Opposition to natural gas development using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to tap gas-rich shale deposits has been the primary focus of environmental groups in New York for years.
Meanwhile, America has recently reversed a steady decline in domestic gas production, thanks to new technology that allows firms to tap previously inaccessible gas trapped in coal, shale and some types of sandstone.
The oil giants hope to use their expertise to tap remote gas sources and transport it as liquefied natural gas (LNG).
It's impossible not to grin as you tap the gas pedal and feel the kind of thrust normally reserved for astronauts and test pilots.
ChevronTexaco pumps 24, 000 barrels per day and 100 million cubic feet of gas and owns Ma Tap Phut, one of Southeast Asia's most efficient refineries.
But technological advances in the way we find and tap oil and natural gas have propelled estimates of available reserves far beyond anything Hubbard could have imagined.
Advances in drilling technologies in the last decade have enabled energy companies to tap huge supplies of gas locked up in shale thin layers of rock a mile or more underground that reach for miles across the landscape.
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These two should provide about 3, 600 net oil equivalent barrels per day of natural gas and liquids, which Denbury will tap via carbon dioxide flooding.
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Although methane itself is not regulated as a water pollutant, the study could lead to federal regulation of the heretofore largely unregulated practice of the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of deep layers of shale to tap vast reservoirs of natural gas in the United States.
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I'm in favor of finding environmentally sound ways to tap our oil and our natural gas.
In partnership with Japanese LNG shippers Mitsui and Mitsubishi, Shell hopes to tap 17 trillion cubic feet of gas (that's 3 billion BOE) and 1.2 billion barrels of oil.
The pipeline's opening ceremony took place in the Geman town of Lubmin, where heads of state involved in the project opened a tap to release the first of the gas into the European grid.
As production and exploration companies use unorthodox methods to tap into large reserves of oil and gas in the U.S., both on the mainland and out in deep sea wells, MLPs are set to benefit.
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To tap into Saudi Arabia's oil and gas sector, Punj Lloyd has forged a joint venture with Dayim, a firm owned by royalty.
He's spent the last two years negotiating with Conoco Phillips, ExxonMobile, and BP, to build a pipeline to tap into the largest known reserve of natural gas in North America.
The study will look at detailed health histories of hundreds of thousands of patients who live near wells and other facilities that are producing natural gas from the same Marcellus Shale formation that New York would tap.
The Geisinger study will look at detailed health histories of hundreds of thousands of patients who live near wells and other facilities that are producing natural gas from the same Marcellus Shale formation that New York would tap.
Occurrences of flammable tap water, if not the result of existing gas transport pipelines, can be explained by totally unrelated gas leaks that occasionally occur around coal beds, which are far closer to the surface than natural gas deposits.
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"They are designed to increase our scientific understanding of climate change, to tap the enormous promise of technology in addressing greenhouse gas emissions, and to promote further cooperation on climate change with our partners in the Western Hemisphere and beyond, " he said.
But with the advent of hydraulic fracturing technologies and the subsequent scramble to tap into prized shale formations like the Bakken pushing domestic oil and natural gas production to record highs, brokers say an increasing number of newly minted millionaires from the energy industry have been plowing money into farmland.
Some insiders even think Shah Deniz II will initially plump for TAP, allow Nabucco West to collapse, before resurrecting SEEP plans as and when more Azeri gas becomes available to fill Southern and Central European routes.
Stone Energy (SGY), which is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, is drilling several deep and ultradeep wells in Vermilion and Cameron parishes in the belief that gas-bearing reservoirs below the shallow Gulf bleed onshore, and that onshore drilling offers a way to tap an abundant hydrocarbon resource without incurring the considerable expenses of underwater operations.
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"A leading engineer and manufacturer of high-quality, flexible pipeline products for oil and gas transportation in the susbsea production industry, " Wellstream's acquisition demonstrates a double interest by GE to both tap the deepwater drilling business and enter one of the world's most dynamic economies in the sector, Brazil.
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