Sentences with phrase «of gas industry»

The EMGB, too, a third polluter, would have been an appropriate person, but it was dissolved after the 1986 privatisation of the gas industry.

The tar had been deposited by two private companies before nationalisation of the gas industry by the Gas Act 1948 (GA 1948).

Methane concentrations were detected generally in 51 of 60 drinking - water wells (85 %) across the region, regardless of gas industry operations, but concentrations were substantially higher closer to natural - gas wells (Fig. 3).

A spokesman for one of the gas industry companies that participated in the study said that the research would be helpful.

The report outlines the role of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) in defining the future of Europe's energy policy — a group established by the European Commission but made up exclusively of gas industry interests, including major gas and oil companies such as Engie, Enagas and OMV.

The depth of gas industry infiltration into European decision - making on energy policy was revealed today, following the launch of the report «Hiding in plain sight» by Friends of the Earth Europe.

«The size of the gas industry in North America could fall short of industry projections — especially those expecting new LNG industries in the U.S. and Canada.

Andrew Grant, Lead analyst at Carbon Tracker and co-author of the report.: «The size of the gas industry in North America could fall short of industry projections — especially those expecting new LNG industries in the U.S. and Canada.

We should not be fooled by some clever numbering and clustering - this selection represents an increase in gas projects and illustrates the immense lobby influence of the gas industry.

The new report outlines the role of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) in defining the future of Europe's energy policy — a group established by the European Commission but made up exclusively of gas industry interests, including major gas and oil companies such as Engie, Enagas and OMV.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

Not exact matches

Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

Woodside Petroleum has deferred a final decision on expansion of its Pluto gas project, but the company's chief executive Don Voelte has still talked up its development record, saying it was five years ahead of industry rival Chevron.

In Ottawa this past June, the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico pledged to work together to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry between 40 % and 45 % by 2025.

«For engineers who are already working, we've created an Oil and Gas MOOC, in partnership with IFP énergies Nouvelles (IFPEN), to enable them to update their knowledge of the oil industry by taking online courses for four weeks.»

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.

Since 2015, the World Bank, via Anita Marangoly George, former senior director of Global Practice on Energy and Extractive Industries, has pushed to eliminate «a huge amount of greenhouse gas, equivalent to the emissions of 77 million cars,» by 2030.

DENVER — Western Colorado has 40 times more natural gas than previously thought, but an immediate boom is unlikely because of low gas prices, government and industry experts said Wednesday.

An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Ian MacGregor entered the oil and gas industry in 1969, splitting his time between studying mechanical engineering at the University of Calgary and doing shifts as a night watchman at the machine shop where his father worked.

For its part, the oil and gas industry, by pouring investment into the oilsands with little concern for how it's going to get the oil out to markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adds.

The oil and gas industry and its products account for half of global carbon dioxide emissions.

It's among a host of new startups developing technology for the oil and gas industry, which finds itself desperate for innovation in this era of low commodity prices.

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.

The share price of the Netherlands - based construction company, which specializes in the oil and gas industry, was halved in 2014.

The U.S.'s shale gas industry, though, is more developed than Canada's, and much of the infrastructure needed to deep - freeze the gas and load it in liquid form onto tanker ships already exists.

«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.

But the B.C. natural gas industry is having to jump through its fare share of bureaucratic hoops too.

While the global water industry is diversified and, in terms of committed capital, ranks on par with the oil, gas and electricity industries, it's attracted little private investment.

Beyond climate change, low - cost natural gas has been one of the most important transformations to have occurred for the energy industry in the United States.

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

Wayne Sim, the founder of Calgary - based 3esi Innovation Inc., had worked with clients in Russia's sprawling and inefficient oil and gas industry for almost two decades.

Matt Bell, president of Houston - based GeoDynamics, which manufactures equipment for the oil and gas industry, experienced this as part of Shell's GameChanger program last decade.

Ola Elvestuen, Norway's minister of climate and environment, says the International Maritime Organization's agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry represents a «great step forward.»

As a vice-president of parent company China National Petroleum Corp. explained at an oil and gas industry conference in Calgary, the company felt it was being shut out of Canada's oilsands by political pressure from the U.S. and had lost confidence in Enbridge's ability to manage aboriginal opposition to the line.

«Just knowing that oil and gas is a boom - and - bust industry, we are trying to not get used to it as a source of revenue because we know it won't last.»

Indeed, natural gas is a key part of U.S. climate change plans, and many have called President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which reduces emissions from the power industry, a natural gas power plan.

«The oil and gas industry is a small but significant player,» said Jon Monson, director of the city's water department, which has designated 35 fire hydrants where haulers may fill up their tanks to truck to gas wells.

Alcoa's tale is held up as a wee candle flicker of hope in an otherwise depressing report on gender inequity in tech - driven sectors, including the oil and gas industry, automotive manufacturers and telecommunications companies.

• Black Bay Energy Capital invested in Downhole Chemical Solutions, a Texas - based provider of stimulation and completion chemical products and services to the oil and gas industry.

But developments in the oil and gas industry and an influx of new residents are putting pressure on local amenities, as Alison Birrane reports.

First, the spill seems to have led to decreased trust in the oil and gas industry generally, and foreign companies specifically in the eyes of the U.S. public.

McKinsey found that 14 % of millennials say they would not want to work in the oil and gas industry because of its negative image — the highest percentage of any industry.

«As the oil and gas industry becomes mature there, companies are going to have to have a bunch of sub-sea systems that will have to be monitored,» said Dean Richter, a retired navy submarine captain and director of development for maritime transportation systems for New Jersey - based QinetiQ North America.

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

Teens are even more critical, with two out of three saying the oil and gas industry causes problems instead of solving them.

A total of 14 percent of Millennials say they would not want to work in the oil and gas industry because of its negative image — the highest percentage of any industry, McKinsey said in September 2016.

The cost of electricity from large - scale solar installations now is comparable to and sometimes cheaper than natural gas - fired power, even without incentives aimed at promoting environmentally friendly power, according to industry players and outside cost studies.

A report that year from the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's trade group, found that women accounted for 17 % of the workforce at oil, natural gas and petrochemical companies.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry currently total about as much as those of Germany, not a small amount, and experts say that sum will grow as the world becomes even more mobile.