Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
BP announced a giant oil discovery at its Tiber Prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The Tiber well was drilled to a total depth of approximately 35,055 feet (10,685 metres) making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled by the oil and gas industry. The well found oil in multiple Lower Tertiary reservoirs.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
BP announced today the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The well encountered about 166 net feet (50 meters) of hydrocarbons in the objective Miocene hydrocarbon-bearing sands and discovered an oil column of more than 300 feet (91 meters).
Green Car Congress
JUNE 10, 2013
Map of basins with assessed shale oil and shale gas formations, as of May 2013. Among the highlights in the 2013 report is a 10-fold increase in the estimate of technically recoverable shale / tight oil from 32 billion barrels (from the EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2011 ) to 345 billion barrels. Source: US EIA. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
MAY 21, 2010
Growth of production of Canadian oil sands. The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue. Also certain fields in the Gulf of Mexico and the Middle East have comparable GHG emissions. —“The
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 30, 2011
m 3 (2,510 gallons US) in 2000 to approximately 3.5 Ford’s latest water reduction initiatives are designed to build on the success the company has had with its Global Water Management Initiative that launched in 2000. Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5 m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 9, 2015
Asia now consumes more than 30 million barrels of oil per day—roughly the same as all of the Americas—but its oil production stands at roughly 9 million barrels per day, the report notes, leaving the region dependent on external sources for more than 70% of its petroleum—triple the import level of the Americas.
Green Car Congress
MAY 30, 2010
Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. 41,400 km 2 ) of sea surface covered by oil slick and 46,000 sq.
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