Since refineries in the Midwest are reaching their heavy-oil capacity, it needs to go to the Gulf Coast.
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The government's main hope of boosting output lies in the Orinoco heavy-oil belt.
That initial investment should provide the island's 14, 000 residents with enough clean electricity to shut down its heavy-oil-powered generator in 2004.
In the oil nationalisation, four foreign oil firms accepted the new contractual arrangements, but two, ExxonMobil (US) and ConocoPhillips (US), pulled out of the heavy-oil ventures entirely and are suing Venezuela for additional compensation in international courts.
Just days earlier the president had taken a similar decision in relation to the cement industry: three foreign transnationals Mexico's Cemex, France's Lafarge, and Holcim of Switzerland which supply most of the local market, are being offered a joint-venture scheme like the one applied last year to the oil companies in the Orinoco heavy-oil belt.
It avoided substituting Venezuelan heavy-tar oil used in Gulf Coast refineries with a similar product from near-by Canadian friends.
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They accuse the agency's officials of deliberately delaying plans to clean up the air, in part because of heavy lobbying by oil-industry executives.
Prior to the "Special Period" Cuba had been a heavy user of oil-based chemical fertilizers, and much of the land was heavily degraded, requiring years of careful manuring to restore fertility.
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Complicating matters, Mexico's oil output has slipped to 2.55 million barrels a day from a peak of 3.4 million in 2004, as easy oil in the Gulf is replaced by more difficult reserves of deep-water oil and heavy oil onshore.
The plan is for Hebron to be putting out 150, 000 bpd of heavy oil (20-degree API) by 2017.
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He pointed to the shale-gas revolution in the U.S., along with deep-water and heavy oil, as examples of how Mexico can benefit from new technologies that boost energy output, lower prices and create jobs.
It's pitching its electric transmission systems and its electricity-sparing motors to the dirtiest industries--utilities, mining, oil and gas, and heavy manufacturing--as a way of becoming a little bit cleaner and more efficient.
The Saudis had 1.5 million bpd of spare production capacity--oil spigots on standby--and it was less desirable heavy crude.
Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.
Heat the olive oil in a large heavy-bottomed skillet over high heat.
The site says 7.2 percent of the national daily oil consumption is attributed to heavy-duty truck idling.
Pour oil into a large, heavy-bottomed pot to a depth of 3 inches.
In a large, heavy skillet, warm the oil over medium-high heat.
The solar steam is being injected into wells to make it easier to extract heavy crude from a 120-year-old oil field in the Central Valley town of Coalinga.
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This traded annual supplies of heavy fuel oil, and eventually two western-designed nuclear reactors, for North Korea's agreement to shut down its own plutonium-rich reactor, whose fuel rods could have been reprocessed into bomb cores.
Meanwhile, the implementation of a 1994 agreement that ended North Korea's plutonium production in return for two new western-designed nuclear reactors and interim supplies of heavy fuel oil is badly behind schedule, largely as a result of North Korea's obstructive behaviour: the two new reactors were meant to start producing electricity by 2003, but the first concrete will not be poured before the end of next year.
Energy shares took an especially heavy hit in Asia after benchmark U.S. crude-oil futures plunged 2.6% in New York trading Thursday.
The Saudis are testing similar systems in heavy oilfields where Al-Naimi says they could boost the potential oil to be squeezed from a field sixfold to 40%.
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Some 10, 000 Chinese work in the oil region, where some of the most heavy-handed tactics of the government have been carried out, such as the forced removal of populations, says Eric Reeves of Smith College in Northampton, Mass.
On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies to which heavy industry has shifted have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.
In November, a US-led decision saw Kedo announcing a suspension of the heavy fuel oil shipments, prompting some humanitarian worries about the impact inside North Korea of electricity cuts.
Alberta, Canada is site of the world's largest extraction operations from oil sands, heavy earth laden with bitumen, a hydrocarbon-rich mineral.
Oil wants to blast off but the lift-off is heavy and forced.
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