Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane,CH4,with some mixture of ethane,C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume of natural gas in the gaseous state at standard conditions for temperature and pressure.
Emera Incorporated is a publicly traded Canadian multinational energy holding company based in Halifax,Nova Scotia. Created in 1998 during the privatization of Nova Scotia Power,a provincial Crown corporation,Emera now invests in regulated electricity generation as well as transmission and distribution across North America and the Caribbean.
Enbridge Inc. is a Canadian multinational pipeline and energy company headquartered in Calgary,Alberta,Canada. Enbridge owns and operates pipelines throughout Canada and the United States,transporting crude oil,natural gas,and natural gas liquids,and also generates renewable energy. Enbridge's pipeline system is the longest in North America and the largest oil export pipeline network in the world. Its crude oil system consists of 28,661 kilometres of pipelines. Its 38,300 kilometre natural gas pipeline system connects multiple Canadian provinces,several US states,and the Gulf of Mexico. The company was formed by Imperial Oil in 1949 as the Interprovincial Pipe Line Company Limited to transport Alberta oil to refineries. Over time,it has grown through acquisition of other existing pipeline companies and the expansion of their projects.
PetroChina Company Limited is a Chinese oil and gas company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC),headquartered in Dongcheng District,Beijing. The company is currently Asia's largest oil and gas producer. Traded in Hong Kong and New York,the mainland enterprise announced its plans to issue stock in Shanghai in November 2007,and subsequently entered the constituent of SSE 50 Index. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000,PetroChina was ranked as the 32nd-largest public company in the world.
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation,or Sinopec,is a Chinese oil and gas enterprise based in Beijing. It is listed in Hong Kong and also trades in Shanghai.
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is a major national oil and gas corporation of China and one of the largest integrated energy groups in the world. Its headquarters are in Dongcheng District,Beijing. CNPC was ranked fourth in 2022 Fortune Global 500,a global ranking of the largest corporations by revenue.
Sempra is a North American public utility holding company based in San Diego,California. The company is one of the largest utility holding companies in the United States with nearly 40 million consumers. Sempra's focus is on electric and natural gas infrastructure and its operating companies include:Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and San Diego Gas &Electric (SDG&E) in Southern California;Oncor Electric Delivery Company in Texas;and Sempra Infrastructure,with offices in California and Texas.
The West–East Gas Pipeline is a set of natural gas pipelines which run from the western part of China to the east.
The Shaan–Jing pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in China,which runs from Jingbian County to Beijing and Tianjin.
Sino-Myanmar pipelines refers to the oil and natural gas pipelines linking Myanmar's deep-water port of Kyaukphyu (Sittwe) in the Bay of Bengal with Kunming in Yunnan province of China.
FortisBC is a Canadian owned,British Columbia based regulated utility providing natural gas,and electricity. FortisBC has approximately 2,600 employees serving more than 1.2 million customers in 135 B.C. communities and 58 First Nations communities across 150 Traditional Territories.
GAIL (India) Limited is an Indian state-owned energy corporation with primary interests in the trade,transmission and production distribution of natural gas. GAIL also has interests in the exploration and production solar and wind power,telecom and telemetry services (GAILTEL) and electricity generation. GAIL was founded as the Gas Authority of India Ltd. in August 1984 under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to build,operate and maintain the HVJ Gas Pipeline. On 1 February 2013,the Indian government conferred GAIL with Maharatna status along with 11 other Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs).
Dominion Energy,Inc.,commonly referred to as Dominion,is an American energy company headquartered in Richmond,Virginia that supplies electricity in parts of Virginia,North Carolina,and South Carolina and supplies natural gas to parts of Utah,Idaho and Wyoming,West Virginia,Ohio,Pennsylvania,North Carolina,South Carolina,and Georgia. Dominion also has generation facilities in Indiana,Illinois,Connecticut,and Rhode Island.
China has set the goal of attaining one percent of its renewable energy generation through bioenergy in 2020.
Snam S.p.A. is an Italian energy infrastructure company.
Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group is a Chinese conglomerate mainly engaged in the exploration,production,transportation,and sale of petroleum and natural gas,and in addition the production and sales of petrochemical products. Founded in 1905,it is the fourth largest oil producer in the country. Almost all its reserves and refineries are located in Shaanxi.
The Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok pipeline is a pipeline for natural gas in Russia,transporting Sakhalin's gas to the most populated and industrialized regions of the Russian Far East. It is also projected to become a part of an international export route,carrying Russian gas to East Asian countries,such as the People's Republic of China,South Korea and Japan. The pipeline is owned and operated by Gazprom. It was opened on 8 September 2011.
Energy in Armenia is mostly from natural gas. Armenia has no proven reserves of oil or natural gas and currently imports most of its gas from Russia. The Iran-Armenia Natural Gas Pipeline has the capacity to equal imports from Russia.
Although there are numerous oil companies operating in Canada,as of 2009,the majority of production,refining and marketing was done by fewer than 20 of them. According to the 2013 edition of Forbes Global 2000,canoils.com and any other list that emphasizes market capitalization and revenue when sizing up companies,as of March 31,2014 these are the largest Canada-based oil and gas companies.
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