Sentences with phrase «oil deposits around»

An international team of researchers has shown how anaerobic microbes in oil deposits around the world — including in unconventional sources such as the oil sands — naturally break down crude oil into methane in the reservoir.

Not exact matches

This process usually takes millions of years, giving the oil and gas deposits plenty of time to migrate around the globe on the back of plate movements.

Oil companies used to avoid salt, sometimes drilling around it to reach deep deposits.

Agreed, perhaps I was not super clear - we used the «drag around» to actually drive the engine at speed, thus after our initial manual lubrication oil was being pumped and our main focus was to loosen the accumulated deposits and remove those prior to adding full power.

«Make sure to check for mats, especially around the ears, where the oil deposited by human hands can lead to trouble.»

This sounds similar to what's being worked on in Alberta, except Shells» Shale plan is to generate scads of electricity, use that energy to pump a chilled refrigerant around and over buried tar shale deposits - this is to freeze the groundwater enough to encapsulate a 2000 - foot deep segment of shale - followed by pumping out the groundwater inside the frozen periphery and inserting giant electrodes into the isolated shale body to heat the now - dried interior to 700 degrees Fahrenheit for a period of three years, before extracting the oil liberated by the interior heat.

From around the world, mining and petroleum companies have set their sights on Colombian oil reserves and mineral deposits, much of which lie within Indigenous territories.