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| Convential petroleum reserves |
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| liquid deposits that contain freely flowing oil or oil that can be pumped out |
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| Conventional Petroleum Reserves |
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| Liquid deposits that contain freely flowing oil or oil that can be pumped out. |
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| Oil has environmental costs at every stage- from exploration for reserves, to extraction, processing, transporting, and burning. Price of goods would be higher if these costs were added. |
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| The form of petroleum that is extracted from underground deposits. It is processed into many different products and types of fuel. |
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| The form of petroleum that is extracted from underground deposits. It is processed into many different products and types of fuel. |
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| the form of petroleum that is extracted from underground deposits. |
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| Meeting all of one's energy needs without importing any fuel. |
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| meeting all of one's energy needs without importing any fuel |
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| Having access to enough reliable and affordable energy sources to meet one's needs. |
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| having access to enough reliable and affordable energy sources to meet one's needs. |
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| having access to enough reliable and affordable energy sources to meet one's needs. |
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| Environmental Costs of oil |
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| Oil has environmetal costs at every stage: Wildlife Disruption, Habitat Loss, Explosions, Air Pollution, Oil Spill, Groundwater Pollution |
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| The upper level of the water column where sunlight penetrates is known as the euphotic zone. |
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| Excess methane in the ocean, a product of an oil spill for example, feeds and multiplies bacteria that feed on methane, which then began to absorb oxygen in the water, depriving other oceanic creatures of oxygen. |
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| Extracting oil and the oil system |
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| oil is obtained by drilling through layers of dense rock to reach the reservoir below. At first oil may easily flow due to the relief of pressure casued by the drill hole. Pumpjacks are used to mechanically pump out more oil when the oil stops flowing freely. |
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| A nonrenewable natural resource formed millions of years ago from dead plant or animal remains. |
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| A nonrenewable natural resource formed millions of years ago from dead plant (coal) or animal (petroleum and natural gas) remains. |
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| a nonrenewable natural resource formed millions of years ago from dead plant or animal remains. |
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| A method used to extract natural gas from deep reserves. |
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| a methdod used to extract natural gas from deep reserves. |
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| a method used to extract natural gas from deep reserves |
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| a well is drilled down to gas bearing rock and then extended horizontally. Holes are blasted into the rock using explosive charges. A slurry of sand water and chemicals is pumped into the fractures. Gas escapes through the fractures and is collected. |
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| marine organisms die and are buried into sediment, this excluded oxygen and decomposition was greatly slowed down. Sediments accumulate and the partially decomposed biomasses are subjected to high heat and pressure. Pil and natural gas move upward in porous reservoir rock until stopped by a layer of dense cap rock. |
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| The Middle East has the largest reserves of both oil and natural gas. |
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| Deep deposits of natural gas can be accessed by fracking. Concerns about surface and groundwater contamination make this a contentious resource in populated areas. |
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| Gaseous fossil fuel that forms under similar conditions as petroleum but is a simpler hydrocarbon, mostly CH4 (methane.) |
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| gaseous fossil fuel that forms under similar conditions as petroleum but is a simpler hydrocarbon, mostly CH4 (methane) |
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| A resource that is formed more slowly than it is used, or is present in a finite supply. |
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| A resource that is formed more slowly than it is used, or is present in a finite supply. |
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| a resource that is formed more slowly than it is used, or is present in a finite supply. |
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| Oil is obtained by drilling through layers of dense rock to reach the reservoir below. |
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| liquid fuel made up of hundreds of types of hydrocarbons, organic compounds of hydrogen and carbon. |
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| Oil and natural gas in reserves must be extracted |
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| The extraction processes for both are similar multi-stage processes involving utilizing various degrees of artificial pumping pressure, in order to augment the natural pressures in the Earth. |
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| Oil extraction is taxing on the environment |
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| Such consequences include: seismic waves that disorient marine wildlife; disturbing of wildlife habitats via drilling; oil spills; toxic chemicals injected into the ground via "fracking"; production of greenhouse gases during mining efforts; etc. |
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| Compressed sedimentary rocks that contain kerogen, an organic compound that is released as an oil-like liquid when the rock is heated. |
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| compressed sedimentary rocks that contain kerogen an organic compound that is released as an pil like liquid when the rock is heated. |
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| Liquid fossil fuel useful as a portable fuel or as a raw material for many industrial products such as plastic and pesticides. |
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| The moment in time when oil will reach its highest production levels and then steadily and terminally decline. |
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| The moment in time when oil will reach its highest production levels and then steadily and terminally decline. |
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| the moment in time when oil will reach its highest production levels and then steadily and terminally decline. |
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| The moment in time when oil will reach its highest production levels and then steadily and terminally decline. |
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| Distillation products from the processing of crude oil that can have many different uses, including as fuel or as industrial raw materials. |
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| Distillation products from the processing of crude oil that can have many different uses, including as fuel or as industrial raw materials. |
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| distillation products form the processing of crude oil that can have many different uses, including as fuel or as industrial raw materials |
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| Liquid fossil fuel useful useful as a portable fuel or as a raw material for many industrial products such as plastic and pesticides. |
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| liquid foosil fuel useful as a portable fuel or as a raw material for many industrial products such as plastic and pesticides |
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| Oil reserves are distributed unevenly around the world; thus causing political conflicts between areas that use more oil than they have (United States) and areas that are the most abundant in oil reserves (The Middle East.) |
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| Crude oil is refined into a variety of chemical products by heating it in a tower. Different-sized carbon compounds vaporize at different temperatures and heights within the tower and are collected as separate products |
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| Processing oil creates fuel and products |
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| Besides fuel, crude oil can be refined into a multitude of products; such as: roof and road materials, lubricating oils, waxies, polishes, paraffin for lighting and heating, chemicals, plastics, and gas. |
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| A measure of the amount of a fuel that is economically feasible to extract from a known deposit using current technology. |
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| a measure of the amount of a fuel that is economically feasible to extract from a known deposit using current technology. |
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| A measure of the ammount of a fuel that is economically feasible to extract from a known deposit using current technology. |
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| amount of fuel that is economically feasible to extract from a deposit using current technology |
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| a heavy black oil known as crude bitumen that is trapped in sticky, dense, conglomerations of sand or clay. |
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| unconventional oil reserves |
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| recoverable oil that exists in rock, sand, or clay but whose extraction is economically and environmentally costly |
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