Reliance Petroleum

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) sits on what we might call a pot of black gold; a reported 7 billion barrels of oil can be found here (Primack), and we can find a lot of debates online regarding the ANWR. On one side the oil industry’s potential role in accessing the land, pulling this resource out for the benefit of the energy independence and economic growth of North America. On the other side of the debate is the protection of this majestic beauty of the vast grasslands and herds…

Hydrocarbon production from unconventional reservoirs has transformed the oil and gas industry in North America. The unconventional reservoirs common attribute is that the permeability of the matrix is ultra-low where the permeability often has been improved by natural fractures or induced hydraulic fractures. Hydraulic fracturing creates highly conductive pathways for hydrocarbons from the reservoir into the wellbore. At high pressure, fracturing fluid which includes of proppant, water, and…

Venezuela is a country who depends entirely on their oil exports, therefore, it can be “profoundly affected by the impact of plummeting prices.” (Ortiz) The effect of these crisis can be felt by the Venezuelan students in the U.S. Ortiz states that “in the fall 2015 some 300,000 students were shut out of their universities, and many who were hoping to study abroad could not.” From the chart it can be seen that Venezuela sends around 7,890 students to the U.S. even though it’s export from the…

Natural Gas Pricing Outlook Supply and demand, technological breakthroughs, severe weather, prices, law & regulation, demographic changes, geopolitical conflicts and disputes are some of the multitude of variables that changes year on year affecting the economy of natural gas sector. Natural gas is more of a volatile economy, even more volatile than crude oil mainly affected by the seasonality and natural gas inventories. Weather conditions as storms and hurricanes can force the supply side…

The major problems of today’s electric cars are definitely range and high price, which primarily results from high producing costs of battery pack. As Elon Musk said, it is not a big problem to build a fully electric car with a long range, but it is extremely difficult to mass produce it, so it can be “affordable” in a way. The high costs of batteries and the ineffective battery technology were limiting their driving range, because the car had to be affordable. That’s why established automakers…

ABSTRACT Acinetobacter radioresistens lipase was created with rehashed sustained clump society utilizing an adjusted medium taking into account Tween 80 as the carbon source. A steady cell focus was appeared to be an essential to amplify the quantity of rehashed cycles, and a sufficient cell development rate was basic for a high lipase yield. The pH-detail bolstering was found to support cell development at a rate too high to impact the lipase creation. The DO-detail sustaining, then again,…

Market structure Hawaiian electric company Inc is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries which is the major electricity supplier in the state of Hawaii which is also facilitated thorough other subsidiaries; Maui electric company limited and Hawaiian electric light company Inc. The company has been in operation for more than a century which has seen it grow its supply to over ninety five percent of the population. Together with its mother company, Hawaiian electric company Inc employs a…

I. Overview of Akwa Group: Akwa Group is a Moroccan conglomerate company founded in the 1930s by Ahmed Ouldhadj Akhannouch, and Ali and Jamal Ouakrim. In a context of independance, when Morocco was is need of necessary industries such as the oil sector, Akwa group, called at first Afriquia SMDC (Société Marocaine de Distribution de Carburants), imposed itself like a pillar of the Moroccan economy, in spite of the hostile competition and monopoly of some multinational companies. Conscious of…

Biofuel Uses. It is a common misnomer that whenever term “biofuel” is prompted, it is somehow associated with use in automobiles, trucks and possibly planes. Whereas, due to diversity, biofuels have the capacity to replace all types of human energy needs from home heating to vehicle fuel and most importantly electricity generation. This has been explained below:-. (a) Transportation. Globally, transportation accounts for 25% of energy demand and consumes nearly 62% of fossil oil. Two-thirds of…

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,…