North America has over 13, 000 billion barrels of hydrocarbon resources in oil-equivalent terms.
The deal for Mariner is even larger with 181M proven barrels of oil equivalent (47 percent are oil or other hydrocarbon liquids), but according to the press release there is the potential of 2B barrels of oil equivalent among their 50 deepwater prospects.
Long before we run out of the cheapest shale oils that are now fueling the current American oil boom, and long before bio-engineers convince bacteria to excrete oil, hydrocarbon engineers will perfect cheap coal-to-liquids. (For a measured technical exploration of all this, see the National Academy of Sciences report.) The latter will unleash another boom.
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Africa is considered to have good hydrocarbon potential, with significant oil production coming from West Africa, and new promising gas discoveries in East Africa.
While technical in nature -- using the word "hydrocarbon" to refer to oil, for example -- the letter depicts a process that failed to detect a potential cause of the disaster.
The primary difference between bitumen and ordinary crude is the size of the hydrocarbon molecules: in liquid oil, these molecules contain between five and twenty carbon atoms, while in bitumen they contain more than twenty. (At room temperature, pure bitumen is so viscous that it will not flow.) The main job of the upgrader is to break down the oversized hydrocarbons into smaller units.
Whale oil was displaced by hydrocarbon production, which the United States also dominated.
Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).
The Carbon Club is green slang for the oil companies and other purveyors of hydrocarbon fuels.
High oil prices and dwindling land reserves are pushing oil and gas companies to exploit hydrocarbon reserves that lie deep under the ocean.
Big onshore fields in the world's most prolific hydrocarbon provinces are increasingly the preserve of national oil companies, state-owned behemoths like Saudi Aramco and Russia's OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom.
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India, which faces a huge energy deficit and imports about 80% of its crude oil requirements, is scouting for hydrocarbon assets that can boost its energy security in the long term.
Remedial work at Rho posed all the usual challenges that go with dismantling an oil refinery and ridding the site of hydrocarbon and metal residuals.
Extracting the bitumen from the clay and sand and upgrading it into crude oil--by breaking its big hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, less viscous ones--is an expensive, energy-intensive process that consumes 650 cubic feet of natural gas for every barrel.
Craig Venter (famed for his work on decoding the human genome) are collaborating on a study of naturally occurring organisms that live in oil, natural gas, coal and other underground hydrocarbon formations.
Alberta, Canada is site of the world's largest extraction operations from oil sands, heavy earth laden with bitumen, a hydrocarbon-rich mineral.
And second, the new and growing boom in hydrocarbon production in the United States and elsewhere promises to push peak oil decades, if not centuries, into the future.
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Add to that our coal and comparable amounts of cheap natural gas, and America is sitting on a hydrocarbon gusher that is unprecedented in scale since the dawn of the oil age.
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It is certainly true that, against all predictions of peak oil, new technologies have helped drive a surge in US hydrocarbon production.
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The twist that Codexis brings is that unlike petrol, of which each batch from the refinery is chemically different from the others (because the crude oil from which it is derived is an arbitrary mixture of hydrocarbon molecules), biopetrol could be turned out exactly the same, again and again, and thus designed to have the optimal mixture of properties required of a motor fuel.
Total hydrocarbon reserves increased by 2.5% to 147.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent from 143.5 bboe in 2009 and total production of hydrocarbons increased by 9.6% to 3.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent from 3.03 bboe in 2009.
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Since then, the KRG has taken the lead with Baghdad in negotiations on a hydrocarbon law that is faithful to Iraq's constitution and is conducive to modernizing Iraq's oil infrastructure and substantially increasing its oil production.
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