Sentences with phrase «proved coal reserves»

But the United States still holds the largest share of proved coal reserves at 27.6 percent, followed by Russia, China, Australia and India.

China's proven coal reserves are much larger than its proven oil and gas reserves and it imported nearly 51 percent of its oil in 2008.

Considering that America has 22.1 percent of the world's proven coal reserves, the greatest of any country and enough to last for 381 years at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean, coal - fired power stations to replace its aging fleet of coal plants.Supercritical power plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.

Not exact matches

According to one recent analysis, staying below 2 ° C would require that a third of all proved reserves of oil, half of all natural gas and 80 percent of coal remain in the ground.

Burning proven reserves of coal, oil and gas would release 2860 Gt.

The Third Number: 2,795 Gigatons This is the amount of carbon already contained in the proven coal and oil and gas reserves.

A script pulled out the direct fossil fuel investments using the Carbon Underground 200 that identifies the top 100 public coal companies globally and the top 100 public oil and gas companies globally, ranked by the potential carbon emissions content of their proven reserves.

Additionally, Excel had an estimated 500 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves.

In March 2011, Barapukuria had a proven reserve of around 389 million tons of coal, and the company expects to extract 10 to 20 per cent of the total reserves through underground mining within the next 30 years.

It states that it has 9 billion tonnes of proven and probable coal reserves.

On its website the company states that in 2008 it produced approximately 69.4 million tons of coal and «controlled approximately 1.75 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves.»

«The majority of proven coal, oil, and gas reserves may be considered «unburnable» if global temperature increases are to be limited to two degrees Celsius,» he wrote in a letter to the British parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (PDF) in October, referring to the widely accepted temperature threshold for avoiding the worst effects of climate change.

The latest estimate by the WEC (cited above) lists not only today's «proven reserves», but also the «inferred possible total resource in place» for oil, gas and coal.

Such hydrates store more carbon than all the proven reserves of coal, oil and gas and could also thaw, UNEP said.

The World Energy Council published a report in 2010, which summarized not only the proven reserves of all fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal), but also gave estimates for the «inferred possible total resources in place» for these fossil fuels.

ENERGY OVERVIEW Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 2.9 billion barrels Oil Production (2002E): 818,000 barrels per day (bbl / d), of which about 763,000 bbl / d was crude oil Oil Consumption (2002E): 483,000 bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2001E): 335,000 bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 27.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.32 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.17 Tcf Net Natural Gas Exports (2000E): 0.15 Tcf Coal Reserves (2000E): 474 million short tons (Mmst) Coal Production (2000E): 0.33 Mmst Coal Consumption (2000E): 1.47 Mmst Electric Generation Capacity (1 / 1 / 00E): 24 gigawatts (GW) Electricity Generation (2000E): 82.8 billion kilowattthours (bkwh); conventional thermal 52 %, hydroelectricity 41 %, nuclear 7 %

yes, 2,795 is the number of gigatons of carbon already contained in the proven coal and oil and gas reserves in the hands of fossil - fuel companies and petrostates.

In 112 hours, the sun provides 36 zettajoules of energy — as much energy as is contained in all proven reserves of oil, coal and natural gas on this planet

ENERGY OVERVIEW Energy Minister: Ernesto Martens Rebolledo Head of PEMEX: Raul Munoz Leos Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 12.6 billion barrels (see Reserves and Production) Oil Production (2002E): 3.6 million barrels per day (bbl / d), of which 3.18 million bbl / d was crude Oil Consumption (2002E): 1.93 million bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2002E): 1.68 million bbl / d Crude Oil Refining Capacity (1 / 1 / 03E): 1.7 million bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 8.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)(see Reserves and Production) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.33 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.38 Tcf Recoverable Coal Reserves (2000E): 1.3 billion short tons Coal Production (2000E): 10.86 million short tons Coal Consumption (2000E): 13.41 million short tons Net Coal Imports (2000E): 2.55 million short tons Electric Generation Capacity (2000E): 38.9 million kilowatts Net Electricity Generation (2000E): 194.37 billion kilowatthours (bkwh); 74 % thermal, 18 % hydro, 5 % nuclear, 3 % other Net Electricity Consumption (2000E): 182.8 bkwh Net Electricity Imports (2000E): 2.07 bkwh

Vast quantities of coal — proven to exist — remain in the ground — but not included on the reserve tally because they are not economically recoverable at current prices — in part due to the availability of oil and natural gas.

It does so by going beyond the now classic Carbon Tracker analysis (the foundation of McKibben's 2012 article), updating it by focusing not on the entire body of fossil - fuel reserves, but on the smaller set (roughly 30 % of the «proven» reserves) of reserves that have already been «developed» — the «oil fields, gas fields, and coal mines that are already in operation or under construction.»

The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed.

Shell: «The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed.»

Assuming just one third of these deposits become proven reserves, this adds a further 19GtCO2e to South Africa's domestic coal consumption.

This matters because there is a huge amount of carbon currently locked up in permafrost, and the methane hydrates alone contain more carbon than all of Earth's proven reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas combined.

But in the last decade, the world's commercially viable («proven») fossil fuel reserves have increased: coal reserves have declined, but oil and gas reserves have more than made up for it.

The International Energy Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have both said that a majority of the world's current, proven reserves of oil, gas, and coal must not be burned if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.