Not exact matches
Among the factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters
or climate change affecting the operations of the Company
or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including
oil and natural
gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand
or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events
resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems
or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system,
or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
This
resulted in a range of policies — from the Clean Power Plan to methane regulations for
oil and
gas drilling — that now face uncertainty
or complete rescindment.
Section 2 (1) of Bill 12 refers to refined products which (oddly) do not fall under the primary production from natural resources, which are defined so as to include crude
oil and natural
gas but, «not a product
resulting from refining crude
oil, refining upgraded heavy crude
oil, refining
gases or liquids derived from coal
or refining a synthetic equivalent of crude
oil.»
Focusing on the United Kingdom, we believe current conditions favor large UK multinational companies that obtain much of their earnings abroad
or report their
results in foreign currencies (e.g., global integrated
oil and
gas companies).
These excluded products consisted of «manufactured products» (inapplicable in the present context) and products «
resulting from refining crude
oil, refining upgraded heavy crude
oil, refining
gases or liquids derived from coal
or refining a synthetic equivalent of crude
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.»
In the light of the crash in global crude
oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on
oil and
gas infrastructure in the
oil - rich Niger Delta which has
resulted in lock - in
or leakages of crude
oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on
oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.
Whether an earthquake occurs naturally
or as a
result of unconventional
oil and
gas recovery, the destructive power is the same, according to a new study appearing in Science Advances Aug. 2.
As a
result, methane emissions have distinct isotopic values: Methane emitted from any microbially driven source such as wetlands
or agriculture have values of about -60 ‰ (signifying a relatively low ratio of carbon - 13 to carbon - 12);
oil,
gas, and coal emissions have an average carbon isotopic value of -37 ‰; and tree and crop burning averages about -22 ‰.
As a
result, many emissions brokers are former traders of the commodities important to the industries that emit CO2 — whether metals
or coal,
oil, and natural
gas.
Ultimately, the energy industry won a critical change in the federal government's legal definition of waste: Since 1988, all material
resulting from the
oil and
gas drilling process is considered non-hazardous, regardless of its content
or toxicity.
When hydraulic fracturing
or «fracking» to access unconventional
oil and
gas reserves was a hot topic in the fossil fuel industry, Ryerson was tapped to lead a team to develop GEOS — a dynamic computational rock mechanics and hydrologic tool — that can model facture propagation,
resulting seismic signals and pressure - driven fluid flow through a rock mass.
Typically, using natural
gas instead of coal
or oil will
result in a 50 % reduction in carbon emissions.
There are three major causes of significant pipeline failures
resulting in
oil spills
or gas explosion: damage from digging; corrosion; and failure of the pipe material, welds,
or equipment.
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is awarding $ 10.8 million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes,
or procedures that could
result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore
oil and
gas operations.
The streaming company enjoys the delivery of metals over the life of the contract, which, ideally,
results in more gold, silver,
or gas (volumetric payments are common in
oil and
gas financing) than the company originally paid for.
The grid operator testified that «wholesale energy prices and emissions will rise when extreme weather
results in natural
gas pipeline constraints — driving up the price of natural
gas (and wholesale energy) and forcing New England to rely on
oil - and coal - fired generation for multi-day (
or multi-week) periods.»
The competing theories are (there was / is no theory competition) are: 1) The «late veneer theory» (the late veneer theory is connected with the fossil fuel theory, where a tiny amount of CO2 is recycled in the upper mantle) vs /
or 2) The deep core CH4 theory (See the late Nobel prize winnings, Astrophysics» Thomas Gold's book «Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels», where there is a large continuous input of CH4 and CO2 into the biosphere from CH4 that is extrude from the core of the earth as it solidifies, which explains Humlum et al's CO2 phase analysis
result paradox and roughly 50 different geological paradoxes / anomalies) as to the origin of the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and «natural»
gas / crude
oil.
Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural
gas The claim that there are more frequent
or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a
result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak
oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel
The letter goes on to cite research showing that conventional biofuels derived from feedstocks like rapeseed, corn, and palm
oil can «directly
or indirectly
result in substantial greenhouse
gas emissions through the conversion of forests and grasslands to croplands
or pasture to accommodate biofuel production.»
The other cause of potential leaks, old «legacy» wells, is also minimal because the deep saline aquifer where Quest's CO2 will be stored has no
oil or gas resources and as a
result has not seen drilling to any significant extent.
Focusing on the carbon emissions associated with tropical deforestation, it showed that converting rainforests
or grasslands to corn, soybean,
or palm
oil biofuel production led to a carbon emissions increase — a «biofuel carbon debt» — that was at least 37 times greater than the annual reduction in greenhouse
gases resulting from the shift from fossil fuels to biofuels.
-- There is established in the Department of the Interior a grant program under which the Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this section as the «Secretary») shall provide grants to individual States, State Geologic Surveys,
or Regional Consortiums to build, maintain, and operate centers to store geologic samples (including core samples, surface samples, micropaleontology samples, well cuttings, and geochemical samples) collected as a
result of
oil and
gas exploration, mineral exploration, and geotechnical studies and research.
But the EIS — full of detailed discussion of exactly how many times it's acceptable for the new pipeline to spill its freight of acidic bitumen from Alberta,
or how much natural
gas it will take to heat the
oil out of the ground — does not even mention the climate change that would
result from helping ramp up the exploitation of this Saudi - scale ocean of carbon.
The science shows that global warming
results from too much carbon in the atmosphere, released when we use gasoline to drive our cars
or burn coal,
oil,
or gas to heat our homes and power our lives.
As a
result, long - term forecasts — the ones that help determine the price of
oil or natural
gas futures, the ones that determine how much road salt your town buys this fall — are looking a bit like guesswork.
Ultimately, the energy industry won a critical change in the federal government's legal definition of waste: Since 1988, all material
resulting from the
oil and
gas drilling process is considered non-hazardous, regardless of its content
or toxicity.
When we burn coal,
oil,
or gas, the
resulting carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere where it acts as a greenhouse
gas.
If you were hurt at an
oil or gas well site as a
result of defective machinery
or heavy equipment, you might be able to bring a products liability lawsuit against the company that designed and made the machinery
or equipment.