Fossil Fuels
epub |eng | | Author:Joel Achenbach

Chapter 9 Repercussions Now, the misery. The calamity had included, in spirit-sapping succession, a fatal blowout, a sunk rig, multiple leaks, a BOP intervention failure, a cofferdam failure, an unfolding ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Calixto, Eduardo

Efficiency Cost Analysis The efficiency cost analysis aims to quantify proposals for system optimization in terms of cost so that one can verify the impact of measures on the cost ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lars Schernikau

4.5.1 How Much CO2 Stems from Coal? Before discussing this subject, it is worth pointing out that CO2 is nontoxic; indeed, without it no life would be possible on Earth. ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:nj ayuk

( Category: Fossil Fuels March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-27 | Author:Michael S. Blinderman,Alexander Y. Klimenko & Alexander Y. Klimenko

(9.13) Factoring in C the maximum value of the caving zone , the size of the coal pillar for the conditions will be . During underground coal gasification of coal ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Arunabha Ghosh, Florian Kern & Michael T. Klare

Stake, R. (2000). Case studies. In N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 435–454). Thousands Oaks: Sage. Stenzel, T., & Frenzel, A. (2008). Regulating technological change—The ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels February 27,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-02-01 | Author:Vaclav Smil

OFFSHORE DRILLING In 1949 John Hayward combined a submersible barge and a piled platform to build the first submersible rig, Breton Rig 20; he devised a way to stabilize a ...
( Category: Petroleum May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Sernovitz

9. GUAR AND LEASE, OR ANOTHER SIDE OF DISRUPTION Tolstoy would smirk. When I get caught up with using The Innovator’s Dilemma as the uncanny explanation of the shale revolution ...
( Category: Oil & Energy April 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-08 | Author:Tom Shroder [Shroder, Tom]

In late February, an ROV was cruising around the wellhead when an operator noticed something on his video monitor. There was a definite spurt coming from a joint in the ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels October 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:Epstein, Alex J. & Dennis, Eric M. [Epstein, Alex J.]

CHAPTER 9: THE “RENEWABLE ENERGY” FALLACY The notion of “renewable energy” has two fundamental conceptual flaws. It’s not really renewable, and it’s not really energy. “Renewable” in most definitions approximates ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Alex Epstein

CLIMATE MASTERY Even as we are taught to think of ourselves as in mortal climate danger, human beings are progressively becoming masters of climate. There are two components to mastering ...
( Category: Environmental February 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:Goldman, Marshall I. [Goldman, Marshall I.]

SIBNEFT’S TURN Having reined in Yukos, Putin’s next target was Sibneft. Its takeover was done so quietly hardly anyone noticed. As we saw, when threatened with jail, then chief owner ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Heinberg, Richard [Heinberg, Richard]

The Bottom Line on Fracking’s Potential to Revolutionize Oil and Gas Production Raymond Pierrehumbert, Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, recently summarized the situation with crystalline brevity: ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels July 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Bill Powers, Art Berman [Powers, Bill; Berman, Art]

FIGURE 18.03. Japan Liquefied Natural Gas Import Price Chart.29 While the high South American prices can be partially explained by winter weather in the Southern Hemisphere, there is little doubt ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels June 29,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Peter Maass

Big Oil is getting the reward it deserves: after more than a century of power and indecency, it is shrinking. Until the 1970s, Western companies controlled most of the world’s ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels March 25,2014 )