Sentences with phrase «oil shale using»

In what Treehugger writer John Laumer calls the Climate Trifecta,» Bullion Monarch Mining Co., is proposing to produce oil from oil shale using coal gasification, which they label as a «clean coal» technology.

The most recent energy sector development strategies until 2030 do foresee maintaining the dependency on oil shale use in power production.

Not exact matches

US oil exploration companies have flocked to the superrich Permian Basin in recent years and used shale - drilling technology to create an oil boom that simultaneously helped trigger a price crash two years ago.

It's going to cost her $ 3,200 to get a lab to test for all the acids, detergents and poisons that companies say they use for fracking — or hydraulic fracturing — to break up underground shale and remove oil and natural gas.

Oil production is soaring from shale formations in Texas and North Dakota using hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling technology.

However, the fact that the average quantity of frack sand used per well has more than doubled in recent years — which has helped lower the breakeven price of U.S. shale oil — should help insulate the industry from the worst of the oil crash.

Estonia uses local oil shales, obtained by opencast mining and burnt in outdated and polluting plants.

The concept of staged separation has been used in production from conventional oil reservoirs, but has not been widely applied in the production of liquids from shale formations.

But the compounds used to crack shale formations to release their gas and oil reserves are under increasing scrutiny.

Increased water use in the rapidly growing oil industry in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale region, or play, is surprisingly due not only to oil well development but also to people, according to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

If such developments were to occur elsewhere, either because of shale gas or the advent of a truly global natural gas market, then, according to our analysis, this could have a major impact on the use of different fuels — oil, gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear.»

He estimates that fugitive emissions are only 10 percent of what Howarth and Ingraffea maintain, and that shale gas would indeed be a good replacement for home heating oil and for coal used in power plants.

Energy companies used nearly 250 billion gallons of water to extract unconventional shale gas and oil from hydraulically fractured wells in the United States between 2005 and 2014, a new Duke University study finds.

Additionally, it reduces the need to use shale oil for heating — the largest source of energy in Estonia.

What you do see is a lot of oil shale and tar sands use.

Then there's well over a TRILLION barrels of recoverable shale oil, more than the world has used in all of history.

With shale oil and more coal than anybody else that can be turned in to oil, it is not a matter of survival if we have the will to use what we already have.

It certainly seems reasonable to imagine we do lack the kind of self - control needed to use just enough of the shale oil, gas and tar to pay for the climate - and - democratic transition I describe, but I think this is a bit like the dieter who believes he must stop eating almost all food to lose weight at all.

Moreover, we should avoid now economically (but not ecologically) feasible widespread use of CO2 dirty technologies: coal - to - liquid, gas - to - liquid, oil shales or tar sands... nice said, worse done...

But the four prongs of the speech were not about using less fuel, but boosting supplies: drilling offshore, extracting oil from shale, drilling on the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and adding refineries.

Industry innovators took a process used for more than 60 years, modernized it and married it with it with advanced horizontal drilling to safely unleash previously inaccessible oil and natural gas reserves from shale and other tight - rock formations.

In 2015, the legislature passed a moratorium intended to delay fracking while the state's Department of Natural Resources studied whether fracking — a method of oil and gas production that uses large amounts of chemical - and sand - laced water to break up shale gas below ground, releasing deposits of fossil fuels.

They compared estimated emissions for shale gas, conventional gas, coal (surface - mined and deep - mined) and diesel oil, taking into account direct emissions of CO2 during combustion, indirect emissions of CO2 necessary to develop and use the energy source and methane emissions, which were converted to equivalent value of CO2 for global warming potential.

The false sense of the shale's oil and gas abundance has also contributed to businesses and consumers doing little to transition away from fossil fuel use.

There could be as much as 2,600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas available domestically.63 The U.S. currently uses approximately 22 tcf per year.64 If the shale deposits meet their potential, these finds will certainly help accelerate the retirement of coal power plants and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and our foreign exchange imbalance.

Because there are still many unanswered questions about the technology, water use, and impacts of potential commercial - scale oil shale development, we're proposing a prudent and orderly approach that could facilitate significant improvements to technology needed for commercial - scale activity,» BLM director Bob Abbey said in a prepared statement.

The problem is that treating oil and gas waste from fracked wells remains particularly tricky because the industry is still allowed to keep secret information about which chemicals drillers use when injecting fluids to crack open shale formations to release oil and gas.

Hype has been the primary tool used by the oil and gas industry with regard to shales and it has worked brilliantly.

For the USA it is critical to replace the millions of barrels of expensive imported crude oil used primarily for transportation with local alternates, i, e, more US oil, shale oil or gas, biofuels (NOT corn!)

Also known as «shale oil,» tight oil is processed into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels — just like conventional oil — but is extracted using hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking.»

The shift is the result of surging oil and natural gas production using advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, harnessing oil and gas reserves in shale and other tight - rock formations.

Table 9.3 used for tight oil and Table 9.2 dry unproved natural gas (shale gas) resource estimate was multiplied by 1.045 so as to include natural gas plant liquids for an unproved wet natural gas volume.

Another thing, it's the assessment of what the production and use of shale gas and so - called unconventional oil can mean for the climate.

Low oil prices will incentivize the rapid transfer of what has been learned refracking shale gas plays for use in more liquids - rich plays like the Bakken and Eagle Ford.

It now appears likely that oil prices will remain low throughout the world for many years and perhaps even centuries because the shale formations from which oil is now being obtained using the new technology are very abundant on Earth.

The recent rapid expansions of shale oil and gas production from the widespread shale deposits in many parts of the US at current price levels using new but proven technology shows that the peak oil hypothesis is false and Obama was wrong.

«They want to use these agreements to protect their investments in shale oil and shale gas and to continue to «frack» and to continue to export planet - killing, carbon - polluting products around the world.»

The «America First Energy Plan» web portal also promotes the use of «clean coal» and «reviving America's coal industry,» as well as tapping into the U.S. bounty of shale oil and gas via the use of hydraulic fracturing («fracking»).

What we're seeing, of course, are the positive supply impacts of the U.S. energy renaissance — dramatic increases in domestic oil and natural gas production over the past several years, thanks to the safe development of shale and other tight - rock formations using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.

Chevron and other giant energy companies are demanding a TTIP investment chapter that will allow them to sue governments if environmental or other regulations interfere with their expected future profits by, for example, restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution and oil spill controls or constraining the use of hydraulic fracking techniques to extract natural gas and oil from shale formations.

Under a new Shale Gas Initiative, the U.S. and China will «use experience gained in the United States to assess China's shale gas potential, promote environmentally - sustainable development of shale gas resources, conduct joint technical studies to accelerate development of shale gas resources in China, and promote shale gas investment in China through the U.S. - China Oil and Gas Industry Forum, study tours, and workshops.»

French lawmakers opened debate on Tuesday on proposals to ban a method for extracting oil and gas deposits from shale because of environmental concerns, throwing up the first serious stumbling block to firms that want to use the practice.

America's oil shale revolution has occurred in spite of President Obama's attempts to block the widespread use of traditional, affordable energy resources.

Shell R and D has several project in northwestern Colorado the use in - situ resistive heating to crack kerogen in oil shale to a crude oil that can be pumped out of the formation.

Fracking, or Fracing as the oil and gas industry ungrammatically spells it, is short for hydraulic fracturing, and the technology is now being used extensively to extract shale gas, by pumping liquids at high pressure into the rock, creating and expanding fissures.

This sounds similar to what's being worked on in Alberta, except Shells» Shale plan is to generate scads of electricity, use that energy to pump a chilled refrigerant around and over buried tar shale deposits - this is to freeze the groundwater enough to encapsulate a 2000 - foot deep segment of shale - followed by pumping out the groundwater inside the frozen periphery and inserting giant electrodes into the isolated shale body to heat the now - dried interior to 700 degrees Fahrenheit for a period of three years, before extracting the oil liberated by the interior heat.

Still, there's a far cry from using up the rest of the oil to using all the oil + coal + tar sands + oil shale....

«Using tar sands and oil shale as energy sources while ignoring climate disruption, air pollution, water pollution, resource depletion, and conservation measures is like pissing in the wind.»

Using coal fired electricity plants at a thermal efficiency of 33 % you get 3 boe of coal to make 3 boe of shale oil or 1:1.