Not exact matches
Each OCO - 2 reading will sample a column of the atmosphere above roughly 3 square kilometers of Earth's surface — much
smaller than the 85 - square - kilometer footprint of a similar Japanese probe, the Greenhouse
Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), which launched in 2009 and is still
operating.
The Michigan researchers are now working on a
smaller - diameter version of OmniTread that will hold enough batteries and compressed
gas to
operate untethered for up to an hour.
They
operate on
small butane canisters like these so there's no carting around large
gas bottles and the whole thing stove and all takes up no room at all.
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.
In practice, the Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative (RGGI)
operates more like a straight up carbon tax than a cap and trade — and a
small one at that.
Variable blending pumps, directly installed and
operated at local
gas stations by a qualified
small advanced biofuel manufacturing facility, shall offer the consumer a less expensive substitute for unleaded gasoline in the form of E10, E20, E30 and E85.
At this time, the cheapest generating system is based on coal and
gas — with relatively
small scale opportunistic generation using hydro, landfill
gas, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc depending on resource availability, local construction and
operating costs and local distribution costs that vary with technology.
According to Keays, some
small - and mid-cap firms, along with the service companies that had already been
operating in Mexico, have shown a greater interest than larger oil and
gas corporations.
As well as his role at Pacific, Galego also serves as general counsel at CGX Energy, a
small Canadian oil and
gas exploration company and serves on the board of the directors at Woulfe Mining, a company
operating a mine out of South Korea that is in the process of being sold to another producer.
Resourceful Petroleum Engineer / Manager with extensive California oil &
gas production experience in conventional and unconventional (Monterey Shale and Diatomite) reservoirs seeks senior staff position in large organization or decision - making role in
small independent
operating company.