Sentences with phrase «conventional oil production»

The data show that the global peak of conventional oil production is close.

Conventional oil production did peak in 2006, and that makes up 90 % of the oil we use now.

High oil prices in 2007 and 2008 were due to a large and persistent production supply deficit because of high demand from China and the Far East, and dwindling supplies following the peak of conventional oil production in 2005 (Figures 15 and 17).

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

Despite these improvements, they noted, the CI of oil sands production (on a pathway - average basis) ranges from 12 to 24 % higher than CI values from conventional oil production.

Our nation is ignoring some of its greatest opportunities to increase conventional oil production — particularly in Alaska and the Outer Continental Shelf.

A simple linear extrapolation of their data suggests that by 2027 the trend in technological improvement in the oilsands will catch up to the declining efficiency of conventional oil production.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

Compared to conventional oil production, the oilsands» efficiency ratios in this study are low.

Publication date: 2007-12-01 First Published in Energy Policy Authors: R. Bentley et al Abstract: Combining geological knowledge with proved plus probable («2P») oil discovery data indicates that over 60 countries are now past their resource - limited peak of conventional oil production.

But all of the mining, cooking, and upgrading required to convert the sticky bitumen from the sands into crude oil releases 1.6 times more greenhouse gas than conventional oil production, according to the Canadian government's environmental agency.

Syria's dash for gas has been spurred by its rapidly declining oil revenues, driven by the peak of its conventional oil production in 1996.

WWF says reductions of 85 % would be required to reduce the emissions from tar sands extraction to be comparable to conventional oil production.

I have a general question regarding the EROI of conventional oil production.

Assuming fossil fuels are used to provide the energy input for shale oil production, the net greenhouse gas impact of developing oil shale resources can also be assumed to be substantially higher than the per - unit impact of conventional oil production.