Sentences with phrase «sands oil amounts»

Taking tar sands oil amounts to borrowing a dirty needle from a neighbor addict.

Not exact matches

It adds that «approval or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.»

Although the Keystone XL would transport a small amount of conventional crude oil from North Dakota, the bulk of its contents would be bitumen, a particularly thick oil from Canada's oil sands region.

Ultimately, though, the State Department finds that an increase in the amount of oil moved by rail will allow new oil sands production to come on - stream whether or not new pipelines are built.

Now they want to relive the glory days by increasing the amount of oil flowing from the tar sands at any cost.

Nationally, however, Ontario's efforts to cut the amount of carbon pollution from electricity generation are more than offset by the growth in emissions from the oil sands, which are expected to triple by 2020 from 2005 levels.

«When you look at the amount of growth for Canadian oil sands this year and next year, we're going to run into trouble — I mean we're certainly going to have to tap into rail.»

This is a practical impossibility due to increased amounts of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere from the growing global production and burning of coal, tar / oil sands, heavy oil and bitumen.

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.

The greenhouse impact of the oil sands is also far less significant than some claims, particularly given the reality that oil consumption rates are what matters — not the amount of gigatons of carbon sitting in deposits of this sort in the ground.

It might surprise many viewers that it would take three times the weight equivalent of CO2 in the energy needed just to convert the bitumen in the tar sands into the same amount of conventional crude oil.

And, of course, tar sands oil produces three times the amount of CO2 as more convential oil.

Many major, international oil companyies have $ 100 billion plans in place to triple this exported amount of tar sands to the U. S. in a decade to fuel the U. S. appetite for a more secure supply of foreign oil, than from elsewhere in this troubled world.

Materials Whether it's clearcuts for lumber, quarries for sand and gravel, oil drilling for asphalt and roofing, or the huge amounts of CO2 generated in concrete manufacture, construction of buildings have a direct impact on the environment.

Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»

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.

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and / or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta's oil sands.

Fracking injects sand water and small amounts of chemicals into deep oil - and gas - containing formations, cracking the rocks and allowing the trapped gas and oil to be recovered.

Furthermore, there are thought to be large amounts of non-conventional oil (e.g., heavy oil, tars sands, shales) and gas (e.g., methane hydrates).

Champions of Keystone XL argue that it is essential to delivering jobs, oil and energy security, but the SEIS concluded that «not building the pipeline would have almost no impact on jobs; on US oil supply; on heavy oil supply for Gulf Coast refineries; or even on the amount of oil sands extracted in Alberta.»

The forecast also breaks out oil sands production by extraction method (mining and drilling) and tracks the amount of domestic upgrading.

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

Fracking involves blasting massive amounts of water and industrial chemicals, mixed with sand, into the earth at pressures high enough to crack apart geologic formations and release oil and gas.

At current levels, oil sands producers are collecting a price «in the teens» for the bitumen portion of WCS, an amount that is below some companies» stated costs, according to Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for the Oil Price Information Servioil sands producers are collecting a price «in the teens» for the bitumen portion of WCS, an amount that is below some companies» stated costs, according to Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for the Oil Price Information ServiOil Price Information Service.

Vast amounts of water and energy are needed to strip - mine and drill Canada's tar sands deposits — a heavy black substance mixed with sand and clay — and turn the extracted bitumen into usable crude oil.

Canada will not solve its own greenhouse gas conundrum — let alone the world's — simply by deciding whether or not to continue to extract 2.4 million barrels of oil per day from Alberta's oil sands, whether to increase that amount by another million or two or whether to reduce it to nothing as fast as possible.

Oil sands are found in large amounts in many countries throughout the world, but are found in extremely large quantities in Canada and Venezuela.

Oil sands are found in large amounts in many countries throughout the world, but are found in extremely large quantities in

Critics oppose the concept of tapping the Alberta oil sands, saying it requires huge amounts of energy and water and increases greenhouse gas emissions.

In other words, every gallon of gasoline you burn in your car produces pretty much the same amount of CO2 whether it originally came from Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Coast, or the Canadian oil sands.

-LSB-...] assertion that oil sands development amounts to a climate «game over.»

At Imperial Oil's Calgary research center — considered to be one of the leading oil sands research facilities in the world — scientists are also working to reduce the amount of water it takes to separate bitumen from the oil sanOil's Calgary research center — considered to be one of the leading oil sands research facilities in the world — scientists are also working to reduce the amount of water it takes to separate bitumen from the oil sanoil sands research facilities in the world — scientists are also working to reduce the amount of water it takes to separate bitumen from the oil sanoil sands.

«If the long - standing trend of low royalty rates in the tar sands industry and the oil and gas sector as a whole continues, Albertans can expect to forgo significant and increasing amounts of potential revenue,» warns the report.

Oil produced from tar sands is a whole heck of a lot worse than conventionally sourced oil on many many fronts — and no amount of technology is likely to change thOil produced from tar sands is a whole heck of a lot worse than conventionally sourced oil on many many fronts — and no amount of technology is likely to change thoil on many many fronts — and no amount of technology is likely to change that.

Oil sands mining is licensed to use twice the amount of fresh water that the entire city of Calgary uses in a year.

Beetle kill wood has accounted for the largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the province, more than all of the province's human activity combined, more than motor vehicle emissions, and nearly double the output of Alberta's oil sands.

Although the amount of convential oil will continue to decline, there are estimated 10 - 15 trillion barrels of oil equivalent in unconvential oil which include heavy and extra heavy crude oils and the oil shale and sand.

One problem is that producing oil from shale or oil sands generates significant amounts of carbon dioxide — but a lot of that carbon dioxide comes from producing the hydrogen needed to process the raw materials.

SGER was designed around the concept of carbon intensity, which, when talking about the oil sands, equates to the amount of emissions that result from the production of a barrel of oil.

Staggering amounts of capital are required to develop the oil sands, perhaps $ 250 billion in initial capital, spent mostly over the next ten years.