Sentences with phrase «when natural gas companies»

Methane hydrates have been known since the 1930s, when natural gas companies found that their pipelines were sometimes clogged by a kind of ice composed of water and methane.

Not exact matches

The tiff is a mirror image of the fights produced when pipeline companies overbuilt natural gas capacity in Alberta in the 1990s, which has led to problems that continue today.

But when oil companies (and governments) talk about oil supply, they include all sorts of things that can not be sold as oil on the world market including biofuels, refinery gains and natural gas plant liquids as well as lease condensate.

And they also got it the hard way — because it can't be easy convincing your comp committee to reward you when your company is mired in a natural gas glut.

The company — which Pegula formed in 1983 — had been active in upstate New York over the years, particularly in the early years of the 2000s, when it drilled dozens of conventional natural - gas wells in the Trenton Black River formation in Chemung and Steuben counties.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

That's when gas companies blast a concoction of water, sand and chemicals underground to split shale rock and release natural gas.

When and if supplies of natural gas begin to run out, the oil companies will focus on squeezing usable fuels out of even more difficult prospects.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

The infant solar power companies, however, must gain their foothold by taking business away from the incumbent and politically powerful coal, natural gas and nuclear power providers, at a time when overall growth in U.S. electricity demand is still slowed by an underperforming economy.

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The movie's central character Steve Butler (Matt Damon), a salesman for a natural gas company, is firmly on the side of the latter; he has seen too many small towns hold true to their values, only to wind up left behind when the local economy inevitably fails.

The analysis comes on the heels of widespread speculation that the reactors will be carefully mothballed by their builder and could eventually be revived by Southern Company or Duke, two neighboring electric utilities, when natural gas prices rise in the future.

The BLM's rule will also bring millions of dollars into the public coffers as drilling companies must pay royalties when they waste natural gas on public lands.

In recent years power companies have tended to choose natural gas when allowed to do so as the price has fallen.

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It assumes that the valuation of oil and natural gas company assets is based on a timeline extending to 2050 when the bubble would supposedly burst.

Like ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil shares have underperformed in recent years because of the company's ill - timed $ 41 billion buyout of natural gas producer XTO Energy in 2009 — when natural gas prices were around $ 6 per MMBtu.

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Unfortunately, under current North Dakota rules, companies get a free pass to flare natural gas for the first year of a well's production, when a majority of natural gas is emitted.

Natural gas hydrofracturing took a public relations hit this month, when a British energy company admitted that its fracking operation in England was the direct cause of several small earthquakes earlier this year.