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Published February 10, 2012
The United States has long been seen as a nation in its twilight as an oil producer, facing a relentless decline that began when President Richard Nixon was in the White House. He and every president since pledged to halt the U.S. slide into greater dependence on foreign oil, but the trend seemed irreversible—until now. Forty-one years later, U.S. oil production is on the rise.
U.S. oil fields yielded an estimated 5.68 million barrels per day in 2011—their highest output since 2003, thanks largely to a surge of new production from shale oil that lies beneath the Great Plains. The rush so far is centered in North Dakota, where oil production has quadrupled since 2005, but drilling is set to spread across the prairie and beyond.
(Related: "Shale Oil Boom Takes Hold on the Plains")
"A 'great revival' in U.S. oil production is taking shape," said Jim Burkhard, managing director of the energy consultancy IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates in testimony last month before a U.S. Senate committee. The resurgence provides the United States a welcome measure of energy security at a time of global economic uncertainty and geopolitical risk, he said.
Yet the U.S. government's own energy analysts and many experts see a limit to this new gusher. The technological advances that have driven the revival—high-volume hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling—can only squeeze so much more crude out of the U.S. landscape, they say. Projections are that U.S. oil production will never again reach the lofty heights of the 1960s, even without environmental concerns slowing development or hampering industry with new costs.
But most importantly for U.S. consumers, the new supply is not expected to provide relief at the pump. The price of gasoline, still governed by global geopolitical factors like Middle East conflict, burgeoning economic growth in Asia, and constraints on supply around the globe, is projected to increase at a rate of nearly 2 percent per year. In the United States and elsewhere, the only way to escape the ever-higher price of oil in the future, the experts agree, will be to use less of it.
A Surprising Surge
U.S. crude oil production has dropped by more than a third since its peak in 1970, and as Burkhard said in his Senate testimony, "The long decline . . . was never supposed to end." But instead, since 2008, the United States has seen a greater gain than any other nation in its "total liquid fuels" supply, taking into account the ramp-up of oil alternatives such as ethanol. In a single year, from 2009 to 2010, oil and gas industry spending on U.S. prospects increased 37 percent, to $69.4 billion, he said. The investment reflects high hopes for the future. "The scale of the opportunity to boost oil production in the United States is larger than in most other countries over the next decade," he said.
President Barack Obama highlighted the new oil development in his State of the Union address, saying, "Last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past 16 years." Indeed, imports have fallen to about 50 percent of U.S. liquid fuel supply, down from 60 percent as recently as 2005, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). EIA's new analysis released last month says that imports are on track to fall to just 37 percent of supply by 2035, significantly less than the agency's projection only a year ago.
A persistent drop in consumption—nearly two million barrels a day since its high point in 2005 due to a slowing economy, efficiency improvement, and consumer scaling back on travel due to high prices-has contributed equally to the decrease in imports.
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When the new oil is considered along with the new natural gas production spurred by the same technology—fracking—some experts have claimed that the United States, the nation that was the birthplace of the oil industry, could become the world's top liquid fuels producer again, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia.
(See interactive on fracking technology: "Breaking Fuel From Rock")
But projections by the EIA and the Paris-based International Energy Agency indicate that is unlikely. They expect the U.S. resurgence to hit a ceiling much sooner. EIA projects that the U.S. oil industry will add about 1 million barrels per day to production over the next decade, an increase of about 18 percent. But that's still 30 percent below the 1970 peak, and its forecast to fall slowly after 2020, back down to just over 6 million barrels per day, about 7 percent above today's level.
"It's a modest increase—not a huge increase," said Richard Nehring, founder of the energy consulting firm Nehring Associates in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "The reason is a lot of the new production just replaces old production that's declining." Oil production in California and Alaska, the second and third largest-producing states behind Texas, has been in decline for more than 20 years, he noted.
North Dakota now is fourth in oil production, thanks to the booming development in the Bakken Shale, which sits beneath the western half of the state and neighboring Montana, extending north into Saskatchewan, Canada. The same hydraulic fracturing technology that has unlocked huge new supplies of natural gas across the United States has opened the door to unanticipated production of shale oil, sometimes known as "tight" oil. The oil industry is already leasing land for drilling in a similar formation, the Niobara Shale, beneath Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas. Production in the Eagle Ford shale, in South Texas, is increasing rapidly.
Limits and Doubts
But uncertainties abound regarding this newfound oil supply. New regulations are expected due to concerns that the water-intensive process, which results in a large amount of polluted "flowback" water rising to the surface, is a threat to groundwater and land. In his State of the Union Address, Obama said he wants companies that drill on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use.
(Related: "A Dream Dashed By the Rush on Gas")
And there are other issues. When first tapped, oil shale wells start off strong, but their production typically declines some 50 percent in the first year, and in later years drops further. "These wells have a pretty steep decline in their first year," said oil analyst John Staub of the EIA. "It requires a high rate of drilling to maintain production," let alone make it grow.
Indeed, the pace of oil drilling in the United States is now at a 25-year high, and EIA projects the rate will rise even higher, pushing oil shale production to nearly 1.5 million barrels a day, or 20 percent of U.S. production. The oil shale boom is expected to max out around 2030.
"Tight oil is a pretty new resource," Staub cautioned, "so there's definitely uncertainty about how widespread it might be. Production could be lower or it could be higher."
To be sure, the EIA expects to see other sources of new oil production in the United States. Although conventional onshore oil production is expected to continue to slide, more oil may be squeezed out of old oil fields, mainly by pumping in carbon dioxide and other newer "enhanced oil recovery" techniques to flush out recalcitrant fluids.
Offshore development, particularly in deepwater, is expected to continue apace after the lifting of the moratorium imposed after BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which resulted in the largest U.S. oil spill ever, in the Gulf of Mexico. The EIA expects some offshore projects to proceed in the Arctic, but these would not be enough to reverse Alaska's decline in production, and its production would fall from 560,000 barrels a day now to less than half that, 270,000 barrels a day, by 2035.
But even with the United States hoping to produce a larger share of the oil it uses, consumers won't pay less. The price per barrel of crude oil, which was between $85 and $110 per barrel in the United States in 2011, is expected to be $120 by 2016 and $145 by 2035, in today's dollars, EIA projects. (That means a whopping nominal price of $230 per barrel by 2035.) In today's dollars, a gallon of gasoline would cost $4.49 by 2035, an average increase of 1.6 percent per year.
Demand for gasoline is soaring in China and India, lifting the price of the globally traded commodity. And outside of OPEC members, the rest of the world's production has reached a peak or plateau, which a boost in U.S. production would do little to change, said David Greene of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
In the words of International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol, "The age of cheap oil is over." (See: "Has the World Already Passed Peak Oil?")
Looking ahead, the U.S. won't be able to eliminate the cost of oil dependence just by boosting production alone, Greene said. Improvements to cars' gas mileage and other efforts to use energy more wisely would make a big difference. "It doesn't mean that we'll get rid of imports," he said. But if the United States makes efforts both to increase production while decreasing demand, the country could "shrink imports down to a manageable size."
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Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, said the new drilling boom should not blind the nation to the need to tap other energy resources that don't carry oil's costs.
"The energy mix we have now is heavily domestic due to the expansion of North American fossil resources," Kammen said. "But an arguably larger energy efficiency and renewable energy resource exists in North America." He said that would do more to create jobs and build industry over the long term.
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The International Olympic Committee is committed to fighting all forms of cheating in sport. Cheating linked to betting activities has become an area of great concern in recent years and, like doping, threatens the very integrity of sport.
Betting on sport is not negative in and of itself. Legal betting is one way the public can demonstrate its attachment to sports and athletes and the services offered by national lotteries and private operators are one of the main means of financing sport in many countries. The problem occurs when betting leads to the manipulation of competitions. The very essence of sporting competition is the uncertainty of the result. When that uncertainty is removed, it renders sport a meaningless endeavour.
The sports movement therefore has the duty and obligation to ensure that betting activities do not infringe in any way upon the course or result of the competition.
Cheating is no myth: We have all heard stories about athletes, referees, coaches, etc., being offered money or advantages in order to manipulate the result or course of a competition. The threat is real and poisoning sport in every corner of the world.
Vicious circle: When an athlete agrees to cheat once, it becomes increasingly difficult to refuse any subsequent proposition.
Money talks: The amount of money involved can be enormous, making the lure of manipulation more attractive. The huge sums also attract organised crime.
In collaboration with members of the Olympic Movement and other partners such as governments, international organisations and betting operators, measures have been taken to raise awareness throughout the world of sport and among the general public and protect the integrity of sports competitions.
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The Rules of Application for the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi outline the ban on betting linked to the Olympic Games and any form of cheating that would affect the results of Olympic competitions in the context of betting.
For the Sochi edition, these rules have been strengthened and clarified. Some points have been highlighted, in particular the responsibility of the participants to report any attempt at match-fixing they have witnessed or been exposed to, and the obligation to cooperate in the event of an inquiry.
The IOC is collaborating closely with the Russian authorities to ensure that all the necessary conditions are fulfilled so that the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games set an example in terms of integrity.
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Because of the scale of the problem, several international organisations are studying the best legal means to combat match-fixing on an international level. This involves closer cooperation between the sports movement, governments, police forces and legal bodies to respond more efficiently to this complex issue. The IOC actively supports these steps.
IOC/UNODC Study: Criminalisation approaches to combat match-fixing and illegal/irregular betting: a global perspective
This joint study was the result of work undertaken by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and supported by the IOC.
It compiles criminal law provisions on match-fixing and illegal betting from existing legislation in UNODC Member States, and identifies discrepancies and similarities in legislative approaches. You will also find model criminal law provisions on match-fixing and irregular betting in Annex 2 of the document.
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So, Amzo, what is the benefit of pacman towards pkgng?
One essential package that needs to work first before I migrate is "schroot". That way I could use a static "core" os and then seamlessly run a dynamic Arch in schroot (including X11 stuff) for big and complex stuff that would be horrible to try to build statically.
Ps. Oh by the way - if I ever had a say about a mascot I would vote for a Mr. Potato variant of Tux, but perhaps I am the only one that would appreciate such a pun Ds.
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So, Amzo, what is the benefit of pacman towards pkgng?
Of course, as it is still a beta.
That's why I am wondering if there is any benefit of Arch BSD.
The best of the Linux distro's (namely, at the least, one of the very best) being Arch, which I luv, with the *BSD/Unix, my first luv. (that is, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD -and in that order).
It's a marriage that may help bear very fruitful results, one of them being, that ALL hardware manufacturers hopefully, and finally, start turning around and working even MORESO with BSD/Linux, at all levels, drivers', firmware,..., -did you HEAR that AMD/ATI Catalyst ?
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On Wednesday, March 6, 2013, the Graduate Student Organization (GSO), in collaboration with the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) and Cabell Midland High School hosted the first Science Café took at the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science. The intent of this café was to advocate scientific literacy and increased awareness for funding, while at the same time promoting scientific interest amongst our youth. A total of twenty three high school students from Cabell Midland High School attended this event. The event was tailored toward highlighting two key programs at Marshall University, the Biomedical Sciences Program (BMS) and the Forensics Program. Each program was given an opportunity to provide a unique perspective on behalf of the respective program as well as a "hands-on" interactive session.
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"I think the science café was an excellent opportunity for me to interact with high school students. This kind of event is a very good way to spark an interest in Science and hopefully after this, these students will want to pursue science as undergraduates." said Dr. Egleton when asked about the importance of the ASBMB Outreach Café. Similarly, Dr. Zeng agreed on the importance stating that "it exposes the younger generation to scientific research and ideas."
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Following the BMS section, participants were given an opportunity to hear on behalf of the Forensics Program at Marshall University from Dr. Graham Rankin, a Forensic Scientist and Professor in Forensics Science Program. Students subsequently venture to the Crime Scene House located near the corner of 5th avenue and Hal Greer. Participants were provided a tour of the Crime Scene House where they were given the ability utilize various crime scene investigation equipment which help facilitate research in crime scene related topics such as latent fingerprints, footwear impressions and forensic photography. One of the participants continued to state that he enjoyed the event, especially the Forensic Sciences Crime Scene House, since he plans to study Forensic Science at Marshall in the coming Fall.
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Overall, the ASBMB Outreach Café was a wonderful success. Future events will be aimed at further diversifying our target population and breaking out the café into more specific areas of interest.
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May 19th, 2008, 06:21 PM #1
Can anyone recommend any novels featuring some sort of insect invasion or infestation? I'd rather it not be gigantic bugs a la Them. I dont mind bugs that are kind of big but not gigantic.
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Check out Enders Game
Orson Scott Card is one of my favourite writers - you might want to check out Ender's Game. The book is about the International Fleet, a multi-national organization that was set up to defend the earth from a second alien invasion, and their method of using child soldiers to fight for them. The aliens, the buggers, are what stick out when alien invasion comes to mind.
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The Green Brain by Frank Herbert is good. It deals with a planetwide infestation of all kinds of different insects that seem to be winning against mankind, no matter how many pesticides they come up with.
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The Furies by Keith Roberts
Spiderworld by Colin Wilson
both those involve big wasps/spiders but are good books
Xeno by DF Jones - alien insect like invaders. I've just started reading this so can't comment on it.
Web by John Wyndham - spiders
The hephaestus plague by Tom Page - fire starting beetles
There's plenty of pulpy horror titles - slugs - shaun hutson, locusts - guy n smith, squirm....
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Colin Wilson never finished the series starting with Spiderworld, did he? I bought the first two of the series (three projected, I think), but the third never came out?
Never mind, I see that much happened after the first two....
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I was only aware of 4 books in the series but see on the link that another 3 are mentioned - I think these might be reissues of the same books with different titles??
I would only recommend the first two of the series. I couldn't finish "the magician".
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My only problem with that is that I would not be finishing the series. Can one read the first 2 books and not the later two? It is probably a moot point as I think I sold the first two when I didn't think they were going to be continued, but just as an academic question....
May 23rd, 2008, 04:38 PM #8
Robert Heinlein's 'Starship Troopers' would fit the bill, methinks.
In the same vein, there's Robert Steakley's 'Armor'. And probably about a bizillion others, although I can't seem to think of them at the moment.
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The Enders Series for sure...i did not care much for Starship Troopers however..


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Vegetable Chow Mein
I have many vegetarian/vegan readers and many of them requested me to post more vegetarian recipes. The truth is, I love vegetarian food. Back in Penang, Malaysia, my family follows a ritual of fasting and having vegetarian diet for at least three days to celebrate a local festivity. While growing up, every year I would look forward to being vegetarian and eating vegetarian food as my aunt and late mother would belt out dishes upon dishes of fantastic and mouthwatering dishes. We would also change all the utensils and serve wares during the fasting/vegetarian festival. It was always so much fun, eating better, healthier, with only the simplest of ingredients.
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Wow! nice and easy healthylicious dish, thanks for sharing
I can totally attest to how simple and tasty that is.
Are rice noodles a good substitute for us Vegans who don't eat egg noodles?
i'm a vegan too.
i don't live in a big city. but all of the grocery stores around here have vegan chow mein noodles. the ingredients are: wheat, water, salt, yellow #5. i wish that the makers wouldn't add the food coloring. it's unnecessary, right?
they are in the international food aisle.
Is there a way of getting the nutritional info on these dishes? I don't seem to ever see any. Thank you. I really love your recipes, but would make more if I knew the sodium, fat, carb, etc. value.
What a recipe! It seems delicious!
Hi Rasa, this is such a delightful simple and light recipe. Thanks so much for sharing this :)
Love this recipe and fact of subbing mushrooms for the protein. Slicing a fried, scrambled egg can also add more protein if needed.
For nutrition info, one can always go the the USDA website (ndb.nal.usda.gov) to get the nutrition content for each ingredient and then add it all up for the entire dish.
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I'm making this as we speak and my noodles turned out kind of mushy. 1st time cooking these kind of noodles. Probably treated them too much like spaghetti :-/ oops. Other than that really good! Btw, where can I find dark soy sauce? Been looking for it for a while now.


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