Sentences with phrase «major oil deposits»

The Goldston - Yildirim - Pintz finding is like telling the geologist where all the world's major oil deposits are likely to be located.

Not exact matches

The Bakken oil deposits, which are often drilled through hydrofracking, have become a major source of oil for the railroads to move because the deposits lack direct pipeline links.

Oil and gas is one major one and especially in the western boreal forest, the world's second largest oil deposit is in the boreal forest in the Alberta Tar SanOil and gas is one major one and especially in the western boreal forest, the world's second largest oil deposit is in the boreal forest in the Alberta Tar Sanoil deposit is in the boreal forest in the Alberta Tar Sands.

He and his colleagues found that over the course of four months, 11,400 tons of particulate matter — including bitumen and cancer - causing polycyclic aromatic compounds — were deposited within 30 miles of oil sands upgrading facilities belonging to two of Canada's major oil sands development companies, Suncor and Syncrude.

The offshore gas and oil industry is long established and is reaching ever greater depths in the sea in its quest for new and major deposits — for instance in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Brazil.

But comparison of the Athabaska Oil Sands to an individual coal deposit isn't really fair, since there are only two major oil sands deposits (the other being in Venezuela) while coal deposits are widespreOil Sands to an individual coal deposit isn't really fair, since there are only two major oil sands deposits (the other being in Venezuela) while coal deposits are widespreoil sands deposits (the other being in Venezuela) while coal deposits are widespread.

In one major deposit — the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming — there lies the equivalent of about 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

Outside the realm of conventional oil, the tar sands of Alberta and the oil shale of the Western U.S. exist in huge deposits, the exploitation of which is currently costly and accompanied by major environmental difficulties, but both definitely hold promise for a substantial increases in oil supply.

In Pennsylvania the Ridge and Valley region contains one of the world's largest deposits of anthracite coal, once the basis of a thriving mining economy; many of the mines are now shut, oil and gas having replaced coal as the major fuel used to heat homes.