Sentences with phrase «use of natural gas by»

Environmentally, U.S. energy - related carbon dioxide emissions in 2015 were 12 percent below 2005 levels, mainly due to the increased use of natural gas by power generators.

In recent years, the use of natural gas by electricity - generating plants has increased greatly, and today power sector CO2 emission levels are at their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.

Not exact matches

A decade ago, he unveiled his «Pickens Plan,» a lobbying effort to wean the United States from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by championing the use of alternative energy and natural gas.

Designed by Fitzsimmons Architects, the Oklahoma City regional office of natural gas company BP Lower 48 uses lots of wood, stone, and natural colors, and textures to create an organic look.

As described by the Energy Department, LNG is principally used for transporting natural gas to markets, where it's turned back into a gas and distributed for a variety of uses, including running nat gas vehicles.

LNG is liquefied natural gas (the same gas that you'd use in your home heating system) chilled to -161 °C, which reduces its volume to 1 / 600th of the volume of gas, making it economically feasible to transport over long distances by ship.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrouGas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrougas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

China's goal is to use natural gas for 10 percent of its needs by 2020, and it needs LNG to meet that demand.

According to one Pembina Institute report, using data compiled by Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada, buildings account for about 11 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions.

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

At the start of 2018, about 60 % of California's natural gas vehicle fleets used renewable natural gas, and that number is expected to reach 90 % by year end.

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

These include warm summer weather, which drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in production by some players in the natural - gas industry.

PetroDollars, launched by New York - based Signal Capital Management, allows individuals and organizations to use a peer - to - peer exchanged digital currency that's backed by the value of crude oil and natural gas, announced Monday it will hold an initial coin offering of up to $ 700 million...

In 2014, the fuel mix used by mills consisted of 73 percent natural gas — a 27 percent increase since 2006.

We have cut our use of electricity and of natural gas, propane, and heating oil by:

The makers of petrochemicals used in natural gas hydrofracking like the proposed new gas drilling rules offered by the DEC..

ALBANY — The makers of petrochemicals used in natural gas hydrofracking back proposed new gas drilling rules offered this month by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The county made reductions by boosting the use of natural gas vehicles, installing LED lighting around county facilities, but mostly by purchasing more electricity from cleaner sources.

By comparison, Chevron, the second-most profitable American company, told CDP it used such completions in 90 percent of its natural gas wells in 2013.

When hooked up to the average 500 - megawatt natural - gas or coal power plant, the vortex engine could produce an extra 200 megawatts of energy just by putting the excess heat to use.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has recently pioneered in developing a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique that uses self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermal decomposition of natural gas.

In a study, reported in the January 21, 2016 issue of Nano Letters, the team demonstrated a new redox - responsive assembly method to synthesize hierarchically structured carbon - sheathed germanium nanowires (c - GeNWs) on a large scale by the use of self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermally decomposed natural gas.

A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently pioneered in developing a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique that uses self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermal decomposition of natural gas.

The study — conducted by what was then the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the EPA and more than 40 other public, private and academic institutions — singled out as culprits VOCs such as ethylene, a flammable gas used mainly in the production of plastics.

UT has been clobbered with a tough outside review, made public yesterday by Provost Steven Leslie, of blunders in a controversial study on the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, known as «fracking.»

About a third of the factors used to estimate pipeline leaks and other natural gas emissions in the most recent inventory, for 2015, are based on a 1996 study by the EPA and an industry group then known as the Gas Research Institugas emissions in the most recent inventory, for 2015, are based on a 1996 study by the EPA and an industry group then known as the Gas Research InstituGas Research Institute.

Though focused on end uses of natural gas, the paper also shows how results are affected by highly uncertain leak rates from natural gas production and delivery.

Thanks to a bonanza of natural gas liberated from deep shales by new techniques, the U.S. is burning more and more of the fuel — and considering using more natural gas in more places, such as fuel for trucking.

Insiders say the most vulnerable are the National Accelerator Centre near Cape - town, home to a number of particle accelerators, including a powerful cyclotron used for medical, biological and physical research; Mossgas, the multi-billion rand project set up to beat oil sanctions by pumping natural gas ashore from beneath the Indian Ocean; and the Koeberg nuclear power plant at Melkbosstrand.

The UK achieved an unprecedented drop in carbon emissions in 2016 by making full use of natural gas over coal.

They used the model to estimate stress changes induced in the area by two wastewater injection wells and the more than 70 production wells that remove both natural gas and significant volumes of salty water known as brine.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

(C) Cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane, including, where appropriate, programs or mechanisms administered by local governments and entities other than the State.

A well - to - wheels analysis of the use of natural gas for passenger vehicles by a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has found that, with a high... Read more →

A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

There's also the performance - oriented Civic Si model with a 2.4 - liter four - cylinder engine rated at 201 hp (22 city / 31 highway / 25 combined mpg), a compressed natural gas (CNG) option that uses a variant of the 1.8 - liter engine (27 city / 38 highway / 31 combined mpg) and the Civic Hybrid that is powered by a 1.5 - liter engine with a 20 kW motor, coupled to a CVT (44 city / 44 highway / 44 combined mpg).

Since 2008, FedEx has saved more than 158 million gallons of vehicle fuel by replacing vehicles with more efficient models and making greater use of electric vehicles, fuel cells, natural gas, hybrids and clean truck technologies.

This gives us confidence that CO2 can be securely stored - if nature can do this randomly, we have a far greater chance of succeeding by using the geological knowledge and engineering expereince we have, as well as our experience from storing other gases under ground such as natural gas and hydrogen.

12:27 p.m. Updated In the final session of an environmental - science communication course that I co-taught at Pace University this spring, Thad Cook, a graduate student, gave a thorough overview of the issues raised by extracting natural gas from shale using hydraulic fracturing, the method now widely called fracking.

Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.

Energy use in buildings in the United States and Canada, including the use of natural gas, wood, and other fuels as well as electricity, has increased by 30 percent since 1990, corresponding to an annual growth rate of 2.1 percent.

«Massive infrastructure» Ausubel draws his conclusions by analysing the amount of energy renewables, natural gas, and nuclear can produce in terms of power per square metre of land used.

The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration has posted a short update on trends in natural gas production in the United States that's worth noting simply because it illustrates the profound nature of the energy transitions that are being propelled by the exploitation of shale deposits using hydraulic fracturing, known best as fracking, along with horizontal drilling.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

One should also pay attention to other greenhouse gases, particularly methane (from rice paddies, ruminant animal digestive processes, industrial processes, and distributed natural sources, some of which could be triggered to large releases by warming) and nitrous oxide (from the nitrogen cycle linking the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, now exacerbated by extremely heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture; note, as does Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, that fertilizer use is required to feed half the world's current population.

That «fracturing» process for natural gas is accompanied by use of toxic chemicals that often end up poisoning local waterways and aquifers.

And while expanded use of natural gas can provided a valuable bridge toward non-polluting energy choices, according to many experts, those darned pipelines have found strident opposition, backyard by backyard, particularly in crowded regions of the country.