Sentences with phrase «crude oil component»

Prior to 1996, the value shares of each crude oil component are held constant at their 1996 level.

Atmospheric crude oil distillation: The refining process of separating crude oil components at atmospheric pressure by heating to temperatures of about 600 degrees to 750 degrees Fahrenheit (depending on the nature of the crude oil and desired products) and subsequent condensing of the fractions by cooling.

Not exact matches

Crude oil is a cocktail of components that can be separated by industrial distillation.

He said: «Setting the records straight, the idea of siting a tertiary educational institution in the crude oil and gas - rich Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State was first proposed and adopted under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo as a critical component in the roadmap to peace and sustainable development of the Niger Delta.

It was projected that due to the faulty turret bearing component of the FPSO which occasioned a reduction in volumes from 100,000 barrels to as low as 33,000 barrels of crude a day, Ghana's total production of oil could be in the neighbourhood of 63,000 barrels a day.

Wike also requested the APC federal government to release the derivation component of the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to the oil producing states of the Niger Delta.

Fuels derived from natural gas burn more cleanly than those derived from crude oil because they don't contain components like nitrogen, sulfur, or carbon arranged in rings, which are notorious air pollutants.

Now a research team at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified all of the principal oil - degrading bacteria as well as their mechanisms for chewing up the many different components that make up the released crude oil.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to produce — are a major source of aerosols, a component of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk of lung and heart disease.

Visit the U.S. Energy Information Administration for updated gasoline components history including a month by month breakdown of refining / distribution / taxes / crude oil cost structure.

Crude oil, residual, and some distillates contain corrosive components and as such require fuel treatment equipment.

Consider that the fuels we depend on every day for travel and commerce, as well as the chemical components that make up countless consumer products, result from the innovations and advanced technologies that America's refiners apply every day in the processing of millions of barrels of crude oil.

The NAS study deals a blow to one central safety argument made by opponents of the $ 5.3 billion Keystone XL link — that the heavier chemical components of so - called diluted bitumen make it more dangerous to ship — but made no attempt to address critics» second and more prominent concern, that a leak of oil sands crude would pose unique challenges during cleanup as well as unique risks to marine environments.

Somewhat ironically, it's possible that this oil - eating bacteria is present in that region because of past contamination, which would have made «indigenous populations evolve to select for organisms able to grow and degrade components of crude oil.»