Sentence examples for burning crude from inspiring English sources

"The room was so dark it was hard to see, and dirty because they were burning crude oil inside to stay warm," says Zhang, now 68.

On Tuesday, contractors finished a fuel conversion project at a major power plant, enabling it to generate electricity by burning crude oil, which is readily available in Iraq, instead of diesel.

When asked about the fuel conversion project, the electricity minister, Mr. Samaraie, said only minor issues stood in the way of a return to burning crude at the plant.

To determine if the concept can also be applied to oil spill clean-up, a set of large scale tests is performed by burning crude oil/water mixtures in a 1-meter diameter pool.

Measurement results confirmed that by preheating the rapeseed oil and performing the atomization using steam instead of air, the burner can easily be changed to burning crude rapeseed oil instead of diesel oil without increasing the emission of pollutants.

And there's something else the government seems to have forgotten about when it comes to burning crude oil: "That's not technically removing it from the environment".

I watched the fallout from the burning oil wells coat my uniform, and I knew that I was breathing into my lungs the crude oil I was fighting for.

The literature suggests that burning the crude may result in some cases in an oil that is "less sticky" and therefore may be easier for cleanup personnel to deal with.

Thus the Post could claim this week that its support of the pipeline "does not mean we like burning dirty oil sands crude".

Specifically, Saudi Arabia consumed more than a quarter its overall oil production in 2013 with direct burning of crude oil for power generation during the summer months (i.e. June through August) averaging more than 0.7 m b/d between 2009 and 2016 [32, 33].

Environmental groups argue that extracting and burning the heavy crude drawn from Alberta's oil sands will increase greenhouse gas emissions.