Oil tanker

With rich oil and gas deposits nearby and the strategic position as the furthest inland port on the Mississippi that can accommodate ocean-going tankers, from the establishment of first refinery in 1909, Baton Rouge has experienced an economic boom that still continues today. Apart from being the fourth-largest oil refinery in the country, ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge Refinery complex is also the tenth largest in the

Background The oil spills from an off-shore oil rig or tanker can do tremendous damage to the esosystem in the area of the spill and expand over vast regions to affect coastlines and indigenous wildlife hundreds of miles away. Cleaning oil spills, especially in a marine environment is important and it is a challenging task. The methods currently used to clean oil in water can be divided into following categories: using booms and skimmer; using oil solidifier and dispersants; adding biological agents

– the use of either indigenous or Hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (HCBs) to rapidly digest hydrocarbons from oil spills. According to a recent study by The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited, between 2010 and 2012 there were 21 tanker spills, 5 of which were above 700 tons (2012).

Oil Pipelines in the Caucasian Region: The Role of British Petroleum (BP) in their Construction Introduction: The Need to Construct Pipelines One of the world's largest collections of oil fields lies beneath the great Caspian Sea. However, as the sea is landlocked, oil transportation to the West poses a complication. Previously, all the transportation routes for oil transport from this area were constructed through Russia but their usage became inconvenient with the collapse of the Soviet Union

Fracking The practice of producing non-renewable natural resources had always been a questionable practice. From drilling oil in the oceans to mining for coal but in the cases of producing and harvesting Natural Gas the practice of hydraulic fracturing is one of the worst ways to produce a non renewable natural resource. There is no doubt that fracking has many negative effects so should fracking be banned for its negative impacts on the environment, humans and communities? When it comes to hydraulic

Final Examination Question 1 The Energy infrastructure is comprised of three different segments, electricity, oil and gas; all of which come together to provide resources to other critical Infrastructures such as the transportation, communications, IT, finance and other infrastructures depending on them to function (DHS, 2016). In the U.S., we rely so much on the energy infrastructure because it helps us function and survive. We spend billions of dollars a

Production costs. According to Wagner (2008) oil is grated by its viscosity (light to heavy) and by the amount of impurities it contains (sweet to sour). The heavy/sour crude is more available, but less preferred as it contains impurities and needs more processing to refine into gas. The cost of processing heavy/sour crude oil is high; this is why the price of sweet/light crude oil is much higher than heavy/sour crude oil. So, high production costs of gas make the supply elasticity lower. Transportation

The Exxon Valdez oil spill, March 24, 1989, happened in Prince William Sound, Alaska. A tanker spilled 10.8 million us gallons of oil in the water supply. It viewed as Similarly as a human-caused Ecological catastrophe. Functionary reports indicated that the 10.8 million US gallons of oil were spilled into the Prince Williams Sound. According to National Transportation Safety Board the cause of the incident: • The Exxon Shipping Company fail to supervise the master on providing a rested and sufficient

injecting fluids or even gas into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture rocks to release gas inside. Some types of fracking are Hydraulic Fracking and Pneumatic Fracking. Hydraulic fracking happens when a liquid fluid such as water, oil and acid just to name a few is used to fracture rocks to release gas. The water brought in is mixed with sand and chemicals to create fracking fluid. Approximately 40,000 gallons of chemicals are used per fracturing (9). Pneumatic fracking has the

record volume of propane exports. The boom in exports has been aided by many factors such as; demand, lower shipping cost, expansion and increased supply. What impact is the shale boom having on U.S. propane exports? During the drilling of shale, oil producers have been provided an overwhelming supply of propane that at one point they had to pay customers to take off their hands. However, driven by a rise in foreign sales, the U.S. is exporting a record volume of propane. The shale boom, which hit