Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) is an American multinational oil and gas investigation and generation organization with operations in the United States, the Middle East, and Latin America. Headquartered in Houston, Texas,[5] it is one of the biggest American oil and gas organizations in light of 2015 year-end advertise capitalization. Regularly truncated as "Oxy", in reference to its ticker image, the organization is positioned on the Forbes Global 2000 and Fortune 500 rundown. In 2015, it was the sixteenth biggest gas maker and third biggest oil maker in Texas. Occidental was established in 1920 in California. In 1956 Occidental Petroleum went to the consideration of Armand Hammer. At Hammer's first relationship with Occidental, the…

estimated population of 77,050” (Gensburg, Pantea, Fitzgerald, Stark, Hwang & Kim (2009 2009 p.209). Niagara County, New York is known for its industrial activities mainly chemical and allied product manufacturing (Kim, 1981, p.58). Love Canal began in 1880s, when William. T. Love in an attempt to provide cheap hydroelectric power for the industrial estate, began digging a canal to connect upper and lower Niagara River. But this plan failed due to economic depression and the canal was abandoned.…

to be accomplished. Companies try to get their point across or get their views taken into account by doing various tactics which include lobbying, or donating money to the candidate that holds the same views. Oil firm’s donations to certain parties are shown below: Contributor Amount Koch Industries $4,381,714 Stewart & Stevenson $3,025,600 Hunt Companies $2,627,100 Chief Oil & Gas $2,445,493 Western Refining $1,875,760 Chevron Corp $1,792,075 Energy Transfer Equity $1,637,300 Edison…

of oil extraction.” State water authorities tested fluid in an oil rig because they were given information from a local resident that videotaped fluid discharge from the rig. Investigators found fluids laced with “boron, salts and a cocktail of notorious chemicals related to gasoline and diesel. It came from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil.” Due to the circumstances, investigators assumed that the oil rig agency in Shafter has violated one of the safety regulations. Thus, allowing…

Declined in shark population breaks stability of The marine ecosystem The shark, the predator that stands on top of the food chain. However, its number has declined since the 1970s due to human destruction, and it will affect the stability of the food chain (Dudley, and Cliff 243-255). For instance, in Aldo Leopold’s paper, A Sand County Almanac, he claims each specie’s importance in the food chain is the link to the other specie “The lines of dependency for food and other services are called…

An oil spill is when liquid petroleum hydrocarbon is released into the environment. Oil spills have detrimental effects on the environment and the economy. Oil spills can potentially cost billions of dollars. There are multiple ways in which oil spills can be cleaned in a safe and cost efficient way. One way is bioremediation, which is the use of microorganisms to break down pollutants. Another effective way is chemical remediation, which is the use of chemicals to extract pollutants from an…

Products & Services Shell Energy is the largest and most innovative oil and gas company that will be around longer than Total, Exxon, Chevron, & BP. The company operates thousands of gas stations across the United States and recently started to research more about alternative energy. Phil Anderson informed us that Shell is very competitive and always has to “reshape the portfolio and back away from heavy Alaskan oil” and move toward integrated gas like British Gas. Shell recently merged with…

Other times, strangers acquired shelter in barns and sheds. Still, in other instances people slept on the ground in the open air. Within a few years of the start of the oil boom hundred’s of new homes had been constructed. By 1914 the population of the town had already diminished to around twenty-eight hundred people, but it would never recede to the paltry forty to one hundred citizens it had been before the oil boom. In 1901, due to the many people living in town the streets and land…

The knowledge of the world is forever growing and we as a civilization or continually growing and need to provide ourselves with new cleaner sources of energy and the explorations of the natural resources just may help. But is the exploration of natural resources may not be the greatest of solutions for our current environment. Take the world today we run on coal and fossil fuels that damage the earth 's ecosystems put the plant at risk of being uninhabitable. Therefore a need arises to examine…

Along with the threat of conflict in the Asia-Pacific region owing to access to fresh water is the decline of fertile agricultural land. Agricultural land is not only the source of actual food for the subsistence of the populations from whence it is yielded but also the source of employment and in turn income for a huge proportion of the population in the Asia-Pacific region. There are currently dozens of deals being cut between rich or powerful countries with shortages of fertile land or in…