Sentences with phrase «than petroleum for»

California regulators may rule that the biofuel is no better — and might be worse — than petroleum for solving climate change

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At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum is considering growth opportunities in Papua New Guinea, announcing today it was evaluating a takeover offer for Oil Search through an all - scrip deal valued at more than $ 11 billion.

• Marathon Petroleum Corp will buy Andeavor (NYSE: ANDV) for more than $ 23 billion, according to Reuters.

«Employees in Alberta's petroleum sector are the highest paid in the country — and even with the current downturn, paycheques for those workers are still more than double the Canadian average.

Since plastic is made from petroleum, rock - bottom oil prices mean that it's cheaper for producers to simply make new plastic than use recycled material.

Marathon Petroleum said it would buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion to form a company that would leapfrog Valero Energy as the largest U.S. refiner by capacity.

Andeavor soared 11 percent after Marathon Petroleum said it would buy the refiner and pipeline owner for more than $ 23 billion.

In the last two years, for the first time, the value of U.S. energy exports to Mexico (mainly petroleum products) has been greater than the value of energy imports from Mexico (mostly crude oil).

As the price of oil rises and supplies of petroleum become constricted, the popularity of — and demand for — natural gas will more than likely rise as well.

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

Marathon Petroleum Corp agreed to buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion in a deal creating one of the largest global refiners that will benefit from access to booming U.S. shale fields and growing U.S. fuel export markets.

April 29 U.S. refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp is said to buy Andeavor for more than $ 20 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Marathon Petroleum will buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion, forming the largest independent U.S. refiner by capacity.

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals» Dhahran Techno Valley also incubates startups and provides seed investment; they include Telaa, which developed anti-corrosion material for pipelines that is supposed to be more effective and environmentally friendly than existing technology, and ConCure which uses less water in making concrete.

Similarly, if the development of West China follows a path of making peasants there more prosperous rather than displacing them from their homes by «modernizing» agriculture just when petroleum - based agriculture is collapsing worldwide, rural China can become a vast market for industrial goods.

Also the oil companies, for reasons I have explained, are more concerned to sell more gas now, than to support policies that would prolong the life of the petroleum - based society.

All that said, I prefer my own cooked beans, if not for their perfect texture, than for the ease of conscience that I have, knowing that they came from my back yard, (mostly) no chemicals, petroleum, or plastics involved.

It also contains some chloride and petroleum which is not safe for people to breathe in, how much more babies and toddlers who have more sensitive lungs than adults.

The raw materials required to keep one baby in disposable diapers for a year include more than 136 kg of wood, 23 kg of petroleum and 9 kg of chlorine.

Mara: I can't independently verify some of their concerns about these dyes, but my overall preference is for natural vs. petroleum - based on a better - safe - than - sorry rationale.

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Oyo and Osun field office has sealed off no fewer than 50 fuel stations in Ibadan and environs for hoarding...

Almost immediately after the president announced himself as the petroleum minister, nationwide fuel scarcity commenced which has lasted for more than three weeks, with no solution yet.

The Eket Field Office of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has announced the discovery of eight petrol dispensing stations operating for more than five years without licence in Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom.

The Eket Field Office of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has announced the discovery of eight petrol dispensing stations operating for more than...

In response to critics who questioned why former CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Tsatsu Tsikata, is being paid his ex-gratia, 14 years after leaving office, he [Mr Tsikata] said fighting to gain his freedom from the «persecution» under the Kufuor administration in 2001, was far more important to him than pushing for his financial entitlements with the...

In response to critics who questioned why former CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Tsatsu Tsikata, is being paid his ex-gratia, 14 years after leaving office, he [Mr Tsikata] said fighting to gain his freedom from the «persecution» under the Kufuor administration in 2001, was far more important to him than pushing for his financial entitlements with the company.

But last year, the United States produced more petroleum than any other country, driving down demand for Mexican energy.

There are more movies to watch on board than there used to be, but the basic idea — a metal tube attached to jet engines that burn modified petroleum, carrying a lot of people at around 600 mph — is much the same as it has been for all planes since then.

British Petroleum, for instance, is spending more than a billion dollars to fund hydrogen power plants in California, as well as projects in wind and solar power.

Cleaner than clean energy: BioSolar creates new plastic backing for photovoltaic cells out of cotton and castor beans rather than petroleum products

The American Petroleum Institute, for example, called the plan «little more than a Trojan horse hiding a stealth tax and a rationing scheme,» while the Sierra Club said it «fights a five - alarm blaze with a garden hose.»

Khew and others say Singapore's highly efficient oil refining industry could help the world meet its demand for petroleum at a lower environmental cost than elsewhere.

In other words, says Ian Nathan, a senior research analyst with New York City — based Energy Intelligence Group (a publisher of data and information on the global energy industry), it is possible that areas currently off - limits to drilling might actually contain a lot more — or less, for that matter — petroleum than previously believed.

Whether that be the 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, the more than 70 cleaners sickened by the aftermath, or the thousands of Nigerians killed directly or indirectly by our unquenchable thirst for petroleum.

A fuel made from palm oil turns out to be worse for greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere than jet fuel refined from petroleum because it involves clearing rainforest or peatland.

The department says preference will be given to trials involving liquid petroleum gas (LPG), compressed natural gas and electricity (for adapted vehicles), rather than «biofuels» such as rape methyl ester (RME), derived from rape seed oil.

Petroleum, engineering and construction workers are flooding into the Bakken for the high pay, and more than half the state's employment growth in those jobs took place in Williams County, with the town of Williston at the boom's center.

The current shift back to SUVs that guzzle much more petroleum than other cars, prompted by low gasoline prices, is a more worrisome sign for future climate change.

However, the high - temperature process for making cement is more energy - and carbon - intensive than the production of asphalt from petroleum.

Dr. Peden has written or contributed to more than 160 peer - reviewed scientific publications on the kinetics and mechanisms of automobile exhaust catalysis; the development of zeolite catalysts for diesel engine emission control; hydrocarbon reforming over bimetallic catalysts; the structure of hydroprocessing catalysts; the development of novel, supported solid acid catalysts for petroleum refining; the growth and properties of oxide and semiconductor thin films; and model studies of adhesion at metal / metal - oxide interfaces.

Ocean currents can spread petroleum much farther than might be expected, and the particles can leach into sand and soil, remaining there for years or even decades.

We should continue to support the very best parts of it: the ones that encourage the production of more advanced and more sustainable biofuels, for instance, or the requirement that a renewable fuel must emit less greenhouse gas than the petroleum - based fuel it would replace.

December 29, 2011 • For the first time since Harry Truman was president, the country is exporting more petroleum products than it imports.

This attribute makes it better suited for this role than petroleum jelly, and it is safe for rubber too.

The Toyota wins the green award for a slightly smaller petroleum appetite than the thirstier American.

This includes finding alternative materials for their products, such as soy - based rather than petroleum based foam, which reduces toxic emissions and makes them safer to use.

Because of the abundance of oil in the thick sedimentary rock layers beneath the Santa Barbara Channel, the region has been an attractive resource for the petroleum industry for more than a hundred years.

This makes good money for Mexico — even more than petroleum, hence the nickname «green gold» — but leaves ordinary Mexicans in the lurch.