Sentences with phrase «more recoverable oil»

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Earlier this month the EIA released updated figures (pdf) that dropped the amount of recoverable oil in that formation by more than 90 percent, from around 14 billion barrels to just one billion.

Then there's well over a TRILLION barrels of recoverable shale oil, more than the world has used in all of history.

There is a raging battle today about the size of fossil fuel reserves and resources, with «peakists» claiming that we are already at or near peak production of both oil and coal because the amounts of economically recoverable fuels in the ground are more limited than the fossil fuel industry has admitted.

Slaughter estimated U.S. technically recoverable, economically feasible tight oil reserves at more than 40 billion barrels:

The US Arctic Alaska Petroleum Province holds mean estimates of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources of nearly 30 billion barrels of oil, about... Read more →

The Beaufort and Chukchi seas off the coast of Alaska contain more technically recoverable oil and natural gas than the Atlantic and Pacific coasts combined, according to government estimates.