The gas in its pumps may not be extracted, refined or stored by the company and may just get a spritz of BP additives right before it ends up at the service station.
By conducting Google searches, posting status updates to Facebook, tweeting, putting our CVs on LinkedIn and so on, we provide – free, gratis – ready-made data that can be extracted, refined and sold to the ad-brokers and advertisers that are the internet companies' real customers.
If these fossil fuels are extracted, refined and combusted, well over 11 billion metric tons of CO2 could be released into the atmosphere.
Gathering it requires expertise in creating, extracting, refining and using it.
To its credit, the State Department acknowledges that extracting, refining and burning the oil from the tar-laden sands is a dirtier process than it had previously stated, yielding annual greenhouse gas emissions roughly 17 percent higher than the average crude oil used in the United States.
They were hardly the vertically integrated giants, like Exxon, which extract, refine and sell oil.
After returning from his trip to Britain and with the Soviet collapse nearing, Alekperov began laying the groundwork to create a vertical oil firm -- one that finds, extracts, refines and sells oil.
The Oilseeds Processing segment extracts, refines and trades edible oil and related products.
It has to be created before it can be extracted and refined.
At Lake Magadi, on the other hand, soda ash, which is among Kenya's leading mineral exports, is extracted and refined.
