Sentences with phrase «of pipeline infrastructure»

If, however, we envisage replacing every conventional coal - fired plant on earth with clean coal, things look very different, for the amount of pipeline infrastructure required to do this is staggeringly large.

Pipeline operators, as owners of the pipeline infrastructure, are required to know and understand their pipeline system operating requirements.

Amongst others, the Committee is tasked with making recommendations to ensure that we put the era of contaminated and off - spec products behind us, by tackling issues such as: the integrity of the pipeline infrastructure; improving pipeline operations and maintenance; continuous training and skills upgrade of pipeline operators; and implementing improved Standard Operating Procedures, including the controlled evacuation and disposal of products under the direct supervision of NPA.

Such optimism must somehow reconcile with all the forces conspiring against Canadian oil: the lack of pipeline infrastructure or «takeaway» capacity, the occasionally gaping price discount applied to Western Canada Select, the renaissance in oil production unfolding in the U.S., rising Canadian production costs and the flight of investor money out of commodities.

Beyond consumer and business data — energy companies possess much proprietary information about their holdings, trading strategies and exploration and production technologies — the increasing dependence of pipeline infrastructure on digital systems makes them a particularly ripe target.

Not exact matches

«This incident has really contributed to changing the strategic environment in which these key pipeline infrastructure decisions are going to be made,» says Mark McClelland, head of North American research for risk - analysis firm Maplecroft.

And yes, the Dow has a heavy component of large industrial and energy companies which have recently soared on expectations that President Trump and his administration will sponsor new infrastructure spending projects and oil pipeline expansion.

They argued transporting crude by pipeline would be safer than alternatives like rail, and charged Obama with hypocrisy for complaining about the lack of investment in U.S. infrastructure while obstructing an $ 8 billion project.

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.

President Donald Trump entered office with a promise to expedite energy infrastructure development, signing executive memorandums reviving the Keystone XL pipeline and demanding completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline in his first days in office.

So yes, we must look ahead and ask what infrastructure investments will allow us to maximize the value of our resources, but let's also not lose sight of the fact that this is exactly what we did before and why our pipelines are where they are today.

availability of sufficient pipeline, gathering, and other transportation facilities and related infrastructure to process and transport its production and the impact of these facilities and regional capacity on the prices received for production;

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.

While drilling in ANWR makes sense because Alaska has existing pipeline infrastructure in place, drilling off the East Coast does not, said John McNabb, former chairman and CEO of Willbros, one of the largest energy infrastructure contractors in the world.

«If it's successful in building the line, Trans - Mountain will be the most significant of the Pacific directed pipelines as it will have 1.7 times the export capacity of Northern Gateway,» says Steven Paget, an energy infrastructure analyst with FirstEnergy Capital.

What happens next depends directly on the expensive and complicated business of reworking a North American pipeline and refining infrastructure that was built to serve the needs of an era defined by huge imports of light, sweet crude.

The speech to the «Oil and Money» conference in London presents an overall vision for transforming Canada from a continental energy player to a global energy powerhouse, a vision that includes improved trade relations with Asia and a major expansion of infrastructure — pipelines, in other words — to get Alberta oil to far - flung markets.

«Moreover, much of our critical infrastructure — our financial systems, power grids, pipelines, health care systems — run on networks connected to the Internet.

SYDNEY, March 19 - Australia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed during a weekend summit in Sydney to establish a regional infrastructure pipeline, Australia's foreign minister said, as the bloc seeks to balance rising Chinese influence.

While one of the pipelines, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), is a sound energy infrastructure project that will help American companies enormously — the other, the Keystone XL Pipeline, mostly benefits Canadian companies and threatens U.S. energy security.

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The Trump administration has announced that it is establishing an office within the Department of Energy to shore up cybersecurity for critical infrastructure like nuclear plants, refineries and pipelines.

On that front, Canada's own record on infrastructure and «national - interest projects» has room for improvement, Kiefer said, including Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline, which is the subject of a fierce Alberta-B.C.

Not only the terminals but most of the source wells and pipeline infrastructure will be located in B.C., making the provincial government the principal regulator.

«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.

«I am thrilled that this world - class group of executives will join me to further strengthen our iconic brands with our industry - leading go - to - market strategies, innovation pipeline, and global infrastructure.»

Non-residential building approvals have increased to be above the levels of recent years and there is a large pipeline of public infrastructure investment to be completed (Graph 4).

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

In the states examined, the report finds that the lack of additional pipeline infrastructure would cost over 78,000 jobs and $ 7.6 billion in GDP by 2020.

The inputs were run through the IMPLAN model to estimate the overall macroeconomic effects of preserving the status quo, which effectively prevents new pipeline infrastructure from being developed in the region.

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.

The capital expenditure is mainly on building better refining capacity or increasing presence through stores / stations, maintenance of infrastructure, building delivery pipelines etc..

The case would clarify whether the province has authority to prevent and manage releases into the environment of substances like diluted bitumen that could endanger human health, the environment or communities, even on federally regulated infrastructure like inter-provincial pipelines or railways.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

He also serves as the lead director of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) which is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, owning an interest in or operating over 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals.

«The Achilles heel of the industry may be that people are very resistant to construction of necessary infrastructure,» stated the report, which was sponsored by half a dozen oil and gas companies and two law firms representing them and included a list of the type of people opposing pipelines and their motivations.

«Our data pipeline, scalable infrastructure and learning systems analyze millions of data points every day to deliver personalized intelligence to every sales rep. And we are just getting started,» said Malladi, co-founder and chief technology officer of the company.

«One Belt, One Road,» China's $ 1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking of highways, pipelines, transmission lines, ports, power stations, fiber optics, and railroads connecting China to Central Asia, Europe and Africa.

The ongoing US recovery, the new US administration's decision to restart the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline and other energy projects, and further policy measures, including tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending, could boost both demand and business confidence, igniting animal spirits and leading to an acceleration in the rates of investment, firm creation and innovation.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

Spark Therapeutics (ONCE)- The $ 2 billion gene therapy pioneer has over a quarter of its market capitalization in cash, a key ex-US partnership with Novartis (NVS)(can leverage its infrastructure plus adds credibility to LUXTURNA prospects), and pipeline of promising assets with several opportunities to create value in 2018.

«I think if you ask most of them, delayed new pipeline infrastructure is better for them than none at all,» he said, adding TransCanada has «no intention of withdrawing our application» if the State Department denies its request for a delay.

This is a company providing necessary infrastructure, with very little reliance on the underlying pricing of the commodities that pass through its pipelines.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) will convene a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday during which MillerCoors and experts critical of banks» involvement in physical commodities activities and infrastructure assets such as storage facilities and pipelines are likely to heavily criticize banks like Goldman and JPMorgan, which both own large warehouses that store aluminum and trade derivatives contracts reflecting commodity prices.

In the case of oil, pipeline and infrastructure politics continue to limit Canada's access to oil markets in both the United States and Asia.

Half of global steel production goes into buildings and infrastructure, which includes products such as beams and pipelines.

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.

Waitsia has become the prize in the takeover tussle around AWE, with all three of the mid-cap producer's suitors drawn to the large, relatively low - cost gas resource that lies close to pipeline infrastructure to the north of Perth.

Porter also said he is frustrated by the lack of progress on energy infrastructure — particularly on the Energy East project, a pipeline proposed by TransCanada Corp. (TSX: TRP) that would ship 1.1 million barrels of Alberta oil per day to refineries in Eastern Canada.