Homework #1 Process Analysis and Capacity Management BUAD311- Operations Management Fall 2013 Due 8:00 am on September 16 Homework 1 has a maximum of 50 points. There are 4 questions. Students can discuss homework questions with each other‚ with TAs‚ or with the instructor‚ provided that the actual work is done individually. Homework assignments are accepted only via Blackboard Turnitin‚ and I expect most students to use Word. Once your work is complete‚ upload your file(s) and click on “Submit”
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reputation or will they immediately be rejected by the community? Companies produce millions of gallons of salty‚ chemical-infused wastewater‚ known as brine‚ as part of drilling and fracking each well. Drillers are supposed to inject this material thousands of feet underground into disposal wells‚ but some of it isn’t making it that
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to become the world’s top natural gas producer” (Walker). And now the nation enjoys many benefits inclusive but not limited to lower fuel prices. When done well‚ fracking provides energy security for the United States‚ a friendlier environmental footprint than many other fossil fuels‚ and much needed economic development; however‚ not done well‚ it leaves a plethora of economic‚ environmental‚ and health concerns which
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which we live‚ work and measure our performance." History of Caltex Petroleum Corporation Caltex Petroleum Corporation is the world’s largest and most successful joint venture in business history. The company’s revenues are larger than such well-known oil firms as Unocal‚ Phillips‚ and USX-Marathon‚ and its assets are greater than its closest rival‚ the huge Royal Dutch/Shell Group. Formed by Chevron Corporation and Texaco‚ Inc. in 1936‚ the company refines‚ produces and markets a wide array
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Hydraulic fracturing is when a hole or "well" is drilled deep into the ground‚ in an effort to extract valuable natural gas reserves which exist beneath the surface. The process of constructing a hydraulic fracturing well includes drilling into the Earth--first vertically and then horizontally‚ then lining the well with a two-terminal tube with one terminal that is filled with water while the other pipes the recovered natural gases up above ground (Withgott & Laposata‚ 2014). In order to exhume the
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Spring 2014 3-19-14 Chapter 13: Nebraska Beef‚ Ltd. V. Wells Fargo Business Credit‚ Inc. Case Concept Review: 1. How did the court determine that the offer was sufficiently definite? The offer of the Wells Fargo Business Credit‚ Inc. was submitted to Nebraska Beef in the form of a letter. When Nebraska Beef engaged in accepting a line of credit from Wells Fargo they entered into a written credit agreement that outlined the terms of the line of credit
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as petrol‚ results in pollution during every stage of production‚ this ranges from: mining and recovery to refining‚ transporting and more importantly using it as fuel. Drilling wells is responsible for direct pollution due to oil spills; consequently‚ drilling also leads to the injection of watery liquids into the wells which are later distributed as drilling mud that often cause their own toxic pollution. Furthermore‚ the transporting of such oil by tanker ships have the potential to cause great
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In the early 1990s the United States was seeking energy independence with finding and obtaining our own natural gases. “For years now the U.S. has tried to lower its dependence on foreign oil from it energy needs‚ with stability in the middle east in question‚ drilling at home has never been more attracted” (Black). George P. Mitchell created a new system that would help us get closer to our nations goal‚ called hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing‚ better known as “fracking”‚ is when high-pressured
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seem so bad‚ but the chemicals that make up the other 0.5% could possibly be deadly. A few of the chemicals used are household items like sodium chloride‚ guar gum‚ and borate salt(Dong). Fracking requires up to 5 million gallons of water per well and perhaps even more in which case‚ the tons of water used would create a huge demand of local water supplies (Dong). Unlike agriculture or domestic water uses‚ gas drilling does not return the used water back into in the ground (Myers). The water
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