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CSET Earth Resources Fossil Fuels
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1. 1 Btu = 2.931x10-4 kWh
Other uses of natural gas
Uses of coal
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Conversion of Btu to kWh
2. Phytoplankton and zooplankton that accumulated in marine sediments beginning 300 million years ago
Btu - energy; 1 Btu
Main origin of oil and natural gas
Oil Shale
Fluidized - bed combustion
3. Burns coal at lower temperatures - reducing the production of nitrogen oxides - and making it easier to remove sulfur oxides.
Fluidized - bed combustion
Lubricating Oil
Wet natural gas
Composition of source rock
4. 125000 Btu per gallon
Energy content of gasoline
Fluidized - bed combustion
Trap
Therms
5. Fuel for jets and tractors
EROI
Kerosene
Reserves
Sweet crude oil
6. Length of time US coal reserves are expected to last...
Sweet crude oil
Tertiary oil recovery
164 years
Dry natural gas
7. Natural gas that has been cooled to a liquid to store and transport.
Reserves
Btu - energy; 1 Btu
LNG (liquified natural gas)
Energy content of gasoline
8. Methane produced by the action of microorganisms on waste in landfills
Trap
Pollution produced by coal - fired plants
Landfill gas
Dry natural gas
9. Formed by changes in rock type or sedimentary features that create a space where hydrocarbons are confined by impermeable layers
Stratigraphic trap
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Heavy crude oil
Fluidized - bed combustion
10. Natural gas that flows to the surface from an underground reservoir when a well is dug.
Conventional Natural Gas
Bituminous coal
Unconventional Natural Gas
164 years
11. Generate electricity - produce steel - plastics - synthetic fibers - fertilizers - and medicines
Secondary oil recovery
Uses of coal
Energy content of gasoline
Units of measuring natural gas
12. Traps formed by folding or faulting of rock layers
Conversion of Btu to kWh
Bituminous coal
Structural trap
Btu - energy; 1 Btu
13. A layer of cap rock that confines the oil and gas - must be impermeable.
Trap
Pollution produced by coal - fired plants
Unconventional Natural Gas
Tar sands or oil sands
14. The ratio of the energy return to the energy invested.
Petroleum or oil
Source Rock
Conversion of Btu to kWh
EROI
15. Natural gas that exists in other forms - making it more difficult to extract.
Unconventional Natural Gas
Tar sands or oil sands
Dry natural gas
Butane and propane
16. The process of drilling for oil and pumping it out. Accounts for 5-15% of the supply.
US Consumption of Natural Gas
Uses of coal
Primary oil recovery
Tar sands or oil sands
17. Remaining oil is made more fluid so as to bring it up more easily. Brings up another 5-15% of the supply - but is much more costly.
Anthracite
Tertiary oil recovery
Kerosene
Pollution produced by coal - fired plants
18. Fuel for cars
Structural trap
Stratigraphic trap
Tertiary oil recovery
Gasoline
19. Reserves that can reasonably be expected to exist based on geological evidence and projections from proved reserves.
Butane and propane
Conversion of Btu to Therms
Indicated or probable reserves
Origin of coal
20. Fuel for trucks
Units of measuring natural gas
Bituminous coal
Diesel Oil
Butane and propane
21. Unrefined mixture of methane - ethane - propane - and butane.
Possible trap materials
Wet natural gas
Conditions necessary for the formation of fossil fuels
Diesel Oil
22. Energy
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Conventional Natural Gas
Primary oil recovery
Therms
23. Source rock under a reservoir bed - under a trap.
Conditions necessary for oil and gas to accumulate in a major deposit
Natural Gas
Stratigraphic trap
Sources of coal
24. Salt or cemented sandstone
Secondary oil recovery
Conditions necessary for oil and gas to accumulate in a major deposit
Possible trap materials
Sweet crude oil
25. 70%-90% methane - and small proportions of ethane - propane - and butane. Some carbon dioxide. Trace amounts of other gases.
Conventional Natural Gas
Light crude oil
Tertiary oil recovery
Composition of Natural Gas
26. Fraction of California's total energy requirements provided by natural gas
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27. Heat - pressure - dearth of oxygen
Conditions necessary for the formation of fossil fuels
Stratigraphic trap
Structural trap
Light crude oil
28. Raw material in the production of pain and fertilizer - steel - glass - paper - and other products.
Two kinds of traps associated with oil and gas deposits
Other uses of natural gas
EROI
1/3 of California's total energy requirements.
29. A mixture of of hydrocarbons and organic compounds
Petroleum or oil
400 years
LNG (liquified natural gas)
Composition of source rock
30. The layer of sediment where oil and gas originate.
Oil Shale
Light crude oil
Source Rock
Sources of coal
31. Hard coal - with the second highest energy content
Tar sands or oil sands
Other uses of natural gas
Tertiary oil recovery
Anthracite
32. A mixture of hydrocarbons found in naturally occurring underground reservoirs
Natural Gas
Conditions necessary for oil and gas to accumulate in a major deposit
Landfill gas
Primary oil recovery
33. The quantity of oil (or other energy resource) that exists and can be recovered under current operating and economic conditions.
Primary oil recovery
Fluidized - bed combustion
EROI
Reserves
34. Soft coal - with the highest energy content
Secondary oil recovery
Bituminous coal
Other uses of natural gas
Therms
35. Natural gas that has been compressed and stored at very high pressure in strong containers.
CNG (compressed natural gas)
Btu - energy; 1 Btu
Two kinds of traps associated with oil and gas deposits
Butane and propane
36. Crude oil that contains a mixture of hydrocarbons that are relatively less dense
Unconventional Natural Gas
Light crude oil
164 years
Tertiary oil recovery
37. Refined natural gas that contains pure methane.
Dry natural gas
Lubricating Oil
Composition of Natural Gas
Diesel Oil
38. A layer of relatively porous and permeable rock in which the oil and gas coming up from the source rock can reside.
Tar sands or oil sands
Conditions necessary for oil and gas to accumulate in a major deposit
1/3 of California's total energy requirements.
Reservoir bed
39. For heating - cooking - and making plastics
Trap
Gasoline
Heavy crude oil
Butane and propane
40. Soot - sulfur oxides - nitrogen oxides - mercury
EROI
Indicated or probable reserves
Pollution produced by coal - fired plants
Landfill gas
41. An arch of stratified rock - an important geological feature that may be associated with reserves of oil - a type of structural trap.
Oil Shale
Structural trap
Anticline
Natural Gas
42. 22% of energy consumed in the U.S. comes from the burning of natural gas.
400 years
Fuel Oil
US Consumption of Natural Gas
Anticline
43. Reserves that are not as well known or characterized as proved reserves
Demonstrated reserves
Butane and propane
1/3 of California's total energy requirements.
Btu - energy; 1 Btu
44. Structural traps and stratigraphic traps
Two kinds of traps associated with oil and gas deposits
CNG (compressed natural gas)
164 years
Conversion of Btu to Joules
45. Oil with little or no sulfur
Primary oil recovery
Sweet crude oil
Anthracite
Sources of coal
46. Energy to raise the temperature of 1 lb of water by 1 degree F at 1 atm.
Indicated or probable reserves
Btu - energy; 1 Btu
Kerosene
Anticline
47. Crude oil that contains a mixture of hydrocarbons that are relatively dense
Heavy crude oil
Other uses of natural gas
Fuel Oil
Butane and propane
48. Peat - formed from plants.
Origin of coal
Trap
400 years
Therms
49. For lubricating motors
1/3 of California's total energy requirements.
Heavy crude oil
Lubricating Oil
Source Rock
50. Length of time global natural gas supply is expected to last.
Indicated or probable reserves
Secondary oil recovery
Primary oil recovery
400 years