His work spans issues concerning
oil and natural gas pipelines, LNG, compressed natural gas (CNG) projects and electric power transmission, and includes policy formation and agency rulemakings.
Energy systems primarily include the processing and transmission of energy and energy sources, such as electrical networks and
oil and natural gas pipelines.
Oil and natural gas pipelines transport energy at a 99.999 percent safety rate, and investing in additional energy infrastructure will ensure we can continue to deliver affordable energy to homes and businesses throughout the nation.
Woven beneath the waters of the Straits of Mackinac in northern Michigan are two
oil and natural gas pipelines — and experts are concerned they are about to break.
Our energy transportation activities include onshore crude
oil and natural gas pipelines, offshore pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico, and crude by rail, while we also operate a growing power transmission business.
This seems to be the most immediate issue as new
oil and natural gas pipelines are not due to be completed until 2019.
Not exact matches
New
natural gas pipelines do not face the same kind of opposition as
oil pipelines because the product is a
gas and, in case of a leak, it escapes into the atmosphere rather than fouling waterways
and soil.
Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of
oil and gas wells,
pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better
natural gas is than coal for the environment.
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.
The
pipeline operator has more than 84,000 miles of
pipelines that transport
natural gas, gasoline,
and crude
oil in the U.S.
and Canada.
The region's five
natural gas pipelines are more explosive than
oil pipelines,
and — unlike
oil —
gas has no alternative mode of transport.
U.S.
oil and natural gas production from Pennsylvania could help power Ontario
and Quebec for instance, even as Canadian shale flowed through
pipelines from Alberta to the U.S. Infrastructure matters a lot in these settings, especially given the difficulties most companies are facing in building new
pipelines (Exhibit A: see the Dakota Access Pipeline).
According to its website, this is the «largest energy infrastructure in North America,» owning interest or operating more than 80,000 miles of
pipelines that transport
natural gas, crude
oil and more.
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Most of the current attention is focused on the lack of adequate
pipeline capacity to carry the
oil and natural gas to markets.
Find out more about our growth projects — including crude
oil and liquids
pipelines, renewables,
and natural gas pipelines and processing — that will help keep North Americans on the move.
The Alberta government has introduced legislation that would give it the power to restrict the export of
natural gas, crude
oil and refined products as part of its effort to ensure the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion gets built.
Natural -
gas prices have crashed, the price of
oil the companies also transport has declined
and the outlook for growth in the
pipeline industry has dimmed.
The violence in Libya for instance, directly threatened the energy security of the members of the Alliance due to the interruption of supply of European refineries with light sweet crude
oil and the supply of
natural gas to
pipelines to Italy.
The department has been sitting on a number of key decisions as well, including approvals of
natural gas pipelines, an underground
gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes
and crude
oil heating facility for the Port of Albany.
Environmental activists gathered on the steps of the Capital on Wednesday to ask Cuomo for more measures, including shutting down
natural gas pipelines and oil trains.
Hawkins opposes any investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure, including
natural gas pipelines and power plants, LNG port terminals, liquefied propane
and butane
and natural gas storage in the Seneca Lake salt caverns,
and crude
oil heaters at the Port of Albany.
Methane, the main component of
natural gas, is released from leaking
pipelines, coal mines,
oil wells, cattle, rice paddies
and landfills.
Walker said he would emphasize that
pipeline with Obama, as well as the state's need to extract
natural gas resources
and address financial challenges caused by low
oil prices.
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 oblast is a centre of Ukraines
oil and natural gas industry, with many wells
and pipelines situated here.
As a SAP you represent the major decision point (
and in some cases the only decision point) an employer may have in choosing whether or not to place an employee behind the steering wheel of a school bus, in the cockpit of a plane, at the helm of an
oil tanker, at the throttle of a train, in the engineer compartment of a subway car, or at the emergency control valves of a
natural gas pipeline.
In addition to
oil and natural gas exploration
and production, Chevron also transports
and refines petroleum products for delivery to retail, commercial, industrial
and marine customers through a network of
pipelines, ships, refineries
and service stations.
Since going public in 1998, Enterprise has grown into one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in the world with approximately 50,000 miles of
natural gas,
natural gas liquids, crude
oil and refined products
pipelines and 260 million barrels of storage capacity.
It owns
and operates
pipelines and terminals that transport
natural gas, gasoline, crude
oil, carbon dioxide
and other products
and stores petroleum products, chemicals
and handle bulk materials like ethanol, coal, petroleum coke
and steel.
It provides essential services to
oil and gas producers in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin through its integrated network of infrastructure, which includes gathering
pipelines,
natural gas processing plants,
natural gas liquids processing, transportation,
and storage facilities,
and an industry - leading condensate handling system.
Its portfolio of assets includes conventional
oil,
oil sands, heavy
oil,
and natural gas pipelines,
natural gas processing plants, fractionators,
and midstream storage facilities,
and it's a top pick of my Foolish colleague Jason Phillips.
MLPs, often spin - offs from energy companies, operate large parts of the nation's energy infrastructure, such as
oil pipelines,
natural gas processing facilities
and storage depots.
The company was formed to own, operate, develop
and acquire primarily fee - based crude
oil, refined petroleum product
and natural gas liquids
pipelines and terminals
and other transportation
and midstream assets.
Phillips 66 Partners LP owns, operates, develops
and acquires fee - based crude
oil, refined petroleum product
and natural gas liquids
pipelines and terminals
and other transportation
and midstream assets.
The refineries built along the coast of Texas, Louisiana,
and Mississippi process the crude
oil and natural gas produced offshore which are shipped to the mainland via
pipelines.
For each barrel of crude
oil produced by that method, around 1200 cubic feet of
gas must be burned —
and that's the entire purpose of the Alaskan
natural gas pipeline.
This past year saw President Obama's aggressive pronouncement of his climate agenda, more of the same for the Keystone XL
pipeline,
and some of the starkest evidence that America's
oil and natural -
gas boom is turning on its head almost every bit of conventional wisdom about the global energy landscape.
This particular
pipeline has a good chance of dying on the vine in any case if
and when easier, less expensive sources of transportation fuel come online, including domestic
oil and natural gas (
and there are competing
pipeline options
and routes).
The grid operator testified that «wholesale energy prices
and emissions will rise when extreme weather results in
natural gas pipeline constraints — driving up the price of
natural gas (
and wholesale energy)
and forcing New England to rely on
oil -
and coal - fired generation for multi-day (or multi-week) periods.»
The Constitution Pipeline Project — a joint venture between four
oil and gas companies — was proposed to transport fracked
natural gas from Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania through Broome, Chenango, Delaware,
and Schoharie counties in New York to existing interstate
pipelines.
As for those other setbacks for the
oil and gas industry, in a moved that «stunned» supporters
and opposers alike, last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency denied permission for the construction of a major
natural gas export terminal
and pipeline in Oregon.
The easiest opportunity he has is probably rapid development of
natural gas and oil and pipelines to carry them.
If Trump can bring this about, this should provide a huge boost for the US economy
and provide many jobs in the
natural gas,
oil,
and pipeline industries.
His broad - based strategy begat the trans - Alaska
pipeline (to get North Slope
oil to Lower 48 markets), expanded onshore
and offshore
oil drilling, an all - of - the - above strategy for electric power generation that brought lignite mining
and natural gas into prominence,
and a host of conservation measures, including 55 - mph speed limits.
NRG provides public - affairs support
and environmental permitting
and compliance services for
natural -
gas, crude -
oil,
and refined - products
pipelines.
Due to an increase in demand for
natural gas for space
and water heating,
and limitations imposed by
natural gas pipeline constraints, electricity generation from
gas was unable to scale up,
and the burden was transferred to
oil as dual fuel generators switched over.
In 2014, 500,000 miles of liquid
and natural gas transmission
pipelines transported 16.2 billion barrels of crude
oil and petroleum products
and 27.3 trillion cubic feet of
natural gas throughout the country at a safety rate of 99.99 percent.
Pipelines are the safest way of transporting
oil and natural gas,
and we need more of them, without delay.»
While crude
oil is traded globally via tankers
and pipelines,
natural gas trading remains primarily isolated within the US
and Canada
and lacks the infrastructure to be a true global commodity.