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Some of that produced water has been recycled in recent years for use in hydraulic fracturing, which helps make that method of oil extraction more water efficient and reduces the competition for water between farms and oil fields.

Not exact matches

More bountiful still is oil shale, a type of heavy oil that lies between layers of rocks like North Dakota's shale - oil but requires oilsand - like extraction and upgrading techniques.

For starters, global oil production appears more closely in line with demand following a prolonged search for a new equilibrium amid a breakdown in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel and increasingly productive oil extraction technologies in North America.

That's more than the retail trade industry and close to the value of the mining, oil and gas extraction industry.

Over the last year, the solar industry added jobs twelve times faster than the rest of the economy, even more than the jobs created by the oil and gas extraction and pipeline sectors combined.

The extraction and processing of a viscous oil called «bitumen,» excavated from vast formations of sand just below the surface of Alberta's northern region, has come under fire because it requires more energy than many other oil operations.

Green groups oppose the project on the basis that pipeline expansion encourages the extraction of more oil and the release of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

In other cases, the story is more nuanced: For example, oil and gas extraction firms benefit, while the producers of petroleum and coal products lose, echoing the tension between refiners and oil - shale producers.

In other words the cheapest and most sensible approach to reducing greenhouse gases from current 732 megatonnes to a 2020 target of 620 megatonnes involves shrinking the oil and gas industry by limiting bitumen extraction, and not building more pipelines.

You could also try supplementing your diet with MCT oil which is a more potent extraction from coconut oil.

The extraction and refining conditions of copra oil can also be modified to allow more phenolic anti-oxidants to mix with copra oil.

Oil sands extraction raises concerns among environmentalists because it generates more of the heat - trapping gases causing climate change than conventional oil drilling, among other thiOil sands extraction raises concerns among environmentalists because it generates more of the heat - trapping gases causing climate change than conventional oil drilling, among other thioil drilling, among other things

Hagens points out that oil extraction has evolved by leaps and bounds since the early 1900s, and yet companies must expend much more energy to get less and less oil than they did back then.

The term is also used more generally to describe a host of unconventional extraction techniques, such as horizontal drilling, which have helped make the United States the top producer of crude oil in the world.

Crossing the salt barrier brings even more complexity to deep - oil extraction.

It will go down vertically for the first 1.1 miles, then bend eastward toward the fault at a 50 degree angle for another 1.8 miles, using the directional drilling techniques invented to allow more complete extraction of tough - to - reach oil deposits.

Underground coal and uranium mining, and oil recovery enhancement extraction use between two - and - a-half to 13 times more water per unit of energy produced.

Instead, the increased risk for seismicity is more strongly linked with the subsequent injection of the wastewater from fracking and other oil - extraction processes into massive disposal wells that are thousands of feet underground.

Unlike the more refined processed types of virgin coconut oil current in the marketplace that are using wet milling, fermentation or expeller press extraction which require additional heat and use centrifuge spinning (known as oil polishing which reaches high heat during processing) to further clean and filter the oil.

The reason that extra virgin olive oil is good for you is that it is generally cold pressed without the use of heat and solvents to aid extraction, and also contains MUCH LESS polyunsaturated fats than canola oil, so is therefore more stable.

Increases in oil and gas extraction as well as support activities for the mining and energy sector more than offset a drop in mining and quarrying.

Even those with decent jobs in the top industries of oil and gas extraction are not immune to amassing more debt than they can handle.

Very soon the cost of extracting one barrel of oil will cost MORE than one barrel of oil to produce, making further extraction a wasteful effort.

Environmentalists» statements about the massive greenhouse impact from oil - sand carbon don't mention that it would take a millennium or more, even at a breath - taking rate of extraction of, say, 5 million barrels a day, for that CO2 impact to be fully realized (as if no new energy options, or methods for sopping up CO2, will arise in the future), as pointed out by Andrew Leach last June:

Or is the CO2 used for EOR just re-released into the atmosphere along with the carbon from yet more oil extraction?

[7] Indeed, what they are advocating for is construction of vast new fossil fueled power plant capacity as a way to provide cheap CO2 to facilitiate extraction of more oil.

Meanwhile, 95 % goes toward exacerbating the problem, meaning the extraction and production of even more oil and gas sources.

Methane valued at more than $ 1 billion escapes from oil and natural gas extraction processes in the U.S. each year, enough to heat 7 million homes.

Petro - Canada and its partners announced the formal design basis for the Fort Hills Project (FHP)-- an integrated oil sands mining project that includes a mine and bitumen extraction plant 90 kilometers north of Fort McMurray, Alberta and... Read more →

But environmentalists have criticized the project because the extraction and processing of the viscous oil requires more energy than many other oil operations.

In the U.S., more people now work in the solar industry than in oil and gas extraction.

Oil and gas extraction would drop as well, but more gradually, as federal lands and waters represent a smaller fraction of national production, and these resources take longer to develop.

We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does.

I would add that many in the West may also want to weaken the power of non-western countries which have a lot of oil resources compared to the West, and they may hope that having more of the world shunning the use of oil resources and the development of oil extraction in the name of fighting «Global Warming» could be used to gain the economic upper hand over their competitors.

If combustion of the final products is included, the so - called «Well to Wheels» approach, oil sands extraction, upgrade and use emits 10 to 45 % more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

(But because extraction accounts for only a small portion of oil's carbon emissions, which primarily issue from the tailpipes of vehicles, the State Department calculates that oil sands oil is only 17 percent more carbon - intensive when the entire lifecycle is considered.)

As reported in the Los Angeles Times in late April 2015, the US Geological Survey (USGS) released a map of earthquakes «thought to be triggered by human activity in the eastern and central United States» — coinciding with the emerging view of officials «that wastewater disposal following oil and gas extraction is causing more earthquakes.»

The ratio of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for fossil energy production has tended to fall as high - quality deposits of oil, coal, and natural gas are depleted, and as society relies more on unconventional oil and gas that require more energy for extraction, and on coal that is more deeply buried or that is of lower energy content.

No more pollution produced by the extraction and consumption of oil coal, gas and wood.

But the fact is that the remorseless working out of the big numbers, by which I mean the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere and the nearly simultaneous arrival of peak oil extraction, give us little time to make far more sweeping changes.

This first step of tar sand extraction is estimated to result in gasoline that carries a burden of «at least five times more carbon dioxide» then would conventional «sweet crude» oil production.

In any case the environmental degradation imposed by tar sands extraction is severe, and certainly I would personally be very opposed to doing more than extract enough oil for vital needs, which in any case seems to be it's realistic capacity.

Because the extraction of bitumen from those sands is an energy - intensive process, it emits more greenhouse gases than the extraction of oil from conventional reservoirs.

But producing oil sands is a messy, emissions - intensive business; according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the extraction process produces 82 percent more emissions than conventional oil drilling.

It has also led them to explore for and develop more carbon intensive unconventional fossil resources such as tight oil, with associated increases in emissions from flaring; thermal enhanced oil recovery, with increased emissions associated with producing steam, and oil sands, with increased emissions associated with extraction, upgrading and refining (Brandt et al. 2010).

If the price of oil stays high enough and Russian taxes stay low enough to justify the costly extraction of Arctic oil reserves (the going rate for ice platforms is $ 15 billion a pop), this could keep Exxon on top of the world for decades, and it might do more to cement U.S. — Russian relations than any deal in history.

Alberta alone accounts for more than 96 per cent of Canada's oil reserves and in 2010, about 140,000 people were directly employed in the mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction sector, including the oil sands.