Sentences with phrase «as oil refineries»

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 easAs 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 easas well as refined oil products used to dilute the bitumen flowing easas 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 floOil 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 flooil 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 flooil by refineries in Cushing, Oklahoma, where most of the product from the oil sands flooil 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 refineries Continue Reading
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 abouAs 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 abouas 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.
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