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Alberta is targeting a 45 % reduction in methane gas emissions from its oil and gas operations by 2025.

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In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.

The world's largest publicly - traded oil and gas company by market value has ridden out a collapse in crude prices better than most, its vertically - integrated model allowing downstream businesses to capture the value that upstream operations lose when oil prices are low.

Along a stretch of 12 - lane highway on the west side of Houston, a strip of blacktop straddled by so many oil and gas firms that it's known locally as the «energy corridor,» sits the sprawling campus that's home to Shell's deepwater operations.

General Electric on Monday completed its buyout of BakerHughes Inc, merging it with its own oil and gas equipment and services operations to create the world's second - largest oilfield service provider by revenue.

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Three such examples are Aimsio, a digital ticketing software that streamlines field operations by enabling users to file reports, dispatch resources and track project progress all from one central location; DarkVision, which developed a new ultrasound technology that allows companies to create 3D images of the inside of oil wells, enabling them to make more informed and cost - effective production decisions; and Unsist, which uses artificial intelligence to help oil and gas companies make better production and operational choices.

This is despite the efficiency gains have been realized for in situ oil sands operations and bitumen upgrading facilities, driven in part by Alberta's Specified Gas Emitters Regulation.

PTSD sufferers in the battered upstream oil and gas industry will take little comfort to learn their economic future is in the hands of software written by programmers and traders who have never set foot on a drilling rig or production operation, nor put on a pair of coveralls or a hard hat.

In 2011, Clean Harbors acquired Peak Energy Services, bringing on the capabilities to service oil and gas drilling operations by providing surface rentals and specialized liquid, solid and sludge processing.

The project involves the development, ownership, operation and management of the 400MW Combined Cycle Plant to be fueled by either Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Natural Gas (NG) for a 25 - year period by Early Power Limited in Tema, strategically close to the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).

ALBANY, NY (07/17/2012)(readMedia)-- In response to a new report released by Earthworks» Oil & Gas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemeOil & Gas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemeGas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemeoil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemegas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemegas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statement:

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 tOperation 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 toperation code named Op Ember Safe was conducted by the Force.

There is increasing evidence that these earthquakes are caused by injecting fluids from oil and gas operations deep into the earth.

Earthquakes in the central U.S. have increased over the past 10 years due to the expansion of unconventional oil and gas operations that discard wastewater by injecting it into the ground.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

While oil and gas companies work to minimize the amount of methane emitted by their operations, almost no attention has been paid to wells that were drilled decades ago.

The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.

The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.

Other activities include: • pushing for stricter environmental standards for offshore oil and gas projects • engaging a local energy company regarding their operations • running a public campaign to raise awareness regarding the threats posed by the Sakhalin offshore oil and gas projects

The study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

But Mr. Kempthorne stressed that the decision was made under some duress, that oil and gas operations were not harmful to the bears and that the Endangered Species Act listing would not affect policy on greenhouse gases (even though the model shows that a continuing decline in the bears» sea - ice habitat were all driven by rising greenhouse gases).

«We must immediately begin to slow down that process, first by requiring oil and gas operations to curb their soot and methane emissions.»

There is also uncertainty about the impact of oil and gas operations on the marine ecosystems that unique to the Arctic, and how both might be affected by climate change related impacts.

It is widely accepted by biologists that the new roads built to serve oil, gas and wind energy production operations may facilitate, or even directly allow, the transportation of invasive species, but specific cases are largely undocumented, so scientists are forced to rely on their general knowledge regarding invasive species introductions.

Booming energy production from U.S. hydraulic fracturing operations has hurt Canadian oil and gas projects, according to a report by Bloomberg.

located in an area of the outer Continental Shelf that is unavailable for oil and gas or natural gas leasing by operation of law;

State royalties and subsidies According to Table 4 in the mining operations spreadsheet published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2014 - 15 Australia - wide coal royalties were $ 2.8 billion and petroleum (oil plus gas) royalties were $ 1.9 billion.

The second, the Coffeyville Gasification Plant, recovers carbon dioxide from a fertilizer operation in southeast Kansas; a firm called Chaparral Energy compresses the gas and ships it 70 miles by pipeline to an oil field.

The Global Climate Disclosure Framework, a reporting guide issued by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, Ceres and the Investor Group on Climate Change, calls on oil and gas companies to disclose the carbon intensity of their operations.

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing operations, by the oil and gas industries can emit significant amounts of methane.

Senator Inhofe (9/14/12) reports: «The letter outlines the Senators» view that «ownership and operation of U.S. business operations by foreign governments via their corporate proxies becomes particularly concerning when critical natural resources such as oil and natural gas are involved.

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic are among the first that are being forced to relocate entire villages and whose food security is threatened by not only the negative impacts of climate change but by the pollution caused by oil, natural gas spills, and mining operations in our critical ecosystems.

Although DEP does not have an exact figure for fines paid by the Marcellus industry, the agency says its operations were the target of the majority of $ 1.8 million in oil and gas industry fines it has levied so far this year.

No local ordinance adopted pursuant to the MPC or the Flood Plain Management Act shall contain provisions which impose conditions, requirements or limitations on the same features of oil and gas operations regulated by Chapter 32 or that accomplish the same purposes as set forth in Chapter 32.

The Commonwealth, by this section, preempts and supersedes the regulation of oil and gas operations as provided in this chapter.

It does so by going beyond the now classic Carbon Tracker analysis (the foundation of McKibben's 2012 article), updating it by focusing not on the entire body of fossil - fuel reserves, but on the smaller set (roughly 30 % of the «proven» reserves) of reserves that have already been «developed» — the «oil fields, gas fields, and coal mines that are already in operation or under construction.»

[Translate] By Jim Meyer GRIST Shutterstock In a recent congressional hearing about oil and gas operations in national wildlife...

Methane doesn't just emerge from leaks from oil and gas operations — it is also belched by ruminants (i.e., cows) and emerges from wetlands, landfills and much more.

South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale gas and oil operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by drilling deep into the soil.

Examples include a dispute between joint venturers over the operation of a gold mine, a dispute charging an oil and gas lessee with failure to prevent drainage from an oil and gas lease, litigation over water rights, a dispute over title to sand and gravel and a claim for trespass by the surface owner against the operator of a sand and gravel mine.

«We had previously said that project could hit commercial operation as soon as 2018 but given what's going on here and the fact many of those projects are being delayed somewhat because their commercial operation dates are also dictated by demand in oil or natural gas or natural gas liquids, we're keeping an eye on the market to see how soon we need to bring that on.