Sentences with phrase «oil shale development»

Shell Oil's plan to acquire a junior water right for eight percent of Colorado's Yampa River average April - to - June flow for oil shale development has been opposed by some twenty - five parties, all submitting letters of opposition to the Colorado Water Court in Steamboat Springs.

but also a fan of more oil shale development (nay!).

Well, this one starts by opening up the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, clearing the way for oil shale development on public lands, and allowing offshore drilling on heretofore off - limits areas of the Atlanta and Pacific coasts - including, of course, California.

The impact statement, released Dec. 20, is an overview of possible impacts to full - scale oil shale development on nearly 2 million acres in the three states.

To streamline and ensure onshore energy permitting, provide for onshore leasing certainty, and give certainty to oil shale development for American energy security, economic development, and job creation, and for other purposes.

No later than January 1, 2016, the Secretary of the Interior shall hold no less than 5 separate commercial lease sales in areas considered to have the most potential for oil shale development, as determined by the Secretary, in areas nominated through public comment.

Requires the Secretary, by January 1, 2016, to hold at least five separate commercial lease sales, in multiple lease blocs, in areas of at least 25,000 acres, which: (1) have been nominated through public comment, and (2) are considered to have the most potential for oil shale development.

Because there are still many unanswered questions about the technology, water use, and impacts of potential commercial - scale oil shale development, we're proposing a prudent and orderly approach that could facilitate significant improvements to technology needed for commercial - scale activity,» BLM director Bob Abbey said in a prepared statement.

Companies have made technological advancements that substantially mitigate environmental impacts associated with oil shale production and are committed to continued research and development in this area and environmentally responsible oil shale development.

Salazar has said he wants to revisit Bush - era regulations that open much of the West to oil shale development, the delisting of the gray wolf as an endangered species, and a rule that allows federal agencies to avoid consulting scientists on whether the Endangered Species Act applies to certain projects.

Right now several oil shale development companies are in various stages of insolvency or headed toward insolvency.

Not exact matches

While Tillerson has ties to Russia, he partly missed a key energy development back home in the United States by ceding growth potential in the shale oil industry to smaller, more nimble rivals, including Continental Resources.

Five years ago, says Gheit, the industry needed oil at $ 90 to justify the development of new production of U.S. oil shale.

While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal government people have been feverishly researching ways to facilitate the development of America's oilsands and oil shale.

Papa, CEO of Centennial Resource Development, is a closely followed figure in the U.S. shale drilling world, where producers rely on advanced techniques to coax oil and gas from tight rock formations.

Meanwhile, continued development of shale oil and gas in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and elsewhere has helped reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy and brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs.

British Columbia taxpayers are now subsidizing massive water allocations, road construction and basic scientific research for uneconomic shale gas development by multinational and Chinese national oil companies.

The strategy is designed to drive out higher - cost producers of heavy oil and shale, whose rapid development is squeezing Middle East crude out of the huge U.S. market and threatens to eat into its share of other lucrative growth markets.

In a bid to develop expertise and cut the expense Chinese state - owned oil companies, such as Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp., have begun to invest in U.S. shale gas developmeoil companies, such as Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp., have begun to invest in U.S. shale gas developmeOil Corp., have begun to invest in U.S. shale gas development.

Roosevelt, which lies in the heart of the Bakken shale formation, is surrounded by oil and gas development.

Increased water use in the rapidly growing oil industry in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale region, or play, is surprisingly due not only to oil well development but also to people, according to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

If such developments were to occur elsewhere, either because of shale gas or the advent of a truly global natural gas market, then, according to our analysis, this could have a major impact on the use of different fuels — oil, gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear.»

Greenpeace said earlier this month it would encourage British landowners to join together in legally opposing fracking, a move that could strengthen the opposition to exploration and development of shale oil and gas.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

May 7, 2012 • Cash - strapped states are embracing the millions of dollars in new tax revenue coming from shale oil and gas development.

In many respects, North Dakota has been the top success story in the U.S. over the past couple of years, thanks to the huge impact of oil and gas development in the Bakken shale formation.

The development of oil & gas shale projects in the U.S. and build out of the natural gas infrastructure in China both benefitted Chart over recent years.

Currently companies pay 12.5 - 18.8 % to the feds for on and offshore oil development, while the lowest Interior Department proposal fixes the royalty rate for oil shale at 5 %.

For example, the Department of Energy was promoting development of synthetic fuels from coal, tar sands and oil shale.

National Asssociation of Manufacturers calls for legislation to support development of oil shale and other «liquification» technologies:

The physical existence of oil and gas in shale rocks was known but its development was believed to be uneconomic and it was therefore excluded from the projections.

This is because they were made well before the current era of shale oil and gas and tight oil and gas development.

«The take - home message of our study is that if you do an integration of 20 years following the development of the gas, shale gas is worse than conventional gas and is, in fact, worse than coal and worse than oil,» Howarth said.

«If oil shale is to be viable on a commercial scale, we must take a common - sense approach that encourages research and development first.

The oil and gas industry, industry - funded academics and ideological think tanks have promoted shale gas development — through the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — as a sure - fire job creator during difficult economic times.

alternative energy development, including bio fuels, coal - to - liquids, oil shale, tar sands, geothermal, geopressure, wind, waves, currents, hydro, and other renewable energy;

Second, while the 2011 report focused exclusively on natural gas, recent developments in the United States highlight the role of shale formations and other tight plays as sources of crude oil, lease condensates, and a variety of liquids processed from wet natural gas.

It reported that the U.S. - based oil and gas industry invested more than $ 165 billion between 2000 and 2012 in technologies that helped reduce emissions, including those critical to the development of shale gas.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

As a result there was fortunately nothing government could do to stop the development of shale oil and gas other than to ban fracking, an effort which the CIC is indeed strongly backing.

Price drove new oil drilling, more enhanced recovery and shale oil development.

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I've seen flaring even in South Texas (a place with one of the most dense networks of natural gas pipelines anywhere in the world) the last two years with development of the Eagle Ford shale as the developers produce oil and gas in locations that are new, and thus without pipelines (but in Texas they build them relatively quickly!).

The surge in U.S. shale development through hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas has boosted domestic oil production — 7.3 million barrels a day last week alone — to the highest level since 1986, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

«The increased exploration and development spend we're seeing in this year's study speaks to the incredible opportunity unfolding in tight oil from shale formations and the high cost of developing these unconventional resources.»

Canadian oil sands development is now operating at scale, the shale gas and tight oil revolutions are upon us in the United States, and major institutional energy reforms in Mexico are under way that could enable substantial new investment in the Mexican oil and gas sector.

Meanwhile, numerous industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the extraction of coal, oil and gas, oil shale and tar sands, and liquefied natural gas development — as well as uranium mining and milling and the construction of energy corridors and long - distance electric transmission lines.

• The shale revolution has created a new competitive environment for investment in offshore oil and gas • Policy support and technology developments promise major cost reductions for the next wave of offshore wind projects

What we're seeing, of course, are the positive supply impacts of the U.S. energy renaissance — dramatic increases in domestic oil and natural gas production over the past several years, thanks to the safe development of shale and other tight - rock formations using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.