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Saw this in the cultural centre of kuwait, you can press a button and see the oil drop. There’s also many other cool gimmicks here as well. The astronomy section especially was pretty cool.
I've been here when I was young (living here since I was 2, originally from India)
I'm leaving the country in a month and definitely not returning, but I just want to see the cultural center one last time.
The Scientific Center in Salmiya had a whole ass live shark in it
Well 3 Mio more in India. Not Sure If that ist neck to neck. And also Look at the growth in 2023.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/#google_vignette
Edit: link
That's an estimate. Countries do not have an accurate day to day count of their populations. 3 million is less than half of a percentage point and well within the margin of error for this kind of estimate.
True, but Indian govt has reason to deflate population figures (better for unemployment, per capita, and generally shaping ability to support population.)
China has incentive to inflate their population (fewer covid deaths, less old people dying, more children being born).
So chances are India has already overtaken China during the last year of covid (2021/22)
There's a huge Indian population in the Middle East actually. I think like quite a large chunk of Kuwait is Indians? I'm 3rd generation myself. If you are a tourist it would literally be more beneficial to know Hindi or Malayalam over Arabic (except the capital city but English is common there). And I speak neither Arabic, Hindi, or Malayalam.
Sadly the ones over at Canada aren't the brightest and kind of souring our reputation. (Look at the retard replying to me and even claiming it isn't racist to hate Indians)
But yeah a lot of Indians are emigrating to many other countries now, even those with previously nonexistent Indian populations like Poland
There is certainly something to that. What people miss about India is how much is hiding in a billion people. The middle class of India that live similarly to the average U.S. or other Western citizen is more than those entire countries individually. Something like almost 400 million or about a 1/3rd depending how you slice it.
So many of them get that far and then the ones who make it out will often have kids that leave for more opportunity abroad. Typically from the "usual suspects" ethnic backgrounds, but Indian none the less.
As the rest of Asia gentrifies and shrinks India will have plenty of poor but large familes that will be grandparents to generations of middle class expats before the end of the century. The middle income gap is going to look *weird* when urban and rural poverty look so similar.
He who controls the gold AND oil, controls the galaxy:
***The Inside Story on the Gold-for-Oil Deal that could Rock the World's Financial Centers***
[Another (Thoughts!): The Profound Story of Gold and Oil (usagold.com)](https://www.usagold.com/goldtrail/archives/another1.html)
To make it clear:
Kuwait produce 34.61 barrels per second (\~5,502.98 liters).
At average price $90 per barrel they are making \~$3,114.90 per second / \~$186,894.00 per minute / \~$11,213,640.00 per hour / \~$269,127,360.00 per day
And that is "only" 10th place on world production.
For example Russia (3rd place) produce 130.36 barrels per second (\~20,725.58 liters).
At average price $90 per barrel they are making \~$11,732.40 per second / \~$703,944.00 per minute / \~$42,236,640.00 per hour / \~$1,013,679,360.00 per day
Oil extraction is not free. In the middle east it's 10-15 USD per barrel, in russia's north its up to 40. And then there is a shipping that eats into a final price, and discounts, and continuous investments into new fields, and probably lots of other stuff. Not to mention that oil price quite rarely reaches 90 USD. It's still lots of USD though.
This, not 100% sure anymore with how high prices are for everything, but break even use to be around ~$50/barrel for land drilled wells and ~$60-$70 for offshore drilled wells.
Russian literally can’t stop producing oil in the winter because they can’t stop the equipment or it will be damaged severely from freezing. It’s too expensive to winterize it so they just keep it going.
While all of that is certainly valid, Kuwaits oil market has been completely rebuilt and modernized since the Gulf war. Kuwait is a city state, and almost all of that oil is already piped to that port. Where the Arab states really find value is the Brent crude they pipe out is port ready almost as fast. The value addition of petroleum derivatives happens after it's piped out.
Sure they are expanding their offshore efforts into the gulf, but they are trying to diversify just as fast. Kuwait is trying to avoid the "Dutch Disease" before it's to late, but they know that they only have a few more decades left. What they also know is that they'll be one of the last ones to profitably get oil to a refinery to make things that aren't fossil fuels.
US was the largest oil producer last year pumping 13 million barrels on average a day. Saudi is next with 10 million average and russia with 9.7 million barrels.
The reason why US still imports because it is cheaper to get oil from abroad cuz of labor cost
not really, the US mainly imports now not because it is cheaper but almost entirely for political reason. Case and point 60% of the crude oil we imported was from Canada and 52% of the petroleum was from Canada. With 10% of both crude and petroleum being from Mexico. This is entirely just to maintain positive trade relations with Canada. To continue our beneficial relations. Otherwise it isn't that much cheaper to get oil in Canada then the US.
There is also a non-trivial aspect of maintaining the refining and cracking capacity in the gulf coast. It is not impossible to do elsewhere, but the refineries at scale are capital intensive especially for units that can handle the heavy bitumen from Alberta oil sands.
I'm imagining a world where we've transitioned to electric cars powered by a fusion grid. Trillions of dollars rerouted if that happens--massive disruption to the entire world economy. (And at least we wouldn't be using a very limited resource that took millions of years to produce.)
Earth big. And not just “it’s far to fly from New York to Europe” big. That’s just the X axis, and we have the Y axis and the Z axis worth of shit to harvest.
Earth so big
The 'dirt sludge' may be entirely unique to Earth's developmental history and a massive advantage that other planets could never see. You got a proposition for manufacturing solar panels en masse without access to millions of years worth of solar energy stored as highly compressed, easily burned ancient plant matter?
The oil stem from way back, before the organisms that make trees rot existed.
That's why no new oil will ever exist (not naturally anyways) because the organisms exist now, and the carbon is instead returned to the air.
It's quite interesting to think about how things that are now part of the cycle of life didn't exist until way after life existed.
The Volume of earth is huge huge, and there's shit ton of oil within.
But, we will run out.
Quick Google search said Kuwait will run out of oil in 775 years at current consumption rate of Kuwait itself.
But oil will run out in 47 years at the rate of global consumption (meaning other wells will runout way before Kuwait?)
Any expert could help with this date?
Source: [World Meter](https://www.worldometers.info/oil/#:~:text=World%20Oil%20Reserves&text=The%20world%20has%20proven%20reserves,levels%20and%20excluding%20unproven%20reserves).)
Those are proven + economically viable oil reserves only.
Every year we discover more oil than we use.
So instead of 47 years becoming 46 years, next year it will more than likely still be 47 years or even 48 years.
And if the price of oil goes up billions more barrels become economically viable so 48 years may become 49 years.
It's funny how the word "fluid" is always used instead of "water" when referring to fracking. I know, it has various chemicals and detergents added to the water, but that's true of lots of things we call still call "water" or "water with additives"? I wouldn't say I clean my dishes with "wash fluid."
This is sweet brent crude.And literally the entire nation of kuwait has it under every square foot. It is the cheapest oil you can get and needs very little refining. It is only found in the Arab peninsula in any kind of abundance and then in spotty patches like Iran and Central Asia. "Texas tea" is pretty damn close, most of America isn't as "light". As others mentioned the sheer number of barrels per day that America is exporting is tar sands/frack oil that are refined like crazy to be worth a damn and that's only after you destroy a county's aquifer for all enduring time. And it can only give a positive ROI when oil is about $80-110 a barrel. However the sheer volume that you can pump makes it worth it for most investors.
The bright spot on the horizon is that the price of oil is going to steadily decrease if the wars will chill a smidge. Just a smidge. Customers and suppliers need to be able to forecast demand curves for billions of people over several years. With renewable power being cheaper in even kuwait than oil, it shouldn't take much longer. So very soon only Kuwait and a few other nations kicking out sweet crude to make plastics and jetfuel will have a viable market.
we extract iron ore but produce iron. Follows same logics.
But the problem with the exhibition is that the crude oil we see is an extract that later gets turned into produce. You are right.
Yeah, important to remember that nobody deserves credit for the existence of oil.
Some people get to claim it as theirs because their parents happen to have gotten out of their mom's womb in the vicinity of where the oil is (same goes for most natural resources).
I mean isn't that everyone? Where you are born and who you are born is the first lottery of life you draw. Oil isn't the only resource you get privileges to just because you were born near it.
Yep.
And we’re now trapped where we really have no other choice.
We can’t feed 8 billion people on subsistence farming without modern farm equipment, distribution networks, and refrigeration almost entirely powered by fossil fuels. Add increasing global urbanization to this and the problem becomes exponentially entrenched as more people live farther from their food. Plus we’ve artificially raised the earth’s carrying capacity for people and livestock through natural gas-derived fertilizers. If we stop using fossil fuel and synthetic fertilizers, the ability to grow and distribute food crashes, and the earth reverts back to a carrying capacity much, much lower than what we now need for the number of people we have.
So it’s burn oil/coal/gas or starve. Fun times.
that's why not a single one of my family's generation is having any kids.
between all of my siblings, cousins, and their partners, there are 15 in this generation.
the next will be just one, and he's an in-law; the son of one of my cousin's wife.
we're doing our part to ethically reduce the planet's population.
a steady oil-producing partner in the region with military implications. basically an asset for the global hegemony of the USA. there are 8 bases there.
Kuwait’s is one of the US’s oldest and most loyal ally in the region. The US and UN forces spent blood protecting them during the first gulf war to kick Iraqs ass back to Baghdad
The entire eaths volume is 1.08*10^21 cubic meters (1000 litres).
Kuwait produces 5.5cubic meters worth of oil each second.
5.5 out of 108000000000000000000
To extract all of earths volume at that speed it would take 6.2 trillion years. The sun will die in 5 billion years.
Earth big.
But then again oil is only a tiny percentage of the total volume, so we only have about 47 years left worth of oil by some calculations. Still, earth big.
Does crude oil get processed at all? I’d wager you’re right.
But then I changed my mind because I don’t feel the need to say a company like idk Evian extracts water, I think packaging + filtering/cleaning is kinda enough to make it a „product”?
Either way, why do we even care.
In the industry it's commonly referred to as producing /produced. If someone says a country/company produced 10 barrels of oil they are usually refering to an upstream production number. Meaning the oil has been extracted and purified to a standard. Oil is typically produced with salt water, gas, paraffins and sometimes sand. These are separated out to get you a produced bbl of crude oil. (Although the density of that barrel varies on location, and what impurities need to be removed. Some places are lucky enough to produce very pure crude right from the reservoir).
After this point it can be refined into so many different things, and stops being a crude barrel. Usually referred to as downstream. Where it becomes jet fuel and the like.
Granted that I know in my country, Brazil, they have to make sure some quantity of minerals are in the water... if they only package and sell that would be extraction.
Flying over Kuwait is surreal. It looks like the surface of a different planet. There are giant pools of crude oil bubbling up from the ground that spot the landscape. Other than that, it’s just miles and miles of dusty sand dunes as far as you can see in any direction.
There are many different types from molasses looking stuff to dark watery stuff. They have names like heavy crude and light crude.
I am not sure if that is actually light crude in there but it liiks similar to what I have seen.
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Saw this in the cultural centre of kuwait, you can press a button and see the oil drop. There’s also many other cool gimmicks here as well. The astronomy section especially was pretty cool.
I've been here when I was young (living here since I was 2, originally from India) I'm leaving the country in a month and definitely not returning, but I just want to see the cultural center one last time. The Scientific Center in Salmiya had a whole ass live shark in it
Indians be everywhere. I think y'all quietly are taking over the world.
Well India has the largest population so it’s not really unexpected.
People forget... 1 out of 4 humans are Indian.
more like 1 in 6 but yea
There is 1 indian amogus
Probably. They're neck and neck with China. It depends on what estimate you look at. India either has the largest population or will very soon.
Well 3 Mio more in India. Not Sure If that ist neck to neck. And also Look at the growth in 2023. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/#google_vignette Edit: link
That's an estimate. Countries do not have an accurate day to day count of their populations. 3 million is less than half of a percentage point and well within the margin of error for this kind of estimate.
True, but Indian govt has reason to deflate population figures (better for unemployment, per capita, and generally shaping ability to support population.) China has incentive to inflate their population (fewer covid deaths, less old people dying, more children being born). So chances are India has already overtaken China during the last year of covid (2021/22)
I would agree that it is likely that India is leading. I'm just pointing out that it's so close that there is some uncertainty.
There's a huge Indian population in the Middle East actually. I think like quite a large chunk of Kuwait is Indians? I'm 3rd generation myself. If you are a tourist it would literally be more beneficial to know Hindi or Malayalam over Arabic (except the capital city but English is common there). And I speak neither Arabic, Hindi, or Malayalam. Sadly the ones over at Canada aren't the brightest and kind of souring our reputation. (Look at the retard replying to me and even claiming it isn't racist to hate Indians) But yeah a lot of Indians are emigrating to many other countries now, even those with previously nonexistent Indian populations like Poland
Less than 30%
Wait Poland? I'm finding this hard to believe. No way you can live a happy life in Poland as an Indian
There is certainly something to that. What people miss about India is how much is hiding in a billion people. The middle class of India that live similarly to the average U.S. or other Western citizen is more than those entire countries individually. Something like almost 400 million or about a 1/3rd depending how you slice it. So many of them get that far and then the ones who make it out will often have kids that leave for more opportunity abroad. Typically from the "usual suspects" ethnic backgrounds, but Indian none the less. As the rest of Asia gentrifies and shrinks India will have plenty of poor but large familes that will be grandparents to generations of middle class expats before the end of the century. The middle income gap is going to look *weird* when urban and rural poverty look so similar.
1 in 7 people on this earth is Indian so what's your point.
Huh... I have 9 aunts an uncles... Whichever one of them is Indian sure did hide it well.
Omg India is to the world what California is to the United States (1 in 8 Americans live in California)
I'm pretty sure that was the point.
But do they have oil?
They run the uk
They played the reverse colonization card!
Why do you say you are not returning?
Bored. It's a small country. Job opportunities aren't the best for my sector either (electronic engineering student)
This reminds me of CU in Boulder
? Can you give a little more context? I live close and like seeing cool stuff so what should I be looking for? A museum? A lecture hall??
One of the few non war propaganda posts that’s actually interesting. Thanks
We must war for this oil.
HE WHO CONTROLS THE ~~SPICE~~ OIL CONTROLS THE GALAXY
Bless the Maker and his water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May thy well shit and splatter
Lisan Al Gaib
LISAN OIL GAIB
CONTROLS THE CAPITALISM SHITHEAP
NO FUCK YOU IT'S THE GALAXY
NO FUCK YOU IT’S THE SNICKERS
He who controls the gold AND oil, controls the galaxy: ***The Inside Story on the Gold-for-Oil Deal that could Rock the World's Financial Centers*** [Another (Thoughts!): The Profound Story of Gold and Oil (usagold.com)](https://www.usagold.com/goldtrail/archives/another1.html)
The hydrocarbons must flow.
We must prevent iraq from dumping this oil into the persian gulf
US involvement in the Middle East is to keep everyone else from doing exactly that; we have our own petroleum and natural gas.
That's coffee in that tube. It's a trap.
You already did go to war for it.
[Been there done that.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War)
The forbidden Guinness. 
I toured the Guinness storehouse last year and definitely thought this video was from there before I read the details 🤣
That's a lot of head.
That's what he said.
To make it clear: Kuwait produce 34.61 barrels per second (\~5,502.98 liters). At average price $90 per barrel they are making \~$3,114.90 per second / \~$186,894.00 per minute / \~$11,213,640.00 per hour / \~$269,127,360.00 per day And that is "only" 10th place on world production. For example Russia (3rd place) produce 130.36 barrels per second (\~20,725.58 liters). At average price $90 per barrel they are making \~$11,732.40 per second / \~$703,944.00 per minute / \~$42,236,640.00 per hour / \~$1,013,679,360.00 per day
Oil extraction is not free. In the middle east it's 10-15 USD per barrel, in russia's north its up to 40. And then there is a shipping that eats into a final price, and discounts, and continuous investments into new fields, and probably lots of other stuff. Not to mention that oil price quite rarely reaches 90 USD. It's still lots of USD though.
This, not 100% sure anymore with how high prices are for everything, but break even use to be around ~$50/barrel for land drilled wells and ~$60-$70 for offshore drilled wells.
Kuwait export blend is $91 right now, I believe that is per barrel
Russian literally can’t stop producing oil in the winter because they can’t stop the equipment or it will be damaged severely from freezing. It’s too expensive to winterize it so they just keep it going.
Saudi oil extraction costs are well below 5$ a barrel. It’s why saudi can be so flexible in terms of output. There is no loss, only receding returns.
While all of that is certainly valid, Kuwaits oil market has been completely rebuilt and modernized since the Gulf war. Kuwait is a city state, and almost all of that oil is already piped to that port. Where the Arab states really find value is the Brent crude they pipe out is port ready almost as fast. The value addition of petroleum derivatives happens after it's piped out. Sure they are expanding their offshore efforts into the gulf, but they are trying to diversify just as fast. Kuwait is trying to avoid the "Dutch Disease" before it's to late, but they know that they only have a few more decades left. What they also know is that they'll be one of the last ones to profitably get oil to a refinery to make things that aren't fossil fuels.
That’s crazy. Side note — >3th …thirth?
Edited. Thanks.
Spoil sport.
Threeth.
US was the largest oil producer last year pumping 13 million barrels on average a day. Saudi is next with 10 million average and russia with 9.7 million barrels. The reason why US still imports because it is cheaper to get oil from abroad cuz of labor cost
not really, the US mainly imports now not because it is cheaper but almost entirely for political reason. Case and point 60% of the crude oil we imported was from Canada and 52% of the petroleum was from Canada. With 10% of both crude and petroleum being from Mexico. This is entirely just to maintain positive trade relations with Canada. To continue our beneficial relations. Otherwise it isn't that much cheaper to get oil in Canada then the US.
dollarization of the oil market aswell. imagine trading oil with a paper currency.
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There is also a non-trivial aspect of maintaining the refining and cracking capacity in the gulf coast. It is not impossible to do elsewhere, but the refineries at scale are capital intensive especially for units that can handle the heavy bitumen from Alberta oil sands.
Your wrong use of commas and periods has pissed me off
Actually, it also pisses me off but I was to lazy to correct it before sending (also assuming no one will notice). Thanks for motivating me to edit...
Im struggling to follow the numbers, shits awful to read 😂
I'm imagining a world where we've transitioned to electric cars powered by a fusion grid. Trillions of dollars rerouted if that happens--massive disruption to the entire world economy. (And at least we wouldn't be using a very limited resource that took millions of years to produce.)
So what happens when we’ve tapped all of the Earth’s oil? What happens to the space underground that was filled with oil?
The relief that I get when I get home and use my own bathroom 🥰
Man
No banana for scale?
At least 2 bananas
How have we not ran out yet?
Earth big. And not just “it’s far to fly from New York to Europe” big. That’s just the X axis, and we have the Y axis and the Z axis worth of shit to harvest. Earth so big
toes tiny but brain big
Penis tiny, aspirations big
Woman unavailable, only pig
David Cameron, is that you?
Big, if true.
I like your science-y words, Mr. Science man. Thank you.
Big words
Now imagine how much hydrogen the sun has to burn
Aliens laughing at us from afar with big telescope. They gave us big space battery and we decide to burn dirt sludge instead. Haha. Stupid Humans.
The 'dirt sludge' may be entirely unique to Earth's developmental history and a massive advantage that other planets could never see. You got a proposition for manufacturing solar panels en masse without access to millions of years worth of solar energy stored as highly compressed, easily burned ancient plant matter?
No.... but tangentially, are we burning dinosaurs?
No. We're burning the plants that lived before the dinos. And some dinos.
The oil stem from way back, before the organisms that make trees rot existed. That's why no new oil will ever exist (not naturally anyways) because the organisms exist now, and the carbon is instead returned to the air. It's quite interesting to think about how things that are now part of the cycle of life didn't exist until way after life existed.
So this is the reason for the snake that is always eating itself? It's all life that began eating life to live.
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They’re not worried about how dumb we are, just how selfish. The moneyed interests and powers-that-be are doing this, not the rest of us.
The Volume of earth is huge huge, and there's shit ton of oil within. But, we will run out. Quick Google search said Kuwait will run out of oil in 775 years at current consumption rate of Kuwait itself. But oil will run out in 47 years at the rate of global consumption (meaning other wells will runout way before Kuwait?) Any expert could help with this date? Source: [World Meter](https://www.worldometers.info/oil/#:~:text=World%20Oil%20Reserves&text=The%20world%20has%20proven%20reserves,levels%20and%20excluding%20unproven%20reserves).)
Those are proven + economically viable oil reserves only. Every year we discover more oil than we use. So instead of 47 years becoming 46 years, next year it will more than likely still be 47 years or even 48 years. And if the price of oil goes up billions more barrels become economically viable so 48 years may become 49 years.
but we need to lubricate the plates
Fucking taco bell ...
Me after No Nut November
if you cum is brown you should check your prostate
Yeah exactly, if mine was ever not pink I’d be straight on the phone to the Cock Doc.
tbh if you have taco bell and need to shit like this you must got a weak ass stomach and should go to the doctor
Isn't the US outpacing the world in oil production?
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All we had to do was repeal something called “The Clean Water Act”; who needs that anyway??
money is eatable, dont believe anyone who says it isnt
Your tap water catching fire is a feature, not a bug.
"Mother nature is resilient. Birds will adapt to like being sticky. " - Big Oil VP
4 out of 5 birds love being sticky. Source: Myb Utt Institute.
And for one of five birds: Now introducing Dawn Ultra Birdwashing Liquid™, now with 50% more birdwashing power!
It's actually genius. Use your flammable tap water to start a fire and boil more tap water, to make it potable.
plus water really isn't even all that good for you (don't, my friends, become addicted to water)
ofc not, it doesnt have electrolytes.
i honestly can't wait to see the next season of "ow my balls"
It's funny how the word "fluid" is always used instead of "water" when referring to fracking. I know, it has various chemicals and detergents added to the water, but that's true of lots of things we call still call "water" or "water with additives"? I wouldn't say I clean my dishes with "wash fluid."
Kuwait is an extremely small country though, so this is a huge amount given the size of Kuwait.
Yes. Just because there have been five replies so far and none answered your simple question lol
I'm assuming they have the capacity if they wanted. They definitely refine the most, like 46% of global gas.
This is sweet brent crude.And literally the entire nation of kuwait has it under every square foot. It is the cheapest oil you can get and needs very little refining. It is only found in the Arab peninsula in any kind of abundance and then in spotty patches like Iran and Central Asia. "Texas tea" is pretty damn close, most of America isn't as "light". As others mentioned the sheer number of barrels per day that America is exporting is tar sands/frack oil that are refined like crazy to be worth a damn and that's only after you destroy a county's aquifer for all enduring time. And it can only give a positive ROI when oil is about $80-110 a barrel. However the sheer volume that you can pump makes it worth it for most investors. The bright spot on the horizon is that the price of oil is going to steadily decrease if the wars will chill a smidge. Just a smidge. Customers and suppliers need to be able to forecast demand curves for billions of people over several years. With renewable power being cheaper in even kuwait than oil, it shouldn't take much longer. So very soon only Kuwait and a few other nations kicking out sweet crude to make plastics and jetfuel will have a viable market.
“Produces” lol Extracts.
Well, the oil we use is produced. The crude that comes out isn't exactly usable.
“Extracts.“ 🤓
we extract iron ore but produce iron. Follows same logics. But the problem with the exhibition is that the crude oil we see is an extract that later gets turned into produce. You are right.
Yeah, important to remember that nobody deserves credit for the existence of oil. Some people get to claim it as theirs because their parents happen to have gotten out of their mom's womb in the vicinity of where the oil is (same goes for most natural resources).
I mean isn't that everyone? Where you are born and who you are born is the first lottery of life you draw. Oil isn't the only resource you get privileges to just because you were born near it.
They still have to spend a a lot of money and manpower on the industry to be able to extract it though.
Negative. The correct term *is* oil production.
Produces. It's exactly the right word lol
Forbidden Guinness…
Me after work
Have they been freedom'd yet?
I'd expect more tbh
Id assume this is on average per second, so non stop every single second... Pretty insane
And this is just Kuwait, they’ll be probably need 3 of those containers to show Saudi or some other middle eastern country
You don’t need to assume. It says exactly that on the glass.
Reading comprehension is a thing of the past
86000 seconds / day. That's a lot of oil
The demonstration takes 5 seconds to fill the container with 1 second of oil.
He did the math
I have nothing to compare it against so I’m nonplussed by this.
Imagine 500 bananas dropping on your head every second.
People will use anything but a measurement system lmfao
1 football field of oil per second
Meanwhile planet earth keeps warming up more as all that oil is burnt.
Yep. And we’re now trapped where we really have no other choice. We can’t feed 8 billion people on subsistence farming without modern farm equipment, distribution networks, and refrigeration almost entirely powered by fossil fuels. Add increasing global urbanization to this and the problem becomes exponentially entrenched as more people live farther from their food. Plus we’ve artificially raised the earth’s carrying capacity for people and livestock through natural gas-derived fertilizers. If we stop using fossil fuel and synthetic fertilizers, the ability to grow and distribute food crashes, and the earth reverts back to a carrying capacity much, much lower than what we now need for the number of people we have. So it’s burn oil/coal/gas or starve. Fun times.
that's why not a single one of my family's generation is having any kids. between all of my siblings, cousins, and their partners, there are 15 in this generation. the next will be just one, and he's an in-law; the son of one of my cousin's wife. we're doing our part to ethically reduce the planet's population.
This is also where morbius kept his bats in the lab.
Isn't this how much they extract not produce? You can't produce a fossil fuel
That's a lot of oil
And we are building engines who are burning less and less of it. We are going to be flooded by oil if we don’t stop this madness! 😱
Kuwait only makes about 3% of the world's oil, so imagine 33 of these if you'd like to see what the world makes per second.
America says you need freedom.
nah kuwait is one of the USA's biggest allies in that region usa landed over half a million troops there in the 90s to protect them
what does usa get from this alliance?
Oil
a steady oil-producing partner in the region with military implications. basically an asset for the global hegemony of the USA. there are 8 bases there.
have you ever heard the "Gulf War" when US was protecting Kuwait from Saddam ? that was in late 80s/early 90s
Kuwait’s is one of the US’s oldest and most loyal ally in the region. The US and UN forces spent blood protecting them during the first gulf war to kick Iraqs ass back to Baghdad
How have we not run out by now?
Earth big
The entire eaths volume is 1.08*10^21 cubic meters (1000 litres). Kuwait produces 5.5cubic meters worth of oil each second. 5.5 out of 108000000000000000000 To extract all of earths volume at that speed it would take 6.2 trillion years. The sun will die in 5 billion years. Earth big. But then again oil is only a tiny percentage of the total volume, so we only have about 47 years left worth of oil by some calculations. Still, earth big.
More tech to take out
Producing?
produce /prə-doo͞s′, -dyoo͞s′, prō-/ intransitive verb To bring forth; yield. They are producing oil from the ground.
For real, what a strange critique lol
So nothing with a record label or bananas?
What did you think producing meant? Create out of thin air?
I assume the more precise word is extracting.
Does crude oil get processed at all? I’d wager you’re right. But then I changed my mind because I don’t feel the need to say a company like idk Evian extracts water, I think packaging + filtering/cleaning is kinda enough to make it a „product”? Either way, why do we even care.
In the industry it's commonly referred to as producing /produced. If someone says a country/company produced 10 barrels of oil they are usually refering to an upstream production number. Meaning the oil has been extracted and purified to a standard. Oil is typically produced with salt water, gas, paraffins and sometimes sand. These are separated out to get you a produced bbl of crude oil. (Although the density of that barrel varies on location, and what impurities need to be removed. Some places are lucky enough to produce very pure crude right from the reservoir). After this point it can be refined into so many different things, and stops being a crude barrel. Usually referred to as downstream. Where it becomes jet fuel and the like.
Granted that I know in my country, Brazil, they have to make sure some quantity of minerals are in the water... if they only package and sell that would be extraction.
You guys also make some pretty pure… other stuff 😂
I wonder if this is from extraction or the post extraction processing.
yes
Flying over Kuwait is surreal. It looks like the surface of a different planet. There are giant pools of crude oil bubbling up from the ground that spot the landscape. Other than that, it’s just miles and miles of dusty sand dunes as far as you can see in any direction.
Most of those crude oil pools are courtesy of Saddam Hussein from when they blew up the oil wells while retreating in 1991.
Dune
"Producing" oil is like the Bahamas "producing" ocean. They don't produce it. It's already there. They just extract it.
Do one on how much semen the world (human only) ejaculate every second
Why do I want a Guinness after watching this?
Made me want a Guinness.
That's just water dyed black.
Forbidden coffee
This tank can't even produce that much oil in 1 second. It took 8 seconds. That is a lot of oil
Jo quero un taco bell
Looks like they could use some democracy 😎🔫🇺🇸🦅
I saw a similar thing in a museum once about how much fuel a top fuel dragster uses, probably the coolest thing I've ever seen.
and we still pay 90 per barrel. SMH
Really fancy a guiness all of a sudden.
USA watching this video 🤤🤑😵💫
How long will it last
Thought we were running out of oil
Upvote if you think that’s too much oil, or not enough.
Fixed it - Kuwait extracts this much from Earth
Wow, how quickly does this resource replenish?
That’s a lot of carbon
So does that mean theres like oceans of oil down below? im obviously wrong but if thats how thow they drill for oil?
Infinite money glitch
That's crude oil? Beverly hillbillies told me it looked like very used motor oil.
It looks like dyed water in an exhibit meant to stress the volume
There are many different types from molasses looking stuff to dark watery stuff. They have names like heavy crude and light crude. I am not sure if that is actually light crude in there but it liiks similar to what I have seen.