U.S. natural gas power plants continue to increase in efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the high flexibility of these plants will also be increasingly critical in the years ahead.
U.S. crude oil production in October rose to the highest in more than 46 years, while natural gas production leaped to a new record, U.S. Energy Information Administration data showed on Friday.
State-owned energy companies have invested billions of dollars to develop shale gas and other sources, but supplies have failed to keep pace with surging demand.
They are a demonstrably safe and fundamentally critical technique for understanding what lies beneath the Earth's surface.
West Texas' Permian Basin now accounts for 400 rigs, which is more than half of all the nation's oil rigs. The next most active area is Oklahoma's Cana-Woodford shale with 73 rigs...
The BLM rule comes as the oil and natural gas industry announced a voluntary partnership to reduce methane emissions at drilling sites nationwide.
"This groundbreaking partnership further demonstrates the industry's leadership and commitment to responsibly developing America's energy resources while reducing emissions"
The rule will require refiners to mix 19.29 billion gallons of renewable fuels into the gasoline supply in 2018.
Eight years to construct (investment), 40-million work-hours and 7,500 jobs to build, all done 200 miles off the shores of Newfoundland. With the right policy, the USA could take advantage of these opportunities too.
Some of the proposed pipelines have similar names. Many have been in the news for years, while others seem to have sprung from nowhere. They're all accompanied by procedural and legal drama.
