Sentences with phrase «pipeline gas leaks»

«When the initial call came in, I was at the airport preparing to conduct a research flight for the California Energy Commission, part of an effort with UC Davis to search for pipeline gas leaks.»

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.

The company also manufactures products for the gas and pipeline industry, like an odour neutralizing formula that destroys molecules in a chemical compound called Mercaptan, a harmless but pungent ‑ smelling gas used widely to make it easier to detect natural gas leaks.

This reasoning is like a person thinking they will have fewer accidents while working on a gas pipeline if they had a lit torch with them so they could see the gas leak better...

There are several Gas Pipelines, which will transport Hydrofracked Gas from the Marcellus Shale region and other states, despite the fact that many of the wells especially in PA are already showing signs of being exhausted, and that is why there is much attention on the Southern Tier and Lower Western portion of NYS; the Delaware Valley and Catskill region south to New Jersey, where the «Industry» is slated to construct 100,000 new wells; an estimated 8.9 % of which will leak and contaminate our water resources according to the «Solutions Project» led by Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University and other noted scholars from other institutions, (Cornell University and Pepacton Institute).

The researchers took direct emissions measurements of 230 randomly selected, representative leaks from underground pipelines as well as at 229 metering and regulating stations where natural gas is measured and regulated from higher pressure pipelines to lower pressure distribution pipelines.

Methane, the main component of natural gas, is released from leaking pipelines, coal mines, oil wells, cattle, rice paddies and landfills.

Imagine trying to detect the leak from a gas valve or on the pipelines.

Since these gases are leaking as they are piped to the surface, rather than seeping up through the ground from deep fracking sites, improving the integrity of drill holes and pipelines could curb the problem of water pollution.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

Leaks and explosions involving natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines in the U.S. cause an average of 17 fatalities, 68 injuries and $ 133 million in property damage annually, according to a study released earlier this year.

Just how much gas from those older pipes and their newer replacements in the pipeline distribution system leaks out and rises into the atmosphere, though, is up for debate.

Methane, which can leak from pipelines and valves, is a powerful greenhouse gas, with up to 80 times the potential of carbon dioxide to trap the planet's heat.

However, the colorless, odorless gas can be difficult to track and derives from a wide range of sources, from decomposing biological material to leaks in natural gas pipelines.

About a third of the factors used to estimate pipeline leaks and other natural gas emissions in the most recent inventory, for 2015, are based on a 1996 study by the EPA and an industry group then known as the Gas Research Institugas emissions in the most recent inventory, for 2015, are based on a 1996 study by the EPA and an industry group then known as the Gas Research InstituGas Research Institute.

Together with documents from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, it suggests that some of the gas is leaking into the atmosphere from ageing pipelines beneath urban centres.

U.S. EPA has begun the process of requiring natural gas companies to use «green completions,» a set of technologies and methods that allow for an efficient and leak - free transfer of natural gas from extraction wells to transport pipelines to the refineries or processors.

Researchers have developed an infrared imaging system that could one day offer low - cost, real - time detection of methane gas leaks in pipelines and at oil and gas facilities.

-- Stop leaks from natural gas pipelines, particularly in Russia.

Advocates for cuts also see a chance to curb leaks of methane from natural gas production and distribution pipelines.

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.

Cooper Union / Institute for Sustainable Design received a Marfa Dialogues / NY grant in 2013 that supported Hardinger «s and Rebecca Smith's co-initiation of an exhibition and panel discussion about Manhattan's gas pipeline leaks, based on a report Hardinger and Smith initiated, conducted by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability.

One option alluded to earlier in these pages could be citizen patrols to check for methane leaks from natural gas facilities: drilling operations, compressing stations or pipelines.

(This is also one reason I like the use of infrared imagery to spot possible gas leaks from drilling sites and pipelines.)

But it's a potent greenhouse gas if it leaks into the air, which happens far too routinely at tens of thousands of wells, compressors, pipelines and other pieces of North America's vast energy infrastructure.

Carbon dioxide emissions from burning gas are a fraction of those from coal combustion, but gas wells and pipelines leak, so it's not clear whether switching to gas really reduces greenhouse emissions.

A Twitter comment on methane leakage from gas operations reminded me to add a note about another ripe opportunity for citizens to track gas leaks from drilling operations, compressing stations or pipelines: Raise money for some infrared cameras and then survey your region periodically.

To take one surprising example, leaks of methane from gas pipelines turned out to add significantly to global warming.

Natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines that move natural gas from areas of supply to areas of demand.

Methane — a primary component of natural gas — leaks from drilling sites and pipelines.

Learn about the climate risks of natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines.

A set of specially equipped Google Street View cars have roamed the streets to detect methane leaks from natural gas pipelines.

Methane emissions that occur during drilling and from pipeline leaks also add to the so - called green house gas effect.

Never mind, they add, that the Keystone pipeline has experienced a dozen leaks since it opened in June 2010, that Keystone XL proponents are overpromising on the number of jobs for Americans and that some economists claim Midwesterners will pay 10 cents to 20 cents more per gallon of gas if the proposed pipeline is built.

; and that «the benefits of cleaner, more efficient combustion of natural gas are largely offset by methane leakage in U.S. production and pipelines and by methane leaks and energy used in the process of liquefying and transporting the LNG.»

In September, a natural gas pipeline leak within the district displaced 500 people and gave pro-Clements campaigners another example in their fight.

Under long - standing regulations, they said, it would be «in the public interest,» even though science has recently made it clear that the methane leaking from the fracked gas the pipeline will carry is worse than the burning of coal.

Included in life cycle carbon are substantial methane leaks from natural gas production and pipelines, the energy for drilling, mining, transport, refining, and disposal that are much more significant for fossil fuels and nuclear energy than for renewables.

Some of it is leaked at gas wells, in compressor stations, from pipelines, or in storage.

(For gas midstream projects the emissions may be more significant, due to leaks from pipelines and pump stations, as well as by consumption of fuel used to liquefy the natural gas for marine transport).

The Governor had evidently forgotten about the hundreds of oil, gas, and saltwater pipelines that have burst, leaked, or exploded in and around North Dakota over the past several years.

These incidents include over three - hundred unreported spills from 2012 to 2013, several significant leaks of oil and polluted saltwater into streams and farmland in the six months prior to the latest train derailment (see here and here), a decade - old saltwater spill which is still being cleaned up coupled with a pipeline rupture discovered in September 2013 which will take another four years to clean, and a natural - gas pipeline explosion across the border in Canada, which impacted gas availability in several U.S. states during the winter of 2014 (see here and here).

HEMP is a good answer — no wars were fought for hemp and cooking oil, no harmful pipelines were built and leaked for that oil, no ocean life was ruined due to offshore drilling, no one's health was effected for that vegetable oil, the air is cleaner with that oil due to no green house gases released — this oil can be recycled from our food — hemp can replace fibers, pulp, plastics and it still makes food and grows in under 3 months (and it does not need much water, no fertilizer and cleans the air!!

Four Nigerian farmers will have the chance to sue Shell, the multinational oil and gas company, in the Netherlands for pollution they blame on leaking pipelines, a Dutch appeals court has ruled.

These accidents include explosions, pipeline breaches, fires, and gas leaks.

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