Sentence examples for bituminous from inspiring English sources

In America, the main market, objections to the import of more of Alberta's bituminous oil are loud.

By 2030, according to IHS CERA, a firm of consultants, the tar sands should supply more than one-third of America's imported oil.But Alberta's bituminous crude needs specialised coking facilities, and its only significant outlets are refineries in the American Midwest.

The travertine turned out to contain methane and ethane, two gases that probably derive from the bituminous limestone that lies beneath the site.

Or it can come from bituminous coal still the leading fuel for power generation in America, accounting for 39% of the country's electricity.

Even if countries around the world agree on measures to control carbon-dioxide emissions, says the agency, bituminous crudes like Canada's must fill a coming supply gap.

In an area abounding in natural gas and bituminous coal, the city has industries producing garage doors, electric transformers, and plumbers' supplies; there are also machine shops and a foundry.

Less dense types, such as sub-bituminous and lignite coal, can contain up to 50% water.

Evergreen Energy, an American firm, is selling heat- and pressure-treated coal which, it claims, is as much as a third more efficient than ordinary coal.Such techniques are particularly important in America, where power plants use a lot of sub-bituminous coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana.

Pulverising the coal can make this 40-45% (unless it is moist, "sub-bituminous" coal, and Japanese scientists are working on that).

Once a bituminous-coal mining centre (the first mine was sunk in 1870), the area also had lead and zinc mines and a cowbell factory.

During the Tokugawa period (1603 1867), the region began to evolve as an industrial centre through limestone quarrying (for fertilizer and cement) and small-scale bituminous-coal mining.