Understanding how much energy is required to pump fluid through a pipeline when it is flowing in the transitional state could help industries, such
as oil refineries, minimize energy waste and improve efficiency.
As facilities such
as oil refineries and large electrical utilities become ever more reliant on remote - control systems linked by far - flung digital networks, the demand for highly reliable security has taken off.
It has important industries such
as oil refinery and chemical.
a type of carbon «credit» that a polluter, such
as an oil refinery can purchase to legally «neutralize» its pollution?
«continuous operations» (which are operations, or parts of operations, that do not stop or close more than once a week — such
as an oil refinery, alarm - monitoring company or casino whose games tables are open around the clock).
Not exact matches
With the complicity of corrupt authorities, the
oil was then shipped to a
refinery belonging to Riolio, a company owned by Domenica Ribatti, where it was leavened with actual olive
oil, then packaged and sold to customers
as the real thing.
The U.S. can produce
as much shale
oil as it wants, but its Gulf Coast
refineries are geared toward heavier kinds of crude that can easily process
oil sand bitumen but aren't geared toward the lighter crude coming out of, say North Dakota's Bakken play.
OPEC's supply curtailments and the threat of new sanctions are occurring just
as demand in Asia, the biggest
oil - consuming region, has risen to a record
as new and expanded
refineries start up from China to Vietnam.
New pipelines in Siberia and Central Asia,
as well
as the discovery of shale
oil in China, mean that Asian
refineries will have access to closer sources of crude, he says.
The decision, which has not been previously reported, raises the question of whether other big and profitable
oil firms with small
refineries - such
as...
As it is currently planned the twin pipeline will carry 525,000 barrels of bitumen a day from the oil sands west to a terminal in Kitimat on the B.C. coast, where it could be shipped to Asian refineries, as well as refined oil products used to dilute the bitumen flowing eas
As it is currently planned the twin pipeline will carry 525,000 barrels of bitumen a day from the
oil sands west to a terminal in Kitimat on the B.C. coast, where it could be shipped to Asian
refineries,
as well as refined oil products used to dilute the bitumen flowing eas
as well
as refined oil products used to dilute the bitumen flowing eas
as refined
oil products used to dilute the bitumen flowing east.
«They said they knew who I was and where I lived,» said Alberto Arredondo, who got the call at work
as a pump technician at an
oil refinery in the central Mexican city of Salamanca.
Think of Kinder Morgan's Trans - Mountain Pipeline from Edmonton to
refineries and terminals in B.C. and Washington and branch lines carrying heartland
oil to the Gulf Coast operated by Enbridge and ExxonMobil
as small leaks in the great
oil dam.
The Chinese firm's demand for May - loading crude will be lower than the previous month due to
refinery maintenance and
as one of China's largest
oil ports, Huangdao, could be shut for days from early June to accommodate a government meeting, a second company source said.
Energy East will serve
as a link between Eastern Canadian
refineries and the western crude
oil market, where crude
oil had been discounted significantly since mid-2010 until these price differentials converged rapidly over the last couple of months.
As I wrote in my blog over a year ago, («
Oil Price Spread Costing Canadian producers big bucks,» November 10, 2011), oil sands producers have been continually getting short - changed for their oil by refineries in Cushing, Oklahoma, where most of the product from the oil sands flo
Oil Price Spread Costing Canadian producers big bucks,» November 10, 2011),
oil sands producers have been continually getting short - changed for their oil by refineries in Cushing, Oklahoma, where most of the product from the oil sands flo
oil sands producers have been continually getting short - changed for their
oil by refineries in Cushing, Oklahoma, where most of the product from the oil sands flo
oil by
refineries in Cushing, Oklahoma, where most of the product from the
oil sands flo
oil sands flows.
As refineries along the Gulf Coast slowly resume normal operations, there was no surprise in this week's EIA inventory report: a build of 4.6 million barrels of crude
oil.
But thanks to the subsidy they get from Canada,
refineries in Cushing often enjoy
refinery margins, or crack spreads
as they're known in the industry, that have been
as much
as five times what
refineries on the Gulf Coast, which have to pay full world
oil prices for their feedstock, operate with.
It's why a project that's really about exporting raw bitumen to foreign
refineries is instead being sold
as a way to reduce the risks to Canada of buying
oil from far - flung producers.
The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma
oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his
oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the
oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which,
as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a build of 6.181 million barrels in United States crude
oil inventories, compared to analyst expectations that inventories would build by 10.1 million barrels for the week ending September 8
as many
refineries in the Gulf Coast remain offline and demand in Florida wanes in the wake of the most recent hurricane.
For western heavy
oil and bitumen producers, tidewater access may have an important stabilizing effect
as it would greatly expand the market for the product, which has previously been subject to large price swings motivated by
refinery or pipeline outages in the midwest.
On the demand side, use of crude
oil by Midwest
refineries has been decreasing since the year 2000,
as shown in the figure below:
But when
oil companies (and governments) talk about
oil supply, they include all sorts of things that can not be sold
as oil on the world market including biofuels,
refinery gains and natural gas plant liquids
as well
as lease condensate.
Last week's report from the EIA showed that demand for crude
oil remains robust
as gross inputs at U.S.
refineries have topped 17 million b / d in each of the past nine weeks.
Their move to rail comes
as the Obama administration continues to weigh an application for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver synthetic crude
oil and bitumen, an
oil - containing substance, from Alberta to
refineries on the Gulf Coast.
A steady drop in the quality of the
oil Venezuela exports,
as well
as default on payments to various
refineries, have whittled away at whatever confidence was left in the Venezuelan government.
In addition, U.S. Gulf Coast
refineries that Keystone XL will feed are designed to run heavy crude, such
as Alberta's,
as opposed to the light - grade
oil from the shale formations.
CALGARY — Multiple workers were injured and some transported to hospital on Thursday morning after a fire broke out at Husky Energy Inc.'s
refinery in Superior, Wisc. putting the Calgary - based
oil producer on the defensive,
as it argued there were no known commonalities between the accident and other recent operational mistakes.
Prior to that, Mr. Dowd worked
as a junior analyst, and then
as an analyst, at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., following
oil refinery,
oil service, and integrated
oil companies.
From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Deripaska was the General Director of Russian Aluminium, which was set up
as a result of the combination of the aluminium smelters and alumina
refineries of Sibirsky Aluminium and Sibneft
Oil Company.
Sales retrenched in all of Grace's product segments: catalysts technologies — used by
oil refineries and other industrial customers —
as well
as materials technologies and construction products.
Hengli Petrochemical, part of the Chinese chemical giant Hengli Group, has obtained government approval to import 400,000 b / d of crude
oil — the largest quota ever handed to a private Chinese refiner,
as it aims to start a new
refinery this year.
Iran Kuwait Offshore Field Kuwait's state - run
oil company is planning US$ 42 billion in investments by 2022,
as the country pursues a three-fold strategy to increase
oil production, expand its
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From there, the
oil will head for
refineries on the Gulf Coast and ultimately,
as the emissions from fossil fuels, into the atmosphere to help create future summers so hot no one will forget them.
Usually, crude
oil stocks rise
as product stocks drop, and vice-versa, reflecting swings in
refinery utilization, which simultaneously increase the demand for crude and output of petroleum products, and vice-versa.
In the aftermath,
as many
as a third of US
oil refineries, many of which are located in the area around Houston, were estimated to have been impacted by flooding or supply disruptions.
It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and
oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood
as sacred.
In all likelihood there are health risks associated with fracking, just
as there are health risks associated with
oil refineries, steel mills, and automobile factories.
He has been linked with an Arsenal takeover bid before and
as reported by The Mirror, sounds like he is planning to make a real push to buy the club soon, after building an
oil refinery that will make him worth even more than the # 11.5 bn he is said to be worth now.
The climate - changing juggernaut snuck back into town in November via a letter from the New York State Thruway Authority to all «involved agencies» (municipalities that lie along the Thruway, which is the chosen route to transport Bakken crude
oil between Albany and the New Jersey
refineries) requesting approval
as lead agency in the environmental review required before construction of the pipeline can be approved.
The new proposal builds on steps the Cuomo administration already has taken
as hundreds of thousands of barrels of
oil per year have been transported across New York enroute to
refineries in New Jersey and Canada.
As a major oil producer, involving the private sector — and I am aware that Dangote is building some refineries and tank storage capacities — it should be possible to process Nigerian oil locally into finished petroleum products and export them to West Africa and the rest of Africa without us having to import petroleum products from outside.Speaking as a former leader of an African country, I can tell you that our quest to build our countries into industralised economies that can begin refining our own raw materials and manufacturing what we need, is not a development paradigm that the rich nations are enthused abou
As a major
oil producer, involving the private sector — and I am aware that Dangote is building some
refineries and tank storage capacities — it should be possible to process Nigerian
oil locally into finished petroleum products and export them to West Africa and the rest of Africa without us having to import petroleum products from outside.Speaking
as a former leader of an African country, I can tell you that our quest to build our countries into industralised economies that can begin refining our own raw materials and manufacturing what we need, is not a development paradigm that the rich nations are enthused abou
as a former leader of an African country, I can tell you that our quest to build our countries into industralised economies that can begin refining our own raw materials and manufacturing what we need, is not a development paradigm that the rich nations are enthused about.
And brothers and sisters we had a pyhrric victory today
as they bombed
oil refineries although they were likely to have been populated by human beings (we couldn't really canvass the workers to see if they were pro-so called IS).
Both the Labour party and the trade unions should now begin to take the European parliament election in June extremely seriously,
as our MEPs and MEP candidates have come up with the answer to the
oil refinery dispute.
A
refinery operating in Richmond since 1901, first
as Standard
Oil and later
as the Chevron Corporation, had long been the city's biggest single source of tax revenues — and air pollution.
Like picture frames or camera lenses, the frames will draw visitors» eyes to aspects of the vista, such
as an island in the Mississippi that's the site of an early 19th century Native American village, or an
oil refinery on the horizon.
That level more than quadrupled in 1974, thanks to the operation of three
oil refineries as well
as skyrocketing
oil prices in the 1970s.
California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District changed its approach after studies showed leaks from
oil refineries in the area — known
as fugitive emissions — were likely underrepresented in emission factors.
It is a scene that has played out in towns such
as Barendrecht, the Netherlands, where protests erupted in the 43,000 - person town after Royal Dutch Shell PLC proposed injecting 11 million tons of CO2 underground from an
oil refinery.