Significats de tight oil en anglès

Lukoil was planning to drill for tight oil in Siberia with Total.

About 18 percent of this will come from tight oil.

Environmental concerns over fracking may cast a shadow over the development of tight oil extraction.

The Company operates non-conventional projects, such as tight oil, oil shale, shale oil and shale gas.

It also said it had uncovered a layer of tight oil, which was 796 meters deep.

Up to 2020, we expect the light, tight oil to increase - I would call it a surge.

RESERVES In the United States, the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Niobrara and Permian fields hold large resources of tight oil.

U.S. light, tight oil supply could fall by nearly 400,000 bpd next year, the agency said.

Last year, the IEA said U.S. production of light tight oil from shale formations was "a game-changer in the making".

In 2012, tight oil output will reach 720,000 bpd, or 12.5 percent of domestic production, it said.

The short-term outlook for U.S. light tight oil production remained unchanged at current prices, it said, as long as producers had access to financing.

Even onshore in the United States, a boom in development of so-called tight oil is outweighing the impact of a glut of gas capacity.

There is currently little information available about the total amount of reserves recoverable from tight oil because the extraction technology is still in development.

Indeed, the projections show North American tight oil volumes increasing from 4.4m barrels a day at present to 5.2m barrels in 2020.

Tight oil production in the US is likely to peak before 2020.

Tight oil should not be confused with oil shale, which contains kerogen.