Sentences with phrase «think of oil and gas»

When you think of Texas, many people think of oil and gas.

If you want to make the best energy stock investments, you need to read this advice Most investors who are looking at energy stock investments would likely think of oil and gas first.

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Carrizo's breakeven point, at $ 60 a barrel, is relatively low among frackers, and the company holds the rights to an unusually strong portfolio of oil and gas fields, which Waghorn thinks make it a likely acquisition target.

Not only are Millennials snubbing oil and gas because of its negative image, they also seek different job perks than previous generations sought, and in this regard, the oil industry will need to do more as it becomes increasingly obvious that Millennials want different things than what oil executives think they want.

Rogers said he thinks that energy in 2039 will be a dynamic mix of coal, solar, wind, gas, nuclear and oil, with no one power source dominating.

Think about the disruption being caused by electric and autonomous cars in automotive; by regulatory challenges in banking; by shale resources in oil and gas; and by a groundswell of public dissatisfaction in political institutions, to name just a few.

If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

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«We have had our eye on looking for the best opportunity for us to get into LNG and Asia - Pacific — I see those as pretty closely linked — and that's what led us to thinking about Santos,» says US - born Cook, a one - time trainee on oil rigs in Michigan whose track record at Shell has earned her the moniker of the «first lady» of oil and gas.

The government and the oil and gas industry have spent lavishly to promote fossil fuel development, but a poll for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers found that only 51 % of us think tar sands / oil sands development is worth the environmental risk; 49 % think it isn't.

The venerable oil and gas giant lost its AAA rating from Standard and Poor in April 2016, which thought a symbolic loss (it shared the rating with Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson) indicated the damage wrought by years of low prices and some pretty terrible luck, notably Tillerson's lost $ 500 billion deal in Russia as the result of Western sanctions.

If Canada wants to benefit from Asia's development and growth, and remain a relevant and important energy partner in Asia, we must «think big» about exporting to multiple countries within the Asia Pacific, and «think beyond» oil and natural gas to include all of Canada's energy related assets, particularly the renewable and clean technologies that will help Asia mitigate its own climate - change challenges.

We think the company is well positioned to benefit from a number of favorable trends in the oil & gas, transmission, wireline, and wireless markets.

Third, every country, state, and region has resources — extremely valuable resources — but we don't think of them the way we do of gas and oil because we're so used to governments giving them away to corporations who sell them back at a profit and pay very little in taxes.

But I think the only thing preventing that move is the influence of the oil and gas industry on our state government.»

«ACEP recommends that the government should pass the promised Mineral Revenue Management Act to create additional sources of funds from solid minerals to finance the free SHS policy,» the policy think tank stated in a 10 - page document analyzing the 2018 budget with regards to oil and gas,» the think - tank said.

Brad Gill, executive director of the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York, is quoted in a June 6 article in the Hudson Valley Business Journal about hydrofracking the Marcellus Shale in New York: «The state must not continue to squander this once - in - a-generation opportunity by pandering to those who twist the facts, exaggerate the problems and scare the public into thinking that natural gas exploration is new or unsafe.&raqGas Association of New York, is quoted in a June 6 article in the Hudson Valley Business Journal about hydrofracking the Marcellus Shale in New York: «The state must not continue to squander this once - in - a-generation opportunity by pandering to those who twist the facts, exaggerate the problems and scare the public into thinking that natural gas exploration is new or unsafe.&raqgas exploration is new or unsafe.»

It's sooner than you think that we'll be out of oil and gas.

«Over 80 per cent of our energy still comes from oil and gas, so we must think about how to make them more sustainable,» says Ranjith.

We also have to determine if there were any frack jobs going on there right now, but I don't think there were — it didn't happen in an area of particularly active oil and gas exploration.»

Instead, the proliferation of hundreds of small earthquakes in that part of the U.S. is thought to be caused primarily by massive amounts of wastewater injected back into the ground after oil and gas recovery.

Prior to the 1970s, hydrates were thought of only as nuisances, because they can plug oil and gas pipelines in the field.

«Assuming that technology will allow ever more shale gas production at low prices — and betting energy policy and the future energy security of the country on it — is risky business,» says geologist David Hughes, who retired from the Canadian Geological Survey and is now doing assessments of shale gas and oil for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute, a California - based environmental think tank.

«We think that the oil and gas industry is using far more water than they will admit, and applaud the California legislature, in particular the author of the bill, Senator Pavley, for recognizing the need for transparency,» said Miriam Gordon, California director of Clean Water Action.

Natural gas and domestic oil production got a shout - out in the address as part of the President's vision of supporting domestic energy resources, something that several Republican lawmakers were pleased, and perhaps surprised, to hear.What I thought was more interesting was the President specifically calling out how big of a consumer of energy the U.S.

As a petroleum geoscientist at Imperial College London, Alastair Fraser's interests lie in the Arctic — a region thought to contain around one - fifth of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources.

Just as oil and natural gas fields have been found to be emitting more methane than official government estimates suggest, a new study shows that more methane than previously thought may be leaking from the other end of that system — cities, where people actually use natural gas for heating and cooking.

Under that treaty, the two countries will split a 67,500 square mile area, thought to contain 7 billion tons of oil and gas, and open it up for joint exploration.

We think that the crude oil production has already peaked in 2006, but we expect oil to come from the natural gas liquids, the type of liquid we have through the production of gas, and also a bit from the oil sands.

Scientists think that carbon dioxide could potentially be stored in three types of underground locations: depleted oil and gas fields, unminable coal seams and briny aquifers.

McDonald continued: «The impact of these incorrect beliefs is that young people may not necessarily think about the huge number of career opportunities which are open to them in the oil and gas industry.

I think a reason why overfilling a piston engine mightn't be as bad as overfilling a wankel engine is that in a piston engine there is a much larger distance between where crank is whipping up oil and the vents which are often both in the head, where as a rotary engine seems to have much smaller volume (timing gear inside of the rotor) where extra oil can be whipped around with blow - by gasses furiously blowing by.

â $ œIâ $ ™ m the only money manager I can think of to have entirely missed the oil and gas boom, â $ he says.

10 years ago no one ever thought of making an alternative fuel vehicle because gas prices and the cost to change a car's engine keep the overall cost of acceptance too high, but now, as oil and gas prices skyrocket, they're beginning to seep into the awareness of the general public..

Unfortunately, fossil fuels are so abundant that resource depletion is not going to make them too expensive to use, so that emissions fall in time (indeed, resource depletion of oil this side of 2050 will mean coal and gas will be used for synthetic fuels - pushing emissions up even faster that I think the IEA recognise).

It was always wishful thinking to expect that 194 parties as varied as oil kingdoms, impoverished and dysfunctional African states, low island nations, superpowers and rising powers would someday magically adhere to a grand and legally binding instrument curtailing emissions of gases that, for a long time to come, will be a nearly direct proxy for economic activity.

Where I think Jeff Turrentine at the NRDC gets it wrong is that the oil companies are full of very smart people who will find many ways to keep drilling and pumping oil and gas.

This crack in my own thinking is heightened by the fact that I am now watching my extended community of plants, animals, rocks, rivers and human beings be ravaged by the oil and gas industry, be it fracking or the razing of vulnerable wildlands.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

A much larger body of law, he said, is focused on development — on managing resource extraction, for instance (think oil and gas leases)-- but is not crafted from the ground up with broader consideration for social and environmental impacts.

Regardless of what the Heritage Foundation thinks, the government can and does have a role to play... cut taxes on businesses and individuals who help us build a green future, conduct research or provide subsidies for private companies to do it, help people make their homes energy efficient, and educate, educate, educate the American people as to what's at stake if we don't pry ourselves away from the oil / coal / gas faucet.

It certainly seems reasonable to imagine we do lack the kind of self - control needed to use just enough of the shale oil, gas and tar to pay for the climate - and - democratic transition I describe, but I think this is a bit like the dieter who believes he must stop eating almost all food to lose weight at all.

Here are recent statements by vocal media impressarios and think tanks who spend their time, not in a laboratory, but in the popular media trying to convince the public that global warming is either not happening, or is not caused by our continued consumption of fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas etc).

«It's absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil — we think it's a myth,» said Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.

One of the most prominent is Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a New York City - based, pro-market, anti-government think tank backed by ExxonMobil and Charles Koch, the billionaire co-owner of the coal, oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries.

Arnold is the executive vice president of the think tank the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, which has received funding from various conservative foundations and oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil.

Furthermore, there are thought to be large amounts of non-conventional oil (e.g., heavy oil, tars sands, shales) and gas (e.g., methane hydrates).

Requiring about 5 million gallons of fluid (mostly water) per well, it's clear that the water intensity of Marcellus Shale gas is more significant than first thought and likely compels more oversight of the oil and gas industry and its water use.

If, as Brulle declares, these groups are all «fronts» (his word) for oil, gas, and goal companies, those carbon - fuel companies are more devious than we thought, because they managed to completely take over, and turn to their advantage, national organizations with long histories like the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau, and the Heritage Foundation — major national organizations that were advising Presidents long before Global Warming / Climate Change was ever heard of.