Sentences with phrase «natural gas boom in»

A natural gas boom in many parts of Africa (such as recent oil & gas discoveries in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ghana) suggest that new power investment will rise.

And for four years, the natural gas boom in Pennsylvania's Northern Tier crossed over the border and boosted Elmira's economy.

Economists use the term «Dutch disease» to describe the way resource booms spur an inflationary spiral that causes other industries to wither and hampers overall competitiveness, as happened to the Netherlands as a result of its natural gas boom in the 1960s.

Not exact matches

In Iowa, for instance, the boom in natural gas has meant trouble for the local ethanol industrIn Iowa, for instance, the boom in natural gas has meant trouble for the local ethanol industrin natural gas has meant trouble for the local ethanol industry.

If anything, it shows that thanks to a boom in LNG production, natural gas is on the verge of becoming a truly global commodity unbound by the physical constraints of pipelines.

The area underlying Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia is the epicenter of a boom in American natural gas produced through hydraulic fracturing, the process of injecting water, minerals and chemicals underground to free oil and gas from rock formations.

The unexpected boom in U.S. natural gas production over the last decade has pushed down power prices, making it harder for companies that operate plants to turn a profit.

Canada ships nearly all of its crude oil exports to the United States, and Mexico's appetite for natural gas has driven a boom in U.S. pipeline shipments in recent years.

As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

A product of the largest private equity deal ever, Energy Future (formerly TXU) is heavy with debt and struggling to compete, since the boom in natural gas production has put a lid on electricity prices.

A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.

Each time, the domestic oil and natural gas boom has been a major factor in Texas» success.

The coal miner has been hurt as the world has turned to more environmentally - friendly energy sources such as natural gas — a trend that has accelerated in the last few years as gas prices have come down substantially due to surging supply from the U.S. fracking boom.

These two technologies have led to a natural gas supply boom, making the United States the top natural gas producer in the world.

The nation's shale boom began in 2005, around the time the U.S. was staring down at a long - term - term natural gas crisis.

Natural gas production in the U.S. boomed after 2007 thanks to shale production.

A boom in natural gas drilling in the U.S. has caused prices of that commodity to fall precipitously in recent years.

In its highly anticipated Annual Energy Outlook 2018, the agency forecasts that the U.S. will become a net exporter of energy by as early as 2022, thanks in large part to the boom in shale oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production as well as the relaxation of export restrictionIn its highly anticipated Annual Energy Outlook 2018, the agency forecasts that the U.S. will become a net exporter of energy by as early as 2022, thanks in large part to the boom in shale oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production as well as the relaxation of export restrictionin large part to the boom in shale oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production as well as the relaxation of export restrictionin shale oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production as well as the relaxation of export restrictions.

The terms of the EA mean that Boom's Wheatstone workers, who are helping to build an liquefied natural gas project for Chevron, will earn around 25 per cent more in September 2017 than they do right now.

A mining boom has spared Australia from the downturn, and whilst far poorer and lacking modern infrastructure, Romania remains rich in natural resources — petroleum, timber, natural gas, coal, iron and gold.

Tom Friedman ticks through the natural gas boom, methane leakage risks, and the plausible Republican idea of a national Clean Energy Standard in today's op - ed.

«Andrew Cuomo has given into the radical environmental Luddites in his own party to leave New York as the only one of 35 states with extractable natural gas to be missing out on the hydro - boom,» said Cox.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

Drilling for natural gas is booming in Pennsylvania — thanks to fracturing shale rock with a water and chemical cocktail paired with the ability to drill in any direction.

One of the byproducts of the natural gas boom has been that environmental agencies set up to handle issues of permitting and waste disposal are grappling with questions of health and epidemiology, subjects in which they have little training or experience.

The federal government should begin a major effort to measure greenhouse gas emissions tied to the nation's booming natural gas industry, a Department of Energy advisory panel said today in a series of proposals on air and water quality issues.

«We are currently experiencing a boom in natural gas exploration.

The researchers, hailing from the U.S., Australia, Austria, Germany and Italy, went home and projected what the world would be like in 2050 with and without a global natural gas boom.

To find out, a group of scientists, engineers and policy experts, led by PNNL's Joint Global Change Research Institute, gathered at a workshop in Cambridge, Maryland, in April 2013 to consider the long - term impact of an expansion of the current natural gas boom on the rest of the world.

This boom, driven by low prices for natural gas — the main ingredient in ammonia production — will drive a corresponding surge in the industry's already substantial carbon footprint.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

A boom in domestic natural gas production, historically low prices, and increased scrutiny over fossil fuels» carbon emissions.

In other words, China's coal - to - natural - gas boom will end before it has started.

Several senators wanted to know how the United States should handle the ongoing boom in natural gas production, including whether Moniz thought the country should be exporting more of the gas.

The boom in oil and natural gas drilling is deepening the uncertainties, geologists acknowledge.

Although the study acknowledges that methane sources come from a range of natural and man - made activities — oil extraction, natural gas leaks, wetlands, landfills, warming permafrost — researchers say they found less evidence that the boom in oil and gas production is the primary driver of the spike.

Our newfound boom in natural gas and oil production will ease but not eliminate these underlying issues.

Backed by a conservative state legislature, Corbett cut about $ 860 million from public education in his first budget rather than tax the state's booming natural - gas industry.

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.

Qatar is rich in oil and natural gas reserves, with the world's highest GDP per capita and is currently experiencing a significant boom in the real estate and hospitality sectors.

In this video, Madrigal explains the two main technologies that have made the recent natural gas boom possible.

I recently attended a Manhattan screening of «Promised Land,» a new feature film written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski that aims to examine America's natural gas drilling boom as a case study in «what happens when real people and real money collide,» as Krasinski explained in publicity materials.

The UT study, which only deals with the extraction phase of the natural gas supply chain, is the opening chapter in this broader scientific effort designed to advance the current understanding of the climate implications of methane emissions resulting from the U.S. natural gas boom.

I hope you'll read «Applying Creativity to a Byproduct of Oil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakota.

The current boom in natural gas production, based on hydraulic fracture, is fiercely opposed by many environmentalists.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

Patrick Henry is down to just natural gas and oil to fuel the open - ended boom in human numbers.

In that piece, Davenport observed that the president's attack on coal is not something that would have been politically viable even a few years ago, but she also notes the damage inflicted to the industry by the boom in natural gaIn that piece, Davenport observed that the president's attack on coal is not something that would have been politically viable even a few years ago, but she also notes the damage inflicted to the industry by the boom in natural gain natural gas:

8:21 p.m. Updated The producers of Bloggingheads.TV invited me to join Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica in a discussion of the drilling boom aimed at the vast deposits of natural gas identified in deep shale layers and other deposits around North America and, increasingly, the world.