He's also called for increased extraction of oil, coal, and
natural gas reserves at a time when climate leaders are seeking to limit emissions by transitioning to renewable forms of energy.
The Economist was reporting on the difficulties Dutch manufacturers were having in the wake of the discovery and exploitation of
natural gas reserves in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
Proved natural gas reserves increased in four of the top five U.S. gas reserves states (Texas, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and West Virginia) in 2014.
The Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States has 87 years
of natural gas reserves at current consumption rates.
For example, horizontal drilling has opened access to
large natural gas reserves in North America, thereby increasing the available amount of natural gas substantially.
Quick, somebody tell officials in New York state — where they continue to ban hydraulic fracturing, the key to unlocking
vast natural gas reserves located right under New Yorkers» feet, to the benefit of New York consumers, New York job - seekers and New York's environment.
Hundreds of lakes on Saturn's moon Titan each hold more than all the oil and
natural gas reserves on Earth, based on new findings from the Cassini radar team.
The energy industry dictates its orders to the governments in the west and people forget that Colorado is one of the
biggest natural gas reserves in the entire world not just the United States.
A DeSmog investigation has revealed that the Hudson Institute, via industry funding its advocacy efforts, has proven instrumental in opening up Israel's
offshore natural gas reserves for drilling in the Mediterranean Sea for Noble Energy.
The Company is focused on horizontal drilling and low - risk organic development of oil and
natural gas reserves from shales and tight reservoir rocks.
Naturally - occurring methane hydrates, hidden deep under the sea floor or tucked under Arctic permafrost, contain
substantial natural gas reserves locked up in a form that is difficult to extract.
Its assets primarily consist of producing and non-producing crude oil and
natural gas reserves located primarily in the Antrim Shale in Michigan, the Los Angeles Basin in California, the Wind River and Big Horn Basins in central Wyoming, the Sunniland Trend in Florida, and the New Albany Shale in Indiana and Kentucky.»
Located about a mile underground, the formation's shale
contains natural gas reserves and highly saline water laced with salts, metals and radioactive elements.
West Virginia added enough Marcellus natural gas proved reserves to surpass Wyoming and Colorado to become the fourth - largest
natural gas reserves state, ranking behind Oklahoma.
Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to
access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.
A future threat may be the Mancos Shale in Colorado,
whose natural gas reserves were recently upgraded by the U.S. Geological Survey to 66 trillion cubic feet.
How do you expect to extract oil from the Alberta Tar Sands once the
Canadian natural gas reserves (currently about 10 years left) are exhausted?
With that being said, scarcity has largely evaporated thanks to the advent of chemical fracking in oil production which has dramatically increased the amount of
recoverable natural gas reserves in the United States.
Ms. Tarras decided last year that some of the guidelines didn't apply when the government's top oil and gas bureaucrat took a senior post at the Canadian subsidiary of a firm based in Houston, Texas, that is
developing natural gas reserves in northeastern British Columbia.
Though we are disappointed with Newfield's stock performance, we are pleased with management's decision to decrease spending on
natural gas reserve development and instead spend that money on its oil properties.
Iran is home to the world's fourth - largest proven reserve of crude oil and ranks second in proven
natural gas reserves behind Russia.
The expanded use of drilling technology to extract resources trapped in tight formations 8,000 feet underground has opened the door to trillions of cubic feet of
new natural gas reserves.
Interest in hydrates has skyrocketed in recent years because global deposits are thought to harbor more fuel energy than all the world's coal, oil and
natural gas reserves combined.
For example, the Fund is invested in the common stock of Encana Corporation, a company that has been a huge cash consumer as it discovers, develops, and
acquires natural gas reserves in North America.
For purposes of the composition of the Index, fossil fuel reserves are defined as proved and probable coal, oil or
natural gas reserves used for energy purposes, but do not include metallurgical or coking coal, which is primarily used in connection with steel production.
For non-claimant Indonesia, Natuna Sea fishing grounds along the southern fringe of the contested region hold
vital natural gas reserves.
One of the reasons Greenlanders want go beyond the Home Rule system it has been governed under is to get control of the oil and
natural gas reserves under the ice sheet that covers more than 80 percent of the country.
At the same time, its rhetoric has emboldened an anti-progress, anti-modern «leave - it - in - the - ground» movement that wants federal oil and
natural gas reserves closed to safe development and that opposes virtually all new energy infrastructure.
In recent years, Tanzania has
discovered natural gas reserves off its southern coast worth roughly 15 times its annual GDP, at least before the recent oil - price slump.
Then it's on to Fort Worth, Texas, a city that sits atop
major natural gas reserves and has experienced a boom due to hydrofracking, yet is also invested in what locals call «cowboy sustainability.»
While natural gas reserves reached another record in 2014 and oil reserves were the highest since 1972, the technically recoverable resources from which they came are enormous and will continue to supply proved reserves for Americans for decades to come.
It comes at a time when Americans are trying to reshape their energy policy and wean themselves from dependence on foreign oil,
dwindling natural gas reserves and dirty conventional coal.
And last week saw signs of the growing controversy as communities across dozens of states located on top of the cast Marcellus Shale Formation, an «
unconventional natural gas reserve» across 10 states face gold - rush style leasing pressures and are reporting to the Environmental Protection Agency groundwater contamination and other consequences.
For too long, on my «to do» list has been to post on the serious questions related to the booming in America's
natural gas reserves due to the development of «Fracking» (hydraulic fracturing) technology and approaches that have enabled exploitation of the massive amount of carbon atoms in shale natural gas.
Ernst & Young has a new study detailing $ 185.6 billion in total capital spending by oil and natural gas companies last year — the largest in the history of the firm's oil and
natural gas reserves study.
For example, methane hydrates along the United States outer continental shelf could provide more than 20 times its
existing natural gas reserves.
This is the result of an ongoing energy revolution, harnessing vast oil and
natural gas reserves found in shale and other tight - rock formations, thanks to advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
When
massive natural gas reserves were discovered off the coast of Israel in early 2009, it seemed as if the country's energy problems were solved.
The story goes like this Greenpeace wanted to go the Northern Sea Route in Russia's Arctic and protest, for that read, interrupt the search for oil and gas in the Arctic, the Arctic is reckoned to have 13 % of the worlds undiscovered oil reserves and around 31 % of the worlds
undiscovered natural gas reserves.