Sentences with phrase «oil and gas boom»

On the list are all four large metro areas in Texas — Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio — where an oil and gas boom has fueled job growth and population growth, pushing home prices well above their sustainable levels.

With miles upon miles of wide open highways, and gas prices in North Dakota continuing to climb (despite the oil and gas boom), it is no wonder more and more motorists are turning to motorcycles for their transportation needs.

The U.S. has become a net exporter of natural gas, further evidence of the how the domestic oil and gas boom is reshaping the global energy business.

Michael Levi's new book, The Power Surge, is very likely to be one of the best things you'll read about the ongoing oil and gas boom in the United States... [T] he book is filled with detailed on - the - ground reporting and carefully reasoned observations about how the oil and gas uptick could have all sorts of unexpected impacts on everything from U.S. foreign policy to climate change to transportation.

If this oil and gas boom is a big part of our energy scene, we need to really understand how the two pieces fit together or else we can't think seriously about how to deal with climate change.

Other scientists, however, challenged the results, arguing that the fracking - driven U.S. oil and gas boom is more likely to be the cause.

«A study like this will be the ideal way to try and estimate what the impact of the recent oil and gas boom has had on methane emissions,» Wecht said.

As Exxon Mobil's CEO, it is Rex Tillerson's job to promote the hydraulic fracturing enabling the recent oil and gas boom, and fight regulatory oversight.

OIL AND GAS: • A reporter discusses her book on the oil and gas boom in North Dakota, where she spent a year interviewing people affected by the industry.

The standards focus on better well construction to minimize water contamination, but many see them as a brake on the oil and gas boom fueling the economy and energy security.

More than 80 percent of energy still comes from burning wood or other biomass despite the oil and gas boom.

Like much of Texas, Houston has benefited from the oil and gas boom created by fracking projects — particularly Eagle Ford Shale in the southern part of the state.

Thanks to the state's oil and gas boom, jobs in this state grew 2.8 percent over the past year, making it one of the quickest - growing job markets in the nation.

With the current oil and gas boom fueling the local economy and attracting newcomers from all over, this state is the fastest growing in the nation.

â $ œIâ $ ™ m the only money manager I can think of to have entirely missed the oil and gas boom, â $ he says.

Across the U.S. heartland, an oil and gas boom has driven a surge of small to moderate earthquakes.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.

His hunch about shipping a few years later stemmed from the oil and gas boom in the U.S..

You may disagree with Krugman's analysis, but it's a little disingenuous to try to denigrate and dismiss Thomas Mulcair's economic ideas when they're based on Nobel prize winning work in economics (the intellectual case, that is; the factual case that this phenomenon is occurring today, in Canada, is purely a question of whether the appreciation of our currency is based on the oil and gas boom and whether a high dollar results in lower exports in other sectors, both of which you seem to have admitted are accurate.)

In recent years, America's unprecedented oil and gas boom has been driven by one factor above all others — and that's shale.

Members of the Pulitzer Prize - winning team from InsideClimate News, together with the Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel, reveal that as oil and gas booms in Texas, legislators and regulators are more intent on protecting the industry than residents who fear for their health from the air they breathe.

Housing prices in North Dakota have experienced sharp increases in recent years as the oil and gas booms have attracted more residents to the state.

Not exact matches

THE booming oil and gas sector continues to draw investment into Perth's industrial sector from offshore service providers, with the latest being a $ 120 million oil and gas valves and pressure control

For GE, the deal will help it focus more on the oil and gas sector, especially in North America, while shielding the parent company's earnings from the energy industry's boom and bust cycles.

Specific criticism included not lowering interest rates enough, allowing the Canadian dollar to rise too high as the country's oil and gas sector boomed, and allowing the manufacturing sector to wither.

Despite the United States» boom in oil production, the world is still dependent on the Middle East for oil and gas reserves.

«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.»

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface.

AZERBAIJAN: Azerbaijan's major oil reserves and decade - long economic boom make it an attractive potential partner for the EU, which needs to diversify its energy sources away from a heavy dependence on Russian gas.

Fisheries has shown very little growth, while oil and gas was booming before oil prices slumped in 2014.

Its 5,000 square metre purpose built hydro technical facility, positioned on a 10,000 sqm site, will provide hydraulic services to the booming oil and gas, marine and shipbuilding industries.

The area underlying Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia is the epicenter of a boom in American natural gas produced through hydraulic fracturing, the process of injecting water, minerals and chemicals underground to free oil and gas from rock formations.

Canada ships nearly all of its crude oil exports to the United States, and Mexico's appetite for natural gas has driven a boom in U.S. pipeline shipments in recent years.

As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

She agrees that this jar, by itself, proves nothing about the environmental impact of «fracking,» the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in oil and gas production.

Each time, the domestic oil and natural gas boom has been a major factor in Texas» success.

With a booming oil and gas industry, Houston avoided much of the suffering wrought by the financial crisis.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

The boom in oil and gas production in the US has profound effects on the economy and foreign policy.

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

You make the classic argument that the benefits of a booming tradable sector such as oil and gas must, ipso facto, outweigh the decline in other sectors — otherwise they wouldn't be generating enough demand to result in an increase in the country's currency.

The shale oil boom has driven natural gas prices lower and coal - fired power plants are switching over to natural gas.

Texas is home to one of the country's biggest oil and natural gas fields, which is fueling an economic boom.

That boom altered the relationship between oil and natural gas prices.

With the US currently feeling more or less self - sufficient with the shale oil / gas boom of the last decade, the primary market for bitumen has dried up, and shipping it around the world is laughably uneconomical.

In its highly anticipated Annual Energy Outlook 2018, the agency forecasts that the U.S. will become a net exporter of energy by as early as 2022, thanks in large part to the boom in shale oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production as well as the relaxation of export restrictions.

REGIONAL SUPERSECTION — SHALE OIL BOOM RATTLES GCC ECONOMIES By Gordon Platt As US shale oil and gas production continues to grow, it could have an impact on GCC economies over both the short and long term.

Expecting that works will begin according to plan and that oil and gas will be discovered soon, President John Dramani Mahama in his recent visit to the Volta Region, as part of his Accounting To The People tour went promising the Chiefs and people of the region, that there is an impending economic boom, soon as the Volta Basin Project strikes oil.

The Great Plains state is undergoing a boom fueled by fracking for oil and natural gas.

That surge has coincided in time and place with the boom in unconventional oil and gas extraction such as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» in which high - pressure fluid is injected into the ground to break up the underlying rock and release trapped gas or oil.