On the controversial subject of fracking, the process to investigate sources of gas underground, Dr Jones stressed that Local Authorities should have stronger guidance to help their decisions making in allowing it to take place.
The agency said the operator was in the process of installing additional gas extraction measures and cladding to seal the site.
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From the beginning the challenge was coming up with an inexpensive catalyst that could be reused in the reactor, driving the cost of the process below the market price of gas.
Fracking is the underground fracturing of very deep underground shale deposits where natural gas is sequestered and then is recovered using normal process procedures of deep and horizontal drilling for recovering natural gas.
Hydrogen is conventionally produced by steam reforming natural gas, a process that wastes some of the energy stored in the gas while releasing large amounts of CO2.
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Under the process of fracking, oil or gas is extracted from shale rock by pumping a mixture of sand, water and chemicals into the rock at high pressure.
As of March 25, there were 1, 738 rigs preparing for, or in the process of, drilling new oil and gas well across the country.
Chesapeake Energy has lost control of a natural gas well in the Marcellus shale that was in the process of being fracture stimulated.
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He said the BNP was campaigning to lower bills in an attempt to reduce fuel poverty and that, particularly in the North West, its opposition to the process of "fracking" to extract shale gas should prove popular.
Extracting the bitumen from the clay and sand and upgrading it into crude oil--by breaking its big hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, less viscous ones--is an expensive, energy-intensive process that consumes 650 cubic feet of natural gas for every barrel.
Fractionators take a mixed stream of natural gas liquids (the liquid stuff that comes out of the ground along with natural gas) and process it into pure products like ethane, propane and butane.
Depending on the economics of the location, the process can produce gas that can be burned for heat and power, or purified and sold as natural gas, or, perhaps in the future, used as a feedstock for chemicals or plastics.
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Lord Whitty also said he was "suspicious" of fracking, a controversial process used in capturing gas from shale rock.
The manufacturing process for these devices results in the release of a gas called nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, which does approximately 17, 000 times more environmental damage than carbon dioxide.
Oil sands require monstrous amounts of water and natural gas to recover and process.
The conversion of gas to liquids is not a simple process.
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But Exxon Mobil says its lease allowed it to deduct production costs and exclude natural gas used as part of the production process before it calculated the royalties.
The cause of the crash is still being investigated but is believed the balloon had been in the process of landing when a landing cable got caught around a gas tube and a fire erupted on board.
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For bestselling products like the iPhone 5, the manufacturing process is the source of 76 percent of the 75kg of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the life cycle of one unit.
In fact, when I was up in New Hampshire, in Nashua, they had already converted all their dump trucks -- they were in a process because of this program -- they were converting it to natural gas-driven trucks.
Fracking is the process of blasting water at high pressure into shale rock to release oil or gas held within it.
FuelCell Energy touts the ability of its fuel cells to directly process a hydrocarbon, such as natural gas or waste gas from a sewage treatment facility.
Overseas companies already have approached the Cypriot authorities for the construction of a liquefied-natural-gas plant, which will help process and export the hydrocarbon reserves.
It said markets had been hit by a combination of factors including the 2011 Japanese tsunami and the USA's interest in shale gas, which is extracted from shale rock using the controversial process of fracking.
The independent inquiry into the collapsed tendering process was led by Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, the owner of British Gas.
Wells in shale plays have to undergo a process known as fracturing to boost the porosity of the rock and to make oil and gas flow to the well head.
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Richard Moorman, CEO of Tamboran, even told residents of Sligo the firm would not use chemicals in the natural-gas extraction process.
The ocean also absorbs almost 25% of the CO2 added to the atmosphere from human activities each year, greatly reducing the impact of this greenhouse gas on the climate, while becoming more acidic in the process.
To keep turbine sales spinning, Immelt has turned to a process that partially burns pulverized coal in the presence of pure oxygen to turn it into a flammable gas that can drive linked gas and steam turbines.
This gas-to-liquids (GTL) process is now more broadly entering the rest of the world.
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