oil and gas accumulations

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• Oil and gas basins of Kazakhstan — Oil gas basins of Kazakhstan The oil …   Wikipedia

• Oil and gas deposits in the Czech Republic — The small oil and gas deposits in the Czech Republic are located mainly in south Moravia. Their exploration started in the early years of 20th century, first commercial oil extraction opened in 1919. In 2005 340,600 m³ of crude oil and 98.75… …   Wikipedia

• Offshore oil and gas in the United States — provides a large portion of the nation’s oil and gas supply. Large oil and gas reservoirs are found in the sea nearby Louisiana, Texas, California, and Alaska. Environmental concerns have prevented or restricted offshore drilling in some areas,… …   Wikipedia

• List of oil and gas fields of the North Sea — This list of oil and gas fields of the North Sea contains links to oil and natural gas reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In terms of the oil industry, North Sea oil often refers to a larger geographical set, including areas such as the Norwegian… …   Wikipedia

• heavy oil and tar sand — Introduction       crude oils (crude oil) below 20° API gravity are usually considered to be heavy. The lighter conventional crudes are often waterflooded to enhance recovery. The injection of water into the reservoir helps to maintain reservoir… …   Universalium

• Oil reserves — Proven Oil Reserves, as published by the CIA Factbook, 2009 The total estimated amount of oil in an oil reservoir, including both producible and non producible oil, is called oil in place. However, because of reservoir characteristics and… …   Wikipedia

• Oil reserves in the United States — United States oil reserves peaked sharply in 1970 Proven oil reserves in the United States are 21 billion barrels (3.3×10^9 m3), excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The U.S. Department of the Interior …   Wikipedia

• oil shale — Geol. a black or dark brown shale or siltstone rich in bitumens, from which shale oil is obtained by destructive distillation. [1870 75] * * * Any fine grained sedimentary rock that contains solid organic matter (kerogen) and yields significant… …   Universalium

• Gas hydrates — are solid crystalline compounds formed under certain thermo baric conditions from water (water solution, ice, water steams) and low molecular weight gases. Externally, they look like ice or snow. Under moderate pressure natural gas hydrates exist …   Glossary of Oil and Gas

• Predicting the timing of peak oil — M. King Hubbert, who devised the peak theory, correctly predicted in 1956 that oil production would peak in the United States between 1965 and 1970Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels,M.K. Hubbert, Presented before the Spring Meeting of the… …   Wikipedia

• natural gas — a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, esp. those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and,… …   Universalium