Sentences with phrase «higher than petroleum»

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At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

Proven reserves of petroleum are higher today than they were in the»70s.

«Employees in Alberta's petroleum sector are the highest paid in the country — and even with the current downturn, paycheques for those workers are still more than double the Canadian average.

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

When you add in refined products and other petroleum liquids, Canadian exports soared past 4.1 million barrels a day, a total that is higher than the next seven U.S. suppliers combined, and nearly four times more than Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s second largest source of foreign oil.

It is best to avoid any ingredients that contain petroleum / mineral oil, animal fats (tallow, glycerine, etc) and zinc content higher than 13 %, cod liver oil and beeswax.

«Blaming filling stations / petroleum marketers is way being ignorant of realities, as our team of petroleum monitoring task force, has found out that Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, is being sold at high rate in depot and you can never expect somebody to sell less than his / her cost price.

In its product pricing template released on Sunday, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, stated that the N83 per litre price applies only to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), meaning that other petrol stations and dealers can sell higher than the stipulated amount.

In fact, the alternative jet fuel — known as synthetic paraffinated kerosenes — has as good or better qualities than Jet A refined from petroleum: It does not freeze at high - altitude temperatures, delivers the same or more power to the engines, and is lighter, as well.

The study also found that while the USA and China have similar levels of freshwater consumption associated with their petroleum sectors, the international freshwater footprint of the USA is three times higher than that of China.

Petroleum, engineering and construction workers are flooding into the Bakken for the high pay, and more than half the state's employment growth in those jobs took place in Williams County, with the town of Williston at the boom's center.

However, the high - temperature process for making cement is more energy - and carbon - intensive than the production of asphalt from petroleum.

In its place, the work of innovation to decrease energy consumption is taken up by researchers and startups with many promising solutions like biofuel paved future roads that are cheaper than petroleum, sustainable and environmental friendly, or the creation of high speed system of transportation that runs on air and electricity, made by a company called HyperLoop.

It cited «plausible scenarios in which GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions from corn - grain ethanol are much higher than those of petroleum - based fuels,» and questioned the method by which EPA determined that ethanol would produce 21 percent less emissions.

Fox News dishonestly attacked the solar industry, implying that Yuma, Arizona's unemployment rate is higher than that of Midland, Texas due to the presence of a solar power plant and lack of natural gas or petroleum exploration.

Though exact estimates vary, a decent rule of thumb is that due to the high energy intensity of production, one barrel of oil from tar sands has carbon emissions up to eight times higher than one barrel of conventional petroleum.

Offshore, the recent High Court decision in relation to the Croker Island Case has potentially made things more complex for offshore mineral and petroleum exploration and development as Aboriginal people may have the right to be consulted as native title is a coexisting, rather than an exclusive title, but the ramifications of the decision are yet to be fully revealed.