Sentences with phrase «oil mined from»

Overwhelmingly, experts agree that oil mined from tar sands in Alberta, Canada is far worse for the climate than most of the oil currently produced and sold in the United States, because of the added pollution from extracting, refining, and delivering it.

The spill presented a unique cleanup challenge, because 6B was carrying bitumen, a thick crude oil mined from Canada's tar sands region that is thinned with a cocktail of liquid chemicals to form diluted bitumen, or dilbit.

Environmentalists did compliment Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's team for acknowledging this time around that oil mined from tar sands has significantly higher heat - trapping gas emissions than conventional oil used in the United States.

Not exact matches

A May 2013 report from the Canadian Energy Research Institute estimated that new oil price break - even requirements would be, «$ 77.85 / bbl for SAGD projects; $ 103.16 / bbl for integrated mining and upgrading projects; and $ 99.49 / bbl for stand - alone mining projects.»

Gains in oil and base metals prices have helped push the Australian share market higher, which is getting support from the energy, mining, and retail sectors.

Last March, Royal Dutch Shell said it was selling most of its stake in Canada's oil sands, a vast project that has extracted millions of barrels of sticky, gooey hydrocarbons from the ground in a process that resembles mining more than drilling.

Founded in 1997, Noise Solutions is an engineering - driven outfit that sprang up in response to mounting public pressure from communities located near mine sites and oil - drilling operations.

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

They lead production facilities like oil wells, mines and fisheries, and are responsible for a wide variety of duties, from ensuring production targets are met to quality control to health and safety.

The types of companies going public may be wonderfully diverse, but because there are fewer of them, the process of tilting the TSX away from oil and gas and mining stocks is going to be a slow one.

Suncor provides a good, diversified example of the sector — Suncor markets oil sands products from a variety of operations, both mining and in situ operations, and sells both diluted bitumen and synthetic products including diesel fuel.

Canadian Natural production averaged a record 1.02 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter, a 19 per cent increase from the year - earlier period, as it ramped up the latest expansion of its Horizon oilsands mining and upgrading project.

He has been involved in many of the cases that have defined the interaction between Canadian business and law for four decades, from gold mines to boardrooms, from oil fields to isotopes.

But the steep tumble from $ 100 - per - barrel oil has helped cut short the age of big, multi-year mine developments, forcing companies to shelve other large projects; analysts expect smaller, more modular expansion projects from here on in.

Having recently called out the federal government for failing to provide a justification for its decision to approve Shell's Jackpine mine oil sands expansion project (an approach that serves no interest other than the government's, as even industry would stand to benefit from knowing why one project is justified while another, e.g. Taseko's original Prosperity mine, is not), it was reassuring to see that at least this Joint Review Panel (JRP) shares my understanding of this obligation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19.

Last year he became the richest man in Brazil, taking the title from oil and mining tycoon Eike Batista, whose empire has since collapsed.

Opposition, however, especially from several provincial governments and from oil and mining companies and small business groups, was so vociferous, as it had been to the report, that the Trudeau government retreated from any major reform.

Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading from mines is a bit of an exception, since the waste heat from the upgrader can feed the extraction plant).

However, given that most of Young's statements have equated the oil sands with the oil sands mining operations around Fort Mc Murray, it's worth noting that the mining (and upgrading) of bitumen contributed 32 Mt CO2 emissions to Canada's total in 2011, and that emissions from mining operations are expected to stay well below those of personal vehicles for some time.

Several oil and resource mining companies (including one that's up 1,500 % in the past year) are poised to make billions from this under - the - radar hotspot.

Energy discussions certainly factored into coverage of his visit to Canada, but they largely hinged around India as a prospective market for our oil and gas, and a new agreement that will see India purchase $ 350 million of uranium from Cameco, a Saskatchewan - based mining firm.

Canada currently produces about four million barrels of oil a day but 61 percent of that volume comes from high cost and carbon intensive mining in the tar sands.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt From a supergiant oil field in Kazakhstan to the world's largest producer of potash fertilizer in Russia to an African iron mine, China has scooped up stakes in major resource and agricultural companies in...

Any geologist who works for Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Haliburton, Schlumberger, Gasprom, Saudi Aramco, Baker and Hughes, Petrobras, China's national oil company or any of the thousands of mining or oil or natural gas related companies that make a living finding fossil fuels, will tell you these fossil fuels take millions of years to develop from the remains of large forests or marine creatures.

1/4 cup unflavoured whey protein 1/4 cup ground almonds (plus a bit extra, if you need to dry out the mix later) 1tbsp high protein nuts n more white chocolate peanut butter 1tbsp coconut flour 1 - 2caps valencian orange oil (mine came from Asda) 1 - 2tbsp water (add a little at a time so that the mix doesn't get too wet & sticky) 7 drops vanilla flavdrops zest of half an orange 50g white chocolate 6 flaked almonds

The marinade ingredients vary from region to region and from cook to cook: sunflower oil or olive oil, red wine or white wine, vinegar or pomegranate juice, the liquid seasoned with onions, garlic, herbs, and «any spices, whatever you like» as a Russian friend of mine says.

It is obvious that our critical economic challenge is to diversify our economy away from rents from oil, into a productive economy based on manufacturing, transportation, mining, agriculture and construction, exports amongst others.

The EITI sets global standards to monitor and reconcile company payments and government revenues from oil, gas and mining at the country level.

New Yorkers from Buffalo to Long Island decided that allowing the oil and gas industries the rights to large scale mining of natural gas reserves was simply too much of a public health and environmental threat.

Any natural resources like oil, gas, metals, salt, even geothermal activity etc. (with the exception of sand, gravel, clay) do not belong the owner, but are considered ownerless until mined which needs a separate admission from the government (Some specific natural resources can even be only mined by the goverment which conveniently can transfer the rights).

He stated that the ownership of Oil Mining Licence, OML13 had been restored to NPDC following a presidential intervention, with first oil from the well expected before the end of the yeOil Mining Licence, OML13 had been restored to NPDC following a presidential intervention, with first oil from the well expected before the end of the yeoil from the well expected before the end of the year.

Data from the GIPC, which registers all the formal FDI inflows, indicates that about 90 % of it (excluding investment in the solid mineral mining and upstream oil and gas sectors) ends up in just three of Ghana's 10 regions: Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western.

If the listing on the stock exchange is successful, MTN Ghana would be exempted from the capital market local content policy which enjoins companies operating in specific areas including telecom, mining, oil and gas to list a minimum percentage of their shares on the Ghana Stock Exchange within 5 years of commencement of operations in Ghana.

BP has joined in a partnership with Synthetic Genomics to sequence genomes from microbes that live in coal mines and oil wells.

Methane, the main component of natural gas, is released from leaking pipelines, coal mines, oil wells, cattle, rice paddies and landfills.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the world.

McMorris Rodgers would have the power to reverse Obama administration efforts to protect federally managed waters from oil and gas development as well as end the research into how coal mining affects the climate.

Converting petroleum from tar sands into a type of oil is more costly because it requires strip - mining or the injection of steam to drain the petroleum.

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

The fee for unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands and gas from hydrofracking, should include carbon released in mining and refining processes, e.g., methane leakage in hydrofracking [245]--[249].

Topical magnesium oil is usually made with magnesium chloride that is mined from the ancient Zechstein Seabed in the Netherlands.

Individuals are exposed to heavy metals through environmental exposure including lead soldering, metal amalgams, working in industry (mining, oil and gas, welding, etc.) and from food sources including the consumption of ocean fish.

I used room temperature eggs (I don't store mine in the fridge)- that will prevent the oil from solidifying.

I drizzle on a little extra virgin olive oil, season mine with a lemon pepper seasoning from Penzeys Spices and some smoked paprika!

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Which is (probably) what happened to a buddy of mine — his engine started running rough, blowing white smoke out the exhaust, then just stopped completely with a loud bang, he thought it was a backfire but found a mess of metal pieces in the oil pan that was from a broken connecting rod.

Further, noting that mined natural resources, such as crude oil, may have widely variable chemical compositions and properties, the Safety Alert noted that crude oil being transported from the Bakken region of North Dakota may be more flammable than traditional heavy crude oil.

The dabbling poet and short story writer, who'd been raised in the same mining village as D H Lawrence, and who had made his living in the oil industry, broadcasting, banking, and as an international management consultant in fields ranging from parliaments to law enforcement, suddenly found himself struck by the idea that this fascinating country — in such a complex state of temporal and national limbo — would make an extraordinary setting for a crime thriller.

But apart from their military duties they were all on the board of directors of several parastatals closely linked to foreign companies, particularly those involved in the exploration of oil and the mining of precious metals.