Sentences with phrase «producing oil or gas»

Similar trends are evident offshore as well (Figure 3), where only 10.5 million of the 44 million leased acres are currently producing oil or gas.

During more than the past five years through June 30, 2009, our emphasis had been participation in the oil and gas segment, acquiring interests in producing oil or gas properties and participating in drilling operations.

A Feb. 24, 2014 Rice University news release (also on EurekAlert) and on Azonano as a Feb. 25, 2014 news item) describes a technique tracks which wells are producing oil or gas in fracking operations,

Most of the drill sites flooded had already been fracked, and were actively producing oil or gas — so chemicals added to fracking fluids should not have been on site.

But Exxon has continued to invest heavily in projects that will not produce oil or gas for years.

Not exact matches

«Harmful materials like sulphur compounds, metals, nitrogen compounds that will end up producing harmful gases or solids, we leave them there and just extract a good quality oil,» Pereira - Almao, AICISE's co-director, explains in a video posted on the research institute's website.

These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.

One view argues that a shortage of gas and oil, whether resulting from an embargo or from a longer - term depletion, «would produce severe economic and social dislocations.»

The 1.9 - megawatt array is anticipated to produce nearly 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, avoiding the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to burning 2.4 million pounds of coal or more than 5,000 barrels of oil each year.

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

A survey of a major oil and natural gas - producing region in Western Canada suggests a link between hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» and induced earthquakes in the region, according to a new report published online in the journal Seismological Research Letters.

Scientists at San Diego — based Genomatica, Inc., have announced success in manipulating the bacteria to directly produce butanediol (BDO), a chemical compound used to make everything from spandex to car bumpers, thereby providing a more energy - efficient way of making it without oil or natural gas.

The technique to extract oil and gas from rock using a high - pressure mix of water, sand or gravel and chemicals produces lots of wastewater, he said.

«The airguns used for seismic oil and gas surveys produce intense explosions every 9 to 11 seconds for many weeks or months at a time.

The Tufts researchers discovered that dispersing individual, isolated platinum atoms in much less costly copper surfaces can create a highly effective and cost - efficient catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of 1,3 butadiene, a chemical produced by steam cracking of naphtha or by catalytic cracking of gas oil.

Finding ways to treat and dispose of or recycle the large volume of chemical - laden flowback water and brine - laden wastewater that is produced over the lifetime of an unconventional oil or gas well also poses challenges, the researchers noted.

Of course, Keystone XL might not be used at full capacity at all times and industry estimates of the greenhouse gases associated with producing and burning tar sands oil can be as low as 482 kilograms per barrel, depending on whether the tar sands were mined or not.

polystyrene A plastic made from chemicals that have been refined (produced from) crude oil and / or natural gas.

The Order requires the use of a gas - liquid separator and / or an emulsion heater - treater capable of separating the gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons, prohibits blending of Bakken crude oil with specific materials, and requires crude oil produced to have a Reid Equivalent Vapor Pressure of crude oil not greater than 13.7 psi or 1 psi less than the vapor pressure of stabilized crude oil.

In Germany between 900,000 and 1,000,000 metric tons of a fuel satisfactory for automobile - type engines is being produced by adding the gas hydrogen to these coal tars or to powdered coal in a stream of crude oil at elevated temperature and high pressure.

The World ex USA SRI ex Fossil Fuels Index is comprised of the common stocks of the companies in the MSCI World ex USA SRI Index (the World ex USA SRI Index), minus the stocks of the companies that explore for, extract, produce, manufacture or refine coal, oil or gas or produce or transmit electricity derived from fossil fuels or transmit natural gas or have carbon reserves included in the World ex USA SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) Index.

Today, futures market participants trading futures to hedge price risk exposure may include any commercial entity that produces or buys any of the commodities such as grains and livestock, the «softs» including cocoa, sugar, cotton, coffee, and orange juice; energies including crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, and natural gas; and metals such gold, silver, platinum, and copper.

When pooled into the world's oil production (~ 83 million barrels a day back in «06), oil produced in ANWR would be an even less rapturous delivery from high gas prices than we previously expected, or than the advocates want us to believe.

Much of the area is already experiencing rise rates on the order of a meter or more per century due to the ongoing production of oil, gas and associated water causing collapse and consolidation of the producing rock strata.

Further, despite the federal government = s willingness to make public lands and waters available to energy developers, of the 47.5 million acres of on - shore federal lands that are currently being leased by oil and gas companies, only about 13 million acres are actually Ain production @, or producing oil and gas (Figure 2).

If he can't find new lands or waters to open to oil and gas production, the only other other alternative is to propose an increase in royalties and fees on existing oil and gas producing lands.

Congress must face a hard reality: Unless Members are willing to accept gas prices at today's painful levels — or even higher — our nation must produce more oil.

Carbon - rich biomass can be harvested to produce heat, create steam for electricity production, or be processed into oil or gas.

An overall decrease in electricity costs and ultimately electricity is cheap enough that it partly displaces gas for heating (both industrial and residential) and partly displaces oil for transport (e.g. electric vehicles and energy carriers produced using low cost electricity and or high temperature reactors).

«It includes companies whose major business is coal exploration, processing coal, producing specialized equipment for coal mining, transporting or trading coal, converting coal to oil or gas, manufacturing equipment for coal power stations and many other activities along the thermal coal value chain.

Polyethylene plastic traditionally used in pet food packaging is conventionally produced from fossil raw materials such as oil or natural gas.

As the well is drilled deeper, additional casing is installed to isolate the formation (s) from which oil or natural gas is to be produced, further protecting groundwater from the producing formations in the well.

These numbers do not however give an indication of when the coal, oil or gas will be produced, which obviously determines when the revenues will be realised.

Methane from natural gas leaks in oil and gas production, for example, has a different signature from methane generated by bacteria in a cow's stomach or similar methane - producing bacteria found in rice paddies or other wetlands.

[6] The main methods of disposing of produced water involve pumping it back into oil - or gas - producing wells to bolster production, or injecting it deep into other formations below usable groundwater resources.

However, the climate benefits of shifting from fossil - fueled transportation to electric cars, trucks, buses and trains only pencil out if our electricity itself is clean — that it's produced through carbon - free resources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric, rather than fossil fuels such as coal, oil or fracked gas.

(Sec. 388) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant, on either a competitive or noncompetitive basis, a lease, easement, or right - of - way on the outer Continental Shelf for activities not otherwise authorized under specified laws, if those activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas; (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas; or (3) use, for energy - related or marine - related purposes, facilities currently or previously used for activities authorized under this Act, unless prohibited by moratorium.

Producing electricity from wind - driven turbines (windmills) is widely recognized as more costly than producing electricity using coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy or hyProducing electricity from wind - driven turbines (windmills) is widely recognized as more costly than producing electricity using coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy or hyproducing electricity using coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy or hydropower.

The risk to proven reserves is largely not whether they will be produced or not, but the oil and gas price that they will receive.

PRELIM can simulate up to ten specific refinery process configurations, each requiring a different amount of energy to process a crude and producing a different slate of final products including transportation fuels as well as heavy fuel oil; hydrogen from the naphtha catalytic reforming proces;, refinery fuel gas; and the possible production of coke or hydrocracking residue.

The oil and coal companies may produce the stuff, but we're the ones who burn it every time we step on the gas or flick on the lights.

Today, 95 % of hydrogen is produced either from wood or from fossil fuels, such as natural gas and oil.

There also will be debates on whether rules should focus on companies producing oil, gas and coal, which release CO2 when burned, or consumers who use the fuels.

A bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for producing, extracting or injecting gas, petroleum or another liquid related to oil or gas production or storage, including brine disposal, but excluding a bore hole drilled to produce potable water.

In 2006 alone, oil producing companies and countries burned close to 170 billion cubic meters of natural gas, equivalent to a whopping 27 % of total U.S. natural gas consumption or 5.5 % of total global production of natural gas.

Besides the Obama administration's antagonism to oil and natural gas production, this revolution also did not happen because Congress passed an «energy» bill directing how oil was to be produced or providing targeted subsidies.

These skilled professionals are responsible for measuring the quality and quantity of oil or natural gas produced, sold or purchased.

PDMS Piping Designers usually work in the oil and gas or piping industry and handle the following tasks: designing piping systems and equipment, testing pipes using special stress software, conducting site surveys, supervising and training technicians, and producing documentation.