Sentences with phrase «oil fields now»

Across the country there are hundreds of depleted oil fields now doing service as storage sites for natural gas.
As we explained in December (This is the ongoing gas leak in California that's an epic ecological disaster) in the United States old oil fields are commonly used on the premise that geological sites that were good at keeping in oil for millions of years would also be good at keeping in gas — there are hundreds of depleted oil fields now doing service as storage sites for natural gas.

Not exact matches

The solar fields are being built beside aging oilfields — fields so depleted they now need steam injected into them to push their remaining oil to the surface.
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.
But now Papa said the the best days are behind some of those fields after a period of low oil prices prompted drillers to train their rigs on their best acreage and deplete the most cost - efficient production.
Last month, Oslo - based Rystad Energy shared a report that shows the U.S. as now having the world's largest reserve of recoverable oil, with 264 billion barrels in existing fields, unconventional shale and as - yet undiscovered areas.
That caused a huge drop - off of oil - field activities, likely leading to a big first - quarter sales drop for equipment distributor Distribution NOW (NYSE: DNOW), or NOW.
A surplus of crude could overwhelm Gulf Coast and Canadian refineries that weren't built for the type of oil now in abundance from new fields in North Dakota and Texas, forcing the issue, McKenna said.
Now when a group of those «heirs» wants something they don't have, like rich oil fields, clean water, rich farm land, ocean views, mineral deposits, timber or grazing lands for their animals, they go to their bibles, look up some scriptures that talk about how God promised [THEM] everything and decide to take it, regardless of who they have to first demonize (helps the conscience) then kill to get it.
We the Amercians will never forget 9/11, and we will never forgive that is why we Suport and created Isreal and kicked out the filthy Arabs, and we went into Iraq to get rid of Saddam, so what if hundereds of thousands have been murdered, raped and tourchered at least we now have total control over the oil fields, i know Afganistan had nothing to do with 9/11 but since no super power had ever invaded and captured Afganistan we will very soon do that, we soport India who are also doing a graet job in Kashmir so what if 110,000 kasmiries have been killed it happens when there is a war, we also say thank to Serbia for kicking ass of the Muslims there, while in Russsia the chechins have been put back to stone age, So you Muslims forget what has happened to you, BUT WE WILL NEVER FORGET 9/11!!
Right now ND is one of the few states with a surplus because of these oil fields.
the problem is that owners of a country's who own oil fields are now owners of football club's, how can you compete with that,
Repsol YPF of Spain and OMV of Austria also hold large contracts from the Gaddafi era, while Britain's BP have taken a leading role in developing Libya's emerging gas fields, and will now hope also to ramp up their activities in oil exploration and production.
Most marginal field producers are producing above $ 30 / barrel, and with pipeline vandalism activities, costs will shoot up by another $ 10 / barrel, so oil production now is not sustainable.»
Landrø has studied everything from putting seismic data to work to discover new undersea oil reservoirs to visualizing what happens to CO2 injected into an undersea reservoir, as is being done now in the Sleipner Field in the North Sea.
Now Brazilian officials speak of 50 billion barrels or more lying below the salt: a 160 - million - year - old empire of hydrocarbons, comparable in volume to the great oil fields of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, spread below an expanse of ocean half the size of Italy — all suddenly within reach.
He has now updated his research using data from previous studies that relied on satellite and aircraft measurements of emissions above oil and gas fields.
The fuel distribution system would not be disturbed, but to what extent those now employed in oil fields, oil refineries, and kindred services would be displaced has not been estimated.
The museum's beginnings date back to 1993, when antique dealer Scott Wilson spotted an oil painting in the trash — the now iconic Lucy in the Field with Flowers.
The increments offered by ANWR and offshore are useful but aren't going to do much to bring down the price of oil or lessen our dependence on the Saudis and Russians — certainly not now, and probably not much in the future, when those increments come online and do little more, probably, than offset declines in older American fields.
The findings by Leonardo Maugeri, a former oil industry executive who is now a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project in the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, are based on an original field - by - field analysis of the world's major oil formations and exploration projects.
«oil and gas fields now considered to be «depleted» may resume operation because of increased availability and decreased cost of anthropogenic CO2, and developments in EOR technology, thereby increasing the demand for and accessibility of CO2 utilization for EOR (p 232).»
But to win money from the newly - available federal Clean Coal Power Initiative, Southern now promised to also use TRIG to capture most of the plant's carbon dioxide, which would be compressed and piped out to older underproducing oil fields and injected into the ground to drive more oil to the surface — a process called enhanced oil recovery.
Tainted water pours into a containment pond in a Unity field processing facility in what is now South Sudan, where there are concerns about the environmental damage being caused by the oil industry.
Fossil Free Indexes» Oil and Gas Analyst says new Russian fields that are now viable have come online because of fracking technology.
About a half of oil production is now from fields already in decline.
Now that most oil is produced off shore and other hostile environments, or from tar sands or from newly - discovered deposits at depths of up to 35,000 feet below the surface, the EROEI of oil production is now rarely as high as 20:1, and for new oil fields much leNow that most oil is produced off shore and other hostile environments, or from tar sands or from newly - discovered deposits at depths of up to 35,000 feet below the surface, the EROEI of oil production is now rarely as high as 20:1, and for new oil fields much lenow rarely as high as 20:1, and for new oil fields much less.
We must pay attention to the need to ensure that those who are employed in the fossil fuel industry are ready and able to transition into good - paying clean energy jobs - whether they are working now in the coal - fields or the oil fields.
It does so by going beyond the now classic Carbon Tracker analysis (the foundation of McKibben's 2012 article), updating it by focusing not on the entire body of fossil - fuel reserves, but on the smaller set (roughly 30 % of the «proven» reserves) of reserves that have already been «developed» — the «oil fields, gas fields, and coal mines that are already in operation or under construction.»
Similarly, on climate change the administration is promoting oil and gas to help save a few jobs now, but it is conceding the clean - energy field of the future to other countries and is ensuring that the economic costs to the US of enhanced weather disasters will mushroom.
Originally opened in 1996, the firm's Williston office has grown with the town and the development in the Bakken oil fields and we now seek additional assistance to meet increasing demand.
The film studios are gone now, but there are still many oil wells to be found in the ocean nearby with all the jobs that this field entails.
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