Sentences with phrase «large natural gas resources»

China's has large natural gas resources and is building out natural gas pipeline infrastructure to reach them.

The power industry is highly regional, and some states have big solar and wind industries, while others benefit from large natural gas resources, or have long had major coal plants.

Not exact matches

Canadian Hunter became one of Canada's largest natural gas producers before being sold to Burlington Resources in 2001.

California Resources Corporation is the largest oil and natural gas exploration and production company in California on a gross - operated basis.

Australia has plentiful supplies of natural resources, including the second largest accessible reserves of iron ore in the world, the fifth largest reserves of coal and significant gas resources.

Adding a third commodity to the resources boom, Australia could become the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2018, the Australian Business Times reported.

Choosing to use water from one of the world's largest aquifers rather than leaving it in the ground is not irresponsible, says Andrew Stone, executive director of the American Groundwater Trust in Concord, N.H. Like coal or natural gas, groundwater is a valuable resource.

«We're finding that when it comes to natural gas leaks, a 50/5 rule applies: That is, the largest 5 percent of leaks are typically responsible for more than 50 percent of the total volume of leakage,» said study co-author Adam Brandt, an assistant professor of energy resources engineering at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

Releasing its Ten Messages on Climate Change today, the International Resource Panel (IRP) said natural resource management and climate change were intrinsically linked, with a large part of global energy use, and therefore greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, tied directly to the acquisition, processing, transport, conversion, use and disposal of reResource Panel (IRP) said natural resource management and climate change were intrinsically linked, with a large part of global energy use, and therefore greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, tied directly to the acquisition, processing, transport, conversion, use and disposal of reresource management and climate change were intrinsically linked, with a large part of global energy use, and therefore greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, tied directly to the acquisition, processing, transport, conversion, use and disposal of resources.

The artist painted a large wooden sign with a selection from the Book of Revelations and placed it on the melting ice of rural Canada as a portent of the oil and natural gas concerns that will descend once global warming makes the region's resources easier to reach.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gas.

In 2015, the legislature passed a moratorium intended to delay fracking while the state's Department of Natural Resources studied whether fracking — a method of oil and gas production that uses large amounts of chemical - and sand - laced water to break up shale gas below ground, releasing deposits of fossil fuels.

Does it include undiscovered or prospective resources such the large natural gas plays assumed to be in the Arctic?

CO2 emissions from power generation in 2016 were near 30 - year lows, in large part due to greater use of natural gas.3 And increased use of natural gas in the power generation sector has helped to reduce total CO2 emissions to their lowest level in nearly 25 years.4 This proves that Americans do not have to make the false choice between utilizing our nation's energy resources and protecting the environment.

The Arctic contains the world's largest remaining conventional, undiscovered oil and natural gas, estimated at 13 percent of recoverable oil and 30 percent of recoverable natural gas resources.

[iii] According to the EIA report, the United States has recoverable oil resources that are 36 times larger than its proved oil reserves and recoverable natural gas resources that are 7 times larger than its proved natural gas reserves for 2014.

America's rapid switch to natural gas is the result of three decades of technological innovation, particularly the development of hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» which has opened up large new resources of previously inaccessible shale gas.

In the United States, coal resources are larger than remaining natural gas and oil resources, based on total British thermal units (Btus).

The East China Sea has large renewable energy resources that an comprehensive, cross-sea electricity and natural gas infrastructure would help access.

Our findings suggest that natural - gas — consuming regions may be larger sources of methane to the atmosphere than is currently estimated and represent areas of significant resource loss.

Natural gas, generally, emits half the amount of CO2 per unit of electricity as oil does, so it makes sense for big petroleum companies to lean on this resource more as a way to position their respective asset mixes as lower carbon and secure an even larger piece of the global carbon budget.

Over the past few years, wind, solar, and natural gas have made up nearly all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. And earlier this year, wind energy surpassed conventional hydropower to become the country's largest renewable resource, with enough installed to power 25 million homes.

Access to the world's largest remaining conventional, undiscovered oil and natural gas reserves — 13 percent of recoverable oil and 30 percent of recoverable natural gas resources — is at stake.

Breaking a streak of five years in which wind power was the second - largest new resource added to the U.S. electrical grid in terms of aggregate gross capacity, in 2010 wind power placed third, behind the 7,200 MW of new natural gas and 6,000 MW of new coal - fired generation capacity.

Thus, despite a large remaining resource base relative to current cumulative production, world natural gas production is still projected to peak in 2030 (low), 2040 (medium) or 2050 (high).

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.

«We're finding that when it comes to natural gas leaks, a 50/5 rule applies: That is, the largest 5 percent of leaks are typically responsible for more than 50 percent of the total volume of leakage,» said study co-author Adam Brandt, an assistant professor of energy resources engineering at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

What this declining EROI means is that even though we have continually produced and consumed more energy (worldwide) and have large coal and natural gas resources, they will still not provide for the economic growth of the past.

The United States is not just energy rich, but according to the Congressional Research Service, the United States has the largest combined coal, oil, and natural gas resources in the world.

For electricity production, coal and natural gas are the most important resources and the United States has a large amount of coal and natural gas.

This is due in large part to state policies encouraging the use of natural gas and renewable resources over coal, as well as the aggressive promotion of energy efficiency.

South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale gas and oil operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by drilling deep into the soil.

He also represents clients in connection with large natural resource development projects in the Mountain West, including oil and gas, wind, and solar.