Drilling rig

components are known and are accessible to the public through the website fracfocus.org, which organizes most of fracking fluids components into files that are accessed by a user typing in a location to view the nearest wellsite’s formula, with exceptions to the chemicals label “trade secret.” The most important component of fracking fluid is water, which makes up most of the composition of fracking fluid. Water is the most important part of fracking fluid, because it is the component that…

expensive oil drilling equipment is used in order to dig deep enough to reach the natural gas deposit. The conventional gas is usually closer the surface and is easier to mine using conventional drill bits. But most deep gas deposits are located deep within Earth 's surface. Some of these deposits can be found as deep as 15,000 feet into the ground. This makes most deep gas deposits more expensive because it is harder to access to them. When the deposit has been reached by the drilling rig,…

Hometown of Laura Bush (former First Lady of the United States) is the one and only, Midland, Texas. The “Tall City” is twenty miles northeast of Odessa and thirty-nine miles southwest of Big Spring. Its exact coordinates are 31.9973° latitude and -102.007911° longitude and it is located in the Mountains and Basins region of Texas. The average annual high temperature is 80°F and the average low is 50.9° F. Midland gets 14.9 inches of rain and two inches of snowfall on average annually. The…

Human effects on Antarctica: Change to save or Die trying Imagine sailing by the tip of lady liberty’s torch. Well, this is scheduled to happen within the next 100 years. Antarctica, one of the world’s greatest continents is facing destruction from: global warming, rising waters, pollution, and invasive species. Over the past 50 years, scientists have observed the damage done to the continent and have deemed it irreversible. Overheating has caused Antarctica’s surface area to decline and its…

The ethical principle of acting for “the greater good” has its origins in Utilitarianism, a philosophical theory which states that an action is right if it benefits the majority in a given situation. Several realist skeptics of the theory however believe that for the greater good, one must do a little wrong. These individuals assume that any action done in the interest of the majority must be accompanied by a slightly immoral or unjust deed. This essay will discuss how this belief is invalid…

industry employees are exposed to many different harmful chemicals, as well as long work hours which will drastically affect their health. Over 95% of oil and gas companies cited that operational factors were a risk (EnergyDigital). While working on oil rigs or wells, workers are exposed to hydrogen sulfide (OSHA). This affects them in a way which causes them to have nausea, headaches, tremors, and skin and eye irritant. Other chemicals employees face while on the job include Crystalline Silica.…

itself. There are several things to consider before stepping into oil field trucking career, or any other career in a matter of fact! So let’s look at a few that effect oil field tAs mentioned above this is a very regulated and observed industry. Drilling fields can be very dangerous environments. You’ll need to be well versed on the governmental regulations as well as the company rules, especially those pertaining to safety.rucking, starting with what is most near and dear to all of us. So, of…

Agriculture pollution is becoming a problem even though with advanced technology we are able to make safer chemicals to be used on farms. But the use of fertilizers, insecticides, and pesticides is still unsafe to be used on agriculture. As the culprits are becoming more and more resistant to these chemicals, more is required; even with safer chemicals too much of them can cause adverse affect on the person who eats food containing even traces of these chemicals. Agricultural practices…

The Language of Activism: A Rhetorical Analysis on the Advertisement of Greenpeace Stressing the importance of media for social movements has long become a cliché now. Particularly in the contemporary society, where approximately three billion people worldwide have access to the Internet (Internet Live Stats, 2014), and 58 percent of adult Americans use social networking services (Duggan, Ellison, Lampe, Lenhart, & Madden, 2015), the effective utilization of media is the key to success of a…

Case Studies of Crisis Management and Communication Examples of companies in crisis. After discussing and examining crisis, crisis communication, and the eight step model, this research will prove the effectiveness of the eight step model on crises through an evaluation and analysis of the eight step model’s practical application in five real life crisis case studies (Argenti, 2013). The Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol recall, British Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon disaster, Perrier’s benzene…