Sentence examples for sand oil from inspiring English sources

But he added, "I believe there's shale oil and tight sand oil to be found all over the world".

A decade ago, the vast landscape of forests and lakes around Fort McMurray and the Athabasca river provided a fairly minor and barely profitable sand oil industry.

The compounds that are susceptible to foul the reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are inorganic suspended solids, sand, oil, clays, bacteria, and dissolved organic matters.

As acutely photographed by Winterbottom's regular Danish collaborator, Marcel Zyskind, it's a shabby place of sturdy official buildings surrounded by dilapidated housing, set in an arid landscape of scrub, sand, oil derricks and distant mountains.

In the first year, we painted a picture of a crisis in a barren desert: Scrooge McDuck's egg timer isn't working, no one can find the red sand – oil – and the camels have long since left.

While the US has, at least so far, resisted a complete dependency on Albertan sand oil, this environmentally disastrous from of petrol is widening its share of the global market.

Yet Jerry Kidd, doing maintenance work at a condominium, couldn't believe it when he saw a Waste Management Inc. truck pull away from a collection site in Orange Beach piled with loose sand, oil-smeared protective gear and oily boom pulled out of the water.

Meanwhile, Canada is investing billions in a tar-sand oil pipeline and now sees its carbon tax plan collapsing.

Tar-sand oil is very hard to remove from the ground; it requires enormous amounts of water and energy just to get it to the surface.

House Resolution Three (H.R. 3), sponsored by Rep. Lee Terry, R-Nebraska, would cut President Barack Obama out of the Keystone approval process and speed construction of the pipeline to carry tar-sand oil from Western Canada to Gulf Coast refineries.

Oil sands oil is legal to produce and distribute – plus there will be increasing demand.