Maryanne Morella Vicki L. Kennedy Written Communications 1 January 29th‚ 2013 The Harmful Effects of “Fracking” The practice of extracting oil from deep underground rock by injecting it with acid is called hydraulic fracturing‚ or “fracking.” The process involves drilling a vertical tunnel‚ sometimes thousands of feet under the earth’s surface‚ until oil or natural gas is found. Next‚ horizontal tunnels are created to pump in water containing erosive chemicals. Fracking is banned in many countries
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Fracking Essay Hydraulic fracturing also known as “Fracking” is a process where gas and oils are being released from some underground formations that are too difficult to mine on. Fluid made up of 8 millimeters of water‚ a lot of sand and about 200‚000 liters of chemicals are inserted into a deeply drilled spot at a high pressure to break the shale rock and to release natural gases. The sand keeps the holes from closing and the chemicals compress the water‚ kill off bacteria and dissolve the minerals
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with small capacity about 20-40 bbls with 1 bbl divisions inside and it is used to monitor the well. • Pumping a pill o Where a small amount of mud (around 50bbl) is pumped in the hole to ‘cure’ a problem. • Tripping out o Process of removing and/or replacing pipe from the well when it is necessary to change the bit or other piece of the drill string‚ or when preparing to run certain tests in the well bore. • Top drive o A mechanical device on a drilling rig that provides clockwise torque
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This area is a miner’s wonderland with almost every natural resource known to the earth. Here‚ oil has replaced gold as the most hunted after resource. Other important mineral findings in southeastern Alaska include copper‚ silver‚ mercury‚ tin‚ platinum‚ coal‚ iron ore‚ borax‚ chromite‚ antimony‚ tungsten‚ nickel‚ molybdenum‚ sand‚ gravel‚ and limestone
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28-year span the company was drilling in the 1960’s. The real cost of oil drilling is contaminated drinking water‚ high rights of diseases such as cancer‚ congenital disabilities‚ leukemia‚ and families losing their loved ones. This cost is best shown with the documentaries interview with San Carlos resident Maria Garofalo‚ and the negative impact chevrons had on her life. Maria and her family lived within 10 miles from the nearest oil production station which contaminated all the water and air they
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resource in the U.S. Fracking fluid contains water‚ salt‚ sand‚ and hazardous industrial chemicals. This fluid is injected at high pressure underground into geologic formations. The salty water‚ sand‚ and chemical mixture forces natural gas up through the well bore to the surface for collection through pipelines. It is currently being used in the U.S. in the states of North Dakota‚ Pennsylvania‚ New York‚ Texas‚ and Louisiana. As for Europe it is being used primarily in central Europe going eastward and
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development in the Break Water project. The port of Long Beach is the 2nd largest port in the United State and makes about $180 billion a year. The port of Long Beach has 22 terminals‚ 66 ship to shore cranes‚ and 62 berths. Some of the top imports are crude oil‚ electronics‚ and plastics. Some of the top exports are petroleum coke‚ petroleum bulk‚ and chemicals. 2/3rd of the cargo entering the port of Long Beach ends up in the east coast and arrives faster than a direct sea route because of the ports available
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A visit to Subir Raha Oil Museum at ONGC‚ Dehradun By Kevin P Joseph (MBA-ET : 500026236) As a part of the curriculum of the programs offered at UPES‚ the students of first semester MBA Energy Trading and MBA Oil & Gas were taken to Subir Raha Oil Museum‚ ONGC in Dehradun. Being the students of the petroleum industry‚ this visit gave us a rich and holistic picture about how oil it is created in the nature‚ how various methods are used to detected it‚ the various challenges which the industry
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TNK-BP is an oil company that was created by the international oil company BP and Russian consortium AAR (Alfa Group and Access-Renova Group). It’s a scope alliance since: 1. BP and AAR’s relationship is partners‚ they are not competitors. According to the passage‚ although AAR has some business to do with oil‚ namely Sidanco. But it was mainly focus on banking‚ retailing‚ telecommunications‚ media and vodka‚ but BP is the oil company‚ which obviously is doing oil business for living. So they
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Journal of Engineering and Applied Science Volume 4‚ June 2012 © 2012 Cenresin Publications www.cenresinpub.org DETERMINATION OF THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF DRILLING FLUID FROM LOCALLY SOURCED CLAY FROM VARIOUS GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS Ajugwe .C‚ Oloro. J and 3Akpotu. D. Department of Petroleum Engineering Delta State University‚ Oleh Campus E-mail: joloroeng@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The rheological formulation of our locally sourced bentonite clay in substitute for the imported foreign bentonite clay
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