1. Sector Overview India is the sixth largest consumer of oil in the world and the ninth largest crude oil importer. India’s oil and gas sector contributes over 15% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas‚ India has a total reserve of 1201 million metric tonnes of crude oil and1437 billion cubic metres of natural gas as on 01 April 2010. The total number of exploratory and development wells and metreage drilled in onshore and offshore areas during
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The Niger Delta has been a source of illicit international business deals (like the trans-Atlantic slave trade)‚ as far back as the 15th century. Today a new form of syndicated criminal proclivity is threatening the very foundations of Nigeria’s petroleum industry‚ and by extension‚ the Nigerian economy‚ as well as putting tremendous pressure on Chief (General) Olusegun Obasanjo. That problem is the "illegal bunkering" of crude oil and/or its derivatives. The term "bunkering"‚ (whether legal or
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about 51% of the petroleum‚1 which includes crude oil and refined petroleum products‚ that we consumed during 2009. Just over half of these imports came from the Western Hemisphere. Our dependence on foreign petroleum is expected to decline in the next two decades. In 2009‚ the United States produced 11% of the world’s petroleum and consumed 22%. The United States consumed 18.8 million barrels per day of petroleum products during 2009‚ making us the world’s largest petroleum consumer. The United
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improvement of the items that stream in furthermore out of the organisation’s benefits‚ and the exercises connected with danger administration into one single capacity. This involves the supply and in addition the exchanging exercises that envelop the raw petroleum together with the oil items‚ the characteristic gas‚ chemicals‚ force‚ money and additionally dispatching therefore making a reasonable refinement between the organisation and its rivals in light of the structure and additionally the association’s
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States. This pipeline would take expensive Canadian tar sand oil in Alberta to the southeast part of Texas next to the Gulf of Mexico‚ so petroleum products can be transported around the world. This great project would supply petroleum demands and create many jobs. The battle between industrialists for the petroleum and the environmentalists against the petroleum has great influence on the Keystone pipeline. The only thing needed for this project to take off in 2015 is for President Obama and Canadian
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Abstract By using the given structure contour map for the Scope field‚ the given parameters as well as the assumptions‚ the Oil and Gas Reserve was calculated and are given below: Table 1: Gas Reserves estimate Gas Reserves | | | m3 | Bft3 | 1P | 1.30E+10 | 368.1 | Table 2: Oil Reserves estimate Oil Reserves | | | m3 | MMbbl | 1P | 2.64E+08 | 663.6 | 2P | 3.67E+08 | 922.6 | 3P | 8.44E+08 | 2123.3 | The properties of the reservoir can be expected to change due to
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INTRODUCTION For millennia mankind has inhabited the third planet from the sun; the planet that supports life and is know to us as Earth. Although there has been life on Earth for quite sometime‚ it is only in the past few centuries that man has come to learn about what makes up the interior of this planet. The English scientist‚ Isaac Newton‚ can be seen as a pioneer in regards to learning about the Earth ’s interior‚ as he calculated from his studies of planets and the force of gravity‚ that
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Review questions 1-10 Pages 146-147 1. Describe the three different kinds of material that can erupt from a volcano. Products of eruption come in three forms; lave flow‚ which can be Basaltic‚ Andesitic or Rhyolitic lava. A volcano also erupts pyroclastic debris (when lava flies into the air and freezes) and gases. 2. Contrast a pyroclastic flow with a lahar. Pyroglastic debris are blasting clots of lava‚ and the lahar are like mudslides that can reach up to 50km per hour. When the
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2. 1.1 The particles that make up an atom3 Basic sub-atomic particles‚ each has different properties. Name | Symbol | Approximate relative mass | More accurate mass | Relative charge | Proton | p | 1 | 1.0000 | +1 | Neutron | n | 1 | 1.0016 | 0 | Electron | e | Almost zero | 0.000 547 | -1 | This is the culmination of the work of 5 eminent physicists‚ Dalton‚ Thomson‚ Rutherford‚ Bohr and Chadwick.Their work basically culminates in the ideas above and the important fact that an atom consists
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Geology Final Exam Review Chapter 1 – The Earth In Context * Origin of the Universe (Beginning of the Universe) * Started with the “Big Bang” * Happened about 13.7 Billion Years Ago * Doppler Effect – all celestial objects move away from each other. Supports the “Ever Expanding Uinverse Theory” * Scientists noticed that all stars & planets are moving away from Earth which supports the theory that a massive explosion once occurred. (Big Bang) * Red Light
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