Sentences with phrase «old oil field in»

Put it in a greenhouse, argues new solar start - up GlassPoint, which unveiled its first such solar hot water greenhouse on February 24 — in a dusty, old oil field in California's Central Valley.

A question was posed about the extensive and decades - old oil fields in neighborhoods near the Culver City venue for the talk, and the prospect for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, expanding there and elsewhere in the state.

Not exact matches

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

Newly - opened oil fields are unable to make up for decreasing production in older fields.

In North America's most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas productioIn North America's most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas productioin oil and gas production.

1st was in the old Rca dome, that was not a good stadium at all, but the new Lucas Oil Field, is amazing.

Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

Then, early last year, Exxon launched a project in an old oil field 14 miles away and began fracking wells to get them to produce more oil.

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 worlIn 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 worlin 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 worlin old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the worlin various other geologic formations around the world.

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.

That hot water will then be boiled to steam with natural gas and used to heat the rock in old oil fields to pump out more petroleum.

Roughly 40 percent of the oil produced from California's century - old fields relies on the steam technique — and it is the largest industrial use of natural gas in that state.

In general, I tend to agree more with the «peak oil» theory than disagree with it, mainly because there haven't been a lot of new big oil finds, and depletion of old fields continues.

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.

In the old energy economy, pipelines carried oil from fields to consumers or to ports, where it was loaded on tankers.

One of the oldest CO2 storage projects aimed at squeezing more oil from old oil - fields was started in 2001, at Weyburn in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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.