Sentences with phrase «oil equivalent according»
China is keen to find natural resources and the Arctic could hold some 90 billion barrels of oil equivalent according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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«According to the World Wildlife Fund, an area the equivalent size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour to make way for palm oil production.
According to a U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 25, oil giant ExxonMobil will pay the equivalent of 24 hours» worth of petroleum sales to the people impacted by the 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Prince William Sound in Alaska.
Americans, for example, consumed 8.6 tons of oil or its commercial energy equivalent per capita in 2007, according to data kept by British Petroleum; Indians consumed just 0.4 ton per capita.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, manufacturing accounts for one - fifth of the annual energy consumption in the United States — approximately 21 quintillion joules (20 quadrillion BTU) or equivalent to 3.6 billion barrels of crude oil.
Global natural gas consumption grew by 2.2 percent to 2,987 million tons of oil equivalent (mtoe) in 2012 — more than triple the consumption recording in 1970, according to the report.
Launched in mid-2010 after 3 years of technical consultation, the Yasuni ITT project was lauded by foreign governments and environmental groups as an innovative way to fight global warming: Not exploiting the Ishpingo - Tambococha - Tiputini (ITT) oilfields in Yasuni National Park will, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), prevent the emissions of around 410 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to the annual emissions of France and accounting for 20 % of Ecuador's known oil reserves.
According to the Botanical Safety Handbook: 2nd Edition, which is the herbal equivalent of Robert Tisserand's authoritative guide, Essential Oil Safety, slippery elm, and marshmallow root are classified as safety class 1 herbs.
But according to British Petroleum's 2007 Statistical Review, between 2000 and 2006, America's total energy consumption was essentially flat — at about 17 billion barrels of oil equivalent per year.
Halting crude oil exports would reduce drilling and fracking and could prevent up to 500 million tons of greenhouse emissions — the pollution equivalent of more than 135 coal - fired power plants, according to a report from the Center for American Progress.
Opening areas in the Atlantic, Pacific and Eastern Gulf of Mexico could lead to production of more than 3.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to research by Quest Offshore Resources.
The authors estimated that the region's methane emissions were 3.7 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, almost five times greater than the 0.75 million metric tons previously estimated (according to the study, methane emissions from oil and gas operations are 2.3 - 7.5 times greater than earlier estimates).
However, according to the IEA (PDF here), in 2008, the world produced fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas, peat) equivalent to 10,065 million tonnes of oil (Mtoe), but only 90.2 Mtoe of energy from renewables (geothermal, solar, electricity and heat, wind).
They were up 12 per cent to just under US$ 40,000 equivalent according to the Hays Oil & Gas Global Salary Guide 2013 produced in partnership with Oil and Gas Job Search.