How much energy is used in the drilling oil; refining oil to gasoline; and distributing to consumers?

I doubt that number exists.





First you have to decide the extent of the envelope you are going to draw to encompass the full extent of the process.





Do you start at the very beginning with the geologists trying to decide which location they might run a seismic line on? Then follow up through the process of getting the necessary leases and permits. Do you include the energy for the drilling crew to drive to the well site each day or the energy for a chopper to fly them to the offshore platform?





For offshore locations, do you include the Coast Guard personnel and the energy they expend?





Do you include the federal auditors that look after the book keeping on federal leases?





Are the well free flowing or must they be pumped or gas lifted?





How do you address the produced water and associated natural gas?





Now we get to the pipeline. Do you start with the engineers when they begin laying out a route and getting rights-of-way and permits?





How do you address the energy associated with all the steel and other materials that go into every thing from one end of the process to the other.





I could go on but I think the idea is clear.How much energy is used in the drilling oil; refining oil to gasoline; and distributing to consumers?
about $3 worth per gallon





at 6 cents per kw-hr, that is 50 kw-hrs

dermatologist