Sentences with phrase «old oil industry»

Applying a method developed in a similar geological formation, the Barnett shale in Texas, scores of energy companies proved that by combining and supercharging some old oil industry technologies, they could drive fissures through that rock to yield sizable amounts of natural gas.

There, a new combination of old oil industry technologies has unlocked a giant resource geologists thought was unattainable for 75 years.

Not exact matches

Nationwide, the oil industry injects roughly 60 million metric tons of CO2 into old oil wells each year.

Today about one quarter of that CO2 comes from industries that happen to be located close to old oil fields and produce lots of CO2 as a by - product, such as fertilizer manufacturing plants or cement kilns.

Because cellulosic hasn't grown as quickly as projected, the oil industry insists the old goal is simply unworkable.

Agriculture, drilling, and old pollution from waste pits left by the oil and gas industry were all considered possible causes of the contamination.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

When the car replaced the horse, many old goods and services (such as horse - drawn buggies, saddleries and smithies) went virtually extinct, while whole new industries and communities grew around oil, gas, paved road, motels and suburbia.

Downhole hammers are not new — the oil and gas and mining industries have used them since the 1950s — but the older design, with its reliance on oil - based lubricants, plastic and rubber O - rings, isn't suited for the hotter temperatures of geothermal drilling.

Also, for some time the oil and gas industry has been injecting flue gas into old oil and gas seams to push out the last drops of fuel.

Along the way, several others join them, including Fineboy, a teenager who had joined the country's militants to protest foreign countries taking Nigerian oil; 16 - year - old Isoken, who is searching for her parents; and Oma, a woman escaping her wealthy husband, an oil industry employee who — as described in one of the novel's many great lines — treats her like expensive shoes, «to be polished and glossed but, at the end of the day, to be trodden on.»

You can say that the Earth is only 5,000 years old, but if you want to make money in the oil industry you have to dig where the Earth would be four billion years old.»

The gallery is situated in the old offices of the late writer, activist and Nobel - Nominee, Ken Saro - Wiwa, in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State and also the country's oil industry.

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 I kept hearing that it was easier in the gas and oil industry to get the green light from top executives for drilling new wells than fixing old ones, and industry lobbyists in Washington have relentlessly fought stricter oversight.

But he continued his tired analogy, just as Roberts and his ilk trot out the same old lines about oil - industry - funded - corporate - shills, the scale and the substance of the «scientific consensus», and of course, the equivalence of climate scepticism and conservatism, all of which, many times, have been shown to lack foundation.

I'm an old downstreamer, a supply and refining guy who spent most of his time in the oil industry heavily involved in optimization.

But in a case study of the power of fossil fuel interests to shape government policy, the industry's money and alliances with conservative think tanks and advocacy groups transformed the committee's membership and supported the rise of Smith, son of an old oil and ranching family in South Texas.

The fashion industry is now being counted as one of the world's biggest polluters, right behind Big Oil, so making sure you dispose of old clothing properly is an important step toward mitigating its environmental effects.

Today the United States is the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas on the planet, thanks largely to innovations in the decades - old technique of hydraulic fracturing coupled with advances in horizontal drilling and the dedication of millions of women and men in the oil and natural gas industry.

The oil and gas industry is often seen as quintessential «old economy,» and certainly some of its biggest names have been around for more than a century.

Carrington Coleman is a 46 - year - old Dallas - based law firm focused on litigation and transactional services in the real estate, oil and gas, securities, construction, professional services and health care industries, among others.

In fact, as one of the oldest Puerto Rico law firms, we have over 50 years of experience representing companies in the oil and gas industry.

His experience in a broad range of industries including agriculture, construction, information technology, manufacturing, oil and gas, and a number of different services make him well positioned to assist clients with legal problems both old and new.

The global oil and gas industry has suffered with skills shortages, particularly in subsea, geosciences and petroleum engineering and here highly skilled and experienced older workers are considered prized company assets.

The types of properties which are seeing the greatest challenge to sustaining their value on a national scale are older, traditional big - box stores and regional malls, large walk - in bank buildings and all manner of commercial properties in certain areas of the country which have sustained industry downturns, in sectors such as cars and oil and gas.

You can't fool an old real estate agent, her current mission is to to protect the oil industry she really represents and create smoke screens till she gets to Ottawa.

As fracking upended the oil industry by giving new life to old fields, so the driverless future offers to free up whole new neighborhoods.