On Friday, militants attacked the In Salah gas plant in Algeria.
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The event forced ExxonMobil Corp to close its liquefied gas plant in the area.
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Sempra Energy received approval for its liquefied natural gas plant in Louisiana in 244.
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Sempra Energy received approval for its liquefied natural gas plant in Louisiana in 244.
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A new gas plant costs just $912 per kilowatt, or one-fifth as much.
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While the Spanish engineering firm has made the lowest bids on the Haradh and Hawiyah gas compression stations and the Hawiyah gas plant, Italy's Saipem and Samsung E&C are also well placed to win the Hawiyah gas plant work, they said.
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The government approved a pair of heavy-oil pipelines and a liquefied natural gas plant.
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Much was in California, reacting to the blowout of the Aliso Canyon gas plant in 2015.
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He said the attack occurred Saturday near the Conoco gas plant near Deir el-Zour city.
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A gas plant under construction in Orla—a ghost town on the Texas-New Mexico border.
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There will likely be a similar battle over natural gas plant closures in coming years. 3.
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Last year, a coal-to-gas plant opened in Henan Province, the first in the east.
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Two sources told Reuters the estimated cost of the gas plant expansion is approximately $1.7 billion.
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UK'S UNITE UNION SAYS WILL HOLD A BALLOT FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION AT THE ST FERGUS GAS PLANT
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But they are easy to miss against the riot of illumination from a $19bn liquefied natural gas plant.
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Before doing that, PSEG wants to first get approval to build a new gas plant at the site.
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Its biggest investments have been in Russia, including a gas plant that began operating in Siberia in December.
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In 2016, toxic substances were found in soil and groundwater at Toyosu, once home to a gas plant.
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It will become the number two in offshore wind globally and operate Europe's fourth biggest gas plant fleet.
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Oil and gas major Total is also a shareholder of Yamal LNG, Russia's second liquefied natural gas plant.
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So the company is bringing the gas plant back into service and is considering doing the same with others.
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Houston-based Exxon has also taken charge of the development of the liquefied natural gas plant at the site.
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UK'S UNITE UNION SAYS "SECURED A MAJOR VICTORY FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AT THE SHELL OWNED ST FERGUS GAS PLANT"
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And in January 2013, his fighters launched an attack on a gas plant at In Amenas in southern Algeria.
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The 2007 "clean electricity" regulation forced BC Hydro to cancel two private coal plants and its own gas plant.
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In 2013, Kingho opened the coal-to-gas plant as a pilot project closely watched by central-level officials.
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A single blowout at a natural gas plant last year released more carbon than Norway does in a year.
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Crippling solar competitors short-term won't keep them from surging back over the lifetime of a new gas plant.
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It said full-scale commercial operations at the gas plant are due to start in the fourth quarter this year.
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The attack caused a fire at a gas plant, but state-run Saudi Aramco said oil production was not affected.
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It is opening a new combined-cycle natural-gas plant in Virginia this year, built with GE and Mitsubishi equipment.
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In April, Indiana's utility commission rejected a proposal for a gas plant by Vectren, another utility, for just that reason.
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Russian energy giant Gazprom also plans to build a liquefied natural gas plant on Sakhalin to supply the island chain.
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Such upgrades cost about $55 million for a coal plant and $10 million for a natural gas plant, GE said.
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If a new natural gas plant or wind farm goes up, something else has to get pushed off the grid.
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If the US electricity sector is 80 percent carbon-free in 2028 (or whenever) and the next increment of decarbonization would be cheaper and faster from a new natural gas plant that captures its carbon emissions (like this one) than it would be from another solar plant, then we should build the natural gas plant.
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The shift to a new facility on Tokyo Bay was delayed due to soil contamination at the former gas plant site.
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In addition, Exxon and Rosneft are discussing a joint project to build a liquefied natural gas plant in Russia's far east.
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The Kollsnes gas plant, with a processing capacity of 12493 million cubic meters per day, was also shut for several hours.
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The Union said 24-hour stoppages will also take place at the Shetland gas plant between March 13 and May 8.
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Militants attacked the In Salah gas plant, operated with state-owned Sonatrach, with rockets on Friday, causing no casualties or damage.
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That acts as a deterrent for keeping those plants open, especially if, say, building a new gas plant might be cheaper.
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Lightning strikes on August 9th contributed to halting operations at Hornsea One and a small gas plant, causing a power-cut.
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This super-heated water turns to steam, and turns electricity-producing turbines the same way a coal or gas plant does.
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Or perhaps Net Power's scheme for a gas plant in Texas that can cheaply bury its emissions will prove game-changing.
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UK'S UNITE UNION SAYS PETROFAC DISPUTE IS SEPARATE FROM ONGOING INDUSTRIAL ACTION INVOLVING SHETLAND GAS PLANT AND ALWYN, DUNBAR AND ELGIN PLATFORMS
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The employees of the Italian construction company, Bonatti -- based in Parma, Italy -- were kidnapped in July near an oil and gas plant.
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But the plan was delayed after concerns emerged about toxic pollution at its proposed new home, where a gas plant once stood.
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Behind it, rows of dilapidated green tents stood in the shadow of a gas plant that belched smoke in the sweltering heat.
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But it has already gotten risky to build a new gas plant in the US. The UK is turning away from gas.
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It's fairly simple to build a gas plant instead of a coal plant or to add modest shares of wind and solar.
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Capturing carbon would mean bolting on another unit, siphoning off power, increasing costs, and reducing natural gas plant efficiency to 48 percent.
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The flooding forced Duke to shut down the 625-megawatt natural gas plant, and the company is monitoring the coal ash pits.
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Over 5.8 million barrels per day in exports of petroleum products, a category that includes gasoline, diesel, natural gas plant liquids and more.
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Aramco's Wasit gas plant, which has a processing capacity of 2.5 billion standard cubic feet per day, has reached full capacity, Nasser said.
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"A liquefied natural gas plant is an option to maximize benefits to the consortium and the Russian state and its citizens," she added.
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ConocoPhillips, Santos and an affiliate of South Korea's SK Holdings Co own Caldita-Barossa, which would supply the Darwin liquefied natural gas plant.
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In April, the Glendale City Council voted to table a proposal for a natural gas plant in their city, to explore cleaner options.
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After NRG's announcement, Calpine, a power company based in Houston, said it would suspend plans to build a natural-gas plant in California.
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On Friday, she made a public plea for demonstrators to end an ongoing blockade at a natural gas plant that supplies La Paz.
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The electric company plans to use batteries as part of a plan to replace an aging gas plant along the San Gabriel River.
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The February 1003 quake struck near Porgera in the Pacific nation's Enga province, destroying houses, causing landslides and damaging a major gas plant.
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Al Qaeda's North Africa branch claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on the gas plant in central Algeria that caused no casualties or damage.
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We flew to Santa Cruz, the country's commercial hub, with the chiefs of the military, to attend the opening of a liquid gas plant.
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They also want Kenney, to veto the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant that was slated to be built near the old facility.
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OSLO, March 18 (Reuters) - An Algerian gas plant owned by Norway's Statoil, BP and state firm Sonatrach was attacked on Friday, the company said.
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The water has breached the cooling lake at the LV Sutton natural gas plant on the Cape Fear River, forcing it to shut down.
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A twin car bombing killed 67 in Algiers in 2007 and at least 38 hostages died when jihadis seized a gas plant in 2013.
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Ars Technica reports that wind farms can be built and operated for less than the cost of fuel for an equivalent natural-gas plant.
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He branched out with a new group, Al Mourabitoun, and seized more than 600 employees of a gas plant in Algeria, killing 38 people.
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You can swap in a gas plant for a coal plant and no one really notices the difference — except CO2 has fallen in half.
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In February 2018, about 500 Syrian troops and dozens of vehicles, backed by Russian contractors, attacked the Conoco gas plant near Deir al-Zour.
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In July it was awarded a procurement and construction contract for the development of the Haradh gas plant in the east of the country.
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"The project's domestic gas plant also has the capacity to produce 200 terajoules per day of domestic gas for the Western Australian market," it said.
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That came even as first-half output was hit by an outage at the Papua New Guinea LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant after an earthquake.
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The new gas compression plants and the expansion of the Hawiyah gas plant are expected to cost more than $4 billion, industry sources have estimated.
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CONOCOPHILLIPS - DUE TO 3RD-PARTY PIPELINE DELAY, WE NOW EXPECT MONTNEY GAS PLANT PROJECT IN CANADA TO BE ONLINE IN EARLY 2020 - EXEC, CONF CALL
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Lukoil also said on Thursday it has raised a $660 million loan to finance part of the cost of building the gas plant in Uzbekistan.
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Gas from Hides feeds ExxonMobil's PNG LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant, which has been exporting at a rate of more than 8 million tonnes a year.
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ConocoPhillips first reported the leaking of condensate, an ultra-light hydrocarbon, from a 7.25-kilometre (4.5-mile) pipeline near its Resthaven gas plant on June 23.
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Gas is processed at Hides and transported along a 700 km (435 miles) line that feeds a liquefied natural gas plant near Port Moresby for shipping.
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UK'S UNITE UNION ANNOUNCES COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF DAYS FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION COVERING ITS OFFSHORE MEMBERSHIP ON ELGIN-FRANKLIN, SHETLAND GAS PLANT, NORTH ALWYN AND DUNBAR PLATFORMS
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LIMA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Argentine energy company Plusptrol said that normal operations at its Las Malvinas natural gas plant in southern Peru were resuming on Friday.
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Today, a natural gas plant can be permitted in as little as two years, while clean hydropower facilities can take up to ten years or more.
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All told, there are 15 fires burning across the province, including one northwest of Edmonton near Fox Creek and a gas plant that forced another evacuation.
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Egyptian petroleum minister Tarek El Molla said on Monday Egypt's Damietta liquefied natural gas plant would restart operations as planned before the end of the year.
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The community later hoped a natural-gas plant would replace the coal facility, but Los Angeles could not agree with the local communities on a site.
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The LV Sutton coal power plant was retired in 2013, and today it operates as a natural gas plant, an earlier statement from Duke Energy explained.
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Home to what some consider the best drinking water in the country, Memphis is also home to a retired coal power plant and a new gas plant.
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The group is one of around five foreign firms that Brazil's state oil company Petrobras invited to bid to build a new $240 billion natural gas plant.
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Islamic State used three car bombs to breach the perimeter of a state-run gas plant in Baghdad's northern outskirts on Sunday, killing at least 11 people.
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Following a gas plant blast in southern Nigeria a year ago the presidency said "tens of people" had been killed while witnesses counted more than 100 bodies.
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LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Britain's first new large gas plant in three years began electricity generation this week, the owner of the Carrington plant near Manchester said.
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SNC said it would construct a handling facility and a sour water disposal project at the Wasit gas plant, which is located north of Jubail Industrial City.
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Under the government's central forecast for gas and rising carbon prices, the cost of a gas-plant commissioning in 2025 is close to the Hinkley strike price.
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In another advance, Algeria's Tiguentourine gas plant resumed full production for the first time since a militant attack in 2013, after its third train came back online.
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The violence took place as Bolivian security services attempted to clear a path for gas tanks to leave the Senkata gas plant near La Paz on Tuesday.
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Helicopters flew above roads around the Senkata gas plant, operated by state-run YPFB, which were blocked with piles of burning tires, according to a Reuters witness.
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed a rocket attack on Friday on a southern Algerian gas plant operated by BP, Statoil and state energy firm Sonatrach.
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An earlier statement from Duke Energy explained the LV Sutton coal power plant was retired in 13, and today the plant operates as a natural gas plant.
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Anti-government protesters lifted road blockades - including one at a natural gas plant where nine people were killed in clashes this week - ahead of the weekend's talks.
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BP and Statoil temporarily withdrew workers from the country after a rocket attack on a major gas plant in Algeria in March, for which al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.
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A coal or gas plant can increase production only by burning more fuel, while a solar or wind plant can create more electricity only by building more capacity.
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Glatt has even admitted multiple times, most recently in light of a blanketed 2015 gas plant spill, that the public deserves more transparency when it comes to spills.
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We see the benefits of innovation with the first "Allam Cycle" natural gas facility that opened in Houston last year, creating the first zero emissions natural gas plant.
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Statoil, BP and Sonatrach were due to restart the third and final processing train at the In Amenas gas plant, damaged during the 2013 attack, later this year.
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In Western Australia, Woodside Energy, one of the nation's largest oil and natural gas producers, has placed roughly 200,000 sensors throughout its $10 billion liquefied natural gas plant.
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Zuwara is near the Mellitah oil and gas plant, jointly operated by Italy's ENI and state oil firm NOC, which supplies Italy with gas through the Greenstream pipeline.
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Mark Dayton (D) has signed a bill allowing a natural gas plant to replace a downsizing coal-fired power station in the state, the St. Cloud Times reports.
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ConocoPhillips, operator of the Darwin LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant, and Inpex, operator of Ichthys LNG onshore facilities, both said their sites were operating normally following the tremor.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Drax has been given government approval to build a 90 million pound ($118 million) gas plant in the east of England, the company said on Tuesday.
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Fifteen years ago, the Tokyo government decided to move the market two kilometers (just over a mile) to a manmade island called Toyosu, where a gas plant once stood.
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It took a giant step down that path by allowing Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) to build an unneeded 22019 MW fracked gas plant in the Hudson Valley's Orange County.
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The energy company will exit Egypt after selling its 210% stake in Damietto, a liquefied gas plant in the North African country, for a total of 750 million euros.
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Low-pressure gas would be sent to the Berri gas plant in Jubail, which will be expanded under a program to recover more natural gas liquids (NGL) and sulfur.
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He has repeatedly been pronounced dead by authorities before resurfacing to plot attacks or kidnappings, including a raid on an Algerian gas plant that killed 40 workers in 2013.
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L) is seeking buyers for its stake in a major Algerian gas plant deep in the Sahara desert after recent talks on a sale to Russian oil giant Rosneft (ROSN.
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The attack in the Ain BaMaabad area was the second by al Qaeda in two days in Shabwa province, where Yemen's liquefied natural gas plant and export facilities are located.
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"It is remarkably easy to just mess with the temperature someplace in a natural gas plant and catch the entire plant on fire," Meredith Patterson, a information security expert, said.
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The vessel carried construction supplies for a new liquefied natural gas plant on the remote Yamal Peninsula, but its route through the Kara Sea along the Northeast Passage was frozen.
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Militants attacked an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway's Statoil and BP with rocket-propelled grenades on Friday, but there were no casualties or damage, the companies and sources said.
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Separately, the Amaq news agency, which is associated with Islamic State, said the group had destroyed a gas plant in the desert outside the central city of Palmyra on Sunday.
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Earlier this month NLNG said it had moved closer to an investment decision on the long-awaited Train 7 project to expand its liquefied natural gas plant on Bonny Island.
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Earlier this month NLNG said it had moved closer to an investment decision on the long-awaited Train 7 project to expand its liquefied natural gas plant on Bonny Island.
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The company said it was conducting a strategic review for its remaining coal plants and one natural gas plant, totaling 5,245 MW. One megawatt is enough power for 1,000 U.S. homes.
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It's the result of "large increases in crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas plant liquids (NGPL) production coupled with slow growth in U.S. energy consumption," according to the EIA report.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's environmental regulator expanded its investigation into a gas poisoning incident in coastal town Quintero, bringing charges of non-compliance with environmental agreements on Monday against a gas plant.
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Sherco employs 310 people, and that figure would be cut nearly in half if Xcel replaces the coal generators with a gas plant, a plan that wasn't formally approved this week.
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Eni, which owns a stake in the country's other liquefied natural gas plant in Damietta along with Spain's Gas Natural has said the long idle plant should restore operations this year.
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Equinor, technical service provider at Kaarstoe plant, separately said it was cancelling maintenance at its Arctic liquefied natural gas plant in Hammerfest and five offshore platforms due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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"Saudi Arabia will utilise the gas produced by the Fadhili gas plant to compensate for around 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) of domestic oil consumption," the ministry said in a statement.
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"However, we're pleased to be able to continue discussions with staff at the Shetland Gas Plant and remain committed to further consultation and open dialogue with offshore staff," the spokeswoman said.
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ROME, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Electrical issues that prompted a force majeure at Cameron LNG's U.S. liquefied natural gas plant in September are now resolved, Cameron LNG spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday.
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Thing is, it takes billions of dollars to build a nuclear power plant — perhaps five times as much as a coal plant and 215 times as much as a natural gas plant.
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Canadian Natural said it has about 176 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) of gas production shut in due to problems at the Pine River Gas Plant in British Columbia.
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Algeria's oil and gas facilities are heavily protected by the army, especially since Islamist militants killed 40 oil workers in an attack on the In Amenas gas plant near the Libyan border.
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Shell signed a deal with Gazprom last week to study jointly building a $10 billion gas plant on the Baltic Sea, as part of their strategic partnership which also foresees asset swaps.
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MOSCOW, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Gazprom said on Thursday that it has discussed possible financing with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation for the expansion of the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas plant.
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To reach cost- competitiveness with a peaker natural gas plant at $0.077/kWh, energy storage capacity costs must instead fall below $5/kWh (at a storage power capacity cost of $1,000/kW).
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The Yili Xintian Coal Chemical Company has been trying to open a new coal-to-gas plant here in Yining, but local environmental protection officials told the company to stop in 2015.
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One of the largest such clashes, in February, involved Syrian Army soldiers and Russian mercenaries who tried to seize a gas plant controlled mostly by Kurdish forces and their American military advisers.
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Around the Balhaf liquefied natural gas plant in Shabwa, Khalid Al Adhami, a local army commander responsible for security of the facility, said that Sudanese, Emirati and Yemeni soldiers were protecting it.
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His father retired as an engineer, supervising the pipe system that fed the gas plant at Termo, a public supplier of the hot water used for heating residences and businesses in Brasov.
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Trump reportedly said he only made the controversial phone call because Perry asked him to, saying it had to do with "something about an LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant," Axios first reported.
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A similar fight is unfolding in Florida, where the local Sierra Club is challenging a proposal by Tampa Electric to replace two older coal units with a large new natural gas plant.
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Canada's Pieridae Energy will buy gas assets in Alberta from Royal Dutch Shell for C$190 million, Pieridae said on Wednesday, securing supply for its planned liquefied natural gas plant in eastern Canada.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia electricity generator Celsia said on Thursday it has sold a gas plant in the coastal city of Barranquilla to subsidiaries of the U.S.-based Glenfarne Group, LLC for $420 million.
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As well as the 2013 gas plant attack in In Amenas, which authorities said was planned from Libya, Belmokhtar has been blamed for kidnapping foreigners and running lucrative smuggling rings in the Sahara.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Argentine energy company Pluspetrol will reduce production from its Las Malvinas natural gas plant in Peru while it repairs a leak detected in one of its pipes, Peru's government said on Tuesday.
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Veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar was blamed for orchestrating the attack on the Tiguentourine gas plant in 2013, in which 40 oil contractors, mainly foreigners, were killed during the assault and siege that followed.
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Additionally, the Yamal LNG project is a liquified natural gas plant in Russia's arctic that's secured $12 billion in financing from The Export-Import Bank of China and China Development Bank earlier this year.
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Brazil's government awarded contracts representing nominal power capacity of 293.8 megawatts and investments of 1.62 billion reais ($412 million) to build a natural gas plant in Roraima, which is located on the Venezuelan border.
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The company has been in talks with Gazprom about the acquisition of four Tambey gas fields in the Arctic Yamal region, where Novatek pans to launch a liquefied natural gas plant later this year.
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East Timor had also disagreed with the project's owners, led by Australia's Woodside Petroleum, over whether to pipe gas from the field to a liquefied natural gas plant in Australia or to East Timor.
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The utility said it needed the gas plant to replace an old, inefficient unit at its Michoud plant, just south of Interstate 10 and Lake Pontchartrain in largely African-American and Vietnamese-American neighborhoods.
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Algeria's energy infrastructure has been heavily protected by the army, especially since a 2013 attack on the In Amenas gas plant, also operated by BP and Statoil, during which 40 oil workers were killed.
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Related: A New Out of Control Wildfire Forces Another Evacuation Near an Alberta Gas Plant The Environment ministry is recommending that residents in the area avoid physical activities outdoors, especially children and the elderly.
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Now he's putting his chips on the table for a struggling natural gas plant in the Central Valley — and if he wins, it could deal a blow to the state's ambitious clean energy goals.
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TVA's work will be mostly done by the end of 2018 when it completes construction of a near 1,100-megawatt gas plant for about $1 billion at the Allen station in Tennessee, Johnson said.
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For example, an effective natural gas plant or commercial-scale solar, wind, or hydropower project is a major undertaking requiring steel infrastructure, landscaping, civil engineering and substantial manpower to lay transmission lines or pipelines.
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb last week claimed a rocket attack on an Algerian gas plant, operated by BP and Statoil with state-owned Sonatrach, though it caused no casualties or notable damage.
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Bombing by a warplane occurred on Friday near the Mellitah oil and gas plant, jointly operated by Italy's ENI and Libyan state oil firm NOC, a Libyan National Army (LNA) military source and residents said.
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Last year it broke news that Mali's main jihadist groups had merged, and in 2013 it had exclusive reports about a militant attack on a gas plant in Algeria in which 38 hostages were killed.
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In its first major energy decision since taking power last November, the Liberal government on Tuesday granted a permit to Malaysia's Petronas to construct the liquefied natural gas plant in the province of British Columbia.
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Algeria's energy infrastructure is heavily protected by the army especially since the 2013 Islamist militant attack on the In Amenas gas plant, also operated by BP and Statoil, during which 40 oil workers were killed.
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It would be the first gas plant order in Germany in four years for Siemens, whose chief executive said last year he had resigned himself to never selling another gas turbine in his home country.
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The plant in Lower Saxony would be the biggest power-to-gas plant (ptg) in Germany and would be connected to the grid in phases from 2022, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday.
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A natural gas plant takes three to five years, while Elon Musk promised South Australia he would build them the world's largest battery bank in 100 days or it would be free — and he delivered.
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"Gas plant replacement with storage is happening as we speak, and is accelerating due to economic forces, broader energy production trends, and increased climate change awareness," says Ryan Kladar, a senior analyst at consultancy Strategen.
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In fact, the United States conducted an airstrike in eastern Libya in June 2015 against Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the mastermind of the 2013 terrorist seizure of an Algerian gas plant that left 38 foreign hostages dead.
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SANTIAGO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, said on Tuesday it sold its stake in the GNL Mejillones natural gas plant in the northern part of the country for $193.5 million.
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OTTAWA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Canadian government is set to announce a decision later on Tuesday on the approval of a proposed Petronas-led liquefied natural gas plant, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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The big picture: The U.S. emergence as a net exporter of petroleum products — the combo of crude oil, gasoline, natural gas plant liquids, diesel and more — on an ongoing basis has been forecast for some time.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian review of a proposed Petronas-led liquefied natural gas plant has found the project would have a significant environmental impact that requires major remedial measures, two sources briefed on the report said.
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Results were lifted by sales of liquefied natural gas plant equipment and by oilfield operations outside the United States, contrasting with steep falls in revenue at some rivals hurt by declining shale spending in North America.
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The plant treats gas produced in the rugged mountain region and then sends it down a 700-km pipeline to ExxonMobil's PNG LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant on the coast where it is chilled for export.
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When Southern California's natural resources group proposed a giant new natural gas plant, advocates pushed back hard, marshaling evidence that renewables and storage would be faster and cleaner; the natural resources group subsequently shelved the plan.
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The Masela project has faced a prolonged delay since the Indonesian government ordered Inpex in 2016 to change the liquefied natural gas plant development scheme from offshore to inland in order to better benefit the local economy.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North Africa branch has claimed responsibility for Friday's rocket-propelled grenade attack on an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway's Statoil and BP as part of its "war on the Crusader interests everywhere".
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Algeria's oil and gas infrastructure is heavily protected by the army especially since the 2013 Islamist militant attack on the In Amenas gas plant, also operated by BP and Statoil, during which 40 oil workers were killed.
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MOSCOW, April 25 (Reuters) - A feasibility study for a liquefied natural gas plant in Sakhalin, designed by Russia's Rosneft and USA's ExxonMobil, should be ready by the middle of 2017, Interfax reported on Tuesday, citing Rosneft materials.
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Peter Atherton of Jefferies, an investment bank, says Carrington, a combined-cycle gas-turbine plant in Manchester, given the green light in 2500, may be the last big gas plant to be built in Britain without subsidies.
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Output in the September quarter rose to 25.2 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) from 22.2 mmboe in the June quarter, due to record output at the Karratha gas plant and the Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) operation.
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As oil and gas supplies tighten during the northern winter, disruptions as remote as a hairline fracture on a piece of Scottish pipeline, and an explosion in an Austrian natural-gas plant, have repercussions felt around the world.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A drone attack launched by Yemen's Houthi group on an oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia caused a "minor" fire at a gas plant but had no impact on oil production, a Saudi industry source said.
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Here, the flare from an offshore gas plant guides boats packed with migrants headed to Europe, many of which are controlled by the Dabbashis, a powerful local clan that has also profited handsomely from smuggling cheap Libyan fuel.
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Shell has already slashed project emissions by moving its newest gas plant to hydro-electric power and replacing diesel with natural gas in drilling, and is now tackling methane with new electric components and a fuel cell trial.
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Reuters last week reported three industry sources as saying the company was seeking buyers for its stake in the gas plant, deep in the Sahara desert, after recent talks on a sale to Russian oil giant Rosneft failed.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada's Pieridae Energy will buy gas assets in Alberta from Royal Dutch Shell for C$190 million ($144.77 million), Pieridae said on Wednesday, securing supply for its planned liquefied natural gas plant in eastern Canada.
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A drone attack by the Houthi group on an oilfield in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday caused a fire at a gas plant, adding to Middle East tensions, but state-run Saudi Aramco said oil production was not affected.
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State-controlled Codelco issued a statement saying it would transfer the 37% it held in the natural gas plant, which is controlled by a subsidiary of the French energy company Engie , to the Chile-based Ameris Capital AGF fund.
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And over the weekend, a car bomb killed two people in Latifiya located about 21 kilometers (13 miles) south of Baghdad, while 10 people died in explosions at a gas plant in Taji -- just north of the capital city.
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PanAust managing Director Fred Hess points to the success of ExxonMobil's $19 billion liquefied natural gas plant, which has been running for two years in a country known for its difficult terrain, lack of infrastructure and sometimes fractious landowners.
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The families of two BP employees killed in the 2013 Amenas gas plant attack in Algeria have filed a lawsuit in London's High Court against the company, accusing it of failing to take reasonable steps to protect its workers.
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MELBOURNE/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - LNG Ltd said on Monday it is delaying a final decision on whether to build its U.S.-based Magnolia liquefied natural gas plant, citing problems lining up Chinese customers due to the U.S.-China trade war.
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The South African program has helped to drive the cost of both onshore wind and solar PV power to a point where it is now half that of new coal, and significantly less expensive than a new gas plant.
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In 2016, toxic substances were found in soil and groundwater at Toyosu, the former home of a gas plant, prompting Tokyo to spend an extra 3.8 billion yen ($34 million)to dig hundreds of wells to pump out groundwater.
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National Hydrocarbons Corporation (SNH) said in a statement that gas production, however, fell 5.8 percent to 4286,6 million cubic feet compared with the same period last year, due to a decline in demand for gas from its Kribi gas plant.
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It is at the mercy of venture partner Shell, however, as the Anglo-Dutch oil company is also majority owner of Arrow's biggest potential customer, Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG), a liquefied natural gas plant on an island off Queensland state.
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ALGIERS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Algerian security forces arrested seven Islamist gunmen on Tuesday in the remote southern area of In Amenas, close to the gas plant where a deadly attack took place in January 2013, the country's defence ministry said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A drone attack launched by Yemen's Houthi group on an oilfield in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday caused a fire at a gas plant but had no impact on oil production, state-run oil company Saudi Aramco said.
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DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) - A drone attack launched by Yemen's Houthi group on an oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia caused a "minor" fire at a gas plant but had no impact on oil production, a Saudi industry source said.
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OSLO, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Equinor was restarting operations at Norway's Sture oil terminal, Kollsnes gas plant and several offshore fields shut earlier in the day following the collision of a frigate and a tanker, it said in a statement on Thursday.
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"Who wants to live close to a gas plant or wells that [could leak] dangerous H2S?" asks Olaf, adding their land as it currently exists would only be attractive to buyers who wanted to farm the land and not live there.
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This month, the commission's staff produced a report arguing that the Vogtle project was "no longer economic" and that customers would ultimately save money by scrapping the project, sunk costs and all, and building a cheaper natural gas plant instead.
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Human trafficking is not the Dabbashis' only link to Italy: Their largest militia, known as Al Ammu, has a contract to protect the nearby Mellitah Oil and Gas plant, which is operated by the Italian state-controlled energy giant Eni.
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A team of about 230 Delta Force soldiers and Rangers from the Joint Special Operations Command were working alongside Kurdish and Arab forces at a small dusty outpost next to a Conoco gas plant, near the city of Deir al-Zour.
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Shell holds a stake in the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas plant in Russia's far east, the country's biggest so far, but the shareholders led by Gazprom have been unable to agree on the final terms of an output expansion.
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In the highland city of El Alto on Saturday, road access to a natural gas plant that has been a focal point of protesters resumed, with vans packed with commuters dodging boulders, burned tires and other debris still scattered on streets.
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Shell and BP jumped roughly 2%, tracking a surge in crude prices following a drone attack by Yemen's Houthi group on an oilfield in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday, which caused a fire at a gas plant and added to Middle East tensions.
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Shell and BP both rose 1.5%, tracking a surge in crude prices following a drone attack by Yemen's Houthi group on an oilfield in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday, which caused a fire at a gas plant and added to Middle East tensions.
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CALGARY, Alberta, June 26 (Reuters) - Canada's Pieridae Energy will buy oil and gas assets in Alberta from Royal Dutch Shell for C$190 million ($144.77 million), Pieridae said on Wednesday, securing supply for its planned liquefied natural gas plant in eastern Canada.
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"Many utilities continue to sell the story that gas is the bridge that we need right now to the clean energy future," said Bill Corcoran, a director of state strategies for the Sierra Club, which has surveyed gas-plant projects across the country.
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Flooding from the Cape Fear River caused breaches in a dam at a cooling lake at Duke Energy's LV Sutton Plant in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday, prompting the company to shut down the natural gas plant, Duke Energy said in a statement.
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Flooding from the Cape Fear River caused breaches in a dam at a cooling lake at Duke Energy's LV Sutton Plant in Wilmington, North Carolina, prompting the company to shut down the natural gas plant Friday, Duke Energy said in a statement.
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During his time at the firm O'Melveny & Myers, Srinivasan represented Exxon in a long-running battle over alleged human rights abuses by members of the Indonesian military whom the oil giant had hired to work on security at a major natural gas plant.
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Related: Video Shows Huge Fires Sparked by Islamic State Attack on Iraqi Gas Plant Security has improved somewhat in Baghdad in recent years, even as Sunni militant group IS seized swathes of the country almost up to the outskirts of the capital.
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Well, a lot of things you do, like, take [away] coal and build natural gas, for your 2050 goal, that's actually a step backwards because that gas plant is at a higher CO2-per-kilowatt-hour than you're going to want to have in 2050.
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HOUSTON, June 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Gulf of Mexico producer LLOG was in the process of shutting its Delta House floating production system in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, a spokesman said, following a fire at Enterprise Products Partners' Pascagoula gas plant late Monday night.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - U.S. petroleum company Anadarko has placed staff working at its liquefied natural gas plant in northern Mozambique under "lock-down" due to the threat from suspected Islamist militants in the area, a regional security consultant familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
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Wind and solar can cost as little as $18 a megawatt hour, compared with $40 for a large gas plant, said Mikael Backman, North America regional director at Wartsila Energy Solutions, part of the Finnish company that makes quick-start natural gas-fired generators.
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Total said the discovery will extend the life of the West of Shetland infrastructure and production hub which includes the Laggan, Tormore, Edradour & Glenlivet fields, as well as the Shetland Gas plant, all of which contribute to about 7 percent of the UK gas consumption.
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Australia's energy index ended 1.8 percent lower despite oil prices rising modestly as Oil Search Ltd reported a near 40 percent fall in half-year profit on lost production and higher costs due to an earthquake which affected a co-owned liquefied natural gas plant.
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Ms. Guidry began her homework after a subsidiary of Entergy — a major utility in a state heavily reliant on the oil and gas industry — said it needed to build a new natural-gas plant to replace an outdated unit in the New Orleans East neighborhood.
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LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The families of two BP employees killed in the 2013 In Amenas gas plant attack in Algeria have filed a lawsuit in London's High Court against the company, accusing it of failing to take reasonable steps to protect its workers.
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But last year in Michigan, regulators approved DTE Energy's plan to build a new $1 billion gas plant, rejecting analyses by outside groups that the utility could save ratepayers money by scrapping the plant and making greater use of wind, solar and energy efficiency.
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Last year in Indiana, the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, or Nipsco, opened bidding to outside energy developers and found that adding a mix of wind, solar and batteries would be cheaper than building a new gas plant to replace its retiring coal units.
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A 300 MW liquefied natural gas plant (LNG), which was to be started in January this year, has been held up for more than two years due to a court battle between local firm Lakdhanavi and a joint venture between China's GCL and a Sri Lankan firm.
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Under the previously-announced terms of their asset swap deal, Gazprom and Shell will jointly invest $13 billion in three projects in Russia, including construction of a liquefied natural gas plant on the Baltic Sea and the Sakhalin-2 LNG plant expansion, in the Pacific Ocean.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A drone attack launched by Yemen's Houthi group on the Shaybah oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday caused a "limited" fire at a gas plant but had no impact on oil production, state-run oil company Saudi Aramco said in a statement.
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The price of solar cells has fallen by 90 percent over the last 20 years and Bloomberg Energy News is predicting that, by 2022, it will be cheaper to build and operate a solar electricity facility than it will be to operate an existing natural gas plant.
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Roughly 21 miles away, at a base known as a mission support site, a team of Green Berets and a platoon of infantry Marines stared at their computer screens, watching drone feeds and passing information to the Americans at the gas plant about the gathering fighters.
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"The fuel of choice right now, certainly for us, is wind," said Ben Fowke, the chief executive of Xcel Energy, which shut down a large natural-gas plant in Colorado for two days in January and let wind fill, on average, half of its customer demand.
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ALGIERS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - BP has written to Algeria to express its interest in investing in its oil sector and has not made any request to sell its shares in the Amenas gas plant, state news agency APS quoted Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab as saying on Wednesday.
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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian police and military forces used armored vehicles and helicopters to clear access to a major gas plant in the city of El Alto on Tuesday, a show of strength after blockades at the facility had cut off fuel supply to nearby La Paz.
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DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) - A drone attack launched by Yemen's Houthi group on the Shaybah oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday caused a "limited" fire at a gas plant but had no impact on oil production, state-run oil company Saudi Aramco said in a statement.
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OSLO, March 20 (Reuters) - Equinor is delaying maintenance work due this spring at its Hammerfest liquefied natural gas plant in Arctic Norway, as well as several offshore platforms, including Aasgard A and B, Norne, Kristin, and Troll C, due to the coronavirus outbreak, the company said on Friday.
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Engie shares, at just under 13 euros, trade at less than half the nearly 30 euros they were worth a decade ago as the firm has had to write off billions of euros on coal and gas plant investments and has suffered repeated outages at its legacy nuclear plants in Belgium.
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Rated companies with assets in Catalonia include Repsol, which operates a refinery in the region, Enagas, which owns gas transmission networks and a liquefied natural gas plant, Red Electrica de Espana, which owns the electricity transmission networks, and Endesa, which owns most of the electricity distribution network and generation plants.
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In oil and gas, for example, the Norwegian giant Statoil ranks near the top based partly on its record of spills and low emissions, while the American company Chevron ranks near the bottom with higher-risk operations, including forced shutdowns this year of a new $54 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Australia.
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The market operator is counting on 750 MW of supply that has been out of service over the past six months - the Mortlake gas plant run by Origin Energy and a unit at the Loy Yang coal-fired plant run by AGL Energy - to be back up by the end of December.
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While the utility thinks it can get 80 percent of the way to its emissions goals by 2030 with a mix of wind, solar, batteries and its existing nuclear plants, it will still rely on natural gas to provide the rest of its power and is building a new gas plant in Minnesota to balance out its supply.
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Consider Texas's power market: The left side of the below chart shows energy market revenues for combined-cycle gas from 2628-28500 in several regions of Texas, suggesting for the past few years the state's power market has not generated enough revenue to cover the cost of new entry for a typical new gas plant; in fact, it's far short.
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Gas may still be the default choice for many utilities, but environmentalists aren't letting them make it thoughtlessly — it is a struggle to build a gas plant, almost anywhere in the US. And then there's California, where the catastrophic natural gas leak at Aliso Canyon exposed the fragility of the natural gas distribution system and prompted a state of emergency.
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Between the lines: Rather than disciplining these trade partners, Trump's policies are encouraging them to increase trade that bypasses the U.S. For example, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership last year, but Canada promptly ratified a revised version of the agreement and recently announced a major new liquefied natural gas plant that will directly compete with U.S. gas exports to Asia.
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The lawsuits are targeting a Superfund site in Warren County, in the northwest part of the state, where a stretch of groundwater nearly nine miles long was polluted; a manufacturing facility in Newark where a school was recently built after a costly cleanup; a former petroleum refinery and an old gas station in Woodbridge, on the central coast; and a former manufactured gas plant in Atlantic City.
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Papua Province is home to one of the world's largest gold and copper mining operations, run by the Indonesian unit of the American mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, and a large natural gas plant in West Papua Province, run by a local unit of BP. But some of the region's demographics are comparable to sub-Saharan Africa, according to analysts, with an alarming gap between Papuans who live in coastal areas and those who live in the remote highlands, mostly only accessible by airplane.
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Plant name: Lackawanna Energy Center Turbines: 23 x GE 7HA Location: Jessup, Pennsylvania Owner: Invenergy Plant name: Allen Natural Gas Plant Turbines: 2 x GE 7HA Location: Memphis, Tennessee Owner: Tennessee Valley Authority Plant name: Nishi-Nagoya Thermal Power Station Turbines: 6 x GE 7HA Location: Nagoya, Japan Owner: Chubu Electric Power Co. Plant name: Dah-Tarn Turbines: 2 x GE 7HA Location: Taoyuan City, Taiwan Owner: Taiwan Power Co. Plant name: Bouchain Turbines: 1 x GE 9HA Location: Bouchain, France Owner: Electricite de France Plant name: Colorado Bend II Turbines: 2 x GE 7HA Location: Wharton County, Texas Owner: Exelon Corp Plant name: Wolf Hollow II Turbines: 2 x GE 7HA Location: Granbury, Texas Owner: Exelon Corp Sources: Companies, GE, Reuters research Reporting by Alwyn Scott
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