Sentences with phrase «heavy tar»

If another Enbridge spill were to happen tomorrow, the company might respond more quickly, but huge volumes of heavy tar sands crude would still pour out of the pipeline.

The remaining oil on the ground has thickened into a heavy tar - like consistency mixed with snow.

Instead, the heavy tar - like substance must be mined or extracted by injecting steam into the ground.

To put this in perspective, the Keystone XL pipeline would carry up to 830,000 barrels of heavy tar sands oil per day (303 million barrels / year), enough to supply the energy for over 38 million cars, or the equivalent of 1.8 QBtu annually.

In 2013, Global applied for a permit to allow it to handle heavy tar sands crude oil at the same facility.

The spill required years and more than a billion dollars to clean up, and it highlighted the hazards of pumping heavy tar sands oil through pipelines.

A spill of heavy tar sands oil from the pipeline could create a major loss of jobs in America's heartland.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

When the Keystone XL Pipeline, slated to bring especially carbon - heavy tar sands from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast, was killed thanks to years of fierce environmental protests, the stakes were raised for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Not exact matches

The pipeline would connect Canada's tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

Such diluents are essential in helping to market and transport Venezuela's tar - like heavy crude, he added.

Experiments at the Philadelphia thermal depolymerization plant have converted heavy crude oil, shale, and tar sands into light oils, gases, and graphite - type carbon.

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study finds.

Trans Ionics, based in the Woodlands, Tex., is focusing on so - called tar sand, or bitumen, an especially heavy and sour oil of which the Western Hemisphere holds 65 percent of the world's reserves, primarily in Canada and Venezuela.

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.

Aerosols from the production of heavy oil is a growing climate and pollution concern because new tar sands developments are on the drawing board in Venezuela, Utah and elsewhere, the study says.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to produce — are a major source of aerosols, a component of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk of lung and heart disease.

Coal tar is known to contain heavy metal salts which, when applied to the skin, can deposit toxins in the pores causing sensitivity and irritations.

These include the heavy metals lead and mercury, and coal tars, which lead to significant facial and skin damage as well as other toxic effects.

Derived from coal tar, FD&C color pigments contain heavy metal salts that deposit toxins onto the skin, causing skin sensitivity and irritation.

Synthetic colours are made from coal tar and contain heavy metal salts.

This is a practical impossibility due to increased amounts of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere from the growing global production and burning of coal, tar / oil sands, heavy oil and bitumen.

However, greatly increased future production of heavy oil, tar / oil sands and bitumen in Canada and other countries with huge anounts of these carbon intensive fuel resources is now in full swing.

Around two tons of tar sand must be processed to produce one barrel of heavy bitumen - based crude oil.

Finally, Alberta is exporting well over a million barrels of heavy oil every day from these carbon - rich tar sands to the U.S..

Not only does Q fail to consider the carbon to be released by burning coal but he also totally ignores the tar sands, oil shales, and heavy oils that are being targeted to supplement remaining oil supplies.

Lorne Stockman, a senior research analyst at Oil Change International, said much of the US petcoke was left over from the refinement of heavy oil from Canada's tar sands.

In March 2008, he told the World Heavy Oil Congress why the Athabasca tar sands require innovative thinking.

Rubin tells us the heavy oil from the Tar Sands (or «oil sands» as the industry tries to say) costs more to refine, and gets less on the market — perhaps forty something a barrel, versus the 50 or 60 dollars a barrel we hear quoted as «the price of oil».

«They have to use a lot of natural gas to upgrade this heavy, sticky, gooky almost tar - like stuff to make it fluid enough to use,» said Charles Hall, a professor at the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study published in the Proceedings... Read more →

Furthermore, there are thought to be large amounts of non-conventional oil (e.g., heavy oil, tars sands, shales) and gas (e.g., methane hydrates).

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.

We do not need tar sands coming to our area and increasing the heavy toxins in our environment,» Kelley commented.

The spill, which leaked heavy, viscous tar sands oil, emanates from the Pegasus Pipeline, which was built in the 1940's.

Tillerson has also overseen an expansion of Exxon's investment in developing Alberta's tar sands, some of the most carbon - heavy fuel in the world.

It is designed to capture around 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from a plant that turns heavy Canadian tar sands into useable products.

Dilbit — the heavy, solvent - laced tar sands crude that oozed into the Kalamazoo River in 2010 and across Mayflower, Ark., in 2013 doesn't count, technically, as «oil.»

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.

Wabasca Heavy Diluted Bitumen is considered by the Alberta Government as tar sands.

The pipeline carries heavy crude from the tar sands of Canada to refineries near the Texas Gulf coast.

«Don't pick winners and losers among all the heavy oil being produced in the world: Mexico, Nigeria, Venezuela, not to mention California heavy crude that has a higher greenhouse - gas footprint than our tar sands oil.»

Instead of transporting heavy crude from Canada's tar sands, the pipeline would tap into the booming Bakken oil fields of Montana and North Dakota.

In addition, tar sands crude contains very high levels of heavy metals, which don't break down easily.

«Tar sands bitumen is a low - grade, heavy substance,» says Anthony Swift, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Canada Project.