Peak water

On December 12, 2015, the world came together in Paris and for the first time addressed global warming. It was determined that the world’s goal by 2050 would be to keep global temperature increases under 2 degrees Celsius. With such high expectations, the US and other countries around the world need to invest in new power producing technologies in order to phase out the fossil fuel industry. While renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are the best long term solutions, their unreliable,…

a fossil fuel used in everyday lives, yet this abundant resource is not infinite so requires new pockets to be continually found. Worldwide concerns have sparked many controversies over whether oil has been reached its maximum extraction known as ‘peak oil’. There is also a worldwide concern towards on what will happen when in Marion King Hubbert graph reaches the declining period. In the social aspect it could lead to even more political instability between countries and cause conflicts between…

With the growing population in the past years comes an increase in urbanization and industrialization, thus increasing the number of buildings in urban areas and consequently this means an overall rise in energy usage by the people. The increase in population and amount of people moving into urban areas is occurring at an alarming rate, but this doesn’t come as a surprise. Ever since 1950 this has been occurring. From 1950 to 1986 there was an increase from 600 million to 2 billion people…

British Petroleum took a massive hit to public image, brand name, and to the overall prosperity of the company, following the oil spill that occurred on April 20, 2010. The spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi River Delta, at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Facility (Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill). Since this horrific incident, which basically crippled the company, they have been employing numerous tactics to try to recover from it. There are two categories in which one can place…

For example, hydroelectric generation is only considered an eligible renewable resource if the facility was completed after 1999 and must not divert any new water (Energy Independence Act of 2006). Another example of how the EIA is an expert driven policy is in the description of cogeneration requirements. Where “the reduction in load due to high-efficiency cogeneration shall be: Calculated as the ratio of the…

Introduction Fossil fuels play a very important role in administering the economy efficiently and enforcing newer developments effectively. Oil & gas, Coal and other mineral resources supports us with most of our energy mix and touch our lives in multiple dimensions. They cater to everything - from domestic uses to manufacturing industries, and from transportation fuel to synthesis of organic and chemical products. India is a country with more than 1.2 billion people accounting for more than 17…

On the 3rd November 2016 the Hazelwood Power Station, which produced brown coal in the Latrobe Valley, announced the entire plant would close at the end of March 2017. After supplying electricity to Victoria for over 50 years, the plant’s owners Engie argued that it was no longer economically viable to continue to run one of Australia’s most ‘dirty’ power plants, thus laying off almost 1,000 jobs. Engie states that the growing pressure for renewable energy was the main factor for the closure of…

1. Title of the Lesson: The Oil Boom in Oklahoma 2. Instructional Unit: Oklahoma After World War II 3. Target Audience (Course & Grade Level): Oklahoma History/ 9th Grade 4. Time Requirement/Duration of lesson: 2 Class days/ 60-minute class times. 5. Introduction or Rationale (Significance) of the lesson: During the lesson students will be introduced to the economic impact of fossil fuels, the development of Tulsa as the “Oil Capital of the World”, oil reserves (Anadarko Basin), and how…

production is following bell-shaped curve of rise – peak – and decline. After the maximum rate of petroleum oil is being extracted, it will reach a certain point of oil will reach peak and then slowly start to decline regardless of the demand. Hubbert said that by the year 1970 the world would reach this peak point which is started with companies extract the easy oil first and after that drawing oil will become harder and harder and production will reach peak point then start to decline.…

1. Introduction Ekofisk Oil Field is the North Sea’s first giant oil field which was discovered by Philips Petroleum in 1969 and approved for development in 1972. Ekofisk oil field is an oil field in block 2/4 which located at the Norwegian Continental Shelf of the North Sea (Figure 1.1). The total recoverable reserves of Ekofisk Oil field originally were 3, 324.2 million bbl oil, 156.1 bn ccm gas and 14.5 million tonnes of NGL. As of December 2012, the remaining recoverable reserves are…