Sentences with phrase «fuel oil made»

Beginning in 1965, electric power companies began building generating plants burning high - sulfur heavy fuel oil made from imported crude.

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The engine itself may be made up of various parts, such as an oil filter, a fuel pump, a radiator and so on.

The fossil fuel industries are making moves in Europe, with oil suppliers cutting supply to drive up prices again.

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

Proposed carbon pricing legislation in the U.S. as well as low carbon fuel standards being adopted by California and other states could make many oil sands projects marginal or entirely uneconomic in future.

Refiners don't particularly want tar sands oil, which is tougher to make into usable transportation fuel, so it sells for about $ 20 to $ 30 less per barrel than crude from Texas or the Dakotas.

Corporate Knights said this analysis could explain «why some of the biggest oil sands players are gobbling up low - carbon patents and quietly running the numbers on different scenarios, such as when they should exit the oil sands or make the shift to becoming predominately alternative fuel and green energy firms.»

A preamble to an Act can not creates rights and obligation for persons but it can and should be used in the interpretation of the Act, and especially open textured provisions of the Act such as the power of the Minister under s 2 (3)(c) to consider any matter she considers relevant when making an order to require a person to obtain a licence for the export of natural gas, crude oil or refined fuels.

Any geologist who works for Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Haliburton, Schlumberger, Gasprom, Saudi Aramco, Baker and Hughes, Petrobras, China's national oil company or any of the thousands of mining or oil or natural gas related companies that make a living finding fossil fuels, will tell you these fossil fuels take millions of years to develop from the remains of large forests or marine creatures.

Traditionally the industry has been a heavy user of fossil fuels, primarily oil, the price of which has fluctuated from under $ 15 a barrel 20 years ago to peaks of $ 90 to over $ 100 now, making fossil fuels such as bunker oil vastly more expensive.

BOST had been in the news for selling 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to two unlicensed companies, Movepiina and Zup Oil, which were allegedly set up few days before the sale making Ghana lose about GHc 7 million in revenue.

«For years, through a campaign of scare tactics and misinformation, the oil and gas industry has made expanding fossil fuel infrastructure seem like the only choice,» he said.

Energy mogul Catsimatidis stands to make a killing — estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars a year — as the City Council and the de Blasio administration move to approve legislation to dramatically boost the use of biodiesel fuel in home heating oil, The Post has learned.

The pulp is used as fuel and to make paper, the seed is used in foods, and the oil from the seed can be used as a base for paints and varnishes.

Citi News gathered earlier this week that, at least 200 liters of premix fuel had been diverted by Oil Marketing Marketing Companies that claimed to supply the product outside Accra, but ended up supplying mostly within Accra for industrial purposes at a higher cost to make more profit.

BOST has been heavily criticized for selling 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to two unlicensed companies, Movepiina and Zup Oil, which were allegedly set up few days before the sale making Ghana lose about GHc 7 million in revenue.

The Member of Parliament for Bongo, Edward Bawa has suggested that the Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko's decision to exonerate the CEO of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) of any wrongdoing in the contaminated fuel saga was made «under duress».

The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has been heavily criticized for selling 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to two unlicensed companies, Movepiina and Zup Oil, which were allegedly set up few days before the sale making Ghana lose about GHc 7 million in revenue.

BOST had been widely criticized for selling 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to two unlicensed companies, Movepiina and Zup Oil, which were allegedly set up few days before the sale making Ghana lose about GHc 7 million in revenue.

If you're looking for the best fuel injector cleaner with a high value, Marvel Mystery Oil has multiple uses for regular car maintenance that make it a true workhorse product!

She is part of a team that helps to ensure oil and gas are produced safely and efficiently, and then processed and manipulated to make useful products, like fuel.

The process of making liquid fuel from the oil sands requires steam injection and and refining, all of which requires energy.

Much as improved drilling and refining techniques caused the cost of oil to plummet in the 19th century, new technologies could make renewable fuels cheap and ubiquitous.

KERRY: The senator has proposed «a new Manhattan Project to make America independent of Middle East oil in 10 years» by increasing the use of alternative fuels like ethanol and insisting that standards for auto mileage be raised.

Early in 2003, company officials predicted that the Carthage plant, which will process guts, feathers, bones, and blood from a nearby ConAgra Foods Butterball Turkey slaughterhouse, would be cranking at full capacity that summer, making 500 barrels of high - quality fuel oil daily.

In the bipartisan 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, we increased new fuel economy standards for vehicles, along with other provisions to increase energy efficiency, save drivers money, reduce pollution, and strengthen our security by making America less dependent on foreign oil.

The more coal and oil burned, the more black spheres formed, making such soot the perfect record of a swelling fossil - fuel pyromania.

But if oil prices rise enough for algae fuels to be cost effective, scientists hope to use what they've learned from that process to make biofuels that are both clean and profitable.

In 2005, it became focused on a process that made diesel fuel using fatty acids and oily agricultural residues that included palm oil.

The oil vapor, meanwhile, is condensed into a liquid fuel, which is then further upgraded and processed to make a green fuel similar to the bunker fuel that is used in cargo ship engines and industrial boilers, for example, except it lacks the pollution - causing sulfur common to the bunker fuel refined from petroleum.

As the company has demonstrated elsewhere in the world, it is possible to make jet fuel from plant oils — whether they come from jatropha seeds, the flowering weed camelina or any other oil - producing plant.

The study, published in the current issue of the journal Nature Communications, could enable scientists to use the enzyme in a plant to make large amounts of fuel - grade oil, according to Dr. Tim Devarenne, AgriLife Research biochemist in College Station and lead scientist on the team.

Another company ready to make the leap into commercial scale production of algae fuel is Sapphire Energy, which operates a 2,200 acre algae farm in New Mexico where oil is harvested across 70 open ponds and refined on site.

«But we believe we should be making biofuels and replacing petroleum, and it's not good policy in our mind to only worry about fuel supplies based on the price of oil.

The Rockefellers, who made their vast fortune on oil, and other philanthropies and high - wealth individuals on Monday will announce pledges to divest a total of $ 50 billion from fossil fuel investments.

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.

Because the process makes a blend of hydrocarbons, it does not lack the aromatic compounds that seal aircraft engines, like the biojet fuel produced from camelina oil by UOP.

The Aloha State burns oil to make electricity, and prices for the fuel have jumped in recent years, igniting demand for alternatives.

The oil business makes enough hydrogen to fuel more than 30 million hydrogen vehicles, he notes, adding, «the petroleum industry will provide us with the hydrogen infrastructure.»

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

Camelina grower Sustainable Oils — which provided the camelina oil to make the 1,000 gallons of jet fuel needed for the KLM flight — plans to cover more than 20,000 hectares in Montana with the weedy relative of canola, enough to deliver some 9.5 million liters of raw oil.

Biodiesel is best known as the fuel made from recycled vegetable oil, the kind used by superenvironmentalists such as singer Willie Nelson, who calls it «BioWillie.»

If you could directly produce chemical fuel from sunlight and do it affordably, that would open up the prospect of making a substitute for oil that wouldn't involve transferring carbon from the ground to the atmosphere.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

The conversion of the pyrolysis oil to a renewable transportation fuel is made through a process called gasification.

A fuel made from palm oil turns out to be worse for greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere than jet fuel refined from petroleum because it involves clearing rainforest or peatland.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

Solazyme can make lots of oil from its stressed algae grown in the dark and fed industrial - grade sugar, but the source of that sugar makes the ultimate fuels less sustainable.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

«We were studying agostic bonds in a project to make liquid fuels like methanol from carbon dioxide to replace fuels we get from oil,» said chemist Morris Bullock at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.