It’s also a daily practice of America’s oil and natural It may seem paradoxical that energy efficiency has
gas industry. become a hallmark of America’s biggest energy providers.
But refinery managers are as committed to saving energy
Energy efficiency helps companies manage costs, as snow-belt homeowners. And oil and natural gas
strengthening their competitiveness and bringing more producers monitor their energy consumption as carefully
affordable energy products to consumers. It helps improve as Americans at the pump.
the environmental performance of the industry, including
reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with America is vastly more energy-efficient today than a
climate change. And it increases the energy resources generation ago. The U.S. oil and natural gas industry
Americans depend on for a high quality of life. is striving to do its part to build on that progress.
T E C H N O L O G Y
Indeed, technology often drives energy efficiency
improvements.
“Smart pigs” with ultrasonic sensors travel inside buried
pipelines, detecting corrosion, cracks, and dents. This
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helps reduce energy-intensive excavation that might
Oil and gas exploration companies employ computers to otherwise be necessary.
turn seismic vibrations into 3-D and 4-D images that help
pinpoint the location of oil and natural gas, reducing the
number of wells drilled and energy used to drill them. In
fact, in the last 17 years, the exploration drilling success
rate has nearly tripled, growing from 26 percent in 1990
to 71 percent in 2007.
ENERGY IS VALUABLE:RECYCLE IT
Used engine oil is like used paper, glass and metal. It can
be recycled, either burned as fuel or re-refined for reuse in
engine oil, in both cases extending our energy supplies.
Re-refining of used engine oil takes from 50 percent to 85
percent less energy than refining engine oil from crude oil.
The U.S. oil and natural gas industry promotes recycling of
used oil through a variety of means including the website
www.recycleoil.org, and many service stations, repair
facilities and quick lubes accept it.
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