Sentences with phrase «pipeline gas because»

Liquefied natural gas results in greater emissions than pipeline gas because cooling the gas to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit and then shipping and regasifying it requires more energy than pumping natural gas through domestic pipelines.

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.

Coal and nuclear generators would be uniquely suited because, unlike gas plants, they aren't fed by pipelines.

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.

The gas projects have encountered somewhat less opposition, in part because of the perceived lower environmental damage from a gas pipeline or tanker accident, but also because the economic fundamentals of gas exports provide more benefits to the local economy because much of the gas will come from BC fields and the need for construction and operation of LNG facilities on the coast.

As noted above, Chinese negotiators have prioritized the eastern route via the Power of Siberia pipeline because it will deliver gas to where it is needed in the northeast China.

The U.S. is awash in natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits, but New Englanders paid record prices for gas this past winter because of inadequate pipeline capacity.

Pipeline, oil, and gas companies have lobbied against the tariffs because there just isn't enough domestic steel available to make pipeline materials.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded the Keystone XL pipeline will significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions because it will lead to the expansion of Alberta's carbon intensive oilsands.

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The US's allies are interested in Ukraine because the gas pipeline goes through it and Russia can turn off the gas to Europe and increase prices.

And the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline would stretch more than 400 miles from Pennsylvania to New England, carrying natural gas through New York, but is opposed by Republican and Democratic elected officials alike because it offers the state few benefits.

And it could take quite a while because gas is distributed through a combination of public and private pipelines.

It is very important because if the crude oil and gas pipelines are blown up, the whole country will be in a total mess economically.»

Commodity prices in the Marcellus Shale region are depressed because there is not enough pipeline capacity to ship the vast amounts of gas the area is producing to markets in the Northeast and elsewhere that need it, creating a severe oversupply.

He said the mandate of the task force was to protect crude oil and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta region and because of the recent bombings, it has intensified its operations more than ever before.

Nixon gives Cuomo credit for banning fracking in New York in 2014, saying «it was good first step», but says it doesn't go far enough, because it continues to allow power plants and pipelines that rely on fracked gas.

It had been closely watched amongst environmental groups, as well as within the energy industry, because states rarely reject intrastate gas pipelines.

«But we really need our neighboring states to undertake similar policies because these pipelines are crossing state lines and are bringing gas to other states other than New York state, even though they pass across it.»

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

Prior to the 1970s, hydrates were thought of only as nuisances, because they can plug oil and gas pipelines in the field.

Because methane, which makes up about 95 percent of the natural gas in pipelines, is about 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the leakage raises a troubling climate question: How clean is natural gas?

In the U.S. generating electricity or putting the natural gas into a pipeline often makes sense because of existing infrastructure.

«Their EBITDA is going to skyrocket over the next few years because they have so many contracted projects such as pipeline expansions and gas plants.»

This is because new pipelines coming on - line will allow gas to replace dirtier power sources such as coal in regions where gas was previously inaccessible.

It's an industry because, unlike other pollutants and greenhouse gases, methane is a valuable commodity if kept in a pipeline.

Because of infrastructure deficiencies, because we don't have the pipeline capability necessary to move natural gas into that coBecause of infrastructure deficiencies, because we don't have the pipeline capability necessary to move natural gas into that cobecause we don't have the pipeline capability necessary to move natural gas into that corridor.

Corporations like Dominion Resources and Duke Energy are investing in gas transmission pipelines and gas generating plants only because they think they can profit from them now, and force captive utility customers to bear the cost of paying off the worthless assets later.

Perhaps that's because neither Appalachian Power nor its parent company, American Electric Power, own any gas pipelines.

Credits for using giant machines to remove the gas are not likely to be accepted internationally for a long time, if at all, not least because the industrial infrastructure needed for extraction would need to be about as big as the infrastructure that puts it there — oil wells, coal mines, railways, pipelines, power plants, refineries and so on.

These include pipeline operators who don't have the same self - dealing opportunity; non-utility electricity generators who can't sell their product to utilities because the utilities now prefer to build their own gas generation; and companies that build wind and solar projects, who find themselves boxed out.

In its most recent environmental review, the State Department is repeating its argument that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will have limited impact on greenhouse gas emissions because rail transport is an economically feasible alternative.

Since the only logic behind the anti-KXL campaign is political, we should not be surprised that greens denounce the pipeline both because it will increase gas prices — and because it will lower them!

COD2U was selected for this 1,120 - acre field, currently producing 1,600 bopd from 18 wells, because up to 20 MMcfd will be available from the nearby Canyon Reef Carrier pipeline that transports gas to the large SACROC project is Scurry County.

We say this is out of the mainstream because we reckon the real alarm would sound among New Yorkers if access to affordable natural gas got harder for lack of infrastructure — pipelines, pumping stations, storage installations and the like.

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found in a survey of published literature that because tar sands oil is more carbon intensive than conventional crude oil, the Keystone XL pipeline would increase U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of «approximately 558,000 to 4,061,000 passenger vehicles» annually:

Natural gas power plants are replacing nuclear and coal - fired power plants where there is pipeline capacity, but proponents of a carbon - free grid are already attempting to prevent the construction of natural gas power plants because they use methane, a GHG, and emit CO2.

Pipeline proponents claim that the ANE pipeline is needed to relieve capacity constraints on New England's natural gas pipeline system and that the cost of the pipeline is justified because it will ultimately save money for New England electric ratepayers.

The need for the «pipeline tax» arose because power plant owners have been buying natural gas on the spot market, rather than through long - term contracts, which pipeline developers need to have to obtain federal approval.

Many New Englanders would like to convert their home heating systems to natural gas, but are not allowed because there is insufficient pipeline capacity to get the natural gas to their homes.

Because bitumen is too thick to flow through pipelines, it is thinned with natural gas liquids and turned into dilbit, or diluted bitumen.

Natural gas consumers in the state, however, are losing out because those pipelines would supply natural gas to consumers at a lower cost than imported liquefied natural gas (LNG)-- some of which is coming from Russia through the Everett LNG terminal — the only LNG import terminal still operating in the lower 48.

One reason is that because of all the capital investment (pipelines, coal trains, deals with dictators controlling oil and gas fields) which would be worthless in a nuclear world.

But gas pipelines in China aren't fully utilized because of that fuel's higher cost, experts say.

What I wish they would do is pipeline the gas to get it off the permafrost, because building electrical transmission towers in permafrost might present engineering challenges.

This, in a part of the country where individual families and businesses have paid more than other parts of the country for electricity in winter months because of inadequate natural gas pipeline capacity.