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    Crude Oil Effect on soil quality: • Oil contaminated soil looses its fertility for more than 20 years. • The texture and other physicochemical characteristics of the soil gets affected. • The mites and other insects can’t survive in oil contaminated land leading to major imbalance in the food chain. • Oil contamination has adverse effect on seed germination. Farmers loose its crops and are not able to grow agricultural crops for years after years. • Effect on economy of the farmers.

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    What is crude oil? Crude oil is a naturally occurring liquid found inside certain rocks trapped beneath the Earth’s crust. It is dark and sticky‚ classified as a hydrocarbon‚ or rather mixture of hydrocarbons. We separate them in order to make something useful during a process called fractional distillation. Since it is highly flammable and can be burned to make energy‚ it is used as a major fuel source on our planet. This oil is a fossil fuel‚ what means that there is a limited supply

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    CRUDE OIL For the past month and a half I have researched and followed Crude Oil prices in order to gain a better understanding of exactly what this commodity is‚ how it is traded‚ how it effects our overall market as well as our everyday lives. During this time I’ve learned the importance of understanding how and why commodities are traded everyday and will share with you exactly what I have learned from my research. In 1859 Colonel Drake stuck oil for the first time and became the first man

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    Bioremediation Methods for Oil Spills Contents I. Introduction II. History of Bioremediation 1. ‘Courtship’ Period (Pre-1989) 2. ‘Honeymoon’ Period (1989-1991) 3. ‘Establishment’ Period (since 1992) III. The Biological and Chemical Processes of Bioremediation 1. Biodegradation a. Biological Process b. Degrading Species c. Chemical Process d. Need for Bioremediation 2. Bioremediation a. Seeding with Microbial Cultures b. Environmental Modification

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    used as a parametric model of the probability distribution of continuous measurements or features in a biometric system‚ such as vocal-tract related spectral features in a speaker recognition system. GMM parameters are estimated from training data using the iterative Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm or Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimation from a well-trained prior model. Main Body Text Introduction A Gaussian mixture model is a weighted sum of M component Gaussian densities as given

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    Crude Oil Pricing

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    The Properties Of Crude Oil. 4 3. Average OPEC Crude Oil Price From 1960 - 2013 5 4. Q1. Why is OPEC considering cutting the production of crude oil further? Use a diagram to explain. 6-8 5. Q2. Why do analysis say that reducing the production of crude oil is not going to increase the price of crude oil? 9-10 6. Q3. What has happened to crude oil prices in the last couple of months? What predictions are economics making for the oil industry for the next

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    Table of Contents Crude oil......................................................................................................................................1 Ancient Civilisation ...................................................................................................................1 Politics of Black Gold.................................................................................................................1 Physical attributes of crude ...........................

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    Andrew McClarren Within the article Scientists Turn Algae into Crude Oil in Less Than an Hour‚ author Tuan C. Nguyen describes the process in which a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland‚ Washington had gathered together algae and water and created a form of crude oil very similar to petroleum‚ all in less than an hour (Nguyen). As we’ve been discussing and learning in class‚ algae have proven to be the future of biofuels due to its

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    commissioning of crude oil

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    COMMISSIONING MANUAL OF CRUDE SYSTEM PREPARED BY : IOT INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENERGY SERVICES LIMITED NOVEMBER’ 2013 CRUDE SYSTEM COMMISSIONING MANUAL INDEX CHAPTER-1 : INTRODUCTION AND SYSTEM DETAILS CHAPTER-2: COMMISSIONING METHODOLOGY CRUDE TANK COMMISSIONING A) CRUDE TANK COMMISSIONING BY GRAVITATION OF PHBPL CRUDE B) CRUDE TANK COMMISSIONING BY CRUDE FROM SPM DIRECTLY C) COMMISSIONING OF SOUTH JETTY CRUDE D) COMMISSIONING OF CRUDE PUMPS E) CRUDE DESPATCH TO AVU

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    English 102 24th March 2013 Crude Oil use What can we do to use crude oil efficiently but reduce the negative effects it has on the environment? For over three hundred million years‚ right before our existence‚ Oil has been around. Right from when the earth was covered in big‚ huge trees and extensive vegetation; crude oil has been around and can be found in Pools of deposits inside the sedimentary rocks beneath the earth surface‚ after all crude oil is decayed vegetable matter. There

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