Abstract: A safe, environmentally sound method for transporting energy-containing hydrocarbons from a remote natural gas source of hydrocarbons to a local site for further processing or refining. The natural gas is converted at the remote site, using a modified Fischer-Tropsch process, to produce non-volatile, long chain hydrocarbons, i.e., paraffins (C.sub.20 -C.sub.36) at the remote site, transporting the paraffins via rail, ship, or cargo air plane to a local site, and then further processing and/or refining the paraffins via distillation, cracking, or combining with other hydrocarbon feedstocks to produce fuel products at the local site for use.

Abstract: Unsaturated nitrile compounds, e.g., acrylonitrile, are used as microbiocides to inhibit undesired bacterial growth in injection water used in enhanced oil recovery methods. The biocides are efficacious for the control of sulfate reducing bacteria, including Desulfovibrio desulfuricans.

Abstract: Solid compositions, stable at ambient temperatures, which generate hydrogen as when heated to initiate the reaction between the components of the composition.The compositions comprise certain ammonium salts such as NH.sub.4 Cl and complex hydrides such as LiAlH.sub.4 and NaAlH.sub.4 or certain hydrazine derivates such as N.sub.2 H.sub.6 Cl.sub.2 and complex hydrides such as NaBH.sub.4.