In 2006 alone, oil producing companies and countries burned close to 170 billion cubic
meters of natural gas, equivalent to a whopping 27 % of total U.S. natural gas consumption or 5.5 % of total global production of natural gas.
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic
meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 - a 44 % increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic
meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 715 exajoules) by 2030 — a 44 % increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today in 2009).
This proposed $ 2.7 billion Trans - Caspian Gas Pipeline would be 1,700 kilometers long and carry 16 billion cubic
meters of natural gas per year.
This natural gas supply boom may lead to 67 billion cubic
meters of natural gas exports per year from Queensland and Western Australia.
The NEA estimates China next year will consume 3.96 billion tons of coal, 550 million tons of oil and 205 billion cubic
meters of natural gas, according to the Xinhua report.
As it melts, one cubic meter of gas hydrate will release 164 cubic
meters of natural gas.
Private companies are planning to build more than 30 other plants, capable of producing as much as 200 million cubic
meters of natural gas each year — far exceeding China's current natural gas demand.
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.
There is unexplored oil on the order of 90 billion barrels and 1.67 trillion cubic
meters of natural gas, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report, but most of the natural gas lies in the Arctic Ocean closest to Russia.
The Turkish annual import consists normally 11 billion cubic
meters of natural gas.»
In 2010, the United States used 683 trillion cubic
meters of natural gas in anything from creating electricity to powering stoves, water heaters, and even vehicles.
Assuming that the air was stable when the concentration measurement was taken, it seems reasonable to me to assume a minimum flux of 1
meter of natural gas per day.
Not exact matches
The onshore
natural gas pipeline system consists
of approximately 111 km Main Pipeline and approximately 75 km Lateral Pipeline, including bitumen surface access roads (including culverts) from the nearest existing roads (
of whatever surface) to the regulating &
metering stations and valve stations
of both pipelines.
FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said information from the investigation and «examination
of the building
gas meters, found that there was no
natural gas flowing to the second - floor apartment (where the fire originated) since June 26.»
Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse
gases now add (roughly three watts per square
meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response
of clouds to warming, the cooling role
of aerosols, the heat and
gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation
of the landscape, even the
natural variability
of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.
The researchers took direct emissions measurements
of 230 randomly selected, representative leaks from underground pipelines as well as at 229
metering and regulating stations where
natural gas is measured and regulated from higher pressure pipelines to lower pressure distribution pipelines.
Local regulatory requirements may not help: for instance, although the researchers discovered methane contamination at homes within 1,000
meters of active
natural gas wells, the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection only holds drilling companies responsible for drinking water within 305
meters.
As part
of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic
natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction
of nine large - scale plants capable
of producing more than 37 billion cubic
meters of synthetic
natural gas annually.
According to his campaign, the pipeline could supply up to 1.5 trillion cubic feet (42.5 billion cubic
meters)
of natural gas per year.
Each year, roughly 2.4 trillion cubic feet (68 billion cubic
meters)
of natural gas are used each year, according to the Energy Information Administration — a more than 30 - year supply at current consumption levels.
Big play China has a vast resource
of natural gas trapped in shale — Beijing calculates that hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling could recover 25 trillion cubic
meters of shale
gas from eight basins.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the rock - cracking method to release trapped oil and
natural gas, always takes place thousands
of meters below Earth's surface — or so many people assume.
China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction
of approved coal - to -
natural -
gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic
natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic
meters at the end
of the decade.
The World Bank estimates that the 5.3 trillion cubic feet (150 billion cubic
meters)
of natural gas that bubbles up at oil wells worldwide adds some 400 million metric tons
of CO2 to the atmosphere each year — as well as more methane.
The BLM estimates that some 8.9 trillion cubic feet (252 billion cubic
meters)
of natural gas lies under the Roan's rocks, or approximately enough to heat four million homes for 20 years.
The study found that
natural gas end use sources — like
gas meters, furnaces, boilers and hot water heaters — as well as landfills, are responsible for a large portion
of urban methane emissions.
Metric bias results in more stringent
gas water - heater standards despite the fact that life - cycle energy losses for
natural gas are only about 10 percent
of its usable energy (from the point
of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility
meter) versus 70 percent for electricity.
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Natural gas energy losses are only about 10 percent
of its usable energy from the point
of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility
meter.
China's goal by 2020 is to octuple domestic
natural gas consumption from 39 billion cubic
meters in 2004 to 200 billion cubic
meters in 2020, raising the percentage
of its energy use satisfied by clean - burning
gas from three to nine percent.
Birol said the IEA expected overcapacity
of liquefied
natural gas (LNG) terminals and
gas pipelines to reach at least 250 billion cubic
meters by 2015, more than three times the capacity in 2008.
Areas
of past emphasis have included utility generation, planning, and policy; renewable energy start - ups; programs and products to support efficiency; smart
meters; energy and resource modeling; and
natural gas markets.
«In 2014, the global consumption
of coal, oil and
natural gas reached 8.2 billion tons, 33.6 billion barrels and 3.5 trillion cubic
meters respectively, which can sustain [the world] for 110, 53 and 54 years if the current exploration intensity still maintains,» Liu said.
Shell already has joint venture with PetroChina on the Changbei
natural -
gas field which straddles Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia that has been pumping 10 million cubic
meters of gas a day as
of September 2008.
Heat within 10,000
meters of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times more energy than all the oil and
natural gas resources in the world.
According to the World Bank's Global
Gas Flaring Reduction Program «150 billion cubic meters (or 5.3 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas are being flared and vented annually.&raq
Gas Flaring Reduction Program «150 billion cubic
meters (or 5.3 trillion cubic feet)
of natural gas are being flared and vented annually.&raq
gas are being flared and vented annually.»
The Answer Lies In Beneficial Re-Use The global production
of natural gas for use in everything from power plants and industrial production to your home's water heater is around 2,500 billion cubic
meters per year.