This move follows on an increasing rejection
of natural gas infrastructure by California regulators in favor of clean energy alternatives, as the state continues to burn less and less gas every year in its electricity sector.
Colorado learned from the experiences of Wyoming and Pennsylvania, which both require regular leak surveys
of natural gas infrastructure.
Adrian has a Ph.D. in ecology from Duke University, where his research focused on the ecological impacts and greenhouse gas emissions
of natural gas infrastructure.
The administration supports development of natural gas export terminals and the development
of natural gas infrastructure abroad, which would lock in more decades of continued fossil fueled electricity.
In an article posted at Mother Jones today, Bill McKibben takes down the Obama administration's pro-fracking policy and argues that creating a new generation
of natural gas infrastructure — pipelines, power plants, export terminals — is not a bridge to... Continue reading →
According to the New York Mercantile Exchange or NYMEX, New York City is expected to have the highest natural gas prices in the nation this winter, due in part to the region's lack
of natural gas infrastructure.
The development of oil & gas shale projects in the U.S. and build out
of the natural gas infrastructure in China both benefitted Chart over recent years.
«Our results show how failures
of natural gas infrastructure can significantly impact greenhouse gas control efforts,» said NOAA's Tom Ryerson, co-lead scientist on the study.
Single - point failures
of natural gas infrastructure can hamper methane emission control strategies designed to mitigate climate change.
Most recently she served as director of external affairs and communications for Spectra Energy's Canadian LNG business, responsible for development
of natural gas infrastructure investment opportunities related to liquefied natural gas in Western Canada, as well as development of strategies to address market, regulatory, and stakeholder risks associated with potential LNG projects.
Not exact matches
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.
Last week, Trump replaced the head
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a five - person panel that approves certain
natural gas pipeline projects and regulates interstate energy
infrastructure.
Asian investors in particular are growing weary
of Canada's sluggish pace
of building energy
infrastructure — the pipelines and liquefied
natural gas facilities needed to get Canadian fossil fuels to offshore markets.
The owners
of the Dampier to Bunbury
natural gas pipeline have taken direct control
of asset management activities that previously were run by Babcock & Brown
Infrastructure subsidiary Westnet Energy.
Some ETFs seek to replicate the performance
of specific sectors, such as
infrastructure or healthcare, while others track particular commodities such as gold, oil or
natural gas.
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including
natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations
of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost
of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance
of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost
of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and
natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by
natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact
of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation
of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology
infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
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.
In the last federal budget,
Natural Resources Canada was allocated $ 2.5 million over the next two years to study regional clean energy cooperation, with the aim
of identifying «the most promising electricity
infrastructure projects with the potential to achieve significant greenhouse
gas reductions.»
According to its website, this is the «largest energy
infrastructure in North America,» owning interest or operating more than 80,000 miles
of pipelines that transport
natural gas, crude oil and more.
80 %
of its business comes from
natural gas and electricity services while the other 20 % is divided among
infrastructure services (pipelines) and other energy services.
India asked Japan on Tuesday to help build
infrastructure needed to boost the usage
of liquefied
natural gas (LNG) in India and elsewhere in Asia, India's oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said after a meeting with Japan's trade minister Hiroshige Seko.
The organizers said the main goals
of the event were to persuade Cuomo to block all new
natural gas infrastructure in the state, including pipelines and power plants; move toward 100 percent renewable energy, and tax emissions to fund the transition.
«All this
natural gas infrastructure is premised on fracking and will ruin what's left
of the upstate economy.
The future
of energy in New York involves miles and miles
of pipelines carrying
natural gas from other states, a notion that has been reinforced both by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the governors
of New England states that are also pushing for more pipeline
infrastructure.
On Wednesday, October 30, hundreds
of New Yorkers from across the state came to Albany to expose Governor Cuomo and the Department
of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) proposed Liquefied
Natural Gas (LNG) regulations for what they are: fatally flawed, a danger to public health and our well - being, and supportive
of a massive fracking
infrastructure build out.
Hawkins opposes any investment in new fossil fuel
infrastructure, including
natural gas pipelines and power plants, LNG port terminals, liquefied propane and butane and
natural gas storage in the Seneca Lake salt caverns, and crude oil heaters at the Port
of Albany.
While Cuomo has held off on giving the green light to the use
of fracking for
natural gas, his administration has pushed forward the construction
of the
infrastructure that supports fracking, including pipelines and storage facilities.
It would halt the building
of any new
infrastructure for
natural gas or other fossil fuels.
Any
of these
natural disasters could rupture the delta levees and take a lot
of the
infrastructure — power lines, communication networks,
gas pipelines, hydroelectric power systems — with it.
Enhancing the availability
of CNG cars could also bring
natural gas to more fueling stations, which could be converted to hydrogen on - site and help overcome FCEV's
infrastructure speed bump.
Companies and researchers are working on
infrastructure and technologies to help bring the nation's growing stock
of natural gas to fuel tanks, including those
of long - haul vehicles
Their report emphasizes the utility
of rapid - response airborne chemical sampling in providing leak rate data, and it reveals how single vulnerabilities in the
natural gas infrastructure can impact local and federal climate policies.
But combining the hydrogen with CO2 to produce methane is a safer option than using hydrogen directly as an energy source and allows the use
of existing
natural gas infrastructure.
Energy producers flared off 30 %
of all produced
natural gas in North Dakota due to lack
of infrastructure.
Methanation has the advantage that the
infrastructure existing for the distribution and storage
of natural gas and the standard appliances can be used further without any modifications or readjustments being required.
In an era
of depleting mineral oil resources
natural gas is becoming ever more relevant, even though the
gas is difficult to transport and not easily integrated in the existing industrial
infrastructure.
In the U.S. generating electricity or putting the
natural gas into a pipeline often makes sense because
of existing
infrastructure.
The mega-leak has drawn attention to the broader problem
of fugitive emissions from
natural gas production, processing, pipeline and storage
infrastructure across the country.
Both Ash and Roney pointed out the need for full cost accounting for
natural gas in order to figure out if it is cost - effective: The industry must measure the price
of mining, shipping and
infrastructure for the fuel, as well as the value
of natural gas's environmental and health consequences.»
Flaring
of natural gas — more commonplace in the Arctic where there is less available
infrastructure to capture and transport
natural gas associated with oil drilling — can be a major source.
Since going public in 1998, Enterprise has grown into one
of the largest energy
infrastructure companies in the world with approximately 50,000 miles
of natural gas,
natural gas liquids, crude oil and refined products pipelines and 260 million barrels
of storage capacity.
It provides essential services to oil and
gas producers in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin through its integrated network
of infrastructure, which includes gathering pipelines,
natural gas processing plants,
natural gas liquids processing, transportation, and storage facilities, and an industry - leading condensate handling system.
MLPs, often spin - offs from energy companies, operate large parts
of the nation's energy
infrastructure, such as oil pipelines,
natural gas processing facilities and storage depots.
The nation's largest single source
of methane emissions is the vast network
of infrastructure, including wells, pipelines and storage facilities, that supplies U.S.
natural gas.
He was an author
of a paper in the same journal last year with this title: «Greater focus needed on methane leakage from
natural gas infrastructure.»
«Massive
infrastructure» Ausubel draws his conclusions by analysing the amount
of energy renewables,
natural gas, and nuclear can produce in terms
of power per square metre
of land used.
Then there is the US military protection
of global production and transmission
infrastructure for oil and
natural gas.
These increasingly important roles for
natural gas in the electricity sector call for a detailed analysis
of the interdependencies
of the
natural gas and power generation
infrastructures.
And we're building a nearly $ 40 billion
natural gas pipeline which is North America's largest and most you expensive
infrastructure project ever to flow those sources
of energy into hungry markets.
In addition to its positive impact in utility prices, new and improved energy
infrastructure will help our nation continue leading the world in the production
of oil and
natural gas and in the reduction
of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lows.