Sentences with phrase «oil deposits in»

There are huge oil deposits in Bosnia?

In Brazil, the immediate remedies for this very real need are seen in the massive number of unharnessed rivers of the Amazon basin and in oil deposits in the jungles of Western Amazônia (not to mention the vast deposits of deep - drilled oil located off - shore along the coast of Rio de Janeiro which is another story).

In the early 1870s, the Osage had been driven from their lands in Kansas onto a rocky, presumably worthless reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, only to discover, decades later, that this land was sitting above some of the largest oil deposits in the United States.

Ciba even acquired its own shale oil deposits in the Alps as a new feedstock.

«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.

Beneath the coca fields in southern Colombia lie the largest undeveloped oil deposits in the Americas.

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.

By connecting land - locked oil deposits in Alberta and North Dakota with world markets, pipelines and railways aren't just letting -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

The group set about their plan by renting office space in Dallas, Texas, where a robust fracking industry regularly requires radioactive materials for gauges needed in their search for gas and oil deposits.

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 deposits are in narrow bands that can only be accessed with horizontal drilling, and the oil and gas are locked in these little pockets and are only available with techniques like hydraulic fracturing.»

This crustal weakness allowed unusually high heat flow from deeper mantle sources to «super-heat» the highly organic Niobrara source rocks, which in turn generated the significant oil and gas deposits now contained in the Niobrara and Codell formations.

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.

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.

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.

By 2020 the country wants the ability to mine land - based deposits that begin two kilometres in depth, find minerals at three kilometres, and identify oil and gas at 6.5 to 10 kilometres, the South China Morning Post reported October 5.

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 pentanIn 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 pentanin 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 pentanin 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).

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.

Additionally, President Akufo - Addo indicated that his government, in partnership with the private sector, aims to establish an integrated aluminium industry, which will exploit the country's bauxite deposits at Kyebi and Nyinahin; and also petrochemical industries from our oil and gas deposits from the Jubilee, TEN and Sankofa fields.

New York's public pension tax burden is the second most costly in the nation, trailing only Alaska who benefits from rich oil and minerals deposits.

Again, Mr. Felix Addo has told the company's managers that since the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah is not producing to capacity, GNPC can not be in a position to finance the search for oil and gas deposits in the Voltaian Basin.

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).

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.

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.

This serves as the perfect glue for attaching the oil - loving molecules, which are deposited in a second step; they hold onto the metal oxide layer with one end and reach out to grab oil molecules with the other.

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.

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.

Israel plans to cut oil use in transportation by 60 percent by 2025, an aggressive target by world standards, and will tap into its newfound natural gas deposits to make it happen.

Oil deposits are in decline, however, and chemists see natural gas as a suitable alternative.

Lee said shale gas and tight oil deposits are not found in the ash layers but appear to be associated with them.

Interest in hydrates has skyrocketed in recent years because global deposits are thought to harbor more fuel energy than all the world's coal, oil and natural gas reserves combined.

In fact, the Libyan Sahara Desert contains unmistakable glacial scars and Antarctica has extensive coal deposits — and very likely abundant oil and gas — that establish that their plates were once at the other ends of the earth (see image at right).

The Bakken is a shale oil deposit underlying parts of North Dakota and Montana in the United States, and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada.

In a 1998 study, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that federally owned lands in that region contain 4.3 billion to 11.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil, mostly spread out in small depositIn a 1998 study, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that federally owned lands in that region contain 4.3 billion to 11.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil, mostly spread out in small depositin that region contain 4.3 billion to 11.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil, mostly spread out in small depositin small deposits.

So once he finished his degree, Ridgway went to work for Chevron in Texas, exploring sedimentary basins for new deposits of oil and gas.

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.

In Canada, relatively shallow oil sand deposits lie beneath a 1,500 - square - mile region just north of Fort McMurray.

TEL AVIV (Reuters)- Israel plans to cut oil use in transportation by 60 percent by 2025, an aggressive target by world standards, and will tap into its newfound natural gas deposits to make it happen.

The decision is also the latest in a series of setbacks for projects in the Arctic trying to find oil and gas deposits estimated at 20 percent of the world's undiscovered resources.