Sentences with phrase «crude oil extraction»

Since the 1950s Ogoniland has suffered extreme environmental damage and degradation from crude oil extraction and waste dumping by multi-national oil and gas companies.

Sweet crude oil extraction and sales now account for 30 % of Belize's GDP.

The peak oil analysis of the mid 1970s alleged that the crude oil extraction rate would significantly decline after a given year.

For years, Nigeria has actually been burning vast quantities of gas, which is a by - product of crude oil extraction and can not be brought to potential markets like Europe as easily as oil.

Not exact matches

The pipeline or any other way to bring Western Canadian Crude to Tex refiners would speed up oil extraction in Alberta and increase world supplies, which would bring down oil prices for all Americans, by about a dollar a barrel according to Levi.

However, that configuration is ill - suited to an era when the fastest - growing crude oil supply is coming from the middle of the bowl, from U.S. oil producers using new extraction techniques and the Canadian oilsands.

«Extraction from the Canadian oil sands continues to grow and with crude oil prices back above $ 70 (U.S.) a barrel, new greenfield projects and previously shelved expansions are once again starting to become viable,» wrote senior currency strategist Matthew Strauss.

Why would we leave the value chain of the Nigerian oil industry undeveloped beyond crude oil and gas extraction and export simply because we want to continue with an unsustainable subsidy?

, but not one research includes production of the batteries to pollution, while they happily add the refinement of crude oil and cost of it's extraction and transport for Petrols and Diesels.

Typically, oil extractions focus on big oil reservoirs in bedrock from which the crude oil is pumped out.

The term is also used more generally to describe a host of unconventional extraction techniques, such as horizontal drilling, which have helped make the United States the top producer of crude oil in the world.

The United States has become deeply reliant on extreme extraction from Canada's tar sands, which this year are expected to become this country's top source of imported crude, surpassing our purchases from the vast oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

The dramatic rise in shale - gas extraction and the tight - oil revolution (mostly crude oil that is found in shale deposits) happened in the United States and Canada because open access, sound government policy, stable property rights and the incentive offered by market pricing unleashed the skills of good engineers.

Since the peak of crude oil production a decade ago, the fossil fuel industry has been forced to resort to costly and unconventional methods of extraction — arctic drilling and shale gas fracking among them — giving rise to unprecedented economic and environmental hazards.

This crude oil connection between the Alaskan Arctic and California refineries can also be illuminated with a timeline of recent events regarding current and future upstream extraction, downstream refinery expansion efforts, and the climate politics and policies affecting the downstream refinery sector in California.

In North Dakota, where oil drillers lack the equipment and pipelines to capture the gas that accompanies extraction of crude, the practice of flaring off the methane lights up some areas over the Bakken shale like big cities at night.

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.

The peak in United States wheat production is probably due to the shifting of wheat area to corn and soybeans areas to make biofuels (ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soybeans) rather than the current peaking of crude - oil extraction

This first step of tar sand extraction is estimated to result in gasoline that carries a burden of «at least five times more carbon dioxide» then would conventional «sweet crude» oil production.

The current extraction of crude oil (nearly 4 Gt in 2005) translates to less than 5 Gm3.

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.

The questionable future of the Athabasca River threatens the longevity of fossil fuel extraction in the world's third - largest crude oil reserve.