Sentences with phrase «of oil deposits»

Globally, about one - third of oil deposits must enter the no - burning zone, along with 88 percent of known and mineable coal supplies and about half the world's unused natural gas.

Algae may have been an important source in the formation of oil deposits.

Comprehensive plans will require a lot of data, such as the habitat of endangered species, the location of oil deposits, and strength of winds.

Similarly, the ancient coast left lots of oil deposits, salt domes and the like.

(The exact amount depends on the local characteristics of the oil deposit as well as the technology deployed and other factors.)

Not exact matches

Based on a West Texas Intermediate crude oil price of $ 45 per barrel, those deposits are worth about $ 900 billion.

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.

The geophysicist at Rice University in Houston estimates we have the second - largest deposits of crude oil in the world — as much as 2.5 trillion barrels of bitumen buried in the oilsands of Alberta.

The company which scans the sea floor for oil and gas deposits said it now expected full - year revenue to be in the range of $ 870 - 910 million, up from its previous forecast from Aug. 2 for $ 810 - 870 million.

«The north of Canada is very, very favourable [to oil and gas deposits], in geologic conditions,» says Talwani, «but you have to do a lot of work to find out what the reserves are.»

The Obama administration is still reviewing a series of ambitious leasing plans drafted under former President George W. Bush that would have cleared the way to tap into the Green River basin, an area that crosses Utah, Colorado and Wyoming and is the home of America's largest oilsand and oil shale deposits.

By connecting land - locked oil deposits in Alberta and North Dakota with world markets, pipelines and railways aren't just letting industry pull more oil out of the ground — they're also connecting those oil flows to world prices.

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.

But they are vast, constituting one of the largest deposits of oil in the world — something in the range of 150 billion barrels, enough to help make Canada a net exporter of oil.

After the oil price collapse and a huge corruption scandal, Petrobras has struggled to stay afloat, let alone find the billions of investments needed to develop new deposits.

The costs to develop the oil sands, a type of unconventional petroleum deposit, are much higher that developing conventional oil deposits.

That's clearly false — only a small area of the oil sands deposit — about 4,750 square kilometres, or 3 times the land area of Los Angeles — is mineable, with the remainder accessible only with in situ extraction or, in some cases, not recoverable at all with current technology.

The land area of Florida (170,000 km ²) and England (130,395 km ²) are similar to the land area under which lies Alberta's oil sands deposits (140,000 km ²), so the implication is that, once these deposits are all extracted, the land area will be disturbed.

The Alberta government has leased almost 100,000 square kilometers of the oil sands deposit, so the potential certainly exists for an industrial project on the scale of England, if a little smaller.

His travels took him on a whirlwind sojourn, from the massive shale gas deposit in the Marcellus Formation to Alberta's remote oil sands region, helping his readers build life - changing wealth every step of the way.

The Treasury Department says a group of 15 «oil - exporting» nations including Saudi Arabia held a total of $ 281 billion in Treasuries in February, deposited either in the United States or in one of the 15 countries.

In addition, Calgary - based Crescent Point Energy Corp. confirmed months of speculation that it had built up a sizeable land position in the Duvernay formation, spending roughly $ 112 million buying up 335,000 acres in the play, with deposits of light oil, natural gas, liquids like butane, propane and pentane.

It's there, in the Wolfcamp formation of the Permian, that the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently discovered 20 billion barrels of «technically recoverable» oil, the largest deposit ever to be found in the U.S. Bloomberg reports that the deposit is worth an estimated $ 900 billion at today's prices.

There is considerable variation in both the quality of and the ease with which a resource deposit can be extracted, so the most profitable strategy is to start with the high - quality, low - cost plays and, when these are exhausted, move on to deposits that are of lower quality and are more costly (think conventional oil fields vs. the oil sands).

Now when a group of those «heirs» wants something they don't have, like rich oil fields, clean water, rich farm land, ocean views, mineral deposits, timber or grazing lands for their animals, they go to their bibles, look up some scriptures that talk about how God promised [THEM] everything and decide to take it, regardless of who they have to first demonize (helps the conscience) then kill to get it.

However an examination of other articles by the same author in Ex Nihilo reveals that, to Snelling 1, everything geological (Ayers Rock, Mt Isa ore deposits, Bass Strait oil and gas, Queensland coal deposits, Great Barrier Reef, etc.,) can be explained as the result of Noah's year - long Flood.

Rather, there are known supplies of oil, coal and other natural resources whose quantities tend to expand as their prices rise, making it more profitable to explore for new deposits.

Unlike other compounded liner materials, Elvax ® contains no mineral oil, which can mix with beverages and deposit a ring of unsightly brown residue on the inside of the bottle's neck.

Virgin coconut oil contains the greatest concentration of MCTs and does not contribute to fat deposits unlike long - chain fatty acids.

«After a couple tablespoons of cod liver oil... the child was deposited to bed, covered with heavy quilts, and left to fry gently all night.

«It is our believes that, the 2017 national budget of the federal republic of Nigeria is not based on the crude oil production output from the Niger Delta but it is based on the newly found oil deposits in the North and the new pipelines construction from the Niger Republic,» the group stated.

Sudan is running out of oil mainly due to the poor recovery rate of Asian oil companies and lack of substantial new oil deposits.

A case in point is the huge expectation that the NDC youth have for the Voltaian Basin Exploratory works initiated by the Ato Ahwoi board of GNPC, to help Ghana solely drill its first onshore oil and gas deposits and thereby provide immeasurable opportunities for our Ghanaian youth in terms of jobs, businesses and also help transform the local economy.

Many local towns and cities have expressed opposition to the project, citing the local dangers of pipeline leaks and wider implications of fracking (the oil bound for the Pilgrim Pipeline originates from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, the same deposits that have increased the volume of oil carried by trains and barges through the Hudson Valley to New Jersey refineries).

The governor said: «It is shameful that Nigeria produces crude oil but imports refined petroleum products from other countries that have no crude oil deposits, instead of our refineries to be functional.

Pupils of St. Peters Primary School, Apoi, a riverside community in Bayelsa State, sitting on huge oil and gas deposits, have been out of school for months owing to lack of teachers and a devastating oil spill ravaging the community, writes SIMON UTEBOR The weather was harsh despite the temperate breeze blowing from the riverside.

Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissed as a waste of time.

Years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, oil continues to wash ashore as oil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seafloOil spill, oil continues to wash ashore as oil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seaflooil continues to wash ashore as oil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seaflooil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seaflooil has been deposited on the seafloor.

Instead of drilling right through a gas deposit that is 300 feet thick but miles across, these wells can turn when they are inside the deposit and run for thousands of feet, collecting significantly more gas and oil.

DYED pink and doped with acid, the small, inanimate drop of oil is deposited at the entrance to the maze — and immediately sets off towards the exit.

The vast oil - sand deposits of Alberta are estimated to hold up to 170 billion barrels of recoverable oil, second only to Saudi Arabia.

This kind of extra-heavy crude oil from sandy deposits is not commercially developed anywhere else in the world, although other countries such as Venezuela, Russia and even the U.S. have similar resources.

Oil companies that today pay for CO2 to be delivered from natural deposits are in danger of losing money, because the current price of oil is so lOil companies that today pay for CO2 to be delivered from natural deposits are in danger of losing money, because the current price of oil is so loil is so low.

Norway's state - owned Statoil has cold - weather expertise with which it hopes to exploit deposits in the Barents Sea, and Canada - based Imperial Oil is among a handful of companies bidding on Canadian claims in the Beaufort Sea.

Biologist Sonja Wedmann, then at the Institute of Paleontology at the University of Bonn, analyzed the fossil after it was dug up from oil shale deposits in what was once a small lake formed by volcanic activity.

The majority of this wastewater is ancient ocean brine that was trapped in rock layers along with gas and oil deposits.

Most of the oil and gas deposits are likely within 200 - nautical - mile exclusive economic zones belonging to countries with Arctic coasts.

This new cold war is all about trade and resources: According to a 2008 study by the U.S. Geologic Survey, the Arctic has 20 percent of the planet's undiscovered and recoverable oil and natural gas deposits.

And Venezuelans are beginning to excavate the solid tarry deposits of the Oronoco sludge belt, which contains as much as 1 trillion barrels of oil.

All the big oil companies are beginning to tap hard - to - reach deposits by using 3 - D seismic imaging and computer - controlled sensors to detect where pockets of oil are located in a well.