Sentences with phrase «new oil and gas»

In case you missed it: From a risk - of - bankruptcy standpoint, the retail business is the new oil and gas

An expansion of new oil and gas drilling technology known as «fracking» is prompting more industrial activity inside middle and upper - middle - class residential neighborhoods, Reuters reports.

Given how little interest there is for any new oil and gas drilling off the coasts of America, offshore wind is becoming the new source of energy that stands above all.

Urge congress to support bills that shift subsidies from oil and gas to renewable technology such as offshore wind, and bills that prevent new oil and gas leasing in our oceans.

Ban new oil and gas development in previously protected areas in the Atlantic Ocean, where renewable energy is more cost effective.

Meanwhile, ExxonMobil will be plowing over $ 100 billion into the search for new oil and gas reserves over the coming decade — all while they get to control the direction of renewable energy research at Stanford at a relative cost of 1/5 of 1 %.

But some new oil and gas fields might be acceptable.

«We've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some.

In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented policies that will reduce methane pollution from new oil and gas facilities that are developed.

The methane plan calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to propose methane reductions at new oil and gas sites by summer 2015 and issue a final rule next year.

It is our duty to force that time as quickly as we possibly can, and it may arrive sooner than we think: Earlier this month US Bank became the first bank in the United States to announce that it would no longer be investing directly in new oil and gas pipelines (though it's worth noting that US Bank does continue to provide billions of dollars in «lines of credit» to companies building tar sands pipelines).

Case in point, 23 percent of their oil and gas financing over 2013 — 5 went toward exploration of new oil and gas resources.

that it would no longer be investing directly in new oil and gas pipelines (though it's worth noting that US Bank does continue to provide billions of dollars in «lines of credit» to companies building tar sands pipelines).

Under Obama, the EPA has already begun setting standards for methane leaks from new oil and gas wells.

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The bill proposed putting hundreds of billions of anticipated new oil and gas revenues (and that even before the shale gas boom) into a trust fund to accelerate clean energy innovation.

Lafayette may be primed to halt new oil and gas development on the eve of widescale fracking plans slated for Boulder County.

Addition of a new oil and gas methane model to estimate emissions levels and abatement opportunities and costs for methane emissions from oil and gas operations globally.

Freeze further leases or permits for new oil and gas extraction projects or transportation infrastructure that would incentivize additional exploration.

In the case of oil and gas, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) also applies, but due to its design as a «super profits» tax, new oil and gas fields are unlikely to pay any PRRT for a decade or more, and in the meantime PRRT «credits» reduce the amount of company tax payable.

EPA has also indicated that the agency is reconsidering its 2016 standards limiting emissions from new oil and gas development.

In the United States, methane regulations established under the Obama administration are currently slated for elimination or modification, including the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) rules for managing methane from new oil and gas sources as well as the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) rules for reducing methane from oil and gas operations on federal land.

Furthermore, the new oil and gas finance restrictions will require strict implementation.

«Lead by issuing no further leases or permits for new oil and gas extraction projects or related transportation infrastructure.

Renowned climate scientists in Canada and the United States are urging the Canadian government, which says it is close to announcing its new oil and gas regulations, to ensure that total greenhouse gas emissions, including oil sands emissions, go down.

The 2015 grid study that Fisher wrote for IER also included support for escalating new oil and gas pipelines by overcoming what he described as «permitting delays» at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and at the state level.

«In the meantime, Shell continues to invest in new oil and gas sources.

Nearly 23 percent of the oil and gas financing went toward exploration of new oil and gas resources.

The area holds about 10.2 billion tons of coal and the possibility of 18,000 new oil and gas wells, the plaintiffs estimated.

IHS and IPIECA argue that decline rates mean the world will continue to need new oil and gas projects.

So both the CBO budget procedures and the GOP's position on using royalties for an energy R&D trust fund means that if President Obama wants to secure truly bipartisan support for this new Energy Security Trust proposal and ensure it doesn't increase the deficit, he's ultimately going to have to offer a real trade: new oil and gas production areas for new revenues dedicated to clean energy R&D.

Last summer, government scientists predicted that, as a result of climate change, polar bears may disappear from the U.S. and its waters entirely by 2050 — and that estimate doesn't even take into account potential effects from new oil and gas activities.

On the final night of the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromso (a very serious annual gathering of business and science interests to talk about the emerging opportunities with the warming of northern Norway causing the permafrost to melt opening new oil and gas fields among other things) there was a gathering of all the 1,000 participants.

It is pushing for new oil and gas drilling in polar bear habitat while biologists for Interior Department, prodded by legal action, recommended the bear be given threatened status under the species act because of the warming of the Arctic and summer retreat of sea ice.

Arkady was said to have been trying to get some placing shares in the last fund raise but was too late getting the paperwork in as it was oversubscribed.Roman Abramovich gave an interview to i think a dubai newspaper in early jan where he stated he is actively seeking new oil and gas assets in siberia and he also mentioned the new proposed changes to the mineral extraction tax.So putting two and two together he must think the smaller companies in the region are prime for picking off some assets or take over.

New research shows that an area larger than the land area of Maryland — more than 11,500 square miles — was completely stripped of trees, grasses and shrubs to make way for more than 50,000 new oil and gas wells that were developed each year between 2000 and 2012.

The Gulf of Mexico is also a great example of new oil and gas formation in a restricted circulation environment (see image at right above).

Listing could hamper activities like the development of new oil and gas fields, wind farms, utility lines and roads.

«There's a lot more opportunity with large - scale projects at these new oil and gas facilities that are being built.»

For instance, in April 2015, ITLOS ordered a number of provisional measures which forced Ghana to suspend the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the disputed territory, pending the outcome of the litigation.

He praised his former boss for achieving a Solomonesque solution back in December 2010 by vetoing a hydrofracking moratorium bill passed by the Legislature while simultaneously issuing an executive order that prevented any drilling in the Marcellus until July 1, 2011, reasoning that the bill, while well - intentioned, was far too broad and would effectively would result in a moratorium on all new oil and gas well drilling.

Paterson noted the bill, which was passed by both the Senate and Assembly during the recent extraordinary session (although it was not on the governor's agenda), goes well beyond horizontal hydraulic fracturing and effectively would result in a moratorium on all new oil and gas well drilling.

However, production is expected to improve in the second half of 2017 primarily due to growth from the company's new oil and gas discovery (Alpine High) in the Permian Basin.

This happens to be a point in time when Alberta and Ottawa are working intensely on what our new oil and gas regulations will look like with respect to emissions.

Nigeria is working out new oil and gas policies to attract more private investors and boost crude production by 500,000 bpd by 2020, state firm NNPC said on Thursday.

Petroleum engineers conduct studies for new oil and gas fields, oversee drilling operations, and sometimes develop production equipment.

Not exact matches

New natural gas pipelines do not face the same kind of opposition as oil pipelines because the product is a gas and, in case of a leak, it escapes into the atmosphere rather than fouling waterways and soil.

A new report from the US Geological Survey has revealed that the oil and gas industry is causing earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States at an alarming rate.

NEW DELHI, May 1 - India asked Japan on Tuesday to help build infrastructure needed to boost the usage of liquefied natural gas in India and elsewhere in Asia, India's oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said after a meeting with Japan's trade minister Hiroshige Seko.

The time is ripe for anyone with new ideas on some facet of oil and gas exploration, drilling or production that could cut costs, says Yager.