Sentences with phrase «better than crude oil»

Corn ethanol isn't perfect, but it's clean, American energy and is better than crude oil from Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Not exact matches

In addition to the underperformance from the energy sector after U.S. military strikes in the Mideast, big oil stocks like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which have a longer history than the ETFs, as well as the price of crude oil, have also trailed the market.

The world's largest publicly - traded oil and gas company by market value has ridden out a collapse in crude prices better than most, its vertically - integrated model allowing downstream businesses to capture the value that upstream operations lose when oil prices are low.

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

This figure is a good deal higher than the 1.7 per cent for the latest year - ended rise in the CPI, but the pick - up includes the effect of dropping out the impact of the health insurance rebate, which reduced the CPI in the March quarter 1999, some further effects from past movements in crude oil prices, and an increase in tobacco taxes in the December quarter.

Teekay Tankers was primarily negatively affected by the severe drop in crude oil prices sending tanker rates to the lowest levels in more than three years, as well as some temporary oil production outages in markets the company's tankers serve.

Oil prices have collapsed, and the differential in price between the WTI and Brent, which could have been a way for Canadian oil producers to get a better price on the international markets for their crude, has shrunk to less than US$Oil prices have collapsed, and the differential in price between the WTI and Brent, which could have been a way for Canadian oil producers to get a better price on the international markets for their crude, has shrunk to less than US$oil producers to get a better price on the international markets for their crude, has shrunk to less than US$ 2.

Oil well operators used more than 80 billion gallons of water in California last year in «enhanced» oil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surfaOil well operators used more than 80 billion gallons of water in California last year in «enhanced» oil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surfaoil recovery techniques such as steam injection and water flooding, which help bring heavier, thicker crude to the surface.

Because then all of a sudden, you're not just going to the local farmer's market because you want good tasting food or you like your neighbors or you have some ideological belief in localness, you're going because you're getting a very strong signal from your pocketbook that it makes more sense to grow food locally than to grow marinated in crude oil and ship it around the world.

The Nymex crude oil futures bears had a good day Wednesday by scoring a bearish «outside day» down on the daily bar chart — whereby the daily high was higher and low was lower than the previous session's trading range.

The Saudi need for money is a much simpler explanation than trying to knock out US shale oil, or gouge the Iranians, because it has the Saudis acting directly in their own interests, and it fits the price series for crude oil better.

A better than expected U.S. Manufacturing report helped to underpin the U.S. markets and create upside momentum.A surge in demand for higher yielding assets is also helping to drive crude oil and gold prices higher.

compared to selected imports, Canadian oil sands crudes range from 9 % to 19 % more emission - intensive than Middle Eastern Sour, 5 % to 13 % more emission - intensive than Mexican Maya, and 2 % to 18 % more emission - intensive than various Venezuelan crudes, on a Well - to - Wheel basis;

Canadian oil sands crudes are on average somewhat more GHG emission - intensive than the crudes they would displace in U.S. refineries, as Well - to - Wheel GHG emissions are, on average, 14 % -20 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

discounting the final consumption phase of the life - cycle assessment (which can contribute up to 70 % -80 % of Well - to - Wheel emissions), Well - to - Tank (i.e., «production») GHG emissions are, on average, 72 % -111 % higher for Canadian oil sands crude than for the weighted average of transportation fuels sold or distributed in the United States;

This means that in order to sequester just a fifth of current CO2 emissions we would have to create an entirely new worldwide absorption - gathering - compression - transportation - storage industry whose annual throughput would have to be about 70 percent larger than the annual volume now handled by the global crude oil industry whose immense infrastructure of wells, pipelines, compressor stations and storages took generations to build.Technically possible — but not within a timeframe that would prevent CO2 from rising above 450 ppm.

If combustion of the final products is included, the so - called «Well to Wheels» approach, oil sands extraction, upgrade and use emits 10 to 45 % more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.

This means that oil sands oil has overall (well to wheels) emissions some 17 % greater than for typical crude oil and most of these extra emissions are due to energy needed to extract bitumen from the ground.

The oil that would have flowed through the Keystone pipeline, extracted from a large sedimentary basin that includes the well - known oil sands of Alberta, has a higher carbon footprint than other, lighter crude.

The State Department estimates that oil sands oil has 17 % greater well - to - wheel CO2 emissions than average US crude, which corresponds to approximately 200 additional pounds of CO2 emissions per barrel relative to average US crude.