The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow
crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.
It is nonetheless clear that
crude oil extracted from the Alaskan Arctic is primarily intended to feed refineries on the West Coast of the lower 48 states — especially California.
If you take the amount of
crude oil extracted since 1850 (estimates vary, but maybe 200 billion tonnes = 200 * (10 ^ 9) * (10 ^ 3) kg) and multiply by the energy density of crude oil (~ 50MJ / kg) the result comes out at about 10 ^ 22 J which is an order of magnitude lower than the increase in ocean heat content in the upper 700m since the 1950s (~ 10 ^ 23J).
Bitumen is the very
crude oil extracted from Canada's enormous deposits of oil sands.
Not exact matches
Downstream companies make money on the difference between the price of
crude and the price of the refined petroleum
extracted from it (a difference known as the «crack spread»), while midstreaming is a volume business (ship more
oil, earn more money).
Canadian
crude —
extracted from Alberta's controversial
oil sands patch — is the cheapest
oil in the world.
This allows the natural gas or
crude oil to be
extracted more easily.
Riggs» vitamin - based health kick program — for which he is paying a cool $ 5,000 to the same nutritional scientist used by Lawrence Welk — includes a high - protein diet and pills made up of concentrations of
crude wheat - germ
oil, liver
extract and other horrible - sounding items.
Since we
extract and refine copious amounts of
crude oil these days for fossil fuels, it makes sense to use the nonfuel portions as well.
Gasoline, diesel and jet fuel are
extracted and refined from
crude oil.
Bakken
crude oil was found to be more volatile than
oil extracted elsewhere, forcing the USDOT to issue an emergency order on May 7 requiring all railroads carrying Bakken
crude oil to notify state emergency responders about the operations of those trains in their states.
Nathan says high prices have made it increasingly economically viable to
extract more unconventional forms of
oil, in particular the asphaltlike tar sands (also known as
oil sand, or extremely heavy
crude oil) plentiful in northern Alberta, Canada.
It typically takes about 7 steps to produce vegetable oils and during this process chemical solvents such as hexane or heptane (substances made from
crude oil) are added to
extract the
oil from the product.
The
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Oil Sands segment includes mining,
extracts and transports bitumen from
oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, and upgrades the bitumen to produce and market synthetic crude oil and vacuum gas o
oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, and upgrades the bitumen to produce and market synthetic
crude oil and vacuum gas o
oil and vacuum gas
oiloil.
At present, my guess is that the marginal barrels of
crude oil are being
extracted in North America, and probably will be out to 2020 or so.
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Crude Fat: min 14.0 %
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3 of the 8 million barrels of
crude oil that are
extracted daily in the U.S. come from Texas.
It is true that
extracting oil sands
crude increases world supply of
oil — but also increases the ultimate world emissions of CO2.
It is an unpleasant fact that Saudi Arabia currently uses a significant fraction of their
extracted crude oil to generate electricity to run their air - conditioning units.
To connect Arctic Alaska with California, it helps to have a basic understanding of the historic infrastructure connection between upstream and downstream
oil industry operations that allow Alaska North Slope
crude to be
extracted, piped, shipped and processed into consumer products.
«It's bad for
oil companies and the profit they were expecting from those projects, but from a climate perspective, it's tremendous,» said Danielle Droitsch, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of many environmental groups that oppose
extracting the heavy
oil sands
crude.
Vast amounts of water and energy are needed to strip - mine and drill Canada's tar sands deposits — a heavy black substance mixed with sand and clay — and turn the
extracted bitumen into usable
crude oil.
Extracting oil from tar sands is also much more complicated than pumping conventional
crude oil out of the ground.
The
oil extracted is a thick, sticky form of
crude known as bitumen, which emits more carbon than conventional
oil when burned and the mining itself has a heavy environmental footprint, heavily opposed by climate and environmental activists.
Environmentalists mistakenly think that blocking the Keystone pipeline will prevent
crude oil, derived from Canada's
oil sands, from being
extracted and from being conveyed into the U.S. to be refined into gasoline, asphalt, and other products that are important to the transportation and manufacturing sectors.
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.
We use data from the GREET model (Argonne National Laboratory) to calculate the emissions from
extracting crude oil, transport to a refinery, conversion to gasoline, delivery to a filling station, and burning in a car engine.
Within
oil, some
crudes are more energy - intensive to
extract and to process and thus have larger «well - to - wheel» carbon emissions.
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.
If
crude oil was
extracted from all distillers grains, that would be 580 million gallons per year.
In its report, EPA seemingly compliments the State Department for confirming that Canadian tar sands
oil is carbon intensive when compared to other heavy
crudes, due to increased emissions associated with
extracting and refining it.
GreenShift is
extracting corn
oil from distiller's grains, and they're building 12 more sites to supply enough
crude oil to make 20 million gallons of biodiesel a year.
Fossil fuel - related industries are more than just the organizations that
extract the
crude oil, coal, and natural gas from the ground.
Looks like Alberta Tar Sands
extracted crude oil will be refined in the Lake Superior watershed as well.
It's no coincidence that both the Chicago area BP refinery and the Superior Wisconsin Murphy refinery are planning massive expansions to work with Alberta Tar Sands
extracted crude oil.
So long as the conventional
crude oil price stays above 31.5 USD2006 / boe (excluding profits) it is profitable to
extract oil sands.
Of that, 25 megatonnes will come from new so - called «in situ» extraction methods that inject steam into underground wells to
extract oil sands
crude.
While it might be argued that some comparable amount of
crude oil will simply be
extracted elsewhere to make up for cancelled production, it is far from clear that barrel - for - barrel this is actually the case.
This has called upon Devoe's suite of business skills, acquired over several years as senior counsel at synthetic
crude oil producer Suncor, to leverage relationships with partner firms and
extract the maximum value from the resources available to the team.