Sentences with phrase «conventional liquid oil»

Tar sands, tight oil, and other so - called «new» sources of oil are significantly more difficult and expensive to extract than conventional liquid oil.

Not exact matches

The concept of staged separation has been used in production from conventional oil reservoirs, but has not been widely applied in the production of liquids from shale formations.

Production of conventional crude oil — the black liquid stuff that rigs pump out of the ground — probably topped out for good in 2006, at about 70 million barrels a day.

It is very possible (probable in fact) that we will face a peak in conventional oil output with a simultaneous increase in total liquid fuel availability.

The reality of reaching peak global production of cheap, conventional light, sweet crude oil supplies will continue to force strong upper pressure on the cost of crude oil, gasoline, diesel and airplane liquid fuels.

Current estimates, which I documented in the afore - mentioned article, put the cost of a biomass gasification plant at about 7 times the per barrel cost of a conventional oil refinery or grain ethanol plant, and double the costs of a coal - to - liquids plant.

To increase supplies, most companies are looking to tar sands in Canada or converting coal or natural gas into liquid fuels, technologies that emit far more carbon dioxide than conventional oil does.

EDITION 12.27 A BP - funded study out of the Harvard Kennedy School sees plenty of «liquid» fuels ahead from conventional crude to tight shale oils, but is the age of oil far from over?

The carbon dioxide emissions associated with coal - to - liquid fuel are roughly double those from conventional oil.

Conventional oil is a mixture of mainly pentanes and hydrocarbons recoverable through an oil well from an underground reservoir and is a liquid at atmospheric pressure and temperature.

Tar sands crude oil pipeline comanies may be putting the American public's safety at risk by using conventional pipeline technology to transport a highly corrosive, acidic and potentially unstable blend of thick raw bitumen and volatile natural gas liquid condensate called DilBit.

The share of liquids will probably remain constant but with a gradual transition from conventional oil (Section 4.3.1.3) toward coal - to - liquids, unconventional oils (Section 4.3.1.4) and modern biomass (Section 4.3.3.3).

The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.

Conventional crude oil is a liquid that can be pumped from underground deposits.