British Petroleum (PLC) and John Browne: A Culture of Risk Beyond Petroleum British Petroleum (BP) reputation was put to the test in 2005 when a major explosion at one of the refineries in Texas exploded killing 15 people and injuring more than 180. Investigations returned a history of poorly regulated safety measures and facilities’ safety compromised in favor of profits‚ cost savings‚ and lack of supervised management. Two years later‚ Lord John Browne announces an early retirement before a
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Palm oil is under increasing scrutiny in relation to its effects on the environment. Palm oil‚ produced from the oil palm‚ is a basic source of income for many of the world’s rural poor in South East Asia‚ Central and West Africa‚ and Central America. An estimated 1.5 million small farmers grow the crop in Indonesia‚ whereas about 500‚000 people are directly employed in the sector in Malaysia‚ plus those connected with spin offs.[1][2] Palm oil (from the African oil palm‚ Elaeis guineensis) is
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Table of Contents Openers 11 Oil Drilling: The Definition of Insanity 11 AT’s 12 AT: Regulatory Reforms Made 12 No Additional Regulation 12 Insignificant Changes 12 Blowout Prevents Deficient 13 Insufficient Reforms 13 AT: Government: Impact is Small 14 OECM model flawed 14 AT: Moratorium Caused Job Loss 14 Moratorium didn’t cause significant job loss 14 AT: Gas Price Reductions 15 Opener: Won’t Reduce Gas Prices 15 Opener: Political Rhetoric is False 15 AP Study: No Correlation between Prices and
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Introduction An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils‚ ethereal oils or aetherolea‚ or simply as the "oil of" the plant from which they were extracted‚ such as oil of clove. Volatile oils are the odorous and volatile products of various plant and animal species. As they have a tendency to undergo evaporation on being exposed to the air even at an ambient temperature‚ they are invariably termed
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Henry Su December 12‚ 2001 Chapter Notes Chemistry 221 Chapter 13 Dr. Rahni Titrating Polyfunctional Acids and Bases 13A—Polyfunctional Acids -Phosphoric Acid is a typical polyfunctional acid H3PO4 + H2O ( H2PO4- + H3O+ Ka1 = [H3O+] [H2PO4-] = 7.11e-3 [H3PO4 ] H2PO4- + H2O ( HPO4-2 + H3O+ Ka2 = [H3O+] [H2PO4-2] = 6.32e-8 [H2PO4- ] HPO4-2 + H2O ( PO4-3 + H3O+ Ka3 = [H3O+] [PO4-3] = 4.5e-13 [HPO4-2]
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ECONOMICS FOR BUSINESS Project Report on – Oil and the recent ‟Dutch Disease‟ - The Case of the United Arab Emirates Submitted by – Amitava Manna 1|Page Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2 Purpose ....................................................................................................................................................
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Discussion Questions for Chapter Four of The Great Gatsby Where are the people when the Church bells are ringing on Sunday morning? What might this tell you about their morality? (65) They are still at Gatsby’s party. Fitzgerald does this to tell us their spiritual or community values are not nearly as important to them as having a good time and partying. What is the next piece of gossip we hear about Gatsby’s possible career? (65) He is a bootlegger. According to one of the young ladies
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Gaussian Mixture Models∗ Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory‚ 244 Wood St.‚ Lexington‚ MA 02140‚ USA dar@ll.mit.edu Synonyms GMM; Mixture model; Gaussian mixture density Definition A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a parametric probability density function represented as a weighted sum of Gaussian component densities. GMMs are commonly used as a parametric model of the probability distribution of continuous measurements or features in a biometric system‚ such as vocal-tract related
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| Distillation is defined as: `Distillation is based on the fact that the vapor of a boiling mixture will be richer in the components that have lower boiling points.Therefore‚ when this vapor is cooled and condensed‚ the condensate will contain more volatile components. At the same time‚ the original mixture will contain more of the less volatile material. Distillation columns are designed to achieve this separation efficiently.Although many people have a fair idea what “distillation” means‚ the
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Oil refining in China Ed chen‚ a strategic planner at a international oil and gas firm was assigned with the task to look for investment opportunities in the china’s refining industry and also to see whether there was any room for foreign competition or if was a local-only-game. Downstream constraints have always been a major factor which will ease neither quickly nor cheaply”. “ Crude oil prices have continued to increase in the period 2001-2005 and according to the” Medium term oil market
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