scholarly journals Crude Optimism: Romanticizing Alberta’s Oil Frontier at the Calgary Stampede

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Skye Richards
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Fuel Production ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Affective Climate

Designed to preserve and promote western heritage and culture, the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede has become entwined with, and politically and economically expedient for, Alberta’s oil and gas industry. Performances at the Stampede relieve guilt about the expropriation of Indigenous territory and conquest of the natural world, and produce an affective climate of “crude optimism,” an optimistic attachment to fossil fuel production and consumption despite the brutal realities of extractivism.

Priming the Well: “Frackademia” and the Corporate Pipeline of Oil and Gas Funding into Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-177
Author(s):  
Anthony E. Ladd
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Science Centers ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Technological Advances

While fossil fuel interests have long played a powerful role in shaping American politics and culture, in recent decades, transnational oil and gas companies have formed hundreds of “partnerships” with American colleges and universities to fund energy research and development. Moreover, oil and gas interests have established a foothold in major universities by sponsoring research conferences, scholarships, science centers, and laboratories addressing technological advances in hydraulic fracturing methods, including leasing land for drilling on university-owned property. In this article, I critically assess some of the broad economic linkages between fossil fuel companies and higher education in the United States and the role that corporate philanthropy plays today in expanding the profits and power of the oil and gas industry, as well as the financial base and academic stature of select colleges and universities. Finally, I draw some preliminary conclusions about the growing colonization of university space and other public institutions by energy corporations.

Aircraft mass balance estimate of methane emissions from offshore gas facilities in the Southern North Sea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Pühl ◽  
Anke Roiger ◽  
Alina Fiehn ◽  
Stefan Schwietzke ◽  
Grant Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Balance ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Atmospheric Methane ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Emissions Inventory ◽  
Southern North Sea ◽  
Methane Fluxes

<p>Atmospheric methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) concentrations have more than doubled since the beginning of the industrial era, making methane the second most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>). Fossil fuel extraction is one of the major anthropogenic methane sources as it is estimated to account for 22 % of global CH<sub>4</sub> emissions. However, studies indicate that inventories underestimate emissions arising from the oil and gas industry.</p><p>In two airborne field campaigns carried out in spring 2018 and 2019 offshore gas facilities in the Southern North Sea were probed. A total of nine research flights were conducted to characterize platform emissions. The Twin Otter research aircraft, operated by the British Antarctic Survey, was equipped with a high-precision 10 Hz analyzer (Picarro) to continuously measure CH<sub>4</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub>. In order to identify fossil fuel emissions ethane (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>) was simultaneously measured with a 1 Hz TILDAS instrument (Aerodyne Research, Inc). On offshore oil and gas platforms methane is emitted by leakage, venting or flaring. To catch the methane plume, stacked transects were flown downwind of single platforms or platform complexes.</p><p>Methane fluxes were calculated for six British and four Dutch facilities using the mass balance method. Correlations with C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub> were found with the latter indicating partly combusted methane from flaring. Uncertainties of fluxes arise mainly due to uncertainty of the wind measurement and the plume height. The calculated fluxes were compared to emissions reported to inventories (UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI), UK Environmental and Emissions Monitoring System database (EEMS), Scarpelli inventory (2016)) and individually reported emissions from Dutch operators.</p>

Financing Renewable Energy in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier ◽  
Anderson Souza da Silva Lanzillo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Gas Industry

This chapter analyses Brazilian public policy on financing renewable energy to address climate change. Conditions in Brazil favour adoption of an increasingly clean energy matrix: with significant innovation in energy policy and technology much of the country’s energy production now comes from renewable sources. The chapter examines the National Policy on Climate Change (Federal Law no. 12.187/2009), the National Fund for Climate Change (Federal Law no. 12.114/2009). Yet, energy for Brazil’s transportation system remains largely fossil fuel-based, and the oil and gas industry is economically important. The chapter discusses the intergration of renewable energy into climate change policy and adoption of climate policy in energy legislation, together with measures such as taxation that support renewable energy. The chapter examines the oil and gas industry economic crisis and the ramifications for financing renewable energy given historic reliance on the fossil fuel sector to fund innovations in renewable energy technologies.

scholarly journals Constraints on emissions of carbon monoxide, methane, and a suite of hydrocarbons in the Colorado Front Range using observations of <sup>14</sup>CO<sub>2</sub>

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1609-1672 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. W. LaFranchi ◽  
G. Pétron ◽  
J. B. Miller ◽  
S. J. Lehman ◽  
A. E. Andrews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
High Resolution Data ◽  
The North ◽  
Emission Ratios

Abstract. Atmospheric radiocarbon (14CO) represents an important observational constraint on emissions of fossil-fuel derived carbon into the atmosphere due to the absence of 14CO in fossil fuel reservoirs. The high sensitivity and precision that accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) affords in atmospheric 14CO analysis has greatly increased the potential for using such measurements to evaluate bottom-up emissions inventories of fossil fuel CO2 (CO2ff), as well as those for other co-emitted species. Here we use observations of 14CO2 and a series of hydrocarbons and combustion tracers from discrete air samples collected between June 2009 and September 2010 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO; Lat: 40.050° N, Lon: 105.004° W) to derive emission ratios of each species to CO2ff. From these emission ratios, we estimate emissions of these species by using the Vulcan CO2ff high resolution data product as a reference. The species considered in this analysis are carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), acetylene (C2H2), benzene (C6H6), and C3–C5 alkanes. Comparisons of top-down emissions estimates are made to existing inventories of these species for Denver and adjacent counties, as well as to previous efforts to estimate emissions from atmospheric observations over the same area. We find that CO is overestimated in the 2008 National Emissions Inventory (NEI, 2008) by a factor of ~2. A close evaluation of the inventory suggests that the ratio of CO emitted per unit fuel burned from on-road gasoline vehicles is likely over-estimated by a factor of 2.5. The results also suggest that while the oil and gas sector is the largest contributor to the CH4 signal in air arriving from the north and east, it is very likely that other sources, including agricultural sources, contribute to this signal and must be accounted for when attributing these signals to oil and gas industry activity from a top-down perspective. Our results are consistent with ~60% of the total CH4 emissions from regions to the north and east of the BAO tower stemming from the oil and gas industry, equating to ~70 Gg yr−1 or ~1.7% of total natural gas production in the region.

Deployment of Digital NDT Solutions in the Oil and Gas Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
pp. 861-868
Author(s):  
Casper Wassink ◽  
Marc Grenier ◽  
Oliver Roy ◽  
Neil Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry

What Does Rent Give to Federal Budget (on the Russia's Budget Dependence upon "Oil Dollars")

2004 ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Sharipova ◽  
I. Tcherkashin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Resource Rent ◽  
Tax Legislation ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Government

Federal tax revenues from the main sectors of the Russian economy after the 1998 crisis are examined in the article. Authors present the structure of revenues from these sectors by main taxes for 1999-2003 and prospects for 2004. Emphasis is given to an increasing dependence of budget on revenues from oil and gas industries. The share of proceeds from these sectors has reached 1/3 of total federal revenues. To explain this fact world oil prices dynamics and changes in tax legislation in Russia are considered. Empirical results show strong dependence of budget revenues on oil prices. The analysis of changes in tax legislation in oil and gas industry shows that the government has managed to redistribute resource rent in favor of the state.

The Political Economy of Power: Approaches to the Analysis of Relationships between the State and Business in Russia

2011 ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
A. Oleinik
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Business Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Road ◽  
Ruling Elites

The article deals with the issues of political and economic power as well as their constellation on the market. The theory of public choice and the theory of public contract are confronted with an approach centered on the power triad. If structured in the power triad, interactions among states representatives, businesses with structural advantages and businesses without structural advantages allow capturing administrative rents. The political power of the ruling elites coexists with economic power of certain members of the business community. The situation in the oil and gas industry, the retail trade and the road construction and operation industry in Russia illustrates key moments in the proposed analysis.

Consideration of Geopolitical Challenges within the Analysis of Geoenvironmental Risks for Oil and Gas Development of the Russian Arctic

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
O. P. Trubitsina ◽  
V. N. Bashkin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Optimal Operation ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Geopolitical Risks

The article is devoted to the consideration of geopolitical challenges for the analysis of geoenvironmental risks (GERs) in the hydrocarbon development of the Arctic territory. Geopolitical risks (GPRs), like GERs, can be transformed into opposite external environment factors of oil and gas industry facilities in the form of additional opportunities or threats, which the authors identify in detail for each type of risk. This is necessary for further development of methodological base of expert methods for GER management in the context of the implementational proposed two-stage model of the GER analysis taking to account GPR for the improvement of effectiveness making decisions to ensure optimal operation of the facility oil and gas industry and minimize the impact on the environment in the geopolitical conditions of the Arctic.The authors declare no conflict of interest

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