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    Petroleum Geology Essay

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    The study of movements, formation, and occurrence in hydrocarbon fuels is petroleum geology. Without geologists in this field, we would not be able to locate or extract oil from the earth. Petroleum geology has seven elements that are crucial for evaluation. Each element has a role in sedimentary basins. (was thinking of deleting this paragraph, took it from your outline) Crude oil, which is known as Petroleum, is essentially a fossil fuel. The fossil fuel is created over millions of years by the remains of dead plants and algae. As these ancient marine organisms die in their swallow seas they sank down to the seafloor. Their remains were mixed with the surrounding sediments and covered up. Eventually, the swallow sea dried up and what were…

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    education and experience to come up with safe designs that meet the needs of society. Petroleum engineering is a much newer field which essentially developed from geology and geophysics to take a life on its own. Petroleum engineering uses the ideas and knowledge acquired from geosciences and brings them to life by creating…

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    Whiting Petroleum (WLL) Whiting Petroleum announced its third quarter 2015 results on Wednesday, 28th October. The company produced 14.8 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBOE) at the average rate of 160,590 barrels of oil equivalent per day (BOE/d). The total production was 38 % greater than the third quarter production of last year. This production volume is without the 8,700 BOE/d of production capacity from the assets sold out in the second quarter of this year. Till now, the company has…

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    The Annual American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) Convention is an invaluable opportunity for my professional development because I will present a poster with results of my master project that is related with unconventional lacustrine reservoir at the Uinta Basin (Utah, USA). This reservoir is one of the most important lacustrine dolomite reservoir in the world because of its estimated oil and gas resources that, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), these…

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    Occidental Petroleum Essay

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    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,…

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    British petroleum is one of the world’s largest firms that deal with discovering and extracting oil, refining oil, and selling oil and gas. Since, these products are supposed to be provided to certain many consumers around the globe therefore, it incorporate with many people in the diverse societies along with the many of the diverse organizations with which it works. These incorporations require maintaining several many ethical and societal issues in relation to both the people and companies.…

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    British Petroleum William Knox founded British Petroleum in May 1908, as Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The Shah of Iran gave Mr. Knox permission to drill for Iran´s oil. In 1909 the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was incorporated and shares were sold to the public. The first chairman was Lord Stratchona, he also owned a minority shareholder. BP is a public limited company, their ownership is spread among the general public in many shares of stock, and these stocks are freely traded on a stock…

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    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…

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    British Petroleum(BP) was initially registered as Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited. It was founded in 1909 by William Knox D’Arcy an English who discovered oil in Iran. The company was state owned by Britain until 1970 it was privatized under the era of Margaret Thatcher. The company has been struggling and a posted loss of $811 million until it repositioned the company in 2001. The company wanted to be the leader of an environmentally friendly oil company and had associated themselves with the…

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    It enables countries to benefit by both outside and internal economies of scale through empowering the entire business. Various business approaches that stress the business segment and offer of grungy petroleum have engaged countries to fulfill their goals and targets. Foul petroleum and gas advantage for the most part give a momentous examination of the entire oil market essentials and industry headway hugely. On the overall scene, the financial improvement and development have been aided…

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