Sentences with phrase «like oil and natural gas»

That's especially true for capital - intensive industries like oil and natural gas.

We are getting close to world peak production on resources like oil and natural gas, and we shouldn't be using them to dig up coal and make even more pollution delivering WY coal to Georgia.

Remember that gold is a commodity like oil and natural gas.

Aside from already valuable commodities like oil and natural gas, the world's next alternative energy source may lie trapped in the Arctic ice itself.

Obama wants to do away with corporate tax benefits like oil and natural gas industry subsidies, special breaks for the purchase of private jets and certain corporate tax shelters.

Not exact matches

The drivers behind OPEC's forecast include steadily rising economic activity around the world, strong demand for transportation fuels like gasoline and jet fuel and a growing petrochemical industry, which turns byproducts from oil and natural gas into chemicals.

Private equity sees the most opportunity in natural gas and oil, thanks to more effective technologies like hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling and related opportunities to harness the increased supply.

But with the crude oil export ban lifted and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports on the rise, landowners like Rosinski are starting to question whether or not giving up their land to serve these private aims qualifies as «public good.»

However, oil prices have been dropping like hot potatoes, almost 30 %, and with that energy stocks are tanking in unison and singing songs with same tune, along with drilling and exploration companies for shale oil or natural gas.

CFDs can be traded on metals like gold (XAU), silver (XAG) and a wide variety of other instruments including indices (e.g. S&P 500, FTSE100, TA25, NIKKEI225), commodities like oil, cocoa, cotton, corn and sugar and energy like gasoline and natural gas.

But that's not all — the organization has also produced great videos on topics like fracking, in situ oil sands production, liquefied natural gas, and hydrogen.

In addition, Calgary - based Crescent Point Energy Corp. confirmed months of speculation that it had built up a sizeable land position in the Duvernay formation, spending roughly $ 112 million buying up 335,000 acres in the play, with deposits of light oil, natural gas, liquids like butane, propane and pentane.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

He would like to capture more of this market, which involves supplying laborers in remote, temporary camp locations for mining oil and natural gas in northern Alberta with all their needs.

The government manages several natural resources like Gas, Coal, Iron, Gold, Oil, Sea, Water, Mass Transport Services (subway), Trains, Sea transport, Electricity, and has a company in the telecommunications sector.

Ghana, President Akufo - Addo stated, has the opportunity to become a regional centre for light manufacturing for a market of some 350 million people in the ECOWAS Community, projected to reach 500 million by 2030, «by weaving together our numerous natural resources, like food produce, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy, to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa, generating full employment for our teeming youth.»

In other words, without access to a natural resource like oil and gas these people are nothing, they are almost sub-human.

As the hot hydrothermal fluid flows through this mud, it «cooks» organic material, forming methane (natural gas) and oil - like hydrocarbons.

Such a carbon tax could help keep coal, oil and natural gas safely in the ground in favor of alternatives like electric cars and cleaner power plants.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

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 barrOil companies are coming up with strategies to convert natural gas into liquid fuels like gasoline and home heating oil — at prices below $ 20 a barroil — at prices below $ 20 a barrel.

Disposal wells, like the one in the current study, are used only to dispose of fluids associated with oil and natural gas production, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

Many current energy debates have focused on the massive carbon footprint of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas.

Through a bit of geologic alchemy, the injection shattered rock like a baseball hitting a windowpane, pushing natural gas and oil out of the rock and into the pipe when the water was pumped back out.

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Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; 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Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

natural gas A mix of gases that developed underground, like crude oil (and often in association with crude oil) over, millions of years.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel — like oil and coal — and it does produce carbon dioxide as a result of the combustion process.

Roughly two - thirds of methane comes from manmade sources like the oil and gas industry (oil extraction and leakage in natural gas systems), agriculture (manure pits and cow belches) and landfills.

Industrial activities like burning oil, coal and natural gas and destroying rainforests have pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at levels unprecedented in human history, according to the United Nations - led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Includes stocks of companies involved in exploring and producing energy products like oil, natural gas, and coal.

Like many oil and natural gas companies, each pays a strong dividend to the shareholders.

With the economic recovery slowly inching along in Europe, stocks in the oil and natural gas sector from Big Oil such as Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS - AS) and Total SA (NYSE: TOT), to small caps with tremendous potential like Octagon 88 (NASDAQ: OCTX) look very promisioil and natural gas sector from Big Oil such as Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS - AS) and Total SA (NYSE: TOT), to small caps with tremendous potential like Octagon 88 (NASDAQ: OCTX) look very promisiOil such as Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS - AS) and Total SA (NYSE: TOT), to small caps with tremendous potential like Octagon 88 (NASDAQ: OCTX) look very promising.

Perhaps surprisingly, until only about forty years ago, trading futures markets consisted of only a few commodity farm products, however, now they have been joined by a huge number of tradable financial and other tradable products such as precious metals like gold, silver and platinum; livestock such as hogs and cattle; energy contracts such as crude oil and natural gas; foodstuffs like coffee and orange juice; and industrials like lumber and cotton.

It owns and operates pipelines and terminals that transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, carbon dioxide and other products and stores petroleum products, chemicals and handle bulk materials like ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel.

If you want to work in the booming oil and natural gas industry, most of the major companies are grabbing up geologists like they are going out of style.

Asset - based ETFs reflect the value changes in commodities like gold, crude oil, natural gas and agricultural commodities.

In the oil and gas sectors, I like Delta Petroleum (NASDAQ: DPTR) for its natural gas holdings in the U.S. and its potential for a big find in the Columbia River basin.

There will thus be a greater demand for oil and natural gas from companies like Petrobras Brasileiro.

In the related Dot Earth post, I included some remarkable video shot for the Environmental Protection Agency showing the difference between looking at an oil or gas facility with a standard camera and one tuned to the infrared wavelengths absorbed by gases like methane — the main constituent of natural gas:

So as we replace oil with fuels like natural gas and biofuels, we can also reduce our dependence by making cars and trucks that use less oil in the first place.

New U.S. crude oil and natural gas supplies have driven down the average price per barrel and led oil giants like Saudi Arabia to reduce their own production in order to stabilize prices.

While it's a possibility, such an outlook totally ignores the economic feedbacks like the run - up in oil and natural gas prices.

A «pre-pay» carbon policy might work something like this: before a company extracts a ton of carbon from the ground (be it in the form of oil, natural gas, coal, trees, soil, etc.), it would have to «pre-pay» for a credit demonstrating that the organization (or a third - party) had already removed and sequestered an equivalent ton of carbon from the atmosphere.

Carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas is driving climate disruption and warming our planet.

The graph produced from its measurements, known as the Keeling Curve, was the first to show the tight relationship between the increase in CO2 in the air and the rise in the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.

This is why oil giants like ExxonMobil are investing more these days in natural gas, demand for which is expected to grow as electric utilities in Canada, the United States and Europe switch from coal to gas - fired power generation.

Carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas is warming our planet and driving climate change.

The vast majority of our electricity comes from dirty, non-renewable sources like coal, oil and natural gas.