Getting Device: In the Wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill calamity‚ another potential environmental disaster is already in the making. B. Thesis Statement: Around the Athabasca Lake region the cancer rate is becoming alarming: 30 percent above the Albertain provincial average. The culprit is suspected to the toxic reservoirs where the effluence from the oil industry’s operation is collected. C. Preview of Main Points: The massive-scale extraction of "black oil‚" underway for years now‚ seeks
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Ethics and the Oil Industry Todd Bosta Monday‚ November 8‚ 2010 Does anybody Care? As the US Economy continues to dive‚ unemployment persists at a level not seen since the Great Depression‚ and the US Federal Government sees fit to continually bailout big business‚ it escapes logic why the cost of oil once again‚ is on the rise. The US oil companies would have us believe it has to do with the Middle East oil producing nations cutting back on production‚ therefore raising
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WHAT LIES IN THE YEAR AHEAD? Jan 2015 Oil & Gas IQ | 2015 Predictions From continuing civil strife in the Cradle of Civilisation and the emergence of a terrorist-led pretender state in the Fertile Crescent‚ to a conflict in Central Europe that shows no sign of abating: nobody could say that the fourteenth year of the 21st century passed into history without event. Oil prices have been slashed by more than half over a six month period‚ and we see warnings of dire economic hardship in the months
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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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January 16‚ 2009 Global Oil Crisis – Word Count: 1‚823 Global Oil Crisis: The depleting oil supply and the need for alternatives Oil is the single most important energy source that drives our economy and makes civilized life as we know it today possible. It is so vital to our life that if the earth’s oil supply were to run out within the next 20 years‚ it would completely cripple the United States and its economy. We use oil and other fossil fuels for transportation (of goods‚
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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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MARKETING OF CRUDE OIL & PRODUCTS CPM-DS‚ HPCL SANGEETH P S ISPE-HPCL-CPM-DS1-015 08/JULY/2013 MARKETING OF CRUDE OIL & PRODUCTS PART I : Each Question is of 1 mark each 1. Name petroleum products which we get on processing Crude Oil. Ans: Petroleum products are usually grouped into three categories: light distillates (LPG‚ gasoline‚ naphtha)‚ middle distillates (kerosene‚ diesel)‚ heavy distillates and residuum (heavy fuel oil‚ lubricating oils‚ wax‚ asphalt). This classification is
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MARKET SHARE OF VALVOLINE CUMMINS OIL FOR TWO WHEELERS | SUBMITTED BY: ARAVINDHA BALAJI R MBA-IB (2011-2013) Roll No. : A1802011005 AMITY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL‚ NOIDA AMITY UNIVERSITY – UTTAR PRADESH SUMMER TRAINING REPORT SUBMITTED TOWARDS THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF POST GRADUATE DEGREE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MARKET POTENTIAL AND STRATEGIES TO INCREASE MARKET SHARE OF VALVOLINE CUMMINS OIL FOR TWO WHEELERS | SUBMITTED
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Oil and gasoline prices had been a problem since individual vehicles had actually entered the market. After the Katrina United States current economic growth is not even sustainable under the recent oil price surge. Even though the Department of Energy does not feel that oil prices are high enough to cause a recession‚ the consequence of high energy costs cannot go unaddressed. Government has to start looking and actually spending money on solutions to this consumption problem immediately. This
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