Sentences with phrase «oil and gas fields»

The processes used for unconventional oil and gas development are different from those used in existing European onshore and offshore oil and gas fields, which will provide further opportunities for employers and contractors with the right expertise, or willing to retrain.

In Midland Resources Holding Limited v. Shtaif, 2017 ONCA 320, the court partially upheld complicated and detailed findings of fraud, unlawful conspiracy, deceit, and breach of fiduciary duty by the shareholders and directors of two failed corporate ventures to develop oil and gas fields in Russia.

Representing an American investor against an Indian oil company in a dispute relating to oil and gas fields located off the coast of India.

The success of the Bakken Shale oil and gas fields has been a boon to the state's economy, creating thousands of new jobs and establishing North Dakota as the fourth largest oil - producing state in the United States.

Steve has represented clients in the acquisition, development, financing and divestiture of numerous properties, including oil and gas fields, coal and hardrock mines, energy transportation, refining and processing facilities, and hydro, gas and wind generation facilities.

In addition, the chemicals may potentially seep into groundwater, endangering residents of communities situated near oil and gas fields.

The UK has the advantage here because it can store the carbon dioxide under the sea — in depleted oil and gas fields or alternatively saline aquifers, where the carbon dioxide would be partially dissolved in salt water.

Some of his large projects were increased coal production and power generation in the Latrobe Valley, new offshore oil and gas fields in Gippsland, the West Gate Bridge over the lower Yarra River, a new international airport for Melbourne at Tullamarine and two new universities (Monash University and La Trobe University).

Scientists think that carbon dioxide could potentially be stored in three types of underground locations: depleted oil and gas fields, unminable coal seams and briny aquifers.

* The reserves in currently operating oil and gas fields alone, even with no coal, would take the world beyond 1.5 °C.

To have just a break - even chance of meeting that 1.5 degree goal we solemnly set in Paris, we'll need to close all of the coal mines and some of the oil and gas fields we're currently operating long before they're exhausted.

Current oil and gas fields have well - known depletion rates.

But some new oil and gas fields might be acceptable.

Consider the impact to groundwater from «fracking» in the oil and gas fields.

The carbon dioxide will be converted into products such as baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and hydrochloric acid, which can be used for hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas fields.

One reason is that because of all the capital investment (pipelines, coal trains, deals with dictators controlling oil and gas fields) which would be worthless in a nuclear world.

Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a family of technologies and techniques that enable the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel combustion or industrial processes, the transport of CO2 via ships or pipelines, and its storage underground, in depleted oil and gas fields and deep saline formations.

Figure 1: Industry plans versus climate safety: Rates of change (base year 2010 = 100) of global emissions in a range of 1.5 or 2 degree Celsius scenarios, compared with emissions from global developed and undeveloped oil and gas fields.

Also, the CRS reports, ozone concentrations as high as those in Los Angeles, the nation's smoggiest city, have been found near oil and gas fields — during winter — in rural areas of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.

In coming years, many more oil and gas fields will be developed in the northwest shelf and Timor Sea.

I happen to be an independent voter whose father and husband worked in the oil and gas fields of WV.

In the case of oil and gas, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) also applies, but due to its design as a «super profits» tax, new oil and gas fields are unlikely to pay any PRRT for a decade or more, and in the meantime PRRT «credits» reduce the amount of company tax payable.

Other promising fields in the region include the Pacheco Field off Taiwan and the various oil and gas fields in the East China Sea.

Thanks to the various taxes piled on them, some oil and gas fields suffer a marginal tax rate of 81 percent.

«(ii) include at least 2 electric generating units, each with a nameplate generating capacity of 250 megawatts or greater, that capture, inject, and sequester carbon dioxide into geologic formations other than oil and gas fields; and

However, they note that some oil and gas fields do not appear to have similarly high methane emissions, suggesting that such leaks could be stemmed by improved drilling techniques and well designs.

The so - called beneficial development projects include: industrial parks (4); oil and gas fields (3); golf courses (3); airports (2); municipal parks (2); hospital (1); ATV training center (1); county fairground (1); federal prison (1).

A few years ago, while poring over satellite images of the Earth at night, scientists spotted the bright glow of natural gas flares burning in the oil and gas fields that have fueled America's recent energy boom.

Moreover, there are two main kinds of geological formation that can be used for CO2 storage: depleted oil and gas fields, and saline aquifers (groundwater bodies whose salt content makes them unsuitable for drinking water or agriculture).

Figure 1: Rates of change (base year 2010 = 100) of global emissions in a range of 1.5 or 2 degree Celsius scenarios, and of emissions from Norwegian developed and undeveloped oil and gas fields.

The Barts of the world want oil and gas fields to be different from all other depreciable assets.

«oil and gas fields now considered to be «depleted» may resume operation because of increased availability and decreased cost of anthropogenic CO2, and developments in EOR technology, thereby increasing the demand for and accessibility of CO2 utilization for EOR (p 232).»

A new report from Oil Change International calculates that, in order to accomplish those goals, governments need to stop permitting and building all new fossil fuel projects and retire early some existing oil and gas fields and coal mines.

I've been quick to credit BP for its aggressive measures to stanch leaks of methane from its oil and gas fields.

There's a 150 year history of inadequate public record keeping of producing and abandoned conventional U.S. oil and gas fields, pools and wells.

On the final night of the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromso (a very serious annual gathering of business and science interests to talk about the emerging opportunities with the warming of northern Norway causing the permafrost to melt opening new oil and gas fields among other things) there was a gathering of all the 1,000 participants.

But if you look closer at what Russia's remarkable shipyards are building you see another reason is to serve expanding oil and gas fields in the Arctic.

Scientists think that carbon dioxide could potentially be stored in three types of underground locations: depleted oil and gas fields, unminable coal seams and briny aquifers.

He has now updated his research using data from previous studies that relied on satellite and aircraft measurements of emissions above oil and gas fields.

«(ii) include at least 2 electric generating units, each with a nameplate generating capacity of 250 megawatts or greater, that capture, inject, and sequester carbon dioxide into geologic formations other than oil and gas fields; and

Riley Duren, chief systems engineer for the Earth Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is unaffiliated with the study, said he agrees with the study's findings that locating and mitigating methane emissions are important both in cities and in oil and gas fields.

From his ethane research and other international studies, he learned that there appears to be a much higher ethane source in the earth's Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern and a higher leak rate in the central United States than in more eastern oil and gas fields, and that some oil and gas fields in the central United States leak at much higher rates than others.

Some scientists involved in this complex dispute still remain intrigued by the natural gas leak rates found in some U.S. oil and gas fields.

When he said that, in 1945, nobody knew that there was plenty of coal under the North Sea too, not to mention oil and gas fields.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the world.

Listing could hamper activities like the development of new oil and gas fields, wind farms, utility lines and roads.

The study's findings differ from those reported from oil and gas fields in the central United States, where fracking is not considered to be the main cause of a sharp rise in induced seismicity in the region.

Such stores can trap gas for tens of millions of years, making spent oil and gas fields a logical choice for industrial CO2 storage.

However, some oil and gas fields in the U.S., especially Oklahoma, use «very large amounts of water» in their operations, leading to much more wastewater disposal than in Canadian operations, said Gail M. Atkinson of Western University.

On both representations the areas with the most roads tend to appear in cities, but exceptions include the oil and gas fields of west Texas, where dense road networks have been built to export the raw materials.