05.07.2009
This technology has the potential to increase yields of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from heavy and ultra heavy crude oil and could be used to increase and upgrade production of heavy oil resources. Process patented by Chevron
Company that maintains large infrastructure for the public, such as electricity, water, gas. The utilities are often government owned, are often natural monopolies and regulated.
Can be used in the production of biodiesel and does not compete with the food industry
The USGS, created by an act of Congress in 1879, part of the US Ministry of the Interior provides scientific information to describe and understand the Earth, minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters, manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources and enhance and protect quality of life.
Although the US represents only 5% of the world population it consumes 25% of the world’s total energy supply. About 40% of the US energy comes from oil, 23% from coal and about the same amount from natural gas.
U.S. Geological Survey maintains the world has 3.7 trillion barrels of oil, both tapped and untapped, rather than the 1.7 trillion barrels estimated by some peak-oil theorists. It is now said that the Arctic holds 22% of the world’s untapped oil resources or that estimates that there are 18 billion barrels of untapped oil and 76.5 trillion cubic feet of untapped natural gas in the portion of the OCS of the US which had hitherto been off limits to oil and gas production until President Bush lifted the moratorium in July 2008