Oil Drilling in Alaska There is believed to be between 5.7 and 16 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil in Alaska. The only thing holding us back from drilling there because it would damage a protected national wildlife refuge in the act killing many animals. The controversy of whether to drill there or not has been going on since around 1977. The last two presidents we had were on different sides of how they felt about the drilling. There are many positives to drilling in Alaska but for every
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degradation. An example that sheds light on the conflict between human interests and environmental responsibility is the controversial approval of the oil drilling in the Northern Slope region of Alaska and the drilling that has already began‚ in the Tar Sands of Alberta. In this paper I will firstly explain the situation regarding why the drilling for oil is up for debate to take place. Secondly I will assess the benefits and the irreparable damage that could possibly bring forth devastating effects
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best way to go. For the past few years there has been an ongoing debate about oil drilling in Alaska. Alaska is often referred to as America’s last frontier. It is wild and natural and it has undisturbed resources that are currently being looked at for the future. Drilling for oil in Alaska has become a controversial issue for several reasons. Environmentalists and scientists remain at odds over the affect the drilling will have on the future of the area. Some of the concerns involve the Eskimos
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Oil Drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuges America Should Reject the Oil Businesses Plan and Permanently Protect The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge‚ comprising more than nineteen million acres in the northern corner of Alaska‚ is unique and one of the largest units of the National Wildlife system. The Arctic Refuge has long been recognized as an unparalleled place of natural beauty and ecological importance. The Arctic Refuge was established to conserve
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family a lifetime’s worth of fun and adventure is the state of Alaska: a place filled with vast national parks‚ numerous and exhilarating activities to partake in‚ comfortably warm hotels and restaurants to visit during the colder parts of the year‚ and spectacular mountains to climb and ski on in the winter. As mentioned before‚ there are indeed many vast national parks filled with lush‚ green forests to visit in the state of Alaska‚ such as the renowned and widely-known park‚ Denali
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Introduction: Pro/Con Speech I. Has anyone been to Alaska‚ or will plan a trip to Alaska? Well it’s a land of cold dark weather that doesn’t appeal to most‚ but Alaska has been a major topic to the government that affects me and you. The Alaska tundra has been in question to drill oil or to protect the precious environment there. Should the Alaska tundra be opened for oil drilling? II. Should the Alaska tundra be opened for oil drilling? III. I will analyze this controversy in terms of the following
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Offshore drilling began in 1847‚ in approximately fifty feet of ocean water on top of wooden piers. Since then we have went from having a rig on a wooden piers and a platform 200 – 300 feet in the water to‚ having drilling rigs that can walk themselves and drill at a curve. Within that timeline discoveries of both good and bad‚ devastating and innovative have been made on the subject of drilling oil in the middle of the ocean
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Williams Ozuma Environmental Impacts of Offshore Drilling Offshore drilling Energy bonanza or Environmental disaster? if any choice is going to be made‚ one fact that makes the environment much germane than the offshore energy bonanza is that unlike energy‚ the environmental does not have a substitute and if it is destroyed we would have no where to live. Industrial extraction of hydrocarbons did not move offshore until the early 1950s. The first offshore platform was built off the
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DRILLING THEORY Principles of percussive drilling In percussive drilling‚ the energy required to break the rock is generated by a pneumatic or hydraulic rock drill. Machines of this kind build up a pressure which‚ on being released‚ drives the piston forward (Fig. 1). The piston strikes on the shank adaptor. The kinetic energy of the piston is converted into a stress wave which travels along the drill string to the rock. In order to obtain the best possible drilling economy the whole
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DRILLING FLUIDS The key to making the rotary drilling system work is the ability to circulate a fluid continuously down through the drill pipe‚ out through the bit nozzles and back to the surface. The drilling fluid can be air‚ foam (a combination of air and liquid or a liquid. Liquid drilling fluids are commonly called drilling mud. All drilling fluids‚ especially drilling mud‚ can have a wide range of chemical and physical properties. These properties are specifically designed for
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