Sentences with phrase «oil import sources»

«Diversification of Oil Import Sources and Energy Security: A Key Strategy or an Elusive Objective?»

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The Chinese leadership, and particularly the military, is very concerned about oil import dependency and has made a concerted effort to keep its foreign oil sources as diversified as possible.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

In a separate report today, CIBC World Markets economists noted in a report today that the oil sands are already on track to become the biggest single source of oil imports to the United States this year.

India imports nearly 75 % of its oil (source: Central Statistical Office, India), so sustained low crude prices improved the inflation picture and current account balance (source: Bloomberg data).

Mexico imports a lot of oil and other energy into the US, which's mostly the source of the trade deficit.

According to its website, LOOP has received more than 12 billion barrels of oil from foreign and domestic sources over the past three decades, but as an imports - only facility, it's never been used to load an export cargo — until now.

And he sources and imports his own label of extra-virgin olive oil, also from Sicily.

The United States has become deeply reliant on extreme extraction from Canada's tar sands, which this year are expected to become this country's top source of imported crude, surpassing our purchases from the vast oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

Canada's tar sands will soon be our top source of imported oil.

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A lack of capacity on this end along with pipelines facing environmental opposition have led California refiners to import oil, often from foreign sources, via ship and pay a higher price for doing it.

There is a simplicity in his gestures, his way with wood, his insistence on found objects sourced from his Niger Delta village and in particular his dissembled canvases, pulled apart one thread at a time that are at odds with an environment defined by imports, plastic and the production of crude oil.

And when it comes to the oil we import from other nations, obviously we've got to look at neighbors like Canada and Mexico that are stable and steady and reliable sources.

The spills here are all the more devastating because this ecologically sensitive wetlands region, the source of 10 percent of American oil imports, has most of Africa's mangroves and, like the Louisiana coast, has fed the interior for generations with its abundance of fish, shellfish, wildlife and crops.

And the disaster in the Gulf only underscores that even as we pursue domestic production to reduce our reliance on imported oil, our long - term security depends on the development of alternative sources of fuel and new transportation technologies.

The report said a multi-pronged strategy, like increasing production of oil and gas and diversifying import sources, are needed to meet growing energy demand in India, which is heavily dependent on imports.

Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels, particularly those that have to be imported from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly corn - to - ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..

It is unlikely that DOE's current level of R&D funding or the nation's current energy policies will be sufficient to deploy alternative energy sources in the next 25 years that will reverse our growing dependence on imported oil or the adverse environmental effects of using conventional fossil energy.

Or that our main import source for oil is Canada (not the Middle East).

The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogoil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogoil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands DialogOil Sands Dialogue.

The LCFS would essentially ban imports to California of fuels derived from unconventional sources such as oil sands from Canada, oil shale from the Western US, or domestic coal supplies that can be converted into transportation fuels.

Here's what we know about U.S. energy security, with much credit due to our partnership with Canada, America's No. 1 source of imported oil:

Most are produced domestically, reducing our dependence on imported oil, and some are derived from renewable sources.

And the benefit of these advanced vehicle technologies and alternative fuels will reduce our dependence upon imported sources of oil.

The president himself is pushing policies aimed at weaning the U.S. transportation system off imported oil, but he has also acknowledged that Canada and other neighbouring democracies are favoured sources for the imported oil that will be needed.

Hydrogen can be produced domestically from several sources, reducing our dependence on oil imports.

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«The top five exporting countries accounted for 59 percent of United States crude oil imports in April while the top ten sources accounted for approximately 80 percent of all U.S. crude oil imports.»

When you include energy from Canada, our leading source of imported oil, and Mexico, North American energy security looks strong.

If that doesn't sound like advantage enough, consider this: By exchanging a single - source (oil) transportation system for a multisource system that makes greater use of the nation's domestically obtainable fuel sources, America automatically enhances its national security, which in turn reduces the financial burden of having to defend America's sources of imported oil, which in turn frees up billions of tax dollars for more worthy endeavors.

One rationale for ethanol production in the U.S. is increased energy security, from shifting supply from oil imports to domestic sources.

«Hemp is an integral component in our body care products, as the super-fatty hemp oil gives our soap its rich, foaming lather and provides moisture and nourishment to the skin,» says David Bronner, President of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, the top - selling brand of natural soap in the U.S. «Dr. Bronner's would like to source the twenty tons of hemp oil we use annually from American farmers, rather than import it from Canada, and we financially support efforts to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp right here in the U.S..

To meet this demand, France had net crude oil imports of 1.89 million bbl / d in 2005, the largest sources of these imports being Norway, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

§ 15927 («[I] t is the policy of the United States that... United States oil shale, tar sands, and other unconventional fuels are strategically important domestic resources that should be developed to reduce the growing dependence of the United States on politically and economically unstable sources of foreign oil imports -LSB-.]»)

In 1999, Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia as the United States» largest source of oil imports, and today a full half of the country's oil production comes from Alberta's so - called tar or oil sands: a form of petroleum found in a mixture of sand, clay, and bitumen that is either mined in pits or extracted by pumping steam into wells.

With more electric vehicles in our state, we import less oil — and replacing that energy source with locally produced electricity is thus a net benefit to Washington's economy.

As the president has stated, his goal is to reduce oil imports by a third by 2025 and produce 80 percent of America's electricity from alternative and renewable sources by 2035.

By boosting the amount of renewable, domestic energy sources used to generate the country's electricity, the DOE may be aiming to accomplish two goals: (1) ensure that electric vehicles live up to their full, low - carbon potential, and (2) reduce net oil imports, which are significant.

The paper also proposes a strategy to raise the necessary revenue through increases in specific sources of revenues, including a fee on imported oil, elimination of antiquated and expensive oil tax breaks, and modest increases to a limited number of infrastructure user fees.