Sentences with phrase «oil and gas facilities»

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.

Oil and gas facilities also typically wait until the last possible moment to shut down plants before major storms or other extreme weather events, in order to maximize revenue.

According to the Calgary Herald, a leaked government document indicates that central elements of the government's recent climate change decisions will have a serious negative impact on «the competitiveness of oil and gas facilities in Alberta.»

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.

A US environmental group has been awarded tens of millions of dollars to develop a new satellite to help track — and ultimately, reduce — emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas facilities around the world.

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 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.

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.

In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented policies that will reduce methane pollution from new oil and gas facilities that are developed.

Ever since I reported in 2009 on ways to cut wasteful, polluting releases of natural gas from drilling operations, I've been posting on the wisdom of improving industry standards and federal rules on emissions from gas wells and other oil and gas facilities.

This position requires some physical activities: Frequent walking, bending, stooping, and climbing tall ladders during inspection of offshore oil and gas facilities; helicopter travel required.

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

NNPC, while lamenting the resurgence of vandalism of oil and gas facilities noted it has negatively affected crude oil production.

It will be recalled that the militants have urged President Buhari to discontinue his pretentious plea to them to cease bombing oil and gas facilities and commence dialogue with their stakeholders to avert looming disaster.

That work is ongoing, but suggests that methane emissions from oil and gas facilities exceed US government estimates1.

At least one other similar crater has been found in the area, and there's concern that the next chasm could topple nearby oil and gas facilities, or even homes.

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.

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

Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley testified before the Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Committee Testimony Regarding HB17 - 1256; legislation concerning a clarification of the minimum distance from which certain oil and gas facilities must be located from any school.

Most recently, the EPA announced that it would begin regulating methane from existing oil and gas facilities, with the ultimate goal of cutting methane from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025.

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

«There's a lot more opportunity with large - scale projects at these new oil and gas facilities that are being built.»

Loretta has had H2S Alive and WHMIS training, which enables her to rapidly access sour gas and other oil and gas facilities and has been listed as a leading occupational health and safety practitioner in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.

We guide and advise our clients through the process of developing, financing and operating a wide range of onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities; from licensing through to decommissioning.

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...

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

They equally asked the government to award the contract of securing the oil and gas facilities in the region to youths from the various ethnic nationalities.

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

He said the oil and gas facilities were very critical to the economy of the country and the task force would stop at nothing to smoke out the bombers, who he described as saboteurs.

New Mexico's methane waste problem first made international headlines when a 2014 NASA study revealed a 2,500 - square - mile methane «hot spot» over the Four Corners region — the highest concentration of this pollution found anywhere in the U.S. Researchers later learned that pollution from New Mexico's oil and gas facilities were largely the cause of this massive methane cloud.

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 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.

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

Simultaneously, the EPA announced it will limit methane emissions from new and existing oil and gas facilities, which will help meet targets to reduce methane emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025.

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.

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) this week announced plans to launch a $ 40 million methane - detecting satellite that EDF President Fred Krupp touts «would be the first capable of monitoring worldwide all oil and gas facilities with precision.»

His counsel includes devising strategies and representing clients in negotiations and formal dispute resolution procedures involving power plants, oil and gas facilities, transportation projects (ports, airports, railroads, highways, bridges), commercial and real estate developments, manufacturing and industrial plants.