Sentences with phrase «decades before oil»

That was all two decades before oil drilling began in waters to the east.

Can Canada's manufacturing sector once again generate major growth for the economy as it did in the decades before oil and other commodity prices surged to record highs?

Not exact matches

On assignment in Iran for Fortune two years before, I had stumbled upon Halliburton (HAL), yet another Texas oil - services company, which was operating from a high - rise building in central Tehran, despite decades of U.S. sanctions and intense hostilities between the two nations.

Rick Bass was brought up in Houston, Texas and, for about a decade after leaving college, worked as a gas and oil geologist in Jackson, Mississippi (where he started writing short stories in his lunch breaks) before moving to the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, near the Idaho - Montana - Canada border in 1987 with his wife, Elizabeth Hughes, who has illustrated some of his more than 20 books.

The new Western supplies of oil and gas are a reprieve of sorts, a one - time chance to get our house in order before the coming decades of climate stress and strife.

Which is another topic I have commented on, when some made the observation that once oil is exhausted, it will be hundreds of millions of years before any more is available... but I pointed out that some wells capped a few decades ago are already able to produce again... and some wells seem to recharge as fast as the oil is pumped out.

By the time Mitchell and Devon Energy combined to «crack the Barnett» in 2002, work on unconventional gas extraction had been underway for decades, tracing back to the oil embargo and even before that to the nuclear tests of the 1960s.

Decades before climate change became a hotly debated political issue, the biggest oil company in the world was doing cutting - edge research into just what was causing it and how dangerous it might be.

But the scientific report in Nature Climate Change suggests that under the «business as usual scenario» − whereby no steps are taken to address climate change, and the expanding the use of coal, oil and natural gas dumps ever greater quantities carbon dioxide in the atmosphere − then such conditions could occur once every decade or so before 2100.

Released on the heels of a July 2012 article in Rolling Stone by Dr. Bill McKibben warning that we had already discovered five times as much oil, gas, and coal than scientists concluded we could safely burn for energy, the ad reflected growing public concern regarding the climate change threat and a reaction to the continued presence of outright climate denialists bred by Exxon decades before.

This Will Be A Long Transition Before we begin though, let me add that transitioning off oil isn't something which is going to happen overnight — we're talking a decades - long transition.

Even a worldwide emergency response «10 years before world oil peaking», he wrote, would leave «a liquid fuels shortfall roughly a decade after the time that oil would have peaked.»