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trying to figure out when is the best time to get gas using recent crude oil price

Where can I find good, free, information about giving permission to oil & gas drilling company to dill under my property. I did this 3 yrs. ago.
along with everyone in the collective neighborhood pool. Some have been getting very good checks now. Some of us are getting nothing (me). What does a little home owner [...]

Not the drilling or transportation of oil. Just from the coking process and related refining energy losses.
I’m looking for the exact percentage of energy loss.
I doubt the efficiency is anything about 33% please show any proff or references.
Again I am looking for the energy efficiency of refining oil into gas… a percentage of total usable [...]

My friend was over at my house late. At around 3:00 AM he went outside to smoke a cigarette, he was sitting on the back of his car, and a cop pulls up, turns the lights on, pulls his firearm and aims it at him, yells at him to get on the ground, puts him [...]

I am thinking of renting a house that has gas for the heat… it has a 150 gallon tank. How much will it cost to fill it up and how long will it last? It is a 2 bedroom 1 bath. I think the only thing that runs off of the gas [...]

How would I know, as a novis, if I am getting a good deal or scamed by by drilling companies. Some want to lease my mineral rights but don’t explain how or who pays me my due royalty potentials or how its paid, or when? What are the advantages of one offer over another? I [...]

What is the total life-cycle cost of bringing petroleum products from the Mddle East to the average American gas station? How much fuel is required to transport and refine crude oil?

Bio Fuel
Hydrogen Energy
Cold Fusion….
Which do you think could be the best substitute for crude oil ?
Or any other idea you have ?

Do we as masses have power to change the laws of demand and supply? Can we thwart the schemes of OIL barons who are trying to increase their profits to millions of dollars a day by squeezing every nickel and dime out of middle class folk who are struggling to make a daily living ? [...]

I know that the catholic church& Mcdonalds are the biggest, is that right?>

I need to find a website/database with real oil/gas well drilling information including, drill bit type, size, drill pipe size, casing info, drilling fluid used, geologic information, and the well has to be at least 9000 ft. deep.
I just need a website with all this information. I’ve searched geologic survey websites but can’t find [...]

I am trying to choose which universities I should apply for. But it’s important for me to know which petroleum engineering colleges do Oil companies prioritize when recruiting.
Thanks.
I am most interested in companies that work internationally.

Utah has water right if purchasing land up a mountain when there is no city water or electricity and you can get water only thru this water right which is a spring up the mountain or (well) that someone else owns therefore making me owner of that water well..

I know that the stocks/ETFs UNG and GAZ are tied into the price of natural gas but supposing I have a stock trading account but no commodities like forex, gold, oil etc. Is there a way I can bet on the price of gold and the price of oil through a stock rather than having [...]

Why has the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delayed (again!) the decision whether or not to place the polar bear as endangered?
When will the final decision be made? After the sell-off of leases for oil and gas drilling is complete? Or after January 20 of next year? Or never?
There has already been plenty of scientific [...]

Petroleum based plastic versus corn-based plastic

I guess the Oil Companies will stick it to us as much as they can.
We really need to get off of our dependence on oil.

The home was built in the 40s and has no duct work. The current owner has window units to cool ~1500 sq ft; however, the price is right & it has the land I want.

This from an article on U.S. Oilfield Deaths:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_re_us/oilfield_deaths;_ylt=Aut7FWxCweTuflAVBY9AtV9H2ocA
"A dramatic increase in drilling, spurred by record-breaking oil and natural gas prices. The number of workers in oil and gas jobs shot up from 290,000 in 2002 to 428,000 in 2007. In July 2002, 740 land-based oil and gas rigs were operating in the United States; today, [...]

If a person thinks oil is overpriced being that we are maybe going into a recession and people won’t be driving or flying as much, how do you place a bet?
(Light Sweet Crude is such a cool phrase. Couldn’t resist using it in the title)

Honda produces an automobile that runs on both natural gas and gasoline. It just takes the flip of a switch on the dashboard to convert it from one fuel to the other.
Ford produced a Crown Victoria Sedan that could run on both natural gas or gasoline. There was a switch on the dashboard to switch [...]

Petro offers a one year service with a choice of having heating oil fixed at .939 per gallon or one that fluctuates and is currently 2.779 but has a ceiling of 3.109 and can’t get higher? Which will be better?

Why is it an important source of fuel?

I own some property that adjoins my brother’s property. He’s trying to sell his land now. He keeps saying that he "thinks" the line is here, this corner’s there, etc. He says that no survey is required, since there is a property description on file in the courthouse. Brother insists that he’s not laying out [...]

Obama is shelving a plan announced in the final days of the Bush presidency to open much of the U.S. coast to oil and gas drilling, including 130 million acres off California’s shores from Mendocino to San Diego.
Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar put the plan on hold Tuesday while his agency conducts a 180-day [...]