Ida B. Wells

Unocal Oil Company of California (Unocal) was founded in 1890, and has developed into a full service oil business in 1990’s. The services include extraction, refining, distribution, marketing, and retail. In the United States most of the oil fields were almost depleted, so Unocal turned to foreign investments focusing on presenting the fact that they had expertise in all aspects of oil and gas production to the governments. “One of the international projects that attracted the company’s…

combined with the highly stratified of both reservoirs give the evolution of various thin oil rims. The field infrastructure of Brent field is utilized by four platforms. They have been installed between August 1975 and June 1978 with a total 154 wells. The first platform installed was the concrete-legged Condeep Brent Bravo in 1975, then continue with the Brent Delta, Brent Charlie and steel-jacketed Brent Alpha. Besides that, the fifth floating installation, Brent Spar, applied as a tanker…

drilling down into the earth before high-pressure water mixture is directed at the Rock to release the gas inside. After that is done water, sand and chemicals are injected into the Rock at high pressure which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well. This process can be executed vertical and horizontally by drilling through the Rock layers. This allows new directional ways to release gases or used for existing channels to have better flow. The process is called hydraulic fracking…

By 1899 The Carnegie Steel Company dominated the American Steel Industry, with the steel came the expansion of the railroad: at the forefront was Cornelius Vanderbilt whose main goal eventually became to monopolize the railroad system. Soon after came the rise of John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose fortune was beginning to grow with the creation of an oil refinery. It was the agreement that Rockefeller would fill Vanderbilt's trains with oil that required him to monopolize the petroleum industry, but…

The two media sources i picked are Smithsonian Magazine and National Geographic. And the disaster i'm doing is “Gates of Hell”. This disaster occurred in 1971.What happened to make this catastrophe. Well, one day in 1971, a group of soviet geologist went looking for an oil field. During the search they thought they found an oil field, so they began to drill. But little did they know they were drilling on a cavernous pocket of natural gas that couldn't support the weight of the drill. The gases…

He drove across the country and interviewed different individuals about their situation and how natural gas drilling has affected them. He used different visuals to keep the audience’s attention and explain his points more thoroughly. Fox did very well presenting his case because of this. Also, he brought up many…

There have been recent complaints from North Dakota residents that there is a “black snake” forcing itself onto their private land. I thought that this was America! First of all, no need to have private land, this country was built on the values of sharing. Just look at the first Thanksgiving! Such a wonderous turnout don’t you think? Anyways, enough of the history we know and love so dearly. Let’s get back to the trivial topic of the Native Americans not wanting to allow the good-intentioned…

drill sites. While there is risk involved with drilling for oil and natural gas, it is unclear and not enough research has been done to prove without a doubt that hydraulic fracturing is at fault. There have been samples taken from drinking-water wells of residents that live within one kilometer of fracking sites that show that…

Earthquakes have now been reported in states that rarely, if ever, get earthquakes ever since fracking has been doing water injections. Water injections consist of putting the wastewater from fracking into an empty water well and leaving it there. There have been studies after studies showing that earthquakes, and unusually large ones, were suddenly occurring in low to minimal seismic activity states. In an article by Newsweek Global called “The Earth Moved, And It’s Our Fault” says, “But in…

The BBC stated in the article What is fracking and why is it controversial? that “Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock. Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside.” To be more specific, oil companies drill into the earth to extract gas from rocks using a high pressure water mixture. The water mixture includes gallons of water, sand, and…