Drilling rig

There is a concern in today’s society of the negative environmental impact humans play in the world. Concerns of being more “green” are looked at more today than ever before. Harmful emissions from vehicles, drilling for oil and gas, and hydraulic fracking are just some of the ways humans are harming the environment. How much punishment can Mother Nature take? How long until there are irreversible effects to the environment? What if there were no harmful emissions put out by vehicles? What would…

and environmental protection has come to light once again with the expansion of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. While fracking was first used in the 1940s, it has not been widespread until recently when it was joined with horizontal drilling (Hoffman, n.d., para. 1). It is a process used to acquire natural gas previously inaccessible with more traditional methods. However, these gains are made at some pretty significant costs. Economists and environmentalists often disagree with…

Report on “The Murder of William Marsh Rice” and The Spindletop Oil Gusher The purpose of this report is twofold: to discuss the novel “The Murder of William Marsh Rice,” by Paul Spellman and to discuss the Spindletop Oil Gusher, one of the significant Texas history events that serves as the backdrop for the story. The book is a fascinating combination of fiction and history. Though the main character and others are fictitious, the events that happen around them—the Great Galveston Hurricane,…

pollution(fertilizers and pesticides, disposal and burning of industrial waste), there is also, Oil pollution due to spillage of a great amount of oil into the environment. The term usually refers to split an oil tanker,but could be due to other reasons, such as drilling rig leak, oil or oil pipelines. Oil pollution serious environmental consequences, such as habitat destruction, food poisoning of humans and animals,physical staining of fish and birds, thus preventing their ability to breathe or…

This innovative form of drilling allows for the procurement of oil and natural gas reserves that were at one time unreachable. While the new means of extraction may be viewed by some as a momentous and perhaps revolutionary discovery that has the potential to revive the United States economy, it is incased in controversy with others regarding the new form of drilling as a risk that could theoretically “end life on Earth as we know it”. How might…

ocean pollution are oil spills.An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, due to human activity and is a form of pollution. Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, as well as spills of refined petroleum products (such as gasoline, diesel).While most oil spills happen in the water they can also happen on land.Oil spills have many effects on the environment the most obvious being oil being…

Business Level Strategy (Exxon Mobil) Definition :( Business Level Strategy) “Business- Level strategies are actions firms take to gain competitive advantages in a single market or industry”. (BLS, 102).ExxonMobil is one the few companies that has been able to lead the oil and gas industry through its cost leadership. Its large economies of scale makes it dominant firm in the market as well as cost leader in the industry. The powerful market position across the value chain allows the company…

Tung Feng Construction Engineering (M) Sdn Bhd is a Taiwan construction company. Tung Feng was established in seventy-nine years in Taiwan, specializes in big-bore piling work and diaphragm wall construction. (TUNG FENG, 2009) Tung Feng have contracted numerous large scale and challenging projects in Taiwan such as Taipei 101 and the like. (TUNG FENG, 2009) In 2007, Tung Feng set up a company in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Then, in 2012, the company was established in Malaysia. (TUNG FENG, 2009)…

gets up slowly yawning and stretching out her nights rest, thank god it’s Friday she says joyfully only half a day of work and I’m done, weekend here I come. As she’s almost done getting ready she remembers to bring her rig boots and fire retardant suit, today there going out to a rig site and look around at what the riggers do all day and what equipment they use. One thing she loves about going out onto the field is she gets to see all the different rocks and dirt that come from the earth’s…

Summer of 2014, my life was changing quite a bit. As I come back from my first year at school in U.S. and more than prepared to live away from home, I pack my bags and go to São Paulo. Although it is very close to my hometown, Santos, it was still a great change: new swim club, new city, new friends. São Paulo it is much known to be a complete chaos: anywhere with 12 million habitants has to be at least somehow different. With too many people comes too many problems: air and river pollution,…