Sentences with phrase «sands oil produces»

Again, it's not just that burning tar sands oil produces a lot of emissions; it's that long - term capital investments like Keystone (and coal plants, and coal export facilities) «lock in» those dangerous emissions for decades and make catastrophic climate disruption inevitable.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

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

[Nov. 18, 11:37 p.m. Updated Vaclav Smil, the Canadian resource and risk analyst, has written a potent critique of Obama's move, noting, among other things, «If there would be no oil - sand oil produced in Alberta to feed the XL pipeline and then refined in the United States and the products burned in American vehicles, then the Chinese would generate an additional mass of CO2 equivalent to that prevented burden in less than two weeks.»]

Not exact matches

The U.S. can produce as much shale oil as it wants, but its Gulf Coast refineries are geared toward heavier kinds of crude that can easily process oil sand bitumen but aren't geared toward the lighter crude coming out of, say North Dakota's Bakken play.

Murphy has a 5 percent stake in Syncrude Canada Ltd, one of Canada's largest oil sands plants with the capacity to produce 350,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day.

Even today, market forces are telling the oil sands to produce less.

So, using their numbers above, for each barrel shipped on KXL, you'd have somewhere between 0.08 and 0.78 barrels of increase in total consumption, with between 0.22 and 0.92 barrels of oil which would have been produced elsewhere being substituted - for by oil sands production.

If the oil sands don't use the natural gas they produce they have to send it somewhere else to be used.

With its oil sands production capacity growing rapidly, Suncor expects to produce between 400,000 and 430,000 barrels oil equivalent (BoE) per day.

It is relatively costly to produce oil from Alberta's unconventional oil sands, thus making it difficult for producers to profitably produce and sell oil in North America.

Should the trade deal go through, it may produce a public reaction similar to the one that occurred when Chinese company CNOOC invested in Canada's oil sands.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

We've been transporting crude oil produced from Canada's oil sands region since 1968.

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.

But that's not all — the organization has also produced great videos on topics like fracking, in situ oil sands production, liquefied natural gas, and hydrogen.

Yet U.S. coal - fired power plants produce more than 30 times more CO2 than Albertan oil sands facilities — 45 million metric tons of greenhouse gases versus nearly two billion metric tons.

Oil sands are among the most greenhouse gas — intensive forms of petroleum to produce.

By linking Canadian fields to refiners in the Gulf Coast, the 1,200 - mile (1,900 - km) Keystone XL pipeline would be a boon to an energy patch where oil sands are abundant but that produce more carbon pollution than many other forms of crude.

Two tons of sand must be processed to yield a single barrel of oil, producing twice as much greenhouse - gas emissions as the processing of conventional crude.

(Deeper reserves must be forced to the surface by an injection of pressurized steam, with even greater emissions; about 40 percent of Canadian oil from the sands is produced this way.)

The technique to extract oil and gas from rock using a high - pressure mix of water, sand or gravel and chemicals produces lots of wastewater, he said.

Whether such a quantity can be produced from tar sands and oil shale at a price near (never mind below) $ 30 per barrel is highly uncertain, but more suggestive of Lomborgs confusion in any case is that the price he mentions is higher (according to his own Figure 65) than the price of oil has been for any prolonged period in the last 120 years except for 1979 - 86, in the aftermath of the second (1979) Arab - OPEC oil - price shock.3 This means resources of tar sands and oil shale that would be economically exploitable only at prices around $ 30 per barrel are in fact more expensive than oil has been for nearly all of the last century.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to produce — are a major source of aerosols, a component of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk of lung and heart disease.

Of course, Keystone XL might not be used at full capacity at all times and industry estimates of the greenhouse gases associated with producing and burning tar sands oil can be as low as 482 kilograms per barrel, depending on whether the tar sands were mined or not.

That is why oil from wells requires about 1 barrel of oil to produce up to100 barrels of oil, while the tar sands require the equivalent of about 1 barrel of oil to produce at best about 5 barrels of fuel.

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Beginning in 1961 with Untitled (DSS 25) he began producing three - dimensional wall mounted reliefs and the first example was constructed from oil and sand painted plywood with a concave upper and lower edge made from galvanized iron.

This exhibition sees Williams engage with large scale painting and ceramic forms, incorporating gold leaf and sand, alongside raw pigment and oil paint, to produce affect in his experimental, and textural works.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

Around two tons of tar sand must be processed to produce one barrel of heavy bitumen - based crude oil.

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Of course, neither of the above assumptions are likely to be true, since global oil supply and demand elasticity are not zero — alternative sources (some cleaner, some not) will replace some oil not produced if you could prevent oil sands production, and some reduction will occur in total global oil demand.

, we could still be the leader in developing safer clean energy for the future and producing a better future for our children, rather than going after the last drop of oil in pristine environments, off - shore, in the tar sands.

Well, because tar sand - extracted oils have a 2X + greater carbon footprint than «conventional oil,» operating margins for producing oil in Alberta will be roughly 1/2 as good as those of the competing state oil companies, once Cap & Trade is fully implemented.

First, producing oil from tar sands emits two to three times the global warming pollution of conventional oil.

It is through the lens of this new, irreversible reality that Canada's oil sands industry must move forward in competition with every other oil - producing nation.

«The goal of Sapphire is to produce a crude product that can be introduced into the existing crude stream for production costs that are similar to other new opportunities like oil shales, oil sands, and even deep, deep water drilling,» Jason Pyle, Sapphire's chief executive said in an interview.

When the boundary for measuring GHG emissions is placed around crude production and processing facilities, for fuels produced solely from Canadian oil sands the average well - to - wheels (WTW) life - cycle GHG emissions... Read more →

Environmentalists argue that the oil sands should be left in the ground, because they produce much more carbon than other fossil fuels.

According to the technical analysis published by the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis in 2007 for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard, estimates of full lifecycle GHG for refined product produced from oil sands / heavy oil range 29.4 gCeq / MJ on the low end to 35.9 gCeq / MJ on the high end.

While gasoline and diesel from conventional oil are estimated to produce 5.6 and 4.4 gCeq / MJ respectively on the upstream side, estimates for fuels from oils sands / heavy oil range from 9.3 to 15.8 gCeq / MJ.

Berman, author of This Crazy Time and co-founder of ForestEthics, pointed out that every independent study, including one from the U.S. Department of Energy, has found that the oil sands are one of the world's dirtiest forms of oil, producing three times more greenhouse gas emissions per barrel produced, and 22 per cent more than conventional oil when their full life cycle of emissions, including burning them in a vehicle, is included.

Tar sands oil not only exceeds conventional petroleum, but the energy used in mining, processing, and transporting tar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than coal.

Nor is oil produced from the Canadian tar sands as dirty from a climate perspective as many believe (some of the oil produced in California, without attention from environmentalists, is worse).»

Tar sands oil is one of the dirtiest fossil fuels in commercial production today and produces three to five times more climate changing emissions than conventional crude oil.

In Canada, the dirty energy industry lobby has been hard at work creating whitewash campaigns to help sell Canadian tar sands to the rest of the world, even claiming that they are producing «ethical oil,» whatever that is.

In this report the State Department concluded that by tapping into the oil sands, KXL would produce more greenhouse gases, but that blocking the project would not prevent development of those resources.

Two sites — an existing fertiliser plant and a new refinery that will produce oil from tar sand bitumen — are to be the first users of the pipeline, capturing 1.6 - 2 million tonnes per year from 2015.

They developed «plans to raise the negatives of the oil - sands industry, boost the costs of producing them [and] stop infrastructure development...»