Peak water

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…

Energy is one of the most fundamental thing in all kind of life on earth. It allows people to travel across the globe, it provides electricity to our homes, it is critical to almost all the basic human activities. This fact makes the energy sector one of the most important sectors that gives input to many other sectors (Bozkurt, 2010). As a matter of fact, electricity changes the way people live and see the world and without it everything would be different. Apart from that, economical…

Introduction: Energy is an important factor for development of country’s economy and for most part this energy is produced from non-renewable sources. For transforming from conventional to green energy some strategies and policies have to be implemented, proper framework must be employed such that the existing constraints and barriers for renewable energy technologies are reduced. It is necessary to create conditions for increased investments in a transition to green economy. Pursuing clean…

Introduction The Brent field is an oil field located in the East Shetland Basin. This oil field was the first discovery in the northern part of the North Sea. It is located 186 kilometres north-east of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland at the water depth of 140 metres (460ft). (Figure 1) The field lies entirely within United Kingdom (UK) licence Block 211/29 at latitude 61°N and longitude 2°E. The Brent field is one of the biggest hydrocarbon accumulations in the United Kingdom area.…

Demand Side Management in Microgrids For some time now, there has been growing concern about the continuous consumption of fossil fuels, coupled with issues of environmental depletion and low energy efficiency for electricity power generation and use. This has increased the use of alternative energy resources (wind, biomass, solar and hydro systems) in forms of distributed energy resources (DERs) or distributed generators (DGs) [1]. However, these distributed generators come with safe and…

electricity at low cost and does not produce gases (Brian & Lamb, 2000). Nuclear power plants are a great alternative to fossil fuel but they are also very dangerous and can cause great disasters. A nuclear power plant relies on nuclear fission to heat the water. Nuclear fission is the process of one atom splitting into two and releasing energy (Brian & Lamb, 2000). Nuclear power plant operators need to turn the nuclear fission into electrical energy. To do this, the operators control the…

1. The country of Colombia is located in northern South America, nestled between Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Venezuela, and Panama. Colombia operates in a democratic society with nearly 48 million residents, while being led by President Juan Manuel Santos. Nearly 10 million individuals claim the capital of Colombia, Bogotá, as their city of residence. Historically, Colombia has been known to be a country populated with drug-related crime. As the society and economy advanced, the internal climate…

The National Emergency Petroleum Act was passed in 1973. It was in response to the crude oil and petroleum crisis. This action was taken by President Richard Nixon. It states that the President has the promulgate regulation to distribute and control price of petroleum products. This was big in the oil crisis because we were running out of oil and no one could get it. If it weren’t for President Nixon our country could have been in deep trouble with no oil or petroleum products . This means that…

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 efficiency of solar energy has recently become a controversial topic. Solar panels have become widely seen on roofs and road signs. It is believed by some people that solar energy will be able to be sufficient enough for people worldwide. Solar power is believed to have become the answer to Earth’s energy for the future. Solar energy has become used by many people because they see how it can benefit the planet. These people see that solar energy and panels are beneficial due to the fact that…