What is being done with the oil from the Alaskan Pipeline?
611448
The oil is sent to refineries throughout the Pacific Northwest, then it is sold as gasoline throughout Alaksa, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
33784
Most likely the U.S. We have thousands of oil wells offshore,that are just drilled and capped off.Tens of thousands on dry land.And we've never touched Alaska,it has more than the rest of the U.S. combined.
386333
some of it is necessary since the PEC nations are not sending us as much oil as before, but i'd say most is gouging. The easiest way to convince lawmakers would be to vote them out of office in the next elections. if they know their seat will be replaced if they don't solve the problem, im pretty sure we will see more action on their part.
842740
On current estimates we have now reached the peak of oil production. That means that we will not be able to sustain the current levels of extraction for much longer. Established Oil fields such as Texas and North Sea (Brent) are now coming to the end of their life, with perhaps 20 years of oil remaining. New offshore developments especially offshore Brazil, offshore Nigeria and Java (Brunei & Malay) have longer, probably 60 years. Research is being heavily funded by the large oil companies to develop more advanced extraction methods (pumping down carbon dioxide or water) to release the remaining oil from older fields, which may extend the life of some of these reserves but by a range not exceeding 5% of the reserves remaining. New offshore and onshore fields are currently being sort, offshore Cyprus and regoins of the wider Middle East. I have an optimistic outlook to the reserves of oil. Many predict ranges of 40 to 100 years of current usage being sustainable. That, however, doesn't take into account the 'cusp' that we rest upon with regards to China and India's industrial revolution, which may tip the balance.
710374
I work for a company called Furmanite. They are a large egineering company for power plants oil refineries etc.. We may have a solution for you.
1131528
oil do my best to answer this one
12639
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.
645427
We are importing about half of what we use now. If you would like to choose which half of our nation cannot use oil, then we could quit importing.\n\nIt isn't a matter of how much oil is in the ground. We can't produce it fast enough, or refine it fast enough to more than marginally outpace demand.
490943
Do we want to be self sufficient in oil or close to it?\nI do! The area of the drilling in Alaska is not going to hurt the earth nearly as much as I cars do. The oil pipes have proved that more animals are near them not less.\nProbably the heat from them. No animal has become extinct from the drilling. If we are concerned about the effect of oil drilling, we will bring out the horses. I love to ride horses but not in rain & they are a little slow for me. Crack up the drills.
1064285
Nothing. They're not the first nor will they be the last, unfortunately. One of the guys "Menchaca" is from my home-town. I'm very upset about it but what can the military do? They're following Bush's orders. To think it's all for the oil.
203420
Any sort of oil product...Gasoline, Jet fuel, Axle Grease, Kerosene, Asphalt...ect.  The basic idea is simple, you take this crude oil out of the ground (It used to be swamps and such 120 Million years ago) and then heat it up without oxygen.  As you let the temperature come down, specific oil based products condense out.  The graphic on the accompanying page shows crude oil being heated and added to the column.  As the "boiled" gaseous crude oil travels up the column, the temperature decreases, so different products condense out and are pumped away.  (same idea as water condensing on your mirror after a shower---the water was hot, then it touched a cooler mirror and turned back into a liquid)
227233
I would consult with the unit manufacturer, especially if the unit is under warranty.  Their technical rep. may know how others deal with this problem and with what success.  They would want to know how clean and moisture free the oil is.  Also consider whether there is enough oil to warrant special purification equipment.  Often used oil is returned to a company that specializes in recycling spent oil to keep it out of the environment and find a good use for it.  They have the equipment to do the job.  Good luck.
123709
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.
679297
Not necessarily.  Oil that spills on the ground or into the water and is *never* recovered is a waste, but there's still plenty of energy inherent to the oil to make it worthwhile -- if the price is right.\n\nThe fact that the oil gushes out of the ground is because the drilling process has punctured a "bubble" (for lack of a better term) of petroleum that is under high pressure underground.  The puncture releases that pressure and forces the oil to the surface.  Now the trick is to control that flow without wasting any.\n\nOnce we control the flow of oil, it is then processed to make the petroleum products we have come to rely on so heavily -- motor oils, gasoline, aircraft fuels, kerosene, diesel, etc.\n\nA few years back, I was on the island of Aruba.  We visited one of the largest petroleum refineries in the world there -- produced something like 70% of the aviation fuel used by the Allies during the Second World War.  All the waste products they didn't need were dumped in a giant slag heap on one end of the island.\n\nForty years later, when oil prices had risen significantly, it became economically feasible to recycle that petroleum slag heap to produce more useful fuels from it.  So it didn't go to waste, it just wasn't the time.
291854
because of enviromentalist...\nwrite your congreeman and tell them you want development, logging and fishing  numbers increased.\ninform environmentalist to leave our great state  and go back to where they came from.\n\ntell people from other states that alaska should have state rights to manage it's resourse...\n\n understand we as the state only get part of the revenue of the oil.
773021
I think the processing of crude oil into so many products is really interesting. The "Heart" of a refinery would be the  crude unit that  heats and fractionates the oil, setting into motion the production of gas, oils, napthas, and byproducts that were once discarded, but have been found useful in other industries. Research is showing there's more coming.
192391
Will kid, it will be along time coming,President Richard M Nixon had quite allot of wells caped in the 70's Saving them as reserves for the faucher. And there are several undrilled wells to be drilled.We don't need Aarika oil,It just makes money for the Bush family,and there crone's. When the time Com's we can use synthetics,Alcohol burns rill good.NASCAR has bin using it for years.And NANSA has bin using hydrogen for year's as well.