THERE IS A LOT OF OIL AND GAS RESERVE IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE BENUE TROUGH LOCATED IN THE MIDDLEBELD TO THE NORTH OF THE NIGER DELTA MIGHT HAVE OIL AND GAS RESERVES. CAN SOMEONE DISCUSS THIS TOPIC?
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There is indeed enormous amounts of oil and natrual gas in this region.  China is looking to move into to partner with Nigeria to extract some of it.  However, China like the multinational corporations that already work in the area is find the extraction very difficult.  \n  The local people are suffering all the effects (environmental degradation and health problems) without any of the rewards like people in other oil regions have.  The results are uprisings that have all but stopped the oil extraction down the delta to the sea.  \n\n   Also, gas lines continue to be attacked, and Nigeria may suffer complete blackouts as these gas lines are used to provide energy to the hydro generating stations in the country.  It would seem to get the locals onside, it might be a good idea to share the wealth and not poison their environment.  It's a novel concept but might just work!\n\n   By the way, as  Peaknik, I don't believe that Nigeria has the necessary reserves to turn the tide of Hubbert's Peak.
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Mmm...He's gonna ask his daddy first!\n\nAnd then check how are things with his own OIL companies!\n\nI do believe that N.Korea is next on the list, since he doesn't like competition. \n\nThen Venezuela, when he finds out that he's running out of oil, again!
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I was looking I found this was interesting:\n\nRevenue generated from oil, gas and mineral development, agricultural leasing and commercial activity on trust lands play an important role in funding public education in New Mexico.( http://www.nmstatelands.org/ )\n\n\nIf I get a chance I will look for more.
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JESUS CHRIST MAN   NEEM OIL IS FROM NIGERIA   FROM LAGOS AND DEFINETLY FROM AZADIRSCHTA INDICA!!!
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I'm thinking it would be about the size of, oh say, a planet. Oil is a product of fossil fuels. Long dead and buried by time biological creatures that become compressed to crude oil over time and planetary pressure. As long as things keep dying and compressing, we will have new sources of crude, however, if it is pulled out faster then it is replenished it will create a void in supply.
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Contact Trenggo Minerals out of Malaysia.  If I can decipher your e-mail correctly, you are looking for barite mud, which is used in the drilling for oil and gas. \n\nTrenggo can be reached at: :+609 681 1400 \n\nThe parent website is at: http://www.m3nergy.com
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While the oil is actually being removed from the earth it isn't filled up. But after the well is abandoned it is usually filled in with cement. Most states have regulations requiring plugging of wells as they are taken out of service.\n\nIf you want more information on how the oil drilling process works (or anything else for that matter) check out the site below. It's really cool.
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Try to watch here:http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=nstrumentation+as+regards+oil+well+head&btnG=Cerca+con+Google&meta=
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There are many ways to generate hydrogen outside electrolysis. Steam reforming, methane reforming, propane reforming, etc... Coastal countries may appear to have an advantage but you cannot have a fair comparison of supply and demand.  Consider the following:\n1. Many, many, many countries have access to coastal water, thus competition would be extremely fierce\n2. Countries will be more than self-sufficient and may "sell" excess product at a very low cost.\n3. Rivers, streams, rainwater etc... is available to more countries in the world than petroleum to many. \n \nI would not worry about it, depleting the sea is way way way way off, and besides, using H2 as fuel means that emission is....water. And no, the roads are not going to be slippery from algae (sorry, but I have heard a statement like that in the past)\n\nEver considered that we may come up with the technology to recover and re-use the water emission? Thus less filling up at your local Shell H2 station? \n\nI hope I was able to answer it for you in a objective manner
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Hey, how is it going? I'm not an specialist in oil research, but I had to do a report on the increment of city revenues - the main source it's a oil refinery.\nThere are two good websites: World Energy Outlook and the Energy Information Administration (EIA).\nThe reports on the EIA are much more comprehensive and have projections until 2030. There's also access to previous reports.\nI hope that information will help you!
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"My short answer for the questions that need a lot of spaces for arguments. \n\n1) Good geological conditions that need oil accumulation. \n2) Good source rock preservation due to geographic and rich orgainism thriving conditions. Both fine once in the present Middle East during many million years ago. \n\nSome details are as follows \n\nIn order to reach to a satisfying answer of your question, it is important to appreciate the science of Plate Tectonics. \n\nIn geologic terms,a plate is a large, rigid slab of solid rock. The word tectonics comes from the Greek root "to build." Putting these two words together, we get the term plate tectonics, which refers to how the Earth's surface is built of plates. \n\nThese blocks or plates have different properties and behave differently in response to its gliding surface and at the time of dynamic movements. The Earth what we observe now believed to be not the same throughout the geological time. It had changed its shapes and continents and had been mobilized geographically as well. Many scientific explanations have been presented to prove the theory. Presence of fossils of similar kind of plants and animals in diversified continents, thousands of miles apart, once fused, showed the evidence of plate movements. \n\nVarious continents of the Earth floated around the globe in the geologic past, such as, Africa and South America, India and Europe and Asia. Geological past could be as ancient as 2500 million years old to few thousand years ago. It implies that a continent at the equator now, must had been near the poles once in the past, may be several millions years before the past. Every climatic zones have their internal biologic and climatic activity. \n\nWhile studying Petroleum accumulation or deposits of hydrocarbon, keep in mind, the most important factors controlling the oil accumulation are, source rock, reservoir and trap. \n\nSource rock is closely and directly related to the biological activity of the given zone which will help to concentrate the organic matter at one place and afterward it becomes preserved if met appropriate conditions. Most of the areas now comprised of Arabian Peninsula including North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq, were remained near the tropical areas between latitude 20 degree south to 20 degree north during Jurassic (135 million years) late Tertiary (10 million years). Biologic activity and productivity is the highest in these tropical and equatorial zones compare to the area lying near the poles. The rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous have been found good source and reservoir rocks throughout the Saudi Arabai, Yemen, Sudan Iraq and Iran. On the other hand reservoir rock particularly in the Paleozoic age are either deposited in the continental environments which have less prominent cement between the grains. Such rock are very porous and capable to store huge volume of oil and gas. Middle Eastern areas remained tectonically less active or passive and consequently much less breaking and destruction activity prevailed in that part of the Earth. \n\nIn summary, middle east has been encountered all the favourable conditions for the generation, preservation and accumulation of hydrocarbon during the geological history of the area. India has oil and gas because it has vast sedimentary basins in the west and east of the continent, both in offshore and land" (Syed Tariq Hasany).
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That question can’t be answered until you tell us what we mean by ‘supply’. Oil supplies are measured in 3 basic ways.\n\nThe first type of supply is the liquid crude reserve supply. This is the amount of liquid oil that we absolutely, definitely know we can make a prophet out of at today’s prices and using today’s technology.  We have drilled well into reserve supplies, we know they are there, we know how much and we know the quality. Proven reserves are in the 1017-981 billion barrel range. (See link 1 below)\n\nThe second type is the  liquid crude  resource supply. This is the amount of liquid oil that we know exists in the ground that we can reasonably expect to be able to get to if we need it. We haven’t fully explored resource supplies. There might have been a few test holes drilled and various seismic tests but at the moment it’s not worth doing more detailed investigation because it isn’t profitable enough. Current estimates of world liquid oil resources range from 2, 248 to 3, 896 billion barrels. (See link 2 below).\n\nThen come the non-liquid oil resources. These are massive. They include tar sands and oil shales amongst other things. Although Canada has been profitably extracting sand oil for decades it is less profitable than drilling for liquid crude oil, so nobody has fully explored the extent of sand and shale oil. We know it’s huge, far larger than the amount of liquid crude ever discovered. But just how large is uncertain. Best estimates say that worldwide tar sands amount to 6,200 billion barrels with 890 billion\nbarrels being “recoverable”, while oil shale  in the US alone amounts to some 160,000 billion barrels (see link 3 below).\n\n______________\n>>>> guess-timates put our production peak around 25 years.\n\nNo, they don't. They put our liquid crude peak at around then, but the question asked about all oil, not just liquid crude. The leak for all oil won't come for another 100 years or so.
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I agree with you, unfortunately the oil industry has a lot of money and well you know how that goes. Currently there are several research and development programs going on relating to alternative energy sources. Examples are Methane, ethanol, and hydrogen.  Keep you fingers crossed that one of these experimental energy resources hits pay dirt.
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SUNCOR, HUSKY, CANADIAN NATIONAL RESOURCES, TYPE IN OILSANDS THERE IS ALOT OF COMPANIES IN NORTHERN ALBERTA
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I think you are on to something.  Who cares if OPEC cuts production.  We have oil in this country too.  There is no reason why they should have gone down then back up again.
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I don't think oil production rate is high there, Oil is flamable itself and need lots of pipelines which can't be guarded all the time so its an easy target.\nNo doubt that if there is any production it goes to Texas and it will keep going for many years specially after US leaves Iraq.
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emu oil may help if available in ur country