Quotes About Petroleum

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

a company's engineers develop new equipment that can pump out more petroleum at a lower cost, the effective size of the reservoir increases. Not the actual size—its physical dimensions—but the effective size, the amount of oil and gas that can be extracted in the foreseeable future.

Hubbert, one of the nation's most important petroleum scientists, built much of the intellectual framework for the environmental movement. He was a Wizard who became a Prophet.

Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify the assertion that the need to drive a car which can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds (the Audi S4 for example) overrides the Ethiopians' need to avoid recurrent famines, or the whole world's need to avoid the economic catastrophe we'll suffer if petroleum peaks too soon.

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

Plastic is essentially frozen gasoline.

Octane (C8H18) is one of the alkanes (hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n + 2) that form anywhere between 10 to 40 percent of light crude oils, and one of its isomers (compounds with the same number of carbon and hydrogen atoms but with a different molecular structure)

If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.

El proceso total puede describirse en un triste párrafo: con el dinero de la segunda fiesta petrolera los presidentes de la democracia aceitaron al Congreso federal, el cual aceitó a los gobernadores y a los municipios, los gobernadores aceitaron a sus congresos locales, que les aprobaron todos sus gastos. Hubo dinero de sobra para hacer política y para crear la red horizontal de corrupción cuya diaria evidencia soliviantó hasta el hartazgo a la República.

Moss was almost certainly dead. That left the police. Or some agent of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group. Who must think that he thought that they thought that he thought they were very dumb. He thought about that.

palm oil, not only for inclusion in many food products but also for biofuel. Because palm oil is considered a "clean" alternative to petroleum, the demand for it is growing in the United States and Europe.

Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.

Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

I would have thought your Hegemony was far beyond a petroleum economy." I laughed and locked the wheel in. "Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there. We don't burn it, if that's what you mean. But it's still essential for the production of plastics, synthetics, food base, and keroids. Two hundred billion people use a lot of plastic." "And Maui-Covenant has oil?

the New World had become the oil granary for the Old; altogether, the United States was to satisfy 80 percent of the Allies' wartime requirement for petroleum.

By 1898, Russia overtook the United States to become the world's biggest petroleum producer.

in 1959, with the discovery in Manchuria of a giant oil field named Daqing—which means "Great Celebration." By the 1980s, the domestic petroleum industry was meeting the nation's needs and also producing a surplus of oil that was exported, principally to Japan.

As Nigeria continues to dither over the Petroleum Industry Bill, which has been in the Nigerian National Assembly since 2009 as aforementioned, Ghana her neighbour (who just joined the Petroleum Club not too long ago) on August 4 2016 passed its own petroleum bill, i.e. the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Bill, 2016 into law in a bid to attract investments. Chika Onuegbu in his 2016 paper titled The Challenges and Implications of a Post PIB Nigeria for the Oil and Gas Workers

The sun set. The car smelled of its owner's cigarette smoke. Everything was toxic and chemical and unnatural: the plastic walnut trim, the electric lights, the burning gasoline that was shoving them forward. This whole world was a processed petroleum product.

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.

The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.