Alternative Fuels
This alcohol-based fuel is made by fermenting plant sugars and starches.
What is ethanol?
This specific macro sector encompasses the movement of people, goods, and resources.
What is the Transportation sector?
Petroleum and natural gas deposits are primarily formed from the ancient compressed remains of this marine organism.
What is plankton?
Heavy steel pipe is lowered into a wellbore and cemented in place for this specific structural safety reason.
What is to prevent well walls from collapsing?
This primary industrial method separates crude oil components based on their different boiling points.
What is fractional distillation?
This renewable diesel alternative is manufactured using vegetable oils or animal fats.
What is biodiesel?
This type of fuel group includes standard gasoline and diesel made directly from crude oil.
What are conventional fuels?
Organic matter must be buried deeply and heated to this specific range to form crude oil.
What is 150 to 300 degrees Fahrenheit?
This specific engineering specialist is responsible for managing the properties of the drilling fluid.
What is a mud engineer?
During atmospheric distillation, the heaviest components with the highest boiling points settle here.
What is at the bottom of the tower?
This gaseous fuel option must be chemically manufactured from water or other primary sources.
What is hydrogen?
To move massive commercial cargo across land most efficiently, this mode of transport is preferred over individual trucks.
What is rail (or trains)?
This scientific measurement describes the percentage of empty space or voids within a rock formation.
What is porosity?
Heavy drilling mud is circulated down a wellbore to lubricate the bit and achieve this groundwater safety goal.
What is to prevent blowout (or isolate/cool zones)?
This chemical refinery process breaks long-chain hydrocarbons into smaller, more valuable fuel chains.
What is cracking?
This term describes vehicles capable of running on standard gasoline or high blends of ethanol.
What is a Flex-Fuel vehicle?
This distinct fossil fuel liquid dominates the absolute majority of energy inputs for transportation.
What is petroleum?
This term describes how easily fluid can flow through the interconnected pores of a rock layer.
What is permeability?
This massive safety valve system sits at the top of a well to stop high-pressure fluids from erupting.
What is a blowout preventer (BOP)?
This specialized device travels inside a pipeline to clean debris and inspect the steel walls for flaws.
What is a Smart PIG?
High vehicle prices and lack of stationary charging networks act as major barriers to this sector shift.
What is widespread vehicle electrification?
Changing from rural to city planning reduces what component of transportation?
What are driving distances?
Most of the major oil and natural gas reservoirs found in the United States formed during this ancient geological era.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
Once a well is completed, this complex assembly of valves and gauges is installed at the surface to control flow.
What is a Christmas tree?
This infrastructure method is the single most efficient way to transport large volumes of domestic natural gas.
What are underground pipelines?