Petroleum industry

The Situation Katy Hassan is a professional engineer working at a sour gas processing plant owned by Eden Resources. Sour gas is extremely dangerous and heavily regulated by the Alberta provincial government. Recently, the Alberta petroleum industry has been in an economic downturn likewise, Eden Resources is in financial difficulty. Maintenance is being delayed and the company is cutting corners. Katy is a P.Eng. registered with the APEGA (the Association of Professional Engineers and…

Petroleum products are found in nearly everything we use today. Petroleum products include transportation fuels, fuel oils for heating and electricity generation, asphalt and road oil, and the feedstocks used to make chemicals, plastics, and synthetic materials. The United States is the world’s third largest crude oil producer. We produce oil in 31 states and offshore. The top three oil-producing states are Texas, Alaska, and California. About 76% of the 6.97 billion barrels of petroleum…

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…

electricity as well as petroleum. Finally, the presence of proactive laws and regulations concerning energy’s usage has also contributed to the efficient use energy in California (Fehl, 2010). The…

The social factors in this industry are include culture, demography, religion, income distribution, ideological views, migration, ageing population and population growth rate (Verma, 2011). The social tendency can influence significantly on how the company operates and the demand for the products in this industry. For example, there are increasing awareness on more friendly fuels such as natural gas and reducing in the usage of “dirty” fossil fuels such as coal, oil sands, and shale gas. Besides…

had and still has a major impact on the Gulf coast of America. The millions of barrels of water that gushed into the ocean in April 2010 had a significant impact on the environment and the economic impact on the gulf coast. Even though the British Petroleum company and the US government tried to clean up the oil spill, there are till remnants of oil still in the gulf today. A couple weeks after the disaster occurred, the residents of the coast can see the impact it had on the environment by…

fossil energy is including petroleum, natural gas, and coal. They are three major use resources in the past few decades. The reason for them to be the main resources because they can transfer into different energies. So that make them to be more ways to use in our daily. In the past few decades to present, and maybe in the future, we will still heavily use them. From the article U.S. Energy: Overview and Statistics mentions, “Consumption of major energy resources—petroleum, natural gas, and…

Marine seismic looking over applies the investigation of sound vitality and seismology to delineate structures under the seabed. Towed gadgets produce blasts of acoustic (sound) waves that go through the water and afterward skip back to recipients that measure the quality and return time of every wave. Listening to a voice reverberation in a void room takes a shot at a comparative guideline. The distinction, obviously, is that a human voice does not have the ability to infiltrate layers of rock.…

is reduced because carbon dioxide that is released from the biodiesel combustion is offset by the carbon dioxide is absorbed while growing the soybeans or other stock feed. (Conserve Energy-Future, 2015) Biodiesel fuel is a much better brand than petroleum fuel; it is renewable, biodegradable, non-toxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics. Fossil fuels when burnt release greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that raises the temperature and causes global warming. To…

estimated 1,770 kilometers of shoreline being polluted as well as the sinking of the oil rig on April 22nd, 2010 (Pallardy 2015). Transocean, an off-shore drilling company, owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which was leased by British Petroleum (BP). On the night of the explosion a concrete core installed by a company called Halliburton, used to seal the well for later use was ruptured by a surge of natural gas. The gas traveled up the rig’s riser to the platform where it…