Sentences with phrase «of shale»

A comparison of two conflicting studies analyzing the greenhouse gas impacts of shale gas as compared to coal.

Meanwhile, continued development of shale oil and gas in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and elsewhere has helped reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy and brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs.

Wearing my academic hat, I'm currently helping * the new Center for Energy Governance and Security at Korea's Hanyang University develop partnerships here to examine how to foster responsible development of shale gas in China as a near - term path away from coal.

The University of Texas said today that it has accepted the findings of a damning independent review of the preparation of a report on potential impacts of shale gas drilling by the school's Energy Institute.

And while questions have arisen in the last several years regarding the local and global environmental impacts of the shale revolution, a survey of the empirical literature reveals gas to be a highly favorable environmental alternative to coal.

This film below and the feature image at the top of this post have been sourced via the NT Frack - free Alliance, a diverse group of community members, Traditional Owners, environment groups and landholders established in response to NT government plans for a roll - out of the shale gas industry across the Territory.

By any estimate, China appears to have the largest reserves of shale gas in the world.

The question that «activists» other than Fox are asking now, which is more interesting given that the gas price bubble may have popped, is whether or not proper regulation is too expensive to continue the planned massive expansion of shale fracking.

Since 2011, Alex Trembath, a tireless and talented energy analyst at nonprofit The Breakthrough Institute, has been digging into the complicated history of public and private initiatives and investments that unlocked the vast gas and oil resource contained in layers of shale rock.

Sure, yesterday's rosy predictions about shale gas could bear out in terms of years, but the high cost of shale drilling, the rapid rate of well depletion, and increased gas exports will translate into higher domestic prices.

It is interested in Texas because of the strong economy and the demand for pickups because of the shale oil boom in South Texas, said Greenway operating partner Conrad Letson.

Mexico is lining up to take advantage of the shale boom in the United States, having announced 1,000 miles of new pipelines — including a 500 - mile underwater gas pipeline from Texas — in a country with only 9,000 miles deployed so far.

Given the high cost of shale oil production, it's questionable much marginal new U.S. production will be able to displace established Canadian oilsands supply while also replacing production declines in California, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

A mysterious fish - kill in Dunkard Creek may have been the result of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing of shale for natural gas

«Leadership from both industry and the U.S. government may be needed to assure that economic benefits of shale gas development are realized without significant regional impairment of water resource quantity and quality,» the authors conclude.

The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration has posted a short update on trends in natural gas production in the United States that's worth noting simply because it illustrates the profound nature of the energy transitions that are being propelled by the exploitation of shale deposits using hydraulic fracturing, known best as fracking, along with horizontal drilling.

Scientists at The Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Denver will describe the potential of shale formations; challenges of deep borehole disposal; and their progress in building a computer model to help improve understanding of the geologic processes that are important for safe disposal of high - level waste.

A number of studies have shown that greenhouse gas footprint of shale gas is higher than conventional sources of natural gas.

France, Switzerland, and Belgium are planning to put waste in tunnels mined out of shale formations, and Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom are evaluating the idea.

Back in 2012 the IEA published a widely - referenced report setting out how hydraulic fracturing of shale rocks could deliver a new «golden age» of natural gas.

The earlier assessment, also prepared by Advanced Resources International (ARI), was released as part of a U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) report titled World Shale Gas Resources: An Initial Assessment of 14 Regions Outside the United States.1 There were two reasons for pursuing an updated assessment of shale resources so soon after the prior report.

Will we encourage industry investments, innovations and advanced technologies — including hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that unlocked vast reserves of shale energy?

Generally, the increased supply of shale oil in the United States would have resulted in lowering world oil prices; but global events in oil markets have restricted production in several oil - producing nations.

Thanks to the expansion of shale gas production, the impacts of natural gas are catching up fast (12).

This will likely lead to her coming head to head with climate denier Lord Nigel Lawson, an avid supporter of shale gas exploration.

Beijing has a target of 30 billion cubic meters of shale gas for 2020, and it looks like even these investments won't be enough to achieve it.

Even the accepted estimate of 2,000 trillion cubic feet of shale gas reserves (only half of Pickens» own estimate) means, he said, «more than 300 billion barrels» of oil equivalent, whereas «the Saudis claim 255 billion.»

But I'm convinced if the oil price stays much over $ 100 / bbl there will eventually be people figuring out how to do this — right now there's still a lot of ANWR space to explore, Canada has the tar sands and the USA has the immense quantities of shale oil, so it will probably be some time before the Arctic offshore gets explored and developed (the Russians may be the first to do this).

It said Europe could expect to produce 77 billion cubic metres of shale gas per year by 2035, about the same as the UK's annual demand.

Not coincidently this historic trend has coincided with natural gas consumption skyrocketing as result of the shale revolution.

Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus at YaleE360 on the implications of the shale revolution on clean energy development, February 27, 2012

Using coal fired electricity plants at a thermal efficiency of 33 % you get 3 boe of coal to make 3 boe of shale oil or 1:1.

The recent hysteria rests heavily on the rise of shale oil in the US, which was unforeseen and is significant.

«It's not a prize of the same magnitude as the deepwater, it certainly is a key priority of the Mexican government to see the development of the shale industry there.»

Tax expenditures in the energy sector, in particular, are prime candidates for falling under the axe, both because nixing them would generate a lot of money and because they're looking increasingly anachronistic in the era of the shale boom.

The village of Pungeşti, Romania offers a grim example of the future of shale gas development in Europe — with communities themselves the last line of defence against dirty and dangerous fossil fuels.»

... Lord Howell, the father - in - law of Chancellor George Osborne, said «beautiful rural areas» further south should be spared the disruption caused by the controversial method of shale gas extraction.

It's clear that Immelt wants to take advantage of the shale drilling boom in the period of natural gas revolution.

Until now, estimates of shale gas production have primarily relied on models established for conventional oil and gas wells, which behave differently from the horizontal wells in gas - rich shales.

He said, «An M.I.T. natural gas study group released a statement taking issue with The Times's analysis of shale gas economics, well productivity and other matters.»

Our country's pioneering of shale energy production is the foundation for overall energy leadership in the foreseeable future.

But it pales in comparison to the amount of new wealth that is created every year as a direct consequence of the shale energy revolution that George Mitchell helped bring into existence.

A study commissioned by EIA to assess shale oil resources in 41 countries outside the United States, taken in conjunction with EIA's own assessment of resources within the United States, indicate worldwide technically recoverable resources of 345 billion barrels of shale oil resources.

Riverkeeper is actively involoved in litigation, advocacy, and public education surrounding the issue of shale gas extraction and related infrastructure, particularly because of the potential impacts on New York State's drinking water supplies.

The fossil, of a species called Mosasaurus missouriensis, was discovered in 2012 in a layer of shale by a mining company in southern Alberta in Canada.

«Shale gas production through hydraulic fracturing can compromise future use of the shale as a caprock formation in a CO2 storage operation,» said Michael Celia, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Princeton University and a co-author of the study.