Sentences with phrase «of big gas»

For example: when gas prices went up to $ 3 - per - gallon (and beyond) over the last couple of years, many consumers began clamoring to get out of their big gas - guzzling SUVs and sedans, flocking to smaller cars that delivered better fuel economy.

About half of those big gas - guzzlers stay on the road a surprisingly long time: 15 to 35 years.

The days of carrying a Billy, fry pan, a couple of big gas canisters and your little screw on gas cooker are seriously numbered in my opinion as smart cooking or water boiling systems are evolving very quickly and leading that charge for the last few years has been Jetboil.

He and CalCars now work to accelerate oil reductions by more than 50 % in a decade by converting into PHEVs and EVs millions of the biggest gas - guzzlers on our roads.

Throughout the 1980s, the company struggled to solve the carbon problem of one of the biggest gas fields in the world out of concern for climate impacts.

Sierra Club TIME — 2 February 2012 Exclusive: How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry TIME has learned that between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $ 25 million in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.....

Not exact matches

Oil - and - gas companies will be big winners because they pay the second - highest effective tax rate of any sector, at 37 percent, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil and gas industry's biggest lobby, told Fortune in an interview at the Republican National Convention.

In June the company received the first - ever FAA commercial license for unmanned aircraft operations over land and water for its work with BP on Alaska's North Slope, part of a big push to develop oil and gas in remote areas with the help of UAVs.

Among the biggest issues oil - and - gas - exploration companies face in the search for new sources of hydrocarbons is putting humans or high - value assets at risk.

Non-Prime users spend a little more than half that ($ 700), but they may be picking up the tab elsewhere, like in the cost of gas to shop in - store, the higher price of items from big - box retailers, and shipping from other stores.

Natural gas and oil are crucial parts of the energy sector but they can be a big drain on water resources.

The Russian steelmaker is a big employer in the Saskatchewan capital, and has operations in half a dozen other communities in Western Canada, where it is an important manufacturer of the pipe used in oil and gas pipelines.

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.

Developing B.C.'s liquid natural gas (LNG) export potential was a big part of Premier Christy Clark's electoral pledge on the economy.

«The biggest sectors of steel consumption are in the construction industry, the auto industry, oil and gas industry, all of which need these products to produce competitive products,» warns Yerxa.

The woes of the Big Three are well known: an overdependence on gas - guzzling SUVs, massive pension obligations, and a dearth of good design.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people, aiming to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities in the biggest intervention yet in the conflict by Western powers.

Had the deal closed, the sale of a half - interest in the Cutbank Ridge shale gas play would have been the largest investment of any kind by a Chinese state - controlled firm in Canada and the biggest reason to expect to see Asia - bound liquefied natural gas tankers docking on the West Coast in the not - too - distant future.

Those interests align with Beyond Meat's mission: to create a plant - based product that looks, tastes, and behaves just like meat but has a much lower environmental impact because it takes livestock — one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions — out of the equation.

In June 2008, as the price of gas went above $ 4, Buffett said «exploding» inflation was the biggest risk to the economy.

One of his biggest deals — the $ 41 billion buyout of XTO Energy in 2009 — was called by Tillerson himself ill - timed because it was done before natural gas prices bottomed out.

Chinese investors appear increasingly bullish about opportunities in Western Australia's energy sector, following revelations a division of China's biggest offshore oil and gas producer, CNOOC, was a significant influence in one of the state's biggest battery storage trials.

Pittsburgh - based gas driller EQT Corporation's $ 8.2 billion purchase of fellow fracker Rice Energy was last year's biggest U.S. exploration and production deal.

It does includes a wide circle of wealthy Russians though that run some of the country's biggest companies, including the heads of Russia's two biggest banks Sberbank and VTB, metals magnates and the boss of state gas monopoly Gazprom.

So is a guy who today competes at nearly the highest level of his sport... yet when he first drove on a big track, he had to hold his leg down to keep himself from lifting off the gas pedal.

Calima was one of the early movers in the liquids - rich corridor running through the Montney Basin, which is already one of the hottest shale plays in North America on the basis of its proven ability to produce big volumes of gas at low cost.

The company has also had to take big losses related to write - downs of the value of its oil and gas assets, to reflect the lower prices these energy commodities are garnering on the open market.

But the firm also made a big move into the natural gas space with its 2013 acquisition of Plains Exploration & Production Company.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

Range Resources, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is a big player in the Marcellus Formation, a large area in New York, Pennsylvania and other neighbouring states that's expected to produce vast amounts of liquid - rich gas.

The IEA's forecasts overlap largely with the Trump administration's pursuit of what it calls «energy dominance» — a strategy that has been visible in its rollback of various Obama - era policies this year (above all in the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord), and in a big expansion of federal acreage offered for oil and gas prospecting.

By the mid 2020s, the IEA expects the U.S. to become the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, demand for which is set to rise strongly as China, India, and Southeast Asia all turn away from coal to cleaner energy sources.

And that likely precludes any big shifts in economic policy, whether it's weaning the treasury off its resource dependency with a sales tax or imposing the kind of greenhouse gas emissions regime that would satisfy the Americans.

A plan outlined by the WA Government to reserve a big part of the State's gas reserves for the local market does not promote a robust and viable gas industry in Western Australia, according to the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Associatio

The state took over YPF, an oil and gas company owned by Spanish energy company Repsol, and she feuded with soy farmers (who grow one of Argentina's biggest exports.)

China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has said it will honor the Paris deal.

China overtook the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007.

The little industry that could take a big bite out of oil demand Shell warns of liquified natural gas shortage

Data and digitalization have transformed many industries, including oil and gas, and they will continue to do so, creating billions of U.S. dollars from the businesses of big data analytics and digital oil fields.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

Canada is the biggest U.S. supplier of foreign oil, and it buys some U.S. crude and sells it gasoline, natural gas and electricity.

While being bigger is usually better in the energy world, it may not pay off as well in the world of liquified natural gas.

But the biggest deals focus on gas supply and infrastructure to Pakistan, one of the world's fastest growing liquefied natural gas (LNG) import markets.

«The bigger issue is how much of China's energy mix will be gas,» Odum said.

Then, in late 2009, Exxon Mobil, the biggest of Big Oil companies, bought shale gas producer XTO Energy for US$ 41 billion.

«We've have the workforce, and we've been building out these gas - processing facilities, these pipelines and all the infrastructures that's required to really support the big LNG boom that we expect to see in the second wave of LNG in the U.S.,» Brown said.

«We don't want people in mining to suffer because of a big downturn and folks in oil and gas to make more because the market is great,» he says.

The crossover would add to Mercedes's growing line of lucrative top - end vehicles, such as this year's gas - guzzling AMG GT four - door coupe, as the world's biggest luxury - car maker seeks revenue to finance its expensive shift to battery technology.