superpower‚ oil is an extremely important factor in maintaining that status. The United States and the entire world depend on oil to run their machines and engines. The Middle East produces over 60% of the world’s oil supply. Demands for this oil increases every year. The United States relies on the Middle East for about 14% of all oil needs‚ but that percentage keeps on growing. As disaster and lack of reserves damage our own oil reserves‚ the United States needs more options for obtaining oil. The
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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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Lessons from the Past The recent major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico‚ from BP’s Deepwater Horizon‚ has brought the use and effectiveness of bioremediation back into the news. Recruiting bacteria and other microbes to break down synthetic waste is an immensely appealing idea. Putting microorganisms to work in this manner is the crux of bioremediation (Alcamo‚ Weeks‚ 2008). The work to clean up the Horizon spill actually started in the 1800’s when night-soil men would go from house to house and
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British global energy company which is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. As a multinational oil company‚ BP is the UK’s largest corporation‚ with its headquarters in London. BP’s headquarters is in Houston‚ Texas. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world‚ and one of the six private sector oil exploration‚ natural gas‚ and petroleum product marketing companies. Tony Hayward took over as the Chief Executive officer in May
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Architecture of the oil tanker From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Oil tankers generally have from 8 to 12 tanks.[1] Each tank is split into two or three independent compartments by fore-and-aft bulkheads.[1] The tanks are numbered with tank one being the forwardmost. Individual compartments are referred to by the tank number and the athwartships position‚ such as "one port"‚ "three starboard"‚ or "six center."[1] A cofferdam is a small space left open between two bulkheads‚ to give protection
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safer way of deep ocean oil drilling. He has ordered the immediate inspection of all deep water operations in the Gulf of Mexico‚ enforced that no permits will be allowed for drilling new wells without completing the 30-day safety and environmental review‚ and finally a new examination of the safety and environment procedures for oil and gas exploration and development (Daily Compilation). With this preventative measure‚ Obama hopes to succeed in never allowing another oil catastrophe like this occur
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ARAB OIL BOOM The Arab oil boom took place after the 1967 war. The 1973 oil crisis began on October 17‚ 1973‚ when Arab members of the OPEC‚ during the Yom Kippur War‚ announced that they would no longer ship petroleum to nations that had supported Israel. This included the United States and its allies in Western Europe. At around this same time‚ the OPEC members agreed to use their leverage over the world price-setting mechanism for oil in order to quadruple world oil prices. The dependence
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Amy Burkett Environmental Science April 20‚ of 2010 a BP’s oil rig Deep water Horizon had blown up out in the Gulf of Mexico. It had killed 11 people and let more the 200 million gallon of oil into the ocean water. The oil spill had damaged over 1‚000 miles of the shore lines. A study was done by the Center for Biological diversity and it had shown that over 82‚000 birds
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your home using home cures. Castor Oil Castor oil is one of the natural cures for bumps on penis. It is very simple as you simply need to apply the oil using cotton balls on the affected area four times each day until the pearly penile papules disappear. Your penis must be left exposed while the oil of castor saturates your penis skin to achieve the best results. Most men who are suffering this disease really go for this procedure. Tea Tree Oil Using tea tree oil to get rid penis papules is also
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Explain the use of crude oil as a source of both aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons Crude oil: a complex mixture of hydrocarbons found in layers of rock beneath the earth’s surface Aliphatic Hydrocarbons: contain chains of carbon atoms that may be branched Aromatic Hydrocarbons: contain Benzene rings- rings of carbon atoms with delocalized electrons Alkanes all have different boiling points dependent on the length of the carbon chain in the molecule. The smaller chains ie. the most volatile
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