Showing posts with label Oil production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oil production. Show all posts
Friday, January 1, 2016

Documentary: How Big Oil Conquered The World

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Africa's Energy Demands Are Starting To Skyrocket

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Africa's Energy Consumption Growing Fastest In World -- Christian Science Monitor Africa's energy demands are skyrocketing, but...
Friday, February 17, 2012

The Future Of Energy In North America Is Tight Oil

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A Cabot Oil and Gas natural gas drill is viewed at a hydraulic fracturing site on January 17, 2012 in Springville, Pennsylvania. Spencer Pla...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

What Oil Shortage?

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Rising Oil Production in Alberta: More Evidence Disproving Hubbert’s Peak -- New American The latest report from the Calgary (Alberta, Canad...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Cairn Energy Strikes Oil In Greenland

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Cairn Energy's Stena Forth Drillship. Cairn Energy From Popular Mechanics: Massive deposits could one day make Inuits the Saudis of the ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Arctic Oil And Gas Drilling Ready To Take Off

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Click on Image to Enlarge From New Scientist: DRILLING for oil kicked off in Greenland's Arctic waters last week - just weeks after the ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Plumbing The Depths For Oil

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From The Economist: Inside story: A recent wave of advances is enabling oil companies to detect and recover offshore oil in ever more diffic...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Oil Production To Peak In 2014, Scientists Predict

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From Live Science: Predicting the end of oil has proven tricky and often controversial, but Kuwaiti scientists now say that global oil produ...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

China And India Displacing OECD Oil Consumption

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From Future Pundit: Writing in a comment on a post at The Oil Drum Gregor Macdonald very succinctly sums up an energy future where China, I...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Oil And Gas Drilling In Greenland To Begin This Summer

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From Popular Mechanics: When the 748-foot Stena Forth plows into the deep waters of Greenland’s Disko West zone next summer, the advanced dr...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Untold Levels Of Oil Sands Pollution On Athabasca River Confirmed

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2009) — After an exhaustive study of air and water pollution along the Athabasca River and its tri...
Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Extreme Oil: Scraping The Bottom Of Earth's Barrel

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The bitumen in tar sands gives the earth a thick, mushy feel. This non-conventional oil is difficult and expensive to extract (Image: Lara S...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

Abiotic Synthesis Of Methane: New Evidence Supports 19th-Century Idea On Formation Of Oil And Gas

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An oil pump taps deposits of petroleum deep beneath the Earth. Scientists are reporting new evidence that oil may have originated from proce...
Monday, November 2, 2009

Petroleum's Long Good-bye

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Credit: David Rosenberg/Getty Images From Technology Review: For the next few decades at least, liquid hydrocarbons--gasoline, diesel, and j...

Getting Beyond Petroleum Won't Be Easy

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Nearly 1,500 cars are added to Beijing’s roads daily. Credit: Xiayang Liu/Corbis From Technology Review: Transportation defines our civiliz...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Quantcast New Technology Aimed At Increasing Oil Production

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From US News And World Report/AP: HOUSTON—Imagine having a nice ripe orange, ready for squeezing, but being able to get out only a small amo...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Another Century Of Oil? Getting More From Current Reserves

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LANCE IVERSEN Corbis From Scientific American: Amid warnings of a possible "peak oil," advanced technologies offer ways to extract...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Other Peak Oil: Demand From Developed World Falling

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OIL HALT: Demand for oil in developed countries could be passed its prime. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/FLCELLOGUY From Scientific American: Oil demand...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Range Of Peak Oil Dates All Too Soon To Prepare?

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From Future Pundit: The range of dates over which Peak Oil is expected to happen does not provide enough time for governments to prepare pol...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

'Significant Risk' Of Oil Production Peaking In Ten Years, Report Finds

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Offshore oil rig at sunset. (Credit: iStockphoto/Kristian Stensønes) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Oct. 8, 2009) — A new report, launch...