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But for investors of all types, there is something in the oil and natural gas sector with a bullish future, as shown by what is happening now in the Ukraine.

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Even those with only a passing interest in the resources sector would recognise there's something unusual about an iron ore miner talking up a natural gas project and an oilman talking it down.

The executives felt that Canadian natural gas companies could benefit from the hard times in the nuclear sector, rating the statement with a 5.2.

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.

Sarah McCullough is a communications professional with more than two decades of experience in British Columbia's natural gas sector.

Shell's multi-billion-dollar investment in Alberta's oil sands, along with its new joint venture to build a liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, B.C., make the Swiss - born executive a particularly influential player for Canada's energy sector these days.

The group also recommended that the government should «reinvigorate independent sector oversight with an appropriately resourced» Ontario Energy Board, the regulator of the electricity and natural gas industries in the province.

Australian gas leader Woodside said it was wading into the growing liquefied natural gas sector in the United States with an agreement to tap Texas port developments.

Substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are achievable over the next two to three decades through a portfolio approach involving the widespread deployment of energy efficiency technologies; renewable energy; coal, natural gas, and biomass with carbon capture and storage; and nuclear technologies.

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 promisWith 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 promiswith tremendous potential like Octagon 88 (NASDAQ: OCTX) look very promising.

But the move was another blow to the sector, which suffered with the crash in oil and natural gas prices from mid 2014 to early 2016.

However, even with this volatility, there are some ways that investing in natural gas can lead you to long - term gains from a sector that is often considered a hedge against inflation Successful energy stocks... Read More

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.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

... In the U.S. electricity supply sector, the cost benchmark for reducing carbon dioxide emissions lies with substitution of natural gas for coal, especially older, less efficient units.

In the end, the only way to keep this carbon in the ground is to 1) reduce demand with greatly improved efficiency, and 2) introduce low - carbon alternatives in the transport sector that people actually WANT to drive (e.g., electric vehicles running on power produced with natural gas, renewables or nuclear).

Natural gas use rises by 45 % to 2040; with more limited room to expand in the power sector, industrial demand becomes the largest area for growth.

Increased demand from the electric sector, with low - priced natural gas burn totaling about 2,600 Bcf from April through June of 2012, up 27 % from just over 2,000 Bcf burned during the same period in 2011.

With the majority of this energy coming from natural gas, around 45 % of that is in the residential sector, 37 % by businesses and 18 % in service sectors.

Colder winter weather means more natural gas consumption for space heating, and warmer summer weather leads to increased consumption in the power sector with increasing demand for air conditioning.

With the nation's energy sector turning decisively away from coal and nuclear energy, these companies are betting natural gas will be the dominant fuel for at least the next several decades.

The electricity sector has a range of low - and zero - carbon technologies that could contribute to this carbon budget including energy efficiency, renewable energy, nuclear power, and coal or natural gas plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate, Creating Jobs, and Saving Money puts forth a plan that expands renewable energy and energy efficiency, phases out all coal - fired power by 2050, and decreases natural gas capacity, along with modest changes in other sectors.

Within the heating sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, switching to efficient electric heat paired with the electric sector tax avoidance options, and potentially switching to lower carbon heating options such as waste heat from sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants or buying «renewable natural gas» from bio-digesters, generated either within the District or from outside.

Proceedings: Friday 4 May Opening remarks Welcome by Mr, Sefa Sadık AYTEKIN, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey Keynote address by H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Workplan of WEO - 2012 Iraq Energy Outlook by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA Session 1: Energy in Iraq — fuelling Iraq's reconstruction and development Chair: Mr. Simon STOLP, World Bank Introductory interventions: H.E. Martin KOBLER, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq Dr. Usama KARIM, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Iraq Dr. Kamal AL - BASRI, Chairman of the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform Open discussion Session 2: Iraq's electricity sector — short term needs and long - term interests Chair: Mr. Hamish MCNINCH, International Expert Introductory interventions: Dr. Majeed ABDUL - HUSSAIN, Parsons Brinckerhoff Dr. Abdul Qader AHMED, Mass Global Open discussion Special address: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Session 3: Iraq's oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA

«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace petroleum use and electric heat pumps avoid the use of natural gas and oil for space and water heating in buildings.»

In the energy sector, design problems and opportunities are signaled by a playing field strongly slanted towards oil, with coal, natural gas and nuclear power rounding out the U.S. government's favored energy sources.

Furthermore, within several years of the pipeline's construction, the overall need for natural gas in New England's electric sector is expected to decline dramatically as states work toward compliance with existing laws and regulations.

This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.

The Koch Brothers» supposed «free market» political activities often line up with the financial interests of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately held corporation in the United States and a major fossil fuel conglomerate (invested in coal, oil, and natural gas among many other sectors).

In a Business - as - Usual scenario, they found that total natural gas use will increase by nearly 18 percent between 2013 and 2040, with the power sector representing the largest share of this increase at 49 percent.

While this covers a lot of ground, it basically says that a robust strategy to produce more U.S. oil and natural gas has benefited and will keep benefiting the manufacturing sector — and along with it, job creation and economic growth.

In fact, the United States leads the world in reduction of carbon emissions, with clean - burning natural gas driving emissions in the power sector to near 25 - year lows.

Efforts to replace coal and natural gas with wind and solar energy have begun in the electricity sector.

«The problem with coal has been less regulation than that cheap natural gas has changed the economics of coal... the shape of the power sector and change shouldn't be a bipartisian question at all.»

From 2010 to 2011, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 % due to: (1) a decrease in coal consumption, with increased natural gas consumption and a significant increase in hydropower used; (2) a decrease in transportation - related energy consumption due to higher fuel costs, improvements in fuel efficiency, and a reduction in miles travelled; and (3) relatively mild winter conditions resulting in an overall decrease in energy demand in most sectors.

But even with ambitious new rules addressing emissions from all of those sources, there's still significant work to do to reduce methane emissions from the natural gas sector.

In a press release, the KIT scientists said that their findings were actually congruent with the NIWA study, stressing that «increasing emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, combined with emissions from wetlands and maybe animal husbandry increasingly appear to have caused the renewed increase in methane concentration in the last decade.»

Hence in this latter comparison, which primarily compares the effect of the CO2 and CH4 emitted by these two sectors (and hence the leak rate threshold decreases with a nearer - term perspective), even very small leak rates would make the mean natural gas plant as environmentally damaging as coal.

The report, «Sustainable Energy in America: 2015 Factbook,» details how renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency, natural gas and electric vehicles are colliding with policy, finance and markets to drive fundamental changes in the energy sector.

In comparison with the aforementioned coal plant at the 5th percentile of current air quality emissions, the leak rate for the natural gas sector has to be only 1.9 %, 1.6 % or 1.1 % for 1.4, 3 and 5 % discounting, respectively, to match the damages from coal.

McDermott Will & Emery has hired KAROL LYN NEWMAN as a partner in its energy advisory group in Washington, D.C. Newman, previously with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, specializes in regulatory issues concerning the natural gas sector such as those that come up from coal gasification, liquefied natural gas, natural gas storage, and natural gas transportation projects.

With offices in Mexico City, Monterrey and Houston, Avant Energy will focus on the development, construction and operation of infrastructure for Mexico's oil, natural gas, refined products and electricity sectors, as well as participate in the recently liberalized markets for these products and services.