OMOTAYO OLUWATOBI B.ENG (HON) PETROLEUM ENGINEERING Looking back at my life‚ I can clearly remember the kingfisher encyclopaedia I discovered at the shelf of my aunt’s house. It had a lot of sublime views of the earth and space‚ science‚ animals and planets‚ human bodies‚ people‚ countries and history. I could tell that I had the likeness of learning about science and digging deep in finding out ideas. I can remember the topic I read about the earth crust-
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Cited: Garcia-Ruiz‚ Juan M. Formation of Natural Gypsum Megacrystals in Naica‚ Mexico. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 5 Dec. 2010. <http://garciaruiz.com/naica/literatura_files/geology%202007.pdf>. Naica Project/ Crystal Cave. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2010. <http://www.naica.com.mx/english/internas/interna2_1.htm>. National Geographic. Giant Crystal Cave Comes to Light. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2010. <http://news.nationalgeographic
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Oil Spills and Its Effects on Marine Life Many people do not realize the impact of the oil spills that occur in the ocean. It is like putting water into a heated oil frying substance. It is quite catastrophic. With all the oil spills that have already occurred it is important to help clean ‚and prevent oil spills from reoccuring. There is indeed a lot of reasons as to why we should clean and help prevent oil spills from happening but here are the three main reasons. First reason being oil spills
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MEMORANDUM TO: Board of Directors‚ British Petroleum FROM: RE: Impact of On the Job Training DATE: February 10‚ 2013 INTRODUCTION Occupational Safety and Health is a major responsibility to all employers. It becomes more of a factor when the nature of the business involves hazardous materials and environments. In order to ensure that businesses are functioning properly and efficiently‚ it is imperative that companies are staffed with individuals who are trained properly in their occupation
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Discussion: Continuous distillation‚ a form of distillation‚ is an ongoing separation in which a mixture is continuously (without interruption) fed into the process and separated fractions are removed continuously as output streams. A distillation is the separation or partial separation of a liquid feed mixture into components or fractions by selective boiling (or evaporation) and condensation. A distillation produces at least two output fractions. These fractions include at least one volatile
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Work Motivation Motivation at Norsk Petroleum SUBMITTED BY: S. L. REAMS MGT302 :: Org. Behavior and Teamwork Module 1 – Case Assignment Trident University 22 July 2013 The word motivation is derived from the Latin word “movere” which means “to move” and it is defined as an internal drive that activates behavior and gives it direction. Motivational theory looks at the processes that activate and direct human behavior and it can be divided into two categories‚ content
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Geological Forces that Shape the Earth Diastrophism Defined: • Comes from the Greek word meaning a “twisting” deformation of the Earth’s crust. All processes that move‚ or elevate or build up portions of the Earth’s crust comes under this. • Diastrophism covers movement of solid (plastic) material‚ as opposed to movement of molten material which is covered by volcanism. • The most obvious evidence of diastrophic movement can be seen where sedimentary rocks have been bent‚ broken or tilted.
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TERMS AGATE: an ornamental stone consisting of a hard variety of chalcedony‚ typically banded in appearance. AGENTS OF METAMORPHISM: heat‚ pressure‚ chemicals AGENTS OF TRANSPORTATION: wind‚ ice‚ water AMPHIBOLE: any of a class of rock-forming silicate or aluminosilicate minerals typically occurring as fibrous or columnar crystals. ANDESITE: a dark‚ fine-grained‚ brown or grayish volcanic rock that is intermediate in composition between rhyolite and basalt. ANTHRACITE: coal of a hard
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Can Petroleum Be Replaced? Today ’s world economy relies more than ever on a constant supply of petroleum to fuel a vast number of different vehicles and other applications. Everything from an internal combustion engine in a car to a furnace in a home use a petroleum product as the form of energy needed to make them function. With the burning of oil for energy comes the unwanted side-product of emissions such as carbon dioxide‚ which have now been proven to affect the Ozone and weather patterns
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Revenue‚ Capex‚ Opex 3 Reserves 3 Sunk costs: 3 Opportunity Costs: 3 Royalty‚ Tax‚ Ring fencing 4 Types of Petroleum Fiscal Regimes 4 Net Cash Flow 4 Concessionary system vs. Production Sharing contracts 5 Going Internation – Bidding Process 5 Economic Modelling 6 Production Costs 7 Wildcat 7 What is the wild cat success ratio? And what are the considered factors? 7 Depreciation 8 Abandonment 8 Goodwill‚ Leases‚ Ringfencing 9 Volatility of Crude Oil 9 Volatility of Gas 10 Forecasting 10 Opportunity
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