Sentences with phrase «oil leak rate»

It is inherent that all cam phasers have a certain oil leak rate.

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Leakiness («leak rate») is defined as the amount of methane a company emits per unit of oil and gas it produces at all the oil and gas fields it operates in the United States.

Last December, lawyers for the company responsible for the biggest oil spill in U.S. history subpoenaed information from WHOI on flow - rate measurements its scientists had made of the leaking well.

Some scientists involved in this complex dispute still remain intrigued by the natural gas leak rates found in some U.S. oil and gas fields.

From his ethane research and other international studies, he learned that there appears to be a much higher ethane source in the earth's Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern and a higher leak rate in the central United States than in more eastern oil and gas fields, and that some oil and gas fields in the central United States leak at much higher rates than others.

Many wells have systems designed to capture those emissions or flare them, but oil and gas equipment and their leak rates vary from region to region, he said.

But given a fine - ish - pitch sump bolt, and reasonable thread length, and nicely thick & sludgy oil so leak rate is low, you may well win.

The data presented by Miller et al. constrains the overall leak rate from the oil and gas supply chains — providing an independently derived aggregate estimate of fossil fuel sources of methane emissions.

But at SkyTruth we have acquired good images often enough to illustrate the enormity of the spill and inadequacy of our initial spill response efforts; provide the first estimate of the spill size and rate that made any sense; to identify oil making landfall along the Alabama coast before it was being acknowledged by officials; to show clear entrainment of the spill in the Loop Current while officials were actively denying it; and to detect small but chronic leaks from other damaged wells, raising the related issue of inadequate plugging and abandonment.

We just got a glimmer of hope with the BP oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped — even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected — but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen

We just got a glimmer of hope with the BP oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped — even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected — but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen after three months of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.

1 ton = ~ 7.3 barrels oil estimated Gulf oil leakage rate ~ 21600 barrels / day (5 - 40,000 depending on who's estimating) or 3000 tons / day methane emission = 1.5 e3 ton / day = 1.5 e9 g / day at 50 % methane by weight in the leak (probably a high estimate) Gulf area = 1.5 e6 km ^ 2 = 1.5 e12 m ^ 2 Gulf average depth = 1.62 e3 m Gulf volume = ~ 2.4 e15 m ^ 3