingly dependent on gas from countries with regulatory and environmental standards lower than ours.

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-- What is the future of natural gas including shale gas?

Natural gas (including shale gas and coal seam gas) is largely methane, which is, volume for volume, a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

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.

Friends of the Earth Europe and Food & Water Europe campaign against the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels, including shale gas.

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.

But the important question is about future Chinese gas demand: how much is satisfied by pipeline deals and how much is satisfied by domestic production, which could include shale gas?

Not exact matches

And not only is Britain thought to have generous reserves of gas trapped in underground shale formations, it is one of the few countries remaining in Europe not have banned fracking, as many of their neighbors on the Continent already have done, including France and Germany.

Unconventional gas development (UGD), characterized by advances in engineering, including horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing, enables extraction of large amounts of fossil fuel from shale deposits at depths that were previously unapproachable [1].

On the shale revolution, the report concedes that energy prices for U.S. businesses might well rise if Washington decides to lift an old prohibition to export natural gas to countries who haven't signed a free trade agreement with the U.S. (which includes Japan and China, among America's best potential customers.)

The report includes comparative profiles of 10 publicly traded shale gas developers.

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.

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.

Major issues during the 2015 legislative session included a severance tax on shale gas, pension reforms, liquor privatization, and judicial reforms.

From an eyewitness account of the Tuesday Town of Sanford Board meeting, we heard the following: «People speaking included those with land and with leases who had signed the petition asking for the resolution that was passed to be rescinded, for board members with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves from shale gas decisions, and for no resolutions on shale gas extraction to be passed without notifying the public a week in advance and allowing full participation.

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.

During the discussions, Zucker displayed numerous scientific papers that he said highlighted how multiple facets of shale gas production, including drilling, trucking, and wastewater disposal, could potentially harm human health.

«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.

• The U.S. and India will increase cooperation on unconventional natural gas including on coal bed methane, natural gas hydrates, and shale gas.

Yet, it remains unclear exactly how shale gas might work in China, including how long wells might last and how easy they are to tap.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

Abundant natural gas resources and rising production — including supplies of tight gas, shale gas, and coalbed methane — contribute to the strong competitive position of natural gas.

Yet governments and industry are rushing into expanded use of fossil fuels, including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, shale gas extracted by hydrofracking, and methane hydrates.

«We need to develop a way to objectively measure emissions from shale gas development that includes the full range of operator types, equipment states and engineering approaches,» Shepson said.

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 scientists, including Cornell University environmental biologist Robert Howarth, have questioned natural gas's use as a «bridge fuel» because producing the gas, most of which is released from underground shale formations through hydraulic fracturing, often emits a lot of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

In 2013, we brought together scientists to discuss the challenges in environmental monitoring across the energy sector, including those working in the nuclear industry and researchers examining the potential risks around shale gas extraction.

Reject Greenhouse Gas emissions reductions schemes that come from high - risk technologies which create irreversible damage to human and planetary health including tar sands, shale gas, nuclear energy, and geo - engineeriGas emissions reductions schemes that come from high - risk technologies which create irreversible damage to human and planetary health including tar sands, shale gas, nuclear energy, and geo - engineerigas, nuclear energy, and geo - engineering;

The study, «Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development,» was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and undertaken by Dana R. Caulton and Paul B. Shepson of Purdue and a host of co-authors, including Anthony Ingraffea and Robert Howarth, Cornell scientists who are prominent foes of fracking, along with Renee Santoro of Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy, a nonprofit group that has been critical of fracking * (Ingraffea is affiliated with the group, as well).

At the premiere of Fox's antifracking sequel on Sunday, a batch of ticket holders — mostly landowners from the Marcellus shale region who support gas drilling, but including McAleer — was blocked from entering the theater (see the Artsbeat blog post for Tribeca's dubious explanation).

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 ProgrGas 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 Progrgas that he negotiated while at the State Department, which has broadened into the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement ProgrGas Technical Engagement Program.

The study should ease * concerns that reports of briny water mixing with drinking water have anything to do with gas drilling, including the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, used to release gas from deep shale layers.

I would greatly appreciate some reflection from you on the new shale gas assessment from EIA (global estimates for areas that have been surveyed) against the trends for food crops, including cassava, going to make fuels, as reported today by Elisabeth Rosenthal in The Times.

Please read the full post and explore other output from the Nicholas School blog (including this excellent summary of a recent meeting on shale gas extraction).

They include: reliance on industry innovation that has been the driving force behind America's energy renaissance — innovation that launched the surge in shale energy production, prompting increased natural gas use and resulting in lower carbon emissions; embracing the successful, free - market approach to energy and economic growth while lowering emissions by basing decisions on sound science; and allowing more opportunities for energy exploration and development.

I should note that the $ 165.4 billion figure includes money spent on shale gas development.

The great bulk of their investments goes to traditional petroleum resources, including carbon - intensive energy sources like tar sands and natural gas from shale, while alternative investments account for a tiny fraction of their spending.

Krupnick's primary research methodology is in the development and analysis of stated preference surveys (such as contingent valuation and choice experiments), which include eliciting preferences for reductions in mortality risks, environmental risks, tradeoffs involved in improving community drinking water quality with respect to removal of carcinogens versus microbiological agents, and, most recently, the risks from shale gas development as seen by experts and the general public.

Key factors likely contributing to increased natural gas spot trading in the Marcellus area include: rapid increases in Marcellus shale gas production; direct deliveries of Wyoming gas to the Ohio / Pennsylvania border through the Rockies Express Pipeline; and increased use of natural gas for power generation.

It called for region - wide purchasing of gas, linking and strengthening the EU's electricity transmission systems, and making «full use» of EU fossil fuel reserves, including coal and shale gas.

From their PR release: The Committee's year - end 2012 assessment of 2,384 Tcf includes 2,226 Tcf of gas potentially recoverable from «Traditional» reservoirs (conventional, tight sands and carbonates, and shales) and 158 Tcf in coalbed reservoirs.

His interests and areas of expertise include Eastern European politics, shale gas, deep - water drilling...

Shell has bought the site and has 10 supply contracts in place lasting up to 20 years, including from fracking companies extracting shale gas in the Marcellus shale field.

Output from shale deposits including the Marcellus has surged 10-fold since 2005 to account for a third of the country's gas production, government data show.

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).

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.

As politicians at all levels (including the president) will be deciding whether to embrace the controversial method of shale gas drilling in coming months, we asked two experts with divergent views to discuss the issue with us — and you.

The Northeast Energy Direct plan would have included a spur line into Connecticut to bring natural gas from the Marcellus shale regions of Pennsylvania.