Sentence examples for forms of oil from inspiring English sources

"All unconventional forms of oil are worse for greenhouse-gas emissions than petroleum," Farrell told me.

Tar sands is one of the most polluting, energy intensive forms of oil to extract and refine.

The last decade has seen the world shift to more expensive and difficult to extract fossil fuel resources, in the form of unconventional forms of oil and gas, which have much lower levels of EROEI than conventional oil.

The term unconventional resources is applied to a broad category of fuels like shale gas, tar sands and other forms of oil and gas that require sophisticated technology to extract and are typically more expensive to develop.

TO many people, the notion of living without oil — at least the various forms of oil sloshing around in their cars and S.U.V.'s — is a scratchy-shirt, nuts-and-twigs kind of idea.

They say that Canadian oil is substantially dirtier than other forms of oil, and that if Canada cannot easily get the oil to the American market, it will slow development of the oil sands.

The article also missed the point that the oil sands can be less intensive than several other forms of crude oil used in North America, including production from California, Angola, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.

Also, they won't ship bitumen, but rather one of the lightest forms of crude oil: synthetic crude.

The hydrogenization process creates a solidified form of oil that results in trans fatty acids.

Certain imports — like energy, in the form of oil and natural gas — become more affordable.

And this despite sitting upon history's biggest free lunch in the form of oil wealth.