Sentences with phrase «thousands of barrels of oil»

The pipe would send hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil sands bitumen from Edmonton to the port of Vancouver each day — this at a moment when oil sands production and the pipelines that move it have become the proxy for a debate about climate change and the fossil fuel industries not just across Canada but worldwide.

Thousands of barrels of oil from Alberta's tar sands region — similar to the diluted bitumen that would flow through the controversial Keystone XL project — spilled into a residential neighborhood from a pipeline owned by ExxonMobil, forcing the evacuation of 22 homes.

First, a deepwater drilling mishap off the coast of Brazil last month caused thousands of barrels of oil to spill into the Atlantic, which only after some dodging did Chevron take responsibility for, followed by Brazil's petroleum agency deciding to suspend the company's drilling rights altogether.

BP's efforts to drill relief wells are generally viewed as the company's best, and perhaps only, chance to plug the Macondo 252 well gushing thousands of barrels of oil and natural gas into the Gulf of Mexico each day for the past month and a half.

The new proposal builds on steps the Cuomo administration already has taken as hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil per year have been transported across New York enroute to refineries in New Jersey and Canada.

Within days of the Ibeno spill, thousands of barrels of oil were spilled when the nearby Shell Trans Niger pipeline was attacked by rebels.

Not exact matches

Mboe is converted using the ratio of one barrel of oil, condensate or natural gas liquids to six thousand cubic feet of natural gas.

And around Fort McMurray, Alta., thousands of workers continue to use mining trucks and steam - assisted gravity draining (SAGD) to extract nearly three million barrels of oil daily, confident that folks somewhere will demand the stuff, no matter how it gets to refineries and customers.

The per well estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) in the Kersey Area is 490 thousand barrels of oil equivalent («MBoe») for a standard reach lateral («SRL»)(~ 4,200»), 800 MBoe for a mid-reach lateral («MRL»)(~ 6,900») and 1,100 MBoe for an extended reach lateral («XRL»)(~ 9,500»).

They carry too much overhead to poke holes in the ground, here and there, to squeeze out a few hundred or thousand barrels of oil each day.

The Company produced approximately 140 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (MBoe / d), as of December 31, 2016.

Nigeria and Libya could bring hundreds of thousands of barrels of daily oil production back onto the market in the next few months, but there is yet one more downside risk to the market about which few people are talking.

Ghana produces over 100 thousand barrels per day of crude oil.

Second, German North Sea hydrocarbons output has always been minuscule in comparison to UK output: the former peaked in 2003 at around 40 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (KBOED) and is currently running at around 26 KBOED, whereas the latter peaked in 1999 at 4.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (MMBOED), and is currently running at around 1.4 MMBOED (i.e. thirty five times more than Schleswig - Holstein production at its peak).

The incident took 11 lives and spilled thousands of barrels of crude oil into the Atlantic.

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

The U.S. shale boom has allowed producers to unlock thousands of barrels of reserves, putting the United States on course to become the largest producer of oil globally, which would dramatically reduce its dependence on imports.

AMY GOODMAN: ExxonMobil continues cleanup efforts after a ruptured pipeline sprayed thousands of barrels of crude oil across a central Arkansas subdivision, forcing nearly two dozen homes to evacuate.

ExxonMobil continues its cleanup efforts after a ruptured pipeline sprayed thousands of barrels of crude oil from Canada across a central Arkansas subdivision, forcing nearly two dozen homes to evacuate.

This continuous process of growth raised world oil production by three orders of magnitude from 1879 (58.5 thousand barrels per day) to 1973 (58.5 million barrels per day).

For at least six weeks, thousands of barrels of tar sands oil have been bubbling up into the forest in Cold Lake, Alberta and neither the oil company or government scientists know how to stop the flow.

The accident not only claimed 11 lives, but over the next 87 days, and estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled out into Gulf, wiping out the livelihoods of tens of thousands of others.