But it's also being driven by advancing technology that's unlocking
unconventional gas supplies in Queensland (coal seam gas) as well as Western Australia's Northwest Shelf gas supplies (through advances in offshore drilling).
The paper shows that the highest greenhouse gas emissions are caused by
unconventional gas supplied via LNG infrastructure.
Not exact matches
Unconventional supplies of oil and
gas are increasing around the world, countries like Iran and Mexico are reviving production, and alternative energy sources are becoming more viable.
China's
gas supply balance is a combination of domestic production (conventional and
unconventional), pipeline imports and LNG imports.
Second, the U.S. will approach energy self - sufficiency as domestic energy demand ceases to grow, due in part to energy efficiency measures, and as new
unconventional gas and oil projects cause domestic energy
supply to surge.
At the same time, we also have a capacity to dramatically increase our
supply of
unconventional oil and
gas, provided we secure new customers and do so before our competitors.
Drilling for
unconventional supplies of oil and natural
gas has prompted the EPA to plan to regulate its air pollution
The United States will continue to grow as an important
supplier of natural
gas, projected to increase to 5.3 trillion cubic feet as
unconventional gas plays such as the Marcellus Shale account for more than 50 percent of U.S. production by 2030, EIA said.
At a time at which U.S. dependence on coal is decreasing (due to increased
supplies of
unconventional natural
gas and hence lower
gas prices), China continues to rely on coal, but is very concerned about this, partly because of localized health impacts of particulates and other pollutants.
If you consider the total energy
supplied to the human system, the biggest energy innovation of the last 20 years is probably the ability to economically recover
unconventional petroleum sources like tar sands oil and shale
gas.
We have launched the
Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program to share best practices on issues such as water management, methane emissions, air quality, permitting, contracting, and pricing to help increase global gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to mark
Gas Technical Engagement Program to share best practices on issues such as water management, methane emissions, air quality, permitting, contracting, and pricing to help increase global
gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to mark
gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to market.
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«The economics shows UK
unconventional supply will struggle to compete in the
gas market over the next decade, and shale
gas could only contribute a tiny volume if projects do go ahead,» concluded Andrew Grant.
DeSmogBlog has also done an in - depth investigation on the environmental impacts of fracking in the Fracking the Future report, and found that the potentially devastating impacts from
unconventional gas development on water
supplies, air quality and the global climate deserve much greater study and scrutiny.