Look at the oil, will ya?

One unit like this is an energy unit of fossil fuel oil, coal or gas.

Oil detection for the State Pollution Control Authority (SFT) and oil companies

After I got my degree, I worked in South America for an oil company.

I'm always surprised by how little people outside of Canada know about the Alberta Tar Sands, which this year are projected to become the number one source of imported oil to the United States.

In the 1930s we got 100 units of energy back for every one that we put in to extract it.

The oilseed crop comprises three essential parts.

He's right down there with those drilling crews.

Oil prices have surged to more than 100 per barrel, as China, India, and other oil importing countries join the United States in a massive scramble to buy up supplies, especially from the Middle East. Food prices, too, are at historical highs, contributing to poverty and political unrest.

Before you can pump oil, you have to discover it.

Well, a person stepping down on the accelerator opens it wide, like putting the gas pedal right to the floor.

From Oil to Information

You can do it!

Come on. You're almost there.

Right here. We run outta gas.

Leon got his butter.

Um, where can I get some gasoline?

Down into this damn pit...

The pirates then guided the ship close to the Somali coastline and anchored it within sight of land.

Often, the oil we find now is heavy or sour crude, and is expensive to refine.

A reduction factor of 20 per cent has been applied to petrol, oil and lubricants in order to compensate for vehicles that are out of service for repair.

These are also, these tar fueled protocells, are also able to locate resources in their environment.

And what's been taking up the slack in the last few decades?

So you get in your car, and as you get in your car, your car will reserve you a parking spot before you arrive no more driving around looking for one, which frankly is one of the biggest users of fuel in today's cars in urban areas is looking for parking spots.

Going, going...

You can see easily that all the oily water just goes over the back of the boom.

Working in a Philadelphia pool hall. 1700 block on Chestnut.

Quick, lift my hand to the throttle.

do you see a carburetor, for instance?

Spark up, gas down Switch to bat

Don't just slap the oil on anywhere, damn it!

Three companies from Mainland China made the 2011 Top 50 list. In addition 2nd place PetroChina, Sinopec and CNOOC were ranked 9th and 15th, respectively.

54 of the 65 major oil producing nations have already peaked in production.

The 2005 budget submission had foreseen a higher cost of oil, now a reality.

Once the peak of world oil production is reached, demand for oil will outstrip supply, and the price of gasoline will fluctuate wildly, affecting far more than the cost of filling a car.

And what you see here is, you see a little bit of crude oil, you see some ice cubes, and you see two sandwich baggies of napalm.

So we're able to then see the self assembly of these oil droplet bodies again that we've seen previously, and the black spots inside of there represent this kind of black tar this diverse, very complex, organic black tar.

Go, go, go.

Go, go, go!

You see a lot of oil on the ocean.

You see a lot of oil on the ocean.

The EROEI for oil today is as low as 10.

High international oil prices, delays in aid disbursements, and incomplete fiscal adjustment continued to affect inflation rates.

11. The industrial sector is dominated by the Hess Oil Refinery (St. Croix), one of the largest in the Western hemisphere, which employs 2,000 workers.

It looks like you just emptied the oil pan in your car, and you just dumped it in the ocean.