Sentences with phrase «of oil and gas facilities»

So will the 74,000 people within a half - mile of oil and gas facilities on public lands across America who deal with the smog - forming and toxic, cancer - causing air pollutants emitted along with methane during oil and gas operations.

The Carbon Limits study, which analyzed records from over 4,000 surveys of oil and gas facilities, reported that 97 percent of the volume of leaks comes from leaks which are economic to repair — i.e., the revenues from the additional gas are greater than the cost of the repair.

The Nigerian Army had on Sunday announced the arrest of 10 suspected militants specialised in disruption of oil and gas facilities and their weapons.

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Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

From life sciences, aerospace, datacenters, oil + gas, luxury retail, sports technology + fitness, and commercial real estate, our team of nearly 1,750 professionals keeps these industries buildings and facilities operating efficiently, sustainably and on budget.

And it was great that the rally was held right in our constituency, at the huge facilities of Packers Plus, a high - tech manufacturing company that produces downhole tools for completing oil and gas welAnd it was great that the rally was held right in our constituency, at the huge facilities of Packers Plus, a high - tech manufacturing company that produces downhole tools for completing oil and gas weland gas wells.

A Niger Delta Militant Group under the auspices of Urhobo Liberation Force, ULF today threatened to blow up Oil and Gas facilities in Urhobo land if the...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has condemned in strongest terms, the recent attacks on the oil and gas facilities across the...

The facility which operates in the Jubilee oil fields off the coast of Ghana has the capacity to process 120,000 barrels of oil per day and has a storage capacity of 1.6 million barrels, with an associated gas production capacity of 160 million standard cubic feet a day.

But the administration has now taken a similar tack on a number of other controversial projects, staying silent rather than approving or blocking them, including a major proposed propane storage project in the Finger Lakes, the construction of new liquefied natural gas storage areas across the state and a crude - oil heating facility at the Port of Albany.

Embattled former militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, on Monday denied sponsoring the Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta.

The department has been sitting on a number of key decisions as well, including approvals of natural gas pipelines, an underground gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes and crude oil heating facility for the Port of Albany.

Commander of the JTF in Niger Delta, Rear Admiral Suleiman Apochi who made this known in a statement, said, «In line with the Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) mandate to protect critical Oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta region, a deliberate operation code named Op Ember Safe was conducted by the Force.

«This operation was aimed at tackling the security challenges posed to safety of lives and critical oil and gas facilities in the region.

MethaneSAT is an offshoot of the EDF's research on greenhouse - gas emissions from US oil and gas facilities.

It has been selected as Europe's research centre of excellence and has received over half a million pounds of European funding to enable researchers to make use of its oil and gas energy research facilities.

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

According to a RAN report published in June, 25 banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and BNP Paribas, have invested $ 784 billion in coal mining, coal power, «extreme oil» and liquefied natural gas facilities between 2013 and 2015 (ClimateWire, June 15).

Refineries, pipelines and remote fields of oil and gas wellheads can be hard to monitor, but an orbiting satellite traveling over 4 miles per second can measure a facility's emissions more cheaply, more accurately and more often.

Researchers have developed an infrared imaging system that could one day offer low - cost, real - time detection of methane gas leaks in pipelines and at oil and gas facilities.

The ICR was part of the previous administration's plan to crack down on emissions from existing oil and gas facilities — a piece of President Obama's broader Climate Action Plan.

Regularly checking oil and gas facilities for leaky equipment is the most effective way to identify both big pollution sources — which our study focused on — but also smaller sources that together make up a significant share of industry emissions.

The SMU Geothermal Lab is an active research facility with a variety of ongoing geothermal resource projects which strive to broaden the understanding and use of geothermal energy, from the simplest form - geothermal heat pumps for buildings, to the large - scale deployment of geothermal power plants providing energy for our cities while also exploring opportunities to integrate renewable geothermal projects in an oil & gas setting.

The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.

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.

Its portfolio of assets includes conventional oil, oil sands, heavy oil, and natural gas pipelines, natural gas processing plants, fractionators, and midstream storage facilities, and it's a top pick of my Foolish colleague Jason Phillips.

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.

Herd - selection criteria included potential exposure to oil and gas facilities, herd size, quality of available records, an established relationship with a local veterinary clinic, and participant interest.

The main «producers» of CO2 are heavy industries, energy production facilities that combust oil, coal and gas, general cutting of tropical forests, livestock industry, and, of course, us — the usual people — the consumers.

Now it's becoming clear that this simple and affordable technology has played a two - pronged role in helping the Environmental Protection Agency, in the face of perpetual industry resistance, move toward clamping down on leaks of methane and other compounds from oil and gas wells, tanks and other facilities.

In the related Dot Earth post, I included some remarkable video shot for the Environmental Protection Agency showing the difference between looking at an oil or gas facility with a standard camera and one tuned to the infrared wavelengths absorbed by gases like methane — the main constituent of natural gas:

I've done some writing in this arena, most notably in my coverage of opportunities to stanch vast leaks of natural gas (most of which is methane, a potent greenhouse gas) from oil and gas facilities around the world.

In a statement, Gary Wockner, of Clean Water Action, said «Fracking and operating oil and gas facilities in floodplains is extremely risky.

The ProPublica piece expands on findings I reported in the print paper and on Dot Earth in 2009 showing that the amount of gas leakage from wells, pipelines and storage facilities for gas and oil was vastly greater than longstanding Environmental Protection Agency estimates.

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founOf the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founof mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report founof the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

The newly proposed rules would, among other actions, prohibit venting (intentional emitting), require quarterly leak inspections of new and existing facilities, and include measures to prevent worsening local air quality caused by oil and gas activity.

«Many of the state's oil and gas facilities are old and decrepit.

The upgrading facility fractionates the VGO (vacuum gas oil) and lighter materials out of the crude and cokes the residue material.

¶ Responding to falling oil industry revenues, the government of Algeria unveiled a suite of new programs meant to improve the country's financial situation, including a solar PV facility build = out, and energy efficiency programs, and incentives to convert their vehicles to run on liquefied petroleum gas rather than petrol / gasoline or diesel.

However, most of the coal facilities have retired and residual oil emissions are about as low as they can go so future reductions will have to displace more economic natural gas.

The construction of such farm and ranch improvements within the Wind Flow Zone and the construction of improvements outside the Wind Flow Zone shall be deemed not to interfere with the free and unobstructed natural wind flow over the Premises to the WTG; provided however, Grantee shall not construct any WTG within one thousand four hundred (1,400) feet of the main residence on the Premises or one thousand (1,000) feet of any other existing, permanent residence or barn, either of which is located immediately adjacent to the main residence, or within one hundred fifty (150) feet from any other existing structures, pump jacks, tank batteries, or other above ground oil and gas facilities located on the Premises as of the Effective Date, without Owner's prior written consent.

(2) oil and natural gas facilities, under which the evaluation shall account for the use of technologies designed to minimize and sequester carbon dioxide releases;

In January 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that Texas oil refineries, power plants, and other industrial facilities spewed out 294 million tons of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in 2010 — more than the next two top emitters, Pennsylvania and Florida, combined.

Our patented technology allows for the low - cost capture of CO2 from stationary emissions sources such as oil production operations, power and steam plants and metals production facilities, while leveraging existing solvent - based gas scrubbing approaches already known to industry.

(Sec. 388) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant, on either a competitive or noncompetitive basis, a lease, easement, or right - of - way on the outer Continental Shelf for activities not otherwise authorized under specified laws, if those activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas; (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas; or (3) use, for energy - related or marine - related purposes, facilities currently or previously used for activities authorized under this Act, unless prohibited by moratorium.

The energy system is both a source of emissions that lead to global warming and it can also be directly affected by climate change: through changes in our energy consumption patterns, potential shutdowns of offshore oil and gas production, changing ice and snow conditions in the oil production regions of Alaska, changing sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean and the implications for shipping routes, and impacts of sea - level rise on coasts, where so much of our energy facility infrastructure is located.

Current official inventories of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas released from landfills, livestock ranches and oil and gas facilities, may be underestimated both nationally and in California by a factor of about 1.5, according to new research from Berkeley Lab and others.