Sentences with phrase «worth of natural gas»

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the billions of dollars worth of natural gas trapped in shale deposits, using a technique with some environmentally dubious consequences — flammable drinking water, anyone?

It's an increasingly hot issue in New York and Pennsylvania as companies attempt to access the trillion dollars worth of natural gas locked up in the Marcellus Shale... and create a lot of problems for groundwater in the process.

It's an increasingly hot issue in New York and Pennsylvania as companies attempt to access the trillion dollars worth of natural gas locked up

Industry data indicates it costs between $ 10 - 20 million to operate a fracking rig that will produce $ 6 - 15 million worth of natural gas in the well's lifetime.

No one in their right mind will spend two billion dollars to develop a field with a billion dollars» worth of natural gas.

There's little question that the United States, with 110 years» worth of natural gas (at the 2009 rate of consumption), is destined to play a major role in the fuel's development.

Right now, oil and gas companies are losing hundreds of millions of tons of methane each year, which wastes, in turn, hundreds of millions worth of natural gas.

It signed this month a seven - year deal to buy $ 105 million worth of natural gas from the Tamar field.

The COHRAL (TM) Covered High Rate Anaerobic Lagoon at Oakey Abattoir on Queensland's Darling Downs will extract green energy biogas from its waste water streams to replace millions of dollars worth of natural gas currently consumed at the abattoir.

The COHRAL ™ at Oakey Beef Exports» Abattoir on Queensland's Darling Downs extracts green energy biogas from its waste water streams to replace millions of dollars» worth of natural gas previously consumed at the abattoir.

Not exact matches

Now that natural gas has become dirt cheap, the benefits of this technically challenging approach hardly seem worth the effort.

In short, it's a tax credit worth $ 0.50 per gasoline gallon equivalent of compressed natural gas, or diesel gallon equivalent of liquefied natural gas, and Clean Energy has been able to claim this tax credit for a portion of its fuel sales each year.

Given the topic hits so close to home as New York grapples with the idea of approving high - volume hydraulic natural gas drilling it may still be worth a watch.

It is also worth stating that Dr Asante is the only Ghanaian invited among a handful Africans by the US Department of Energy to contribute to the writing of a book entitled «Understanding Natural Gas and LNG Options.»

For Wigley, the proper course of action is not yet clear, since he can not determine if the change in the emissions profile between coal and natural gas is worth the expenditure.

The problems manifest early, as Steve Butler (Damon) and Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), representatives for a natural gas company, arrive in their newest small - town target, tasked with convincing everyone in town to sell their land for a fast buck to open up billions of dollars worth of gas.

Cove recently inked a deal worth $ 39 million for the sale of its Tanzanian interests, but the main value of the company's tied up in its 8.5 % Working Interest share of the Rovuma Basin Offshore Area 1 natural gas field off the coast of Mozambique (operated by Anadarko (APC: US)-RRB-.

Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.

The decline in the United States has mainly been due to market forces shifting electricity generation from coal to abundant and cheaper natural gas, along with environmental regulations built around the traditional basket of pollutants that even conservatives agreed were worth restricting.

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.

Update, 5:43 p.m. In another response to Ingraffea, «Methane Leakage Not a Deal Breaker for Natural Gas,» Alex Trembath and Max Luke of The Breakthrough Institute make some additional points that are worth reading, including:

The value of doing this is clear: «Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.»

The ad went on to say that the United States has 250 years» worth of coal in the ground at current rates of use, and that only imports of liquefied natural gas, much of it from hostile countries, would be able to supply power if coal is off limits.

Lobbyists representing industry players including natural gas giant EQT, Antero Resources, TransCanada, and multiple oil and gas trade associations wooed state lawmakers with thousands of dollars» worth of food and drink throughout 2017, according to lobbying records obtained by DeSmog.

On Tuesday, the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce released an analysis of a decade of drilling in the Barnett Shale natural gas formation in 24 North Texas counties.

[22] A 2011 study for the city of Fort Worth, Texas, examining air quality around natural gas sites «did not reveal any significant health threats.»

It is probably also worth noting the fact that Russia also has some of the worlds largest reserves of oil and natural gas and considers exploiting them to be one of it's most likely avenues to economic success.

Over a century's worth of subsidizing fossil energy sources — not to mention roads, vehicle development and manufacturing, and transmission / distribution infrastructure — have underwritten the steady development and improvement of conventional energy sources and embedded coal, oil, and natural gas as the favored national energy inputs.

So the tonne of CO2 removed from the atmosphere, when converted to natural gas using cheap solar, would be worth $ 100.

It does have the disadvantage that fracking for natural gas reduces emissions of CO2 compared to coal, but this is well worth it for providing the advantages of improving human lives by using plentiful, inexpensive gas and oil.

, the fossil fuel energy produced from public lands included 706 million barrels of oil, 3.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 421 million tons of coal, contributing billions of tons worth of carbon pollution.

In 2014 alone, the fossil fuel energy produced from public lands included 706 million barrels of oil, 3.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 421 million tons of coal, contributing billions of tons worth of carbon pollution.

Marcellus Shale production is helping the Commonwealth to lower carbon emissions with $ 10.5 billion worth of new power natural gas - fired power plant investments, and as this latest study shows — those benefits aren't even close to being cancelled out by methane emissions from record production.

This link states that the use of natural gas (of which Australia has 200 years worth of reserves) will cut greenhouse emissions by 80 %.

Natural gas has become the backbone of the grid's flexibility and is making inroads into baseload power, thanks to the development of decades» worth of low - cost reserves from shale.

A side note... Liquefied natural gas doesn't require any water that I'm aware of and we have at least a bit over one century worth, maybe two, and... nobody has to go hungry.

These state - level initiatives, along with fluctuations in the supply and demand of natural gas and oil, may also lead to electricity price increases in the future — although it is worth noting these increases would be less significant than if the CPP is implemented.

``...... * FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $ 50 trillion dollars» worth of job - producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.

The natural gas in the Siberian gas fields is worth about ten trillion dollars, and short of a nuclear war, there is no way to stop them from developing it.

After all, while he attempts to interfere with progress by making such statements, our entire energy infrastructure is crumbling, our natural gas supplies continue to dwindle, we don't have nearly enough engineers and skilled labor to expand nuclear development the way they claim we can, and our decision - makers (until very recently) have been under the false assumption that we have 250 years worth of coal reserves.

It is worth repeating that, despite widespread reports to the contrary, the UT Austin study does not confirm that EPA estimates of methane emissions from natural gas systems are correct and accurate.

The World Bank estimates that over 100 billion cubic metres of natural gas are flared or vented annually, an amount worth approximately 30.6 billion dollars, equivalent to the combined annual gas consumption of Germany and France, twice the annual gas consumption of Africa, three quarters of Russian gas exports (source)