Sentences with phrase «for oil extraction»

This process, called EOR, traps much of the CO2 used for oil extraction in the underground rock.

The same techniques worked for oil extraction.

He was the son of Jim Beesom Wiwa, a businessman and community chief of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority whose homelands have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s.

Not exact matches

Some have argued the resource sector isn't all that crucial to Canada's well - being, since mining and oil and gas extraction directly account for just 4.5 % of the economy.

As oil extraction and exploration slowed, as did demand for scrap metal.

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.

He did manage to rattle off the well - known facts: the oilsands account for only of 1 / 10th of 1 % of global emissions; the pipeline would create thousands of American jobs; Canada has already reduced the emission intensity from heavy - oil extraction by 25 %.

With the collapse of manufacturing many unemployed young workers migrated to Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland for resource - extraction jobs, but employment growth in that sector has now largely evaporated with the falling price of oil.

That's why he's working with a Harvard - trained chemist to build a state - of - the - art extraction lab for making THC concentrate and developing edibles and other new products infused with THC oil.

For starters, global oil production appears more closely in line with demand following a prolonged search for a new equilibrium amid a breakdown in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel and increasingly productive oil extraction technologies in North AmeriFor starters, global oil production appears more closely in line with demand following a prolonged search for a new equilibrium amid a breakdown in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel and increasingly productive oil extraction technologies in North Amerifor a new equilibrium amid a breakdown in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel and increasingly productive oil extraction technologies in North America.

A supply curve is an ordered list of all the oil production opportunities globally, sorted by the cost of extraction or, probably better for this example, the potential free - on - board price at a global trading hub — take every oil play in the world and ask what it would cost delivered to the US Gulf Coast as a starting point.

I live in BC and have signed petitions against your President's plans to pillage your National Parks for the sake of coal and oil extraction!!

«Also, as public and government appetite for deepwater offshore drilling ebbs, interest in onshore, safer oil extraction operations is set to increase.

Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals...

The overall economics of oil extraction is that there is money in it - both for extraction companies and their investors.

Take, for example, the sharp increase in U.S. oil and natural gas production stemming, in part, from the innovations in drilling and extraction technologies.

After falling for four consecutive months, support activities for mining and oil and gas extraction rose 9.9 % in April, as both rigging and drilling services advanced.

Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading from mines is a bit of an exception, since the waste heat from the upgrader can feed the extraction plant).

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example, oil and gas extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and coal products lose, echoing the tension between refiners and oil - shale producers.

My friends in the industry say this is a ludicrous oversimplification for a number of reasons including (1) Kenney's valuation is based on what he called the «current global market value» ($ 60 / barrel) which doesn't apply to bitumen, (2) he hasn't included the cost of extraction or the fact producers would never dump that much oil onto the market at once and (3) Albertans only get royalties, not the entire amount.

Part of the reason for the rising supply is that unconventional methods of oil extraction like tar sands and hydraulic fracturing have yielded greater oil supplies than expected.

Statistics Canada's estimate for MFP in the mining, oil and gas extraction sector has been on a downward trend for decades.

The will to overlook accelerated climate change caused by the extraction of tar sands oil, the destruction of the carbon sink that is / was the boreal forest, and the continued burning of fossil fuels to power trips to the corner store for a creamy, etc..

This is a traditional method of coconut oil extraction that has been used in the Philippines for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

But, he points out, it is important to know which type of oil has been used for research because depending on the extraction method, the phenolic - antioxidant composition may vary.

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.

In the early years of the Cuomo Administration, oil giant Exxon - Mobil put its considerable political clout behind an effort to get New York to allow fracking; a controversial type of drilling that allowed for the extraction of natural gas.

, 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.

Congress questions the federal leasing programs Yesterday, Democratic Reps. Alan Lowenthal of California and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona introduced legislation that would raise the rate oil and gas companies pay for leasing public lands to «ensure that the American people are being fairly compensated for the extraction of resources on public lands.»

«The oil and gas industry has benefited from outdated royalty rates for leasing our public lands, while the American people are forced to suffer the consequences of fossil fuel extraction,» he said.

It might be possible, for example, to impose an extraction fee («severance payment») for coal and oil taken from federal lands.

«It's about looking for ways to do this sensibly, to build [extraction] structures that can withstand the harsh conditions up there, and to understand first and foremost where the oil and gas is,» he says.

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

It will go down vertically for the first 1.1 miles, then bend eastward toward the fault at a 50 degree angle for another 1.8 miles, using the directional drilling techniques invented to allow more complete extraction of tough - to - reach oil deposits.

They looked both at wells used for enhanced oil recovery — in which fluid is injected to flush lingering oil from a depleted reservoir — and at those used to dispose of wastewater from conventional oil and gas extraction or from hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Some of that produced water has been recycled in recent years for use in hydraulic fracturing, which helps make that method of oil extraction more water efficient and reduces the competition for water between farms and oil fields.

Image courtesy: Top of the Mitt Watershed CouncilANN ARBOR — University of Michigan researchers today released the final version of a report analyzing policy options for the state of Michigan regarding high - volume hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas and oil extraction process commonly known as fracking.

As it decreases, the lack of Arctic sea ice could reshape the economy of the region, opening previously inaccessible areas for oil and gas extraction and shipping.

Instead, the increased risk for seismicity is more strongly linked with the subsequent injection of the wastewater from fracking and other oil - extraction processes into massive disposal wells that are thousands of feet underground.

Tour's scientific research areas include nanoelectronics, graphene electronics, silicon oxide electronics, carbon nanovectors for medical applications, green carbon research for enhanced oil recovery and environmentally friendly oil and gas extraction, graphene photovoltaics, carbon supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries, CO2 capture, water splitting to H2 and O2, water purification, carbon nanotube and graphene synthetic modifications, graphene oxide, carbon composites, hydrogen storage on nanoengineered carbon scaffolds, and synthesis of single - molecule nanomachines which includes molecular motors and nanocars.

Their secret sauce is centrifuged - based extraction, which means that it contains the most lauric acid of any coconut oil on the market (plus, they only use coconuts that have been hand - selected for the process to begin with, and pressed the day they're picked to prevent oxidation and fermentation).

The extraction process of the Chia Oil that Maya Chia is known for ensures the oil is pure, high quality, and in its most potent foOil that Maya Chia is known for ensures the oil is pure, high quality, and in its most potent fooil is pure, high quality, and in its most potent form.

Poster Buy at AllPosters.com Neptune krill oil (Canadian Neptune Technologies holds the patent for krill oil extraction) is extracted from the Antarctic krill and is rich in the essential fatty acid (EFA) Omega - 3.

Moreover, an innovative extra-virgin process is used for extraction to ensure enhanced purity and preserve the beneficial compounds in the oil.

The shells of the Moringa seeds make a great organic fertilizer, and the seed remains after oil extraction can be used as a flocculant for water purification, fertilizer, and even animal feed.

Heat and chemicals added during essential oil extraction can produce irritating compounds, and therefore should be avoided for skin use.

The reason that extra virgin olive oil is good for you is that it is generally cold pressed without the use of heat and solvents to aid extraction, and also contains MUCH LESS polyunsaturated fats than canola oil, so is therefore more stable.

The second process by which oil is extracted is by using a squeeze process for extraction of oil that results in a similar dry soy product that may be activated by adding water.

Parts of foods that historically were disposed of, used for composting and considered waste or at best reserved for lower quality, utilitarian applications (like lamp oil) have suddenly become «food» through the alchemy of fossil fuel powered extraction and processing.