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Alaska's Drilling for Oil Controversy

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper discusses the controversial practice of drilling for oil in Alaska in terms of a possi...

Great Lakes Region and Oil Drilling

2001). That point alone is enough to render the expedition ridiculous. For just a temporary fix, a lot of risk would be taken....

Should the US Drill for Oil in Alaska?

a minimum. He points out that the protection that the oil companies have "provided for wildlife" at their drilling sites at Prudho...

Foreign Control and Drilling for Oil in the Gulf of Mexico

Shell Oil Company and Aramco Oil Company are two of the largest petroleum producers and refiners in the world. These...

Drilling for Oil

American dependence on foreign oil, there is a cost to the environment. Further, the threat of an oil spill is also an issue. Alte...

Why Offshore Oil Drilling is a Good Idea

groups such as Al Qaeda and Hezbollah got involved. In Venezuela, Miller says, many poor people may try to make some money by trad...

The Use of Lasers to Drill Gas and Oil Wells

comparison. In traditional drilling the process is slow and much of the time used is with support services to help and facilita...

Drill Baby, Drill...Still?

In the 2008 Presidential campaign, Sarah Palin flippantly outlined her proposal for getting...

Asbestos and How It Cuts Drilling Costs

carrying capacity" (Gray, 1980, p. 546), filtration control is a concern when employing chrysotile asbestos in drilling fluid, how...

The Marcellus Shale: Drilling and Issues after Recent Environmental Problems

efforts to extract the abundance of natural gas in the Marcellus shale. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Glossary 1.2 Pur...

Oil Production Questions

would reduce the delays in the process, possibly by a considerable level (Marathon, 2010). Tools such as pumps within the pipeline...

The Economics of Oil

looking at the macroeconomic impact of oil during the oil shock of the 1970s and the more resent oil crisis the highly complex inf...

Technology at Shell

look at the role of technology here before looking at some more practical application of technology in the company. In th...

Truman Proclamation/Continental Shelf

over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...

Oil Industry's Changing Technology

In twelve pages this paper examines how the oil industry changed in the 20th century due to such technology as satellites, compute...

Types of Drilling Fluids

a similar task, these are collectively known as "deflocculants and filtrate reducers" (OilWorld, 2002). If shale inhibition is req...

Overview of Offshore Drilling Rigs

depth of 160 meters(Freudenrich 2004). DRILLSHIP:...

The Petrochemical Industry in Saudi Arabia

reserves are in these areas. One of these oil fields is the largest oil field in the world; Ghawar, this onshore oil field alone ...

Business Proposal for Mobile Oil Change, LLC

It appeals to businesses that have their own fleet mechanics and those that do not. Those businesses that maintain their own flee...

Hubbert's Peak

(The Coming Global Oil Crisis 2003). Some Middle Eastern countries said their oil peaked in 1970, which allowed OPEC to create an ...

Paint and Art

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

Strategy at Anadarko Petroleum

The oil industry already was operating under pressure before adding the complications of the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. In th...

Marketing Massage Oil In the United Arab Emirates

disposable incomes to allow them to purchase the product. * The UAE has a highly developed infrastructure for ecommerce, providing...

The Impact Of The Discovery Of Oil In The Middle East

(Country Studies, 2006). Also, by the 1970s, most of the countries in that region had become independent of British control (Count...

Oil and World Politics

as though the U.S. seems to want control over much of the energy -- as evidenced by whats going on in Russia now. When Russian Pre...

New Synthetic Motor Oil Development

time, there was, of course, virtually no interest in a synthetic motor oil anywhere outside of a laboratory. Application in aviat...

Saudi Arabia and Environmental Issues

navy in the northern Persian Gulf when smuggling oil form Iraq in the. This resulted in a three mile wide oil slick that places t...

Elasticity of Oil Prices

Asian oil fields, the worldwide supply of oil was rather stable and predictable. Demand remained rather constant, though seasonal...

Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller

experiences that were helpful to me that I recollect with pleasure was one in working a few days for a neighbour in digging potato...

The Argument that "Oil Won the War" - World War II

This 7 page paper argues the U.S. oil production was a vital resource that contributed to the Allied victory in WWII. The writer e...