Peak water

it will unavoidably deplete our earth of its resource and consequently deprive us of fuel. Nonetheless, I do not think hydraulic fracturing is significantly worth using since it risks contaminating our water supply with its waste and other hazardous components it leaves behind considering water is essential to…

Past VS Future: The Dakota Access Pipeline The Dakota Access is a pipeline that will carry 7.4 billion barrels of oil a day to be used from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipe will run under 22 bodies of water, and one of them is Lake Oahu in South Dakota. Lake Oahu is the main water source for the Standing Rock Reservation, and the Native Americans living there worry the pipe might pollute the lake and disrupt sacred burial grounds. The Dakota Access will provide us oil in places where we need…

Heading into the 1970’s, the United States was in an gasoline consuming mania. With the formation of the National Highway Association, more people were travelling across the country, commuting longer to work, and owning more than one car per household. During the 1950’s alone, oil consumption by Americans rose over fifty percent (Verrastro and Caruso). Moving into the 1970’s, crude oil production was big, but the demand was even larger. Following the start of the Yom Kippur war in the Middle…

Oil plays an important economic and social role in Venezuela. The country earns $15 to $20 billion per year in oil revenues, constituting between 75 and 80 percent of Venezuela's total exports. Taxes, royalties and dividends from PDVSA represent roughly 50 percent of all government revenues. Oil activity directly and indirectly generates around 40 percent of national economic activity. (Giusti) The oil impacts on Venezuelas economy can be broken down into three concentric circles. The first…

If you want to avoid a catastrophic climate change within the future of your existence, then the conversion of natural gas to liquid gas is not the answer for the future that you want for the America of tomorrow. So far, LNG plants seem to be the energy source that will bring a solution to the global warming disasters that fossil fuels have caused to the ozone layer, but the process of liquefying natural gas to an energy source is an intensive process. Brownsville is a city where it gets most of…

In the United States we have a large population of people and a high demand for resources to fuel our constant need for energy. It would seem logical with having such technological advancements in our country we would have found a way to reduce the amount of natural resources needed to survive, as well as our carbon dioxide output. Currently the consumption and production of taste materials exceed the necessary amount of land or sea available to absorb the CO2 we are putting out. The required…

Comparison Between Iraq and the U.S.A Do you know? The university professor of Iraq earns $9.600 a year while the professor of the U.S.A earns $98.974 yearly. The comparison between any two countries can be different. But for Iraq, which went through many changes since 2003 war, must of these changes were deterioration changes .Iraq is the land between the two rivers, and it is the cradle of civilization. It was the land of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians and it is the…

In 1830, after the collapse of Grand Colombia Venezuela along with Ecuador and Colombia were formed. Venezuela is located on the northern coast of South America. It has an area of 352,144 square miles and is bordered by Guyana to the East, Brazil to the South, Colombia to the West, and the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea to the north. Venezuela is divided into four major environmental regions the coastal zone, the Andean mountain range, the plains, and the Guiana Highlands. The capital…

US Oil Embargo Lifted- Is It A Big Deal The lifting of the oil embargo is the Silver lining, which will encourage the Shale oil drillers to continue pumping at rock bottom prices. The possibility of better times in the future will encourage them to cut costs and survive the current crisis. There are a number of questions associated with the lifting of the ban, who will benefit from this? Will gasoline prices rise at the pump? Who will buy from the US when there is so much of supply glut in…

In the United States, feasibility of extracting shale oil has always been a challenge for the producers. In case, if the price of a barrel of fossil oil is less than the cost price of a barrel of shale oil extraction, that means the production process of shale oil and sell it uneconomical. Production costs vary depending on the oil wells location, ranging from $ 23 to $ 60 and the average is estimated at $ 36. The difference is due to the quality of the rock, the depth of the well, and the cost…