Sentence examples for thick hydrocarbon from inspiring English sources

The vast majority of the nearly 2 million miles of paved roads in the United States are surfaced with asphalt pavement, which is made by combining a thick hydrocarbon mixture known as liquid asphalt binder with sand, gravel, or crushed stone ("aggregate").

The oil expulsion of thin hydrocarbon source rocks is high, even exceeding 70%, but the oil expulsion of super-thick hydrocarbon source rocks is only approximately 30%.

This can take the form of cyclic steam soaks, steam drive, well bore heating or for thicker hydrocarbon-bearing regions, steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD).

It has been postulated that rafts concentrate proteins with long transbilayer domains because of "hydrophobic matching" between the transbilayer domain and the thick bilayer hydrocarbon region.

* Oil sands produce bitumen, a thick tarry hydrocarbon that is either "upgraded" into a synthetic blend or diluted so it flows like oil.

A nanometer-thick oxygen functional hydrocarbon coating was deposited by a radio frequency plasma process.

This work shows that the life of a thrust bearing, running under oil starvation conditions, can be extended by 50% by depositing a 1 μm thick tungsten carbide amorphous hydrocarbon coating on the rolling elements.

Zhao et al. (2006) found that thin-layer source rocks and the rocks within several meters of the edge of thick-layer source rocks have high hydrocarbon expulsion efficiency, whereas thick-layer hydrocarbon source rocks do not favor hydrocarbon expulsion.

The synthesis by CVD of few nanometer-thick pyrocarbon layers from hydrocarbon precursors was for the first time reported in ref. [16].

"Hybrid Plays" present unique petroleum systems hosting continuous hydrocarbons stored in thick, self-sourcing shale reservoirs and adjacent thin coarse-grained siliciclastic and carbonate interbeds, which form hybrid siliciclastic and carbonate unconventional plays/reservoirs in addition to conventional plays/reservoirs throughout the whole source rock interval.

For subsalt wells in the Gulf of Mexico and other petroleum basins, drilling needs to penetrate thick salt formations to reach the hydrocarbon reserves.