Petroleum

reports that a total of 210,000 gallons of oil leaked in South Dakota. Despite that oil travels most securely by pipeline, reaching its destination safely 99.999 percent of the time, according to the Association of Oil Pipe Lines and the American Petroleum Institute. The consequences of a potential oil spill are catastrophic. Not just to the environment, but to the economy, and to the people.…

The Middle East and their oil production have been an important part of the world’s international business and economy. Oil is one of the most coveted natural resources and the Middle East has held this equity, along with some international power, since the early twentieth century. Oil was first discovered in Saudi Arabia on March 3, 1938; just six years after the territory became the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This discovery would change the world. Over time, Saudi Arabia quickly became the…

Recognized as being one of the richest sedimentary basins in petroleum and gas for its comparatively small size, the Los Angeles Basin is a Neogene age sedimentary basin whose complex formation history makes it a unique marvel of the western continental margin (Ward, 1994). In order to understand the importance that the discovery of oil has had in the Los Angeles Basin, we look to the events that have taken place in the basin itself that created the conditions necessary for the formation of oil.…

have individuals hotly debating this pipeline. People are leaning towards the idea because of the allege development of jobs and a boost in the U.S economy that’ll lead to payment for roads and buildings. Critics are opposed to the idea because the petroleum may damage the environment. However, if I were asked to vote on it, without a doubt I would say “no thank you”! The Keystone Pipeline will transport toxic tar sands from Alberta, Canada to refineries in Texas. The pipeline is suspected to…

century the Latino population have constituted a great part of different cities in Texas. The oil and gas industry has transformed our social and economy of Texas. It has been a rapid industrialization, companies for example, Gulf Coast, Magnolia Petroleum, Exxon, Chevron are just a few that have increased production since 1929. The oil itself has had its fluctuations in years, example seen on Table 1.2 in the textbook. It’s predicted that this year 2017 oil and gas will slowly improve in…

want to know what lead to the failure, how it developed, and what the end result was. Around 210 of million US gallons leaked from a burst pipe one mile underwater into the ocean. In the search of this information we found out that BP or British Petroleum is the third largest energy company in the world1 and the sixth largest company by revenue producing $353.568…

Case Study: HR Outsourcing at BP Amoco British Petroleum, or BP Amoco, is a leading international energy and petrochemicals company. Currently, it operates in more than 40 countries and has more than 80,000 employees, with an equal or greater number of retirees. Several years ago, BP decided that drilling and finding oil was its primary mission. Everything else was deemed secondary. The U.S. company Exult defined this type of full service HR outsourcing in December 1999 when it announced a $600…

prevent mammals like birds from death. Some seabirds die by diving into the sea, because they don’t notice the oil. Using the dispersant is faster than any techniques, and if they act fast enough to spray dispersants, the chemical material called petroleum with a break down the oil quicker than anything. Then after that, we can also prevent birds from…

Did you know that the Los Zetas is a Mexican gang that is based in America? The gang name translates to “The Z’s”. The Los Zetas gang was founded in 1999, with 31 members from the Mexican Army’s elite airborne Special Forces Group. The members were originally working for the Gulf Cartel as an enforcer gang. Then, they came to form a new gang called the Los Zetas. Their founders and leaders were Osiel Cardenas Guillen and Arturo Guzmán Decena, and the new members began working as drug runners,…

In now a day’s the global demand for the fossil fuels are rapidly increasing due to the high prices remains same in the gasoline. These all increase the concerns about the climate changes and alternatively increase in the oil based industry to prepare for the alternate biofuels. As we know the biofuels are the potential revenue source and we can control the climate change, weather conditions by using the replacement of gasoline in motor vehicles. Now people are using the corn based ethanol as…