DB: I say to Burnaby that pipelines are the safest way in the world to
transport oil or gas.
Not exact matches
While E&P and service companies benefit from rising prices, the same can't always be said for «downstream» businesses (think refiners and
gas station operators)
or «midstream» firms that
transport oil.
According to its website, this is the «largest energy infrastructure in North America,» owning interest
or operating more than 80,000 miles of pipelines that
transport natural
gas, crude
oil and more.
Users can adjust the toggles in order to view the map by ship type — yellow for container ships, blue for dry bulk carriers, red for
oil and fuel tankers, green for
gas carriers, and purple for ships
transporting vehicles —
or zoom in on specific regions.
Our study says nothing about whether such sources can be reduced,
or even specifically about what aspects of
oil and
gas production, refining, and
transport is responsible for the elevated sources.
(There's no infrastructure for storing
or transporting the
gas and the
oil is the quarry, given its much higher price.)
Due to the high cost of capturing,
transporting, and sequestering carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its carbon dioxide to
oil companies, which can use the
gas to help extract
oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced
oil recovery (
or CO2 - EOR).
An overall decrease in electricity costs and ultimately electricity is cheap enough that it partly displaces
gas for heating (both industrial and residential) and partly displaces
oil for
transport (e.g. electric vehicles and energy carriers produced using low cost electricity and
or high temperature reactors).
«It includes companies whose major business is coal exploration, processing coal, producing specialized equipment for coal mining,
transporting or trading coal, converting coal to
oil or gas, manufacturing equipment for coal power stations and many other activities along the thermal coal value chain.
Why not compare coal extraction and
transport,
oil extraction and
transport,
gas extraction and
transport and the extraction and
transport and processing of all the materials involved in the life cycle of a solar PV cell
or a wind farm?
Carbon capture and storage,
or CCS, is a family of technologies and techniques that enable the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel combustion
or industrial processes, the
transport of CO2 via ships
or pipelines, and its storage underground, in depleted
oil and
gas fields and deep saline formations.
With other greenhouse
gases it is responsible for the natural greenhouse effect, and the extra levels of CO 2 from burning of fossil fuels (coal,
oil and natural
gas) in industry,
transport and the generation of electricity, are causing the enhanced (
or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is why global warming is happening.
Whether
or not global warming is entirely
or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse
gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and
oil surface
transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.
That is a no regrets approach — especially if building nuclear power plants can be made as cheap
or cheaper than mining coal and
transporting it to the plants to burn it (
or oil or natural
gas).
If you are an
oil and
gas worker and have been injured on a jack - up rig
or floating rig,
or while being
transported to the rig on a boat
or helicopter, you may be covered by the Jones Act.
The bill would give the Minister of Energy sweeping powers to «make an order directing an operator to cease
transporting natural
gas, crude
oil or refined fuels in the operator's provincial pipeline,
or by the operator's railway
or commercial vehicle.»