Sentences with phrase «shale gas boom»

AEIC supplemented the initial investigation from the Breakthrough Institute by uncovering additional information about the complicated innovation ecosystem that led to today's shale gas boom.

Meanwhile, the ongoing American shale gas boom — powered in part by decades of federal investments in shale drilling technologies — is accelerating the closure of US coal - fired power plants.

The shale gas boom and renewables revolution together promise a U.S. energy trifecta, for the economy, security, and the environment, a future that offers new reasons for Americans to unite.

To be sure, there's still plenty of federally unregulated greenhouse gas pollution within American borders — perhaps most notably, growing methane emissions from the shale gas boom — but the rule helps plug a big regulatory gap.

The history behind the shale gas boom remained relatively unknown until late 2011, when researchers at the Breakthrough Institute conducted an extensive investigation revealing the role that federal agencies like the Department of Energy and the National Laboratories played in supporting gas industry experimentation with shale fracking.

ITHACA, N.Y. — As the shale gas boom continues, the atmosphere receives more methane, adding to Earth's greenhouse gas problem.

«As the shale gas boom continues, the atmosphere receives more methane, adding to Earth's greenhouse gas problem,» the Cornell publicity office declared.

But until the recent shale gas boom, the isolation of the North American gas market looked to be a source of vulnerability, not safety, when faced with cold snaps and hurricanes.

Very cheap natural gas to burn to turn that dirty oil into valuable transport fuels, thanks to the shale gas boom;

WHERE Trump is 100 % correct and the climate bedwetters 100 % wrong is that US emissions have been falling, largely thanks to the shale gas boom.

«Contrary to conventional wisdom, our decomposition analysis shows that changes in the fuel mix of the energy sector (including those related to the shale gas boom) account for a relatively small portion of this decrease.»

The bill proposed putting hundreds of billions of anticipated new oil and gas revenues (and that even before the shale gas boom) into a trust fund to accelerate clean energy innovation.

Look at the case in the United States, for example, where we've had a big reduction of emissions thanks to the shale gas boom.

While Europe has yet to experience a shale gas boom, it is undergoing something of a revolution in its electricity supplies.

CO2 emissions were markedly higher in 2007 than now, with the shale gas boom and the rise of renewables leading to massive coal retirements in the interim.

As the shale gas boom continues, the atmosphere receives more methane, adding to Earth's greenhouse gas problem.

Such leaks from coal mines and gas drilling sites are on the rise as a result of the shale gas boom in the US.

Thanks to fracking, horizontal drilling, and the shale gas boom, there is more natural gas at a lower price than there has been in decades.

Of course, the situation is a little different if you are making big money off the shale gas boom, or if the only job in town is at Freedom Industries.

An article in China Daily, «Will China embrace a shale gas boom?

Cheap U.S. coal The shale gas boom in the United States means record amounts of relatively cheap U.S. coal are now available for export.

But two of the geographic areas that kicked off the shale gas boom — Texas» Barnett and Louisiana's Haynesville — are already declining, or will be soon.

New York is in the forefront of the shale gas boom and has been working on regulations for more than three years.

The shale gas boom has been feeding firms and factories across the country with cheap fuel, dramatically lower energy costs.

British Columbia is likewise feeling the pinch, as what was looking like a shale gas boom little more than a year ago has gone quiet.

The deal announced Wednesday will merge Rice Midstream Partners with EQT Midstream Partners, both of which are focused on the Appalachian region, the epicenter of the U.S. shale gas boom.

Until, that is, the subject of environmental concerns and the media coverage of the shale gas boom comes up.

Not exact matches

In recent years, America's unprecedented oil and gas boom has been driven by one factor above all others — and that's shale.

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

The nation's shale boom began in 2005, around the time the U.S. was staring down at a long - term - term natural gas crisis.

The shale oil boom has driven natural gas prices lower and coal - fired power plants are switching over to natural gas.

Natural gas production in the U.S. boomed after 2007 thanks to shale production.

With the US currently feeling more or less self - sufficient with the shale oil / gas boom of the last decade, the primary market for bitumen has dried up, and shipping it around the world is laughably uneconomical.

In its highly anticipated Annual Energy Outlook 2018, the agency forecasts that the U.S. will become a net exporter of energy by as early as 2022, thanks in large part to the boom in shale oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production as well as the relaxation of export restrictions.

REGIONAL SUPERSECTION — SHALE OIL BOOM RATTLES GCC ECONOMIES By Gordon Platt As US shale oil and gas production continues to grow, it could have an impact on GCC economies over both the short and long SHALE OIL BOOM RATTLES GCC ECONOMIES By Gordon Platt As US shale oil and gas production continues to grow, it could have an impact on GCC economies over both the short and long shale oil and gas production continues to grow, it could have an impact on GCC economies over both the short and long term.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

Drilling for natural gas is booming in Pennsylvania — thanks to fracturing shale rock with a water and chemical cocktail paired with the ability to drill in any direction.

Increased shale - gas production created a boom in some parts of the country but has also led to concerns over potential contamination of drinking water and possible human health impacts related to hydraulic fracturing.

Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, which involves pumping water and chemicals at high pressure thousands of meters below the ground to release gas from shale, has created an energy boom in the United States.

Fracking is enabling a shale gas production boom, remaking energy markets, and stoking environmental concerns.

Its share of U.S. electricity generation fell from 52 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2012, thanks to a boom in shale gas development.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

USA emissions increased 2.9 %, due to a rebound in coal consumption potentially reversing the downward trend since the start of the shale - gas boom in 2007

Other parts of the country with shale beds («plays» in industry parlance), such as Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas, and Louisiana, have experienced similar gas drilling booms.

But this situation has changed in the US, thanks in part to the boom in shale gas production.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

The results come as a natural - gas boom hits the United States, driven by a technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», that can crack open hard shale formations and release the natural gas trapped inside.

This recent shale natural gas boom has not only reversed the depletion trend of conventional natural gas production from a few years ago, but has actually flooded markets supplies.

In the few years following publication of the 2007 scenarios, at least three major energy - market events failed to fit the world energy model: the 2008 financial crisis; the U.S. shale - gas boom; and Germany's decision, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, to speed up its transition to renewables.

In research published Monday in the journal Energy and Emission Control Technologies, however, Howarth suggests that as fracking and shale gas production began booming in the U.S., methane emissions spiked, negating any climate benefit from falling carbon dioxide emissions.