It's unclear
how oil flowing in a new pipeline, Keystone XL, could get slapped with more onerous treatment than the millions of barrels that already get shipped to the United States on existing lines, such as the initial Keystone conduit and several operated by Enbridge Inc..
Straight weight oil does not contain modifiers which affect
how the oil flows.
Not exact matches
Now, with billions in new revenues
flowing out of these deposits, a growing number of
oil - and - gas - field services firms have emerged with solutions to the problem of
how to remediate the huge volumes of heavily polluted water that comes out of the ground.
Hayden Briscoe, Head of Fixed Income, Asia Pacific, at UBS Asset Management, said in a report just before the Chinese futures launched that «We believe that in the long term this will change
how oil is traded globally, create a petro - yuan currency
flow, increase the role of the RMB [renminbi — Ed.]
By now, it should be obvious that the Saudis and their Gulf allies are playing the long game when it comes to the current
oil situation, and that means keeping the taps
flowing in the midst of a global glut no matter
how low prices go.
Add about 1/2 cup of the olive
oil (or more) depending on
how smooth the
flow is.
The big question is
how large must the balls be to fall through the
flow of
oil and gas, To find out, Wattenburg suggests using a connection from the surface to the so - called blow - out preventer (BOP) on top of the well to pump in steel balls with a range of diameters up to about 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches).
A helpful animation from CNN explains
how mud will slow the
oil flow and concrete will stop it completely — if the procedure works.
A second team had estimated a
flow of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day using calculations based on satellite images and
how much
oil has evaporated or been skimmed, burned, and dispersed.
Understanding
how much energy is required to pump fluid through a pipeline when it is
flowing in the transitional state could help industries, such as
oil refineries, minimize energy waste and improve efficiency.
The passage also aptly described the situation faced by the scientists at BP, such as vice president of engineering Paul Tooms or vice president and engineer Richard Lynch, who seemed incapable of determining
how much
oil was actually
flowing and figuring out
how to stop it despite valiant efforts.
In particular she is interested in
how chemicals are absorbed and penetrate through skin and according to her, «the techniques used to model
how substances diffuse through skin are not so different from those used to model the
flow of
oil through rocks!»
Also using T2Well to model that well, they estimated
how much
oil and gas were actually
flowing out to the sea floor.
The leap of science is to be able to relate the large - scale measurements of seismic signals to the small - scale characteristics of pore structure of the rock, which determine
how fluids, such as
oil and gas,
flow.
What to expect: — An understanding of
how essential oils work to promote body love — Hands - on
oil exploration & take home
oil blends — A self - love inspired yoga
flow class featuring essential practices for body love — A closing meditation with chanting by Brandy — Chocolate, tea, & Body Love Notes
You will notice that the for each of the Winter designations, it is mainly concerned with
how well the
oil flows at a given minimum temperature.
From there it goes out to the rest of the engine (can go anywhere depending on
how the engine
oil flow is engineered).
How cool would it be to see the
oil flow thought your cars filter.
We took each feature and said, «
How can we make that feature better, or give it a bit of spice, a bit of Tabasco, or a bit of baby
oil so it
flows a bit better?»
It was always inconceivable that President Obama would consider using a nuclear explosion to cut the
flow of
oil from the unrelenting seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico — no matter
how many other options faltered.
Scientists are trying to learn
how dilbit, or diluted bitumen — the complex mixture of bitumen, gasoline and other chemicals that
flows through pipelines and is hauled on railway cars away from Canada's
oil sands — behaves when it is released into the environment.
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A month after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent ecological destruction, despite efforts by BP to slow the
flow of
oil (and information about just
how much is gushing into the Gulf), things don't really seem to be improving that much.
For at least six weeks, thousands of barrels of tar sands
oil have been bubbling up into the forest in Cold Lake, Alberta and neither the
oil company or government scientists know
how to stop the
flow.