Sentences with phrase «wellhead extraction»

[3] Natural gas energy losses are only about 10 percent of its usable energy from the point of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility meter.

Metric bias results in more stringent gas water - heater standards despite the fact that life - cycle energy losses for natural gas are only about 10 percent of its usable energy (from the point of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility meter) versus 70 percent for electricity.

Not exact matches

I gather that there is speculation that natural gas extraction and distribution is the likely culprit, but my understanding is that Miller et al's methodology doesn't allow them to distinguish between potential sources (e.g. leakage at a wellhead vs. ruminant livestock).