Sentences with phrase «major unconventional resources»

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At the same time, independents like BG Group, Devon Energy, and EOG Resources grew increasingly successful in exploration and unconventional plays, but they still struggled to scale operations without copying the bureaucratic operating models of the majors.

[A] paper by a former University of California Energy and Resources Group faculty member and a student now on the faculty at Stanford [«Risks of the oil transition,» A. E. Farrell and A. R. Brandt] lays this out in a figure where each axis alone is cause for major worry, and together, the carbon intensity / barrel combined with the fact that if unconventional oil is now part of the resource, we have a not near «peak oil, but are, in fact, only about 1 / 50th of the way through this resource.

(Kandeh Yumkella, co-head of a major United Nations program on sustainable energy, made similar arguments last week at a UN environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, advocating the development of conventional and unconventional natural gas resources as a way to reduce deforestation and save millions of lives in the Third World.)