Sentences with phrase «reserve of natural gas»

This is an immense reserve of natural gas, but it is 70 % CO2.

«This is an immense reserve of natural gas, but it is 70 % CO2,» or carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.

There is a vast reserve of natural gas in New York State, buried thousands of feet below the surface in a geologic formation called the Marcellus Shale.

(b) whether adequate supplies and reserves of natural gas, crude oil and refined fuels will be available for Alberta's present and future needs, and

New techniques promised to unlock huge reserves of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, a geologic formation deep underground beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio said to contain enough natural gas to supply the East Coast for up to 50 years.

«It will also encourage wealthy Nigerians who can afford to buy and therefore rooting for the sale of national assets, to invest in the economy or to set up their own LNG projects, considering the huge reserves of natural gas in the country,» he said.

New York has one of the nation's largest untapped reserves of natural gas and is the only state with a major shale gas formation to ban fracking.

A decades - old method for tapping ancient reserves of natural gas has become the big environmental flash point of the moment, as Governor Cuomo is well aware.

While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.

Such options include the inevitable expansion of Canada's own tar / oil sands (Keith Kloor has nicely knitted several views of this option), ever more coal production and the global push to tap greatly expanded reserves of natural gas.

With Russia and Iran topping the list of countries with the largest proved reserves of natural gas, a growing reliance on imports would increase the strategic vulnerability of the United States.

In a snappy two and a half minutes, the song outlines the pros and cons of fracking, the drilling technique that has unlocked vast new reserves of natural gas but come under sharp scrutiny for its apparent links to water contamination and other environmental harm.

Meanwhile, the world is blessed with vast reserves of natural gas and, particularly, coal, that reside under soil that is more congenial to democracy.

Two days ago, the New York Times reported that the French Parliament is «leaning» towards a ban on hydraulic fracturing, the American - made technological revolution in production that has vastly increased the known economically recoverable global reserves of natural gas.

Rogers, the Duke executive, says the country's large promised reserves of natural gas must also hold up for gas to prove beneficial, in terms of both cost and climate.

Not exact matches

The rise of fracking has unlocked vast natural gas reserves, allowing the US to import less natural gas in 2016 than in any year since the US Energy Information Administration started keeping track in 1973.

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

Geological surveys indicate that Russia's long coastline will yield vast quantities of natural gas, and Norway is eyeing the gas reserves buried deep beneath the Barents Sea.

As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

A 2008 U.S. geological survey pegged oil reserves north of the Arctic Circle at 90 billion barrels — or 13 % of the projected undiscovered oil in the world — and 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids.

Spectacular natural gas resource estimates — said to eclipse all the reserves in WA — have spurred exploration by Australian Coalbed Methane Pty Ltd, a wholly - owned subsidiary of Carbon Minerals NL.

China has more than quintupled its natural gas consumption since 2000, according to research firm GlobalData, and though the country has huge shale gas reserves of its own, production can't keep up.

After spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing the process, which promised to liquefy and upgrade bitumen underground without the use of steam or natural gas, Petrobank is now debating whether to develop its oilsands and other heavy oil reserves using tried - and - true methods.

The Economist was reporting on the difficulties Dutch manufacturers were having in the wake of the discovery and exploitation of natural gas reserves in the Netherlands in the 1970s.

PDC Energy evaluates acquisitions of both producing and undrilled oil and natural gas properties in order to grow reserves, production and cash flow.

Australia has plentiful supplies of natural resources, including the second largest accessible reserves of iron ore in the world, the fifth largest reserves of coal and significant gas resources.

Until recently, many thought the West was running out of gas — most of the easily accessible natural gas finds were being depleted, making the West reliant on ever more distant, ever more difficult reserves to exploit.

Admittedly we are a net importer of oil (increasingly so as Bass Strait reserves diminish), but Australian entities make large exports of natural gas and thermal coal, whose prices are highly correlated with oil prices over time.

Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: AMR, AMRWW) independent exploration and production company focused on the development and acquisition of unconventional oil and natural gas reserves in the eastern portion of the Anadarko Basin referred to as the STACK.

Ms. Tarras decided last year that some of the guidelines didn't apply when the government's top oil and gas bureaucrat took a senior post at the Canadian subsidiary of a firm based in Houston, Texas, that is developing natural gas reserves in northeastern British Columbia.

Laredo Energy, a company engaged in the acquisition and development of natural gas and oil reserves in South and East Central Texas, has raised $ 130 million in private equity commitments from Avista Capital Partners and Liberty Energy Holdings

In the 2009 proxy filing, the board stated the increase «was appropriate based on the long - term value created by the addition of significant production and reserve potential in emerging natural gas plays.»

At $ 100 a barrel, prudent development of U.S. reserves could cut imports in half, and coupled with better use of abundant natural gas and wiser application of now available internal combustion technologies, the United States could become an energy exporter.

New Yorkers from Buffalo to Long Island decided that allowing the oil and gas industries the rights to large scale mining of natural gas reserves was simply too much of a public health and environmental threat.

The Government of Ghana has drawn up plans to nationalise Ghana's entire petroleum and natural gas reserves to increase government revenue.

[108][109] The 100 % state - owned filling station company of Ghana, Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) is the number 1 petroleum and gas filling station of Ghana and the 100 % state - owned state oil company Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) administrates hydrocarbon exploration and production of Ghana's entire petroleum and natural gas reserves and Ghana aims to further increase output of oil to 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m3) per day and gas to 34,000,000 cubic metres (1.2 × 109 cu ft) per day.

It also has up to 1.7 × 1011 cubic metres (6 × 1012 cu ft) of natural gas in reserves, [113] which is the sixth largest in Africa and the 49th largest natural gas proven reserves in the world.

He however expressed the hope that the nation's proven gas reserve base currently put at 188 Trillion Cubic Feet could actually be in excess of 600 Trillion Cubit Feet when developed, stressing that Nigeria remained the hub for natural gas supply in West African sub region with the construction of 681 kilometer West African Gas Pipiline which currently transmits gas from the country to neighboring countries of Benin, Togo and Ghagas reserve base currently put at 188 Trillion Cubic Feet could actually be in excess of 600 Trillion Cubit Feet when developed, stressing that Nigeria remained the hub for natural gas supply in West African sub region with the construction of 681 kilometer West African Gas Pipiline which currently transmits gas from the country to neighboring countries of Benin, Togo and Ghagas supply in West African sub region with the construction of 681 kilometer West African Gas Pipiline which currently transmits gas from the country to neighboring countries of Benin, Togo and GhaGas Pipiline which currently transmits gas from the country to neighboring countries of Benin, Togo and Ghagas from the country to neighboring countries of Benin, Togo and Ghana.

«Nigeria and other GECF members currently account for 42 percent of global gas production, 70 percent of global gas reserves, 40 percent of pipeline transmission of gas and 65 percent of the global trade in Liquefied Natural Ggas production, 70 percent of global gas reserves, 40 percent of pipeline transmission of gas and 65 percent of the global trade in Liquefied Natural Ggas reserves, 40 percent of pipeline transmission of gas and 65 percent of the global trade in Liquefied Natural Ggas and 65 percent of the global trade in Liquefied Natural GasGas.

Gibson has said that fracking could provide much - needed jobs to parts of his district, mostly near the Southern Tier where natural gas is found in large reserves, underground in the Marcellus Shale.

The poll showed only 2 percent of likely voters said hydraulic fracturing for New York's natural gas reserves — commonly known as fracking and tied up in studies of the potential health and environmental impacts — was their top issue.

The region just west of the Appalachian Basin — the Marcellus Shale formation — is rich in natural gas reserves and is being considered for development by drilling companies.

For example, warming will eventually destabilise natural reserves of CO2 and another greenhouse gas, methane, stored in soils and permafrost.

Put another way, only one quarter of the world's remaining known coal, oil and natural gas reserves can be burned.

Globally, underground natural gas storage facilities hold reserves representing 10 % of the world's annual gas consumption.

The expanded use of drilling technology to extract resources trapped in tight formations 8,000 feet underground has opened the door to trillions of cubic feet of new natural gas reserves.

Hundreds of lakes on Saturn's moon Titan each hold more than all the oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, based on new findings from the Cassini radar team.

Given the vastness of the world's marine methane hydrate deposits — more than twice the carbon reserves of all other fossil fuels combined — it's not surprising that government agencies and the petroleum and natural gas industries have long been interested in harvesting this new energy supply.

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.

The plateau boasts the biggest nonleased reserve of federally owned natural gas outside of Alaska, according to David Boyd, a spokesman at the Colorado office of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM).