In Alberta, these large pits of crude oil are trapped within sand,
so getting the oil out of the sand is harder.
At the same time, the big thaw will
make getting the oil out more expensive — billions of dollars in infrastructure investments in pipelines, roads and the like will be damaged as the ground shifts beneath them.
Some oil exploration and production activities continue in the area, in spite of vigorous opposition from local organizations, such as Santa Barbara -
based Get Oil Out (GOO).
Energy expert Severin Borenstein told Media Matters: «If anything it will raise gas prices slightly in the Midwest by relieving the bottleneck
on getting oil out of that area.»
Curiously, the power will be used to pump oil out of the declining field - at some point it takes more energy to
get the oil out then you actually get from it.
Geologist Julio Friedmann of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory says that «The crust of Earth is well configured to contain CO2,» and that there has been no catastrophic failure at the 80 US oil wells that have been injected with CO2 (to
help get the oil out) for 30 years, but one can wonder if such a failure might have gone unnoticed since scientists have just learned about the problem.
For its part, the oil and gas industry, by pouring investment into the oilsands with little concern for how it's going to
get the oil out to markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adds.
The No. 1 job on our list is petroleum engineer: the person who figures out how to
get the oil out of the oilsands.
I understand most flakes are already pressed to
get the oil out, is that not true for the organic flakes?
I have been trying to use cloth instead of paper towels, but how do
you get oil out of cloth?
Until last month, I was involved in developing a modelling tool to work out how to use bubbles of air and gas to try to
get oil out of water.
Argan oil comes from the nuts of the Argan tree, which are harvested in Morocco then cold pressed to
get the oil out.
«Right now there is a headlong rush to
get this oil out of sight out of mind,» Charter said.
The E. coli directly secretes the resulting biodiesel, which then floats to the top of a fermentation vat, so there is neither the necessity for distillation or other purification processes nor the need, as in biodiesel from algae, to break the cell to
get the oil out.
The scientists first genetically modified E. coli to consume sugar and secrete engine - grade biodiesel, which can float to the top of a fermentation vat — no need for distilling, purifying or breaking cells open to
get the oil out, as is the case for making biodiesel from algae.
I mean, it's an area of about 35 million acres — about the size of Florida — that is going to be mined and crisscrossed with a spider web of pipelines and roads to
get the oil out of there and that's going to be something that's going to impact... probably cause the loss of tens of millions of birds.
Well, if I give you an ear of corn, you can't give me corn oil — they need solvents and factories to
get that oil out.
Because they have been highly chemically processed and extracted (it takes a lot to
get oil out of corn or a grapeseed) and deodorized, and PUFAs are very sensitive to light, heat, and air due to their unstable molecular structure.
Thus I'm looking for a way to
get the oil out of the filter before I unscrew it.
Coated the fur, I did have to bathe them twice to
get the oil out but well worth it.
Two legislative consequences of the spill in the next year were the passages of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); locally, outraged citizens formed GOO (
Get Oil Out).
If I had done the energy accounting as is done with sugarcane ethanol, one could state that the energy return of gasoline is actually only the initial energy required to
get the oil out of the ground, which averages about 17/1 worldwide.
If prices go up, companies will
get the oil out.»
As a director of
Get Oil Out!
«Right now there is a headlong rush to
get this oil out of sight out of mind,» Charter said.