Sentence examples for subsurface oil from inspiring English sources

One worry is that subsurface oil will remain in the grasses the manatees eat.

Researchers who model the spill's progress expect subsurface oil to collect in the shipping channel, which the manatees use on their migration, Dr. Carmichael said.

Prior to that time, petroleum was available only in very small quantities from natural seepage of subsurface oil in various areas throughout the world.

More than 60% of the Earth's oil resources are likely still in the subsurface oil deposits.

Scale formation in surface and subsurface oil and gas production equipment has been recognized to be a major operational problem.

Dr. Lubchenco has noted repeatedly that some of the remaining oil existed in the form of undersea plumes and cautioned that this subsurface oil could pose a threat to marine life.

NG80-2 was isolated from a deep-subsurface oil reservoir in Dagang oilfield, Northern China [ 61] and on the basis of in-silico analysis is potentially the producer of both a type 1 (see below) and type 2 lantibiotic [ 25].

Once the sphere comes to rest at the subsurface, the oil forms an equilibrium pendant drop that remains attached to the sphere.

For instance, we identified a phylotype closely related to Hydrogenophilus spp. (Figure 4, Table S1), moderately thermophilic hydrogen and sulfur-compound oxidizers [21] associated to subsurface aquifers, oil wells and even, perhaps, the lake Vostok [22].

Surface observations of oil and gas seeps, the traditional technique for exploration of subsurface petroleum and natural gas deposits, is still currently in use.

Instead, depletion of the unstable Fe (III) oxides near the subsurface crude-oil source has caused the maximum dissolved iron concentration zone within the plume to spread at a rate of approximately 3 m/year.