Sentences with phrase «into liquid natural gas»

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A day earlier, Apache Corp. announced it would «completely exit» the 50 - 50 partnership, which includes natural gas resources in northeastern B.C., a pipeline to the West Coast and a facility near Kitimat, B.C., to chill the gas into a liquid state so it can be shipped overseas.
The company's largest single business today is building plants that chill natural gas into a dense liquid that's then loaded on tankers for China, Japan, and Spain.
Each train is essentially a giant refrigerator that cools natural gas to — 260 ° F, creating a stable liquid that's pumped into the holds of tankers docked at an adjacent port.
Gary Leach, president of the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada, says the price collapse forced Canadian firms to pivot into natural gas liquids such as propane and butane, whose prices remained more buoyant.
The Cutbank facility helped Seven Generations «ramp up liquids - rich natural gas sales into the U.S. Midwest market,» according to president and COO Marty Proctor.
Environment and energy will be knotted together as B.C. pins its future on liquid natural gas and very likely an expanded Kinder Morgan pipeline into Burrard Inlet.
Her new majority will provide an opportunity for her government pursue its fever dream of enormous liquid natural gas revenues that will miraculously banish all debt and deficit from the province, a dream that is more than likely to turn into a nightmare of environmental damage and business losses well before the longed for and probably illusory No More Debt Day arrives.
Particular concern hovers around the market for liquefied natural gas — that is, gas which is chilled into liquid form then loaded on ships for transport elsewhere.
In December the U.S. Air Force flew a C - 17 transport plane across the country powered in part by a new propellant: natural gas transmuted into a synthetic liquid fuel.
Oil companies are coming up with strategies to convert natural gas into liquid fuels like gasoline and home heating oil — at prices below $ 20 a barrel.
And since 2004 oil giant BP and its partners (including Statoil) in the In Salah gas field in Algeria have been stripping the nine billion cubic meters of natural gas produced there annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wells.
This will convert natural gas into liquid that can be shipped abroad, and could be ready by 2015 after regulators approved it on Monday.
Existing technologies allow oil producers who can not pump the natural gas into a pipeline to simply reinject it back underground, use it to generate electricity or, by installing a so - called Fischer — Tropsch conversion system, change the former nuisance gas into liquid fuel, among other options.
In hydraulic fracturing, a pressurized liquid is injected into a wellbore — the actual hole that forms the well — to fracture deep rock formations to release the flow of natural gas and petroleum.
But chemical companies have also long had the technology to convert the primary hydrocarbons in natural gas — methane, ethane, and propane — into alcohols, the liquid starting materials for plastics, fuels, and other commodities made by the train load.
Researchers in the United States have discovered a new and more efficient method for converting the main components in natural gas into liquids that can be further refined into either common commodity chemicals or fuels.
Researchers have discovered a new and more efficient method for converting the main components in natural gas into liquids that can be further refined into either common commodity chemicals or fuels.
The third is gasification, in which liquid or solid fuels are first turned into synthetic natural gas; CO2 from the conversion of the gas can be siphoned off.
Since going public in 1998, Enterprise has grown into one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in the world with approximately 50,000 miles of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil and refined products pipelines and 260 million barrels of storage capacity.
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The goal is to capture CO2 from flue gas — for example, from a natural gas - burning power plant — and to use the catalytic system to efficiently convert it into liquid fuels.
Enbridge's commitment to renewables was called into question after its new strategy was published, with the company saying it will consolidate around its three «crown jewel» businesses: liquids pipelines and terminals; gas transmission and storage; and natural gas utilities.
To increase supplies, most companies are looking to tar sands in Canada or converting coal or natural gas into liquid fuels, technologies that emit far more carbon dioxide than conventional oil does.
Unlike Brown, however, Newsom supports a ban on future oil and natural - gas extraction projects that involve fracking, a process that injects high - pressure liquid into rock formations to free up fossil fuels.
That won't surprise energy realists, but the item I wasn't expecting was the reference in the IEA press release to growing efforts in China to convert coal into liquid fuels and especially synthetic natural gas (SNG).
Primus Green Energy Inc., an alternative fuel company that converts natural gas and other feedstocks directly into drop - in transportation fuels and solvents (earlier post), announced that its patent application covering its STG + liquid fuel synthesis technology has been allowed by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Because bitumen is too thick to flow through pipelines, it is thinned with natural gas liquids and turned into dilbit, or diluted bitumen.
Siluria Technologies, developer of a catalytic oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) process to convert natural gas into liquid fuels or petrochemical building blocks (earlier post), and Wood, a leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets, announced the availability of the Modus process... Read more →
For one, they are deeper — an important factor, since CO2 pressurized into a liquid would have to be placed at least 2,500 feet below the surface for natural pressure to keep it from reverting to a gas and potentially then making its way back to the surface.
The circuitous travels of the Fischer - Tropsch process, a chemical technique to convert natural gas and coal into liquid fuels, provide an object lesson in historical irony.
Natural gas liquids (NGLs) ethane and propane get extracted and sent to a «cracking facility» where ethane is made into ethylene (the foundation of polyethylene - the most common plastic in the world, frequently used for packaging, bottles, and synthetic clothing), and at a dehydrogenation plant, propane is made into propylene (the foundation of polypropylene - a plastic commonly found in food packaging and vehicle manufacturing).
The volatile natural gas liquids vaporized and wafted into the surrounding neighborhoods.
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