Total U.S. offshore oil production amounts to 1.7 million barrels per day.
The lost production amounts to 1% of global oil consumption.
BP's stake in the Prudhoe Bay field is only 26%, meaning that its production loss amounts to 50, 000 barrels per day.
But paper production consumes massive amounts of fresh water, pollutes the water it doesn't use and is a major generator of hazardous air pollutants.
Other countries including China and India, are spending billions of dollars in oil sands investments, obviously with the expectation of eventually importing significant amounts of production.
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Cellulose fuel production would require a consistant base product so it would become necessary to secure massive amounts of plant fiber to ensure uninterrupted production.
Now, with precious few other opportunities to invest massive amounts to gain material production growth, Exxon is moving full speed ahead.
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Compounding this imbalance is the fact that continuing urbanization and property development have taken large amounts of farmland out of production, threatening grain supply and agricultural development.
There is no de minimis exemption for these metals if they are necessary for the functionality or production of the product, so even trace amounts count.
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The West Coast relies heavily on the pipeline for a cheap, domestic source of crude, and the region will need to pay a premium to ship in increasing amounts of foreign oil if Alaskan production continues to fall.
There are industries, such as paper and cellulose production, where Brazil already imports and exports large amounts.
At present, China's dependency on imports amounts to only 10% of domestic production, but that figure is projected to rise to 20% by 2000 and possibly to 40% by 2010.
The production of sodium hydroxide in the first place requires vast amounts of energy.
Specifically, the EPA could divert large amounts of corn from inefficient, irresponsible fuel production back into the food chain where market forces and common sense say it should go.
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The total loss amounts to just 12.5% of national production in 2009, a bumper year.
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Large amounts of EGF, ten or more times normal production, can trigger a cell to grow uncontrollably.
Already, despite its massive oil production of roughly 2 million bpd, Venezuela imports increasingly large amounts of gasoline to compensate for a deteriorating refining system.
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Higher amounts of carbon dioxide not only kick-start pollen production, they also boost the amount of pollen each plant generates, too -- especially in urban areas, where the gas is more plentiful.
They need relatively small amounts of energy to light schools, run health services, increase production and create jobs.
Large amounts of EGF, as much as 10 to 100 times the normal production, can trigger a cell to grow uncontrollably.
Most of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf is off-limits to oil and gas exploration and production, even though there are upward of 100 billion barrels of oil and immense amounts of natural gas estimated to be there.
Suddenly society was faced with dramatically reduced amounts of hydrocarbon energy, and the result was a fundamental reorganization of food production, leading to a boom in urban organic agriculture, which requires fewer inputs than conventional farming.
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For example, Italy and the Netherlands, which have had considerable domestic natural gas production over the years, have the majority of their production offshore, but fracing can only be conducted from an onshore site because it requires immense amounts of freshwater to be pumped down the well.
There is also a risk that large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, could escape during shale-gas exploration and production.
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