Sentences with phrase «oil extraction technologies»

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.

In 2005 Pachauri set up a residual oil extraction technology company called Glorioil.

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Take, for example, the sharp increase in U.S. oil and natural gas production stemming, in part, from the innovations in drilling and extraction technologies.

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 research has been highlighted in many publications including the Food Chemistry Journal (www.elsevier.com) titled «Comparison of the phenolic - dependent antioxidant properties of coconut oil extracted under cold and hot conditions» by Prof. Kapila Seneviratne, Chamil D. Hapuarachchi and Sagarika Ekanayake; Food Science and Technology of Sage Publications titled «Antioxidant activities of the phenolic extraction of seeds and seed hulls of 5 different species»; International Journal of Food Science and Technology of the United Kingdom; and the International Food Research Journal of Malaysia.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

His study attributes the expected growth in oil output largely to a combination of high oil prices and new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing that are opening up vast new areas and allowing extraction of «unconventional» oil such as tight oil, oil shale, tar sands and ultra-heavy oil.

[Response: The point of that quote was not to say that all 1.7 trillion barrels should be added to economically recoverable reserves right now, but to just point out the pace of extraction technology, so taking the stance that they'll never be able to get all that oil out anyway is not a very sound position.

Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive officer of the overarching Masdar Initiative, told me that the goal is to use the wealth accrued over a half century of oil extraction to help shift the economy slowly toward exporting renewable or non-polluting energy technology.

At this point we should be discussing which sources of oil can be accessed with the least environmental damage, and which sources will generate the most risk and therefore could benefit the most from additional time to continue to improve our extraction technology.

The researchers told Mongabay.com in an email that they were surprised to learn that — perhaps due to the novelty of wind technology — there have been far fewer studies looking at its ecological impacts as compared to oil and gas extraction.

Schlumberger, a leading oilfield services company, has acquired Raytheon's technology for the extraction of oil from oil shale and oil sands.

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is awarding Nsolv $ 13 million in grant funding to commercialize its field - tested, proprietary warm solvent technology for in situ heavy oil extraction without the useTechnology Canada (SDTC) is awarding Nsolv $ 13 million in grant funding to commercialize its field - tested, proprietary warm solvent technology for in situ heavy oil extraction without the usetechnology for in situ heavy oil extraction without the use of steam.

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

Open Pit Mining and Forest Destruction: Approximately 20 % of Alberta's oil sands are recoverable through open - pit mining, while 80 % require in situ extraction technologies (largely because of their depth).

: Approximately 20 % of Alberta's oil sands are recoverable through open - pit mining, while 80 % require in situ extraction technologies (largely because of their depth).

We have enormous remaining supplies of oil, gas, and coal because the technology of exploration and extraction has advanced along with solar and wind technology.

Since 1979, WVU's National Research Center for Coal and Energy has advanced technology in key areas of concern to West Virginia's energy industry from coal mining and processing to oil and gas extraction, energy efficiency, mine land reclamation, health concerns, and water use.