Oil spills often have enormous environmental consequences, both immediate and long-term. The effects of the oil spill have been felt for decades. Oil spilled from damaged pipelines, tankers and production units destroys everything that it “touches”. Oil is carried over the surface of the water for many kilometers, and when it reaches the coastline, it...
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform is an accident that occurred on April 20, 2010, 80 kilometers from the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Macondo field. The oil spill that followed the accident became the largest in the history of the United States...
One of the early theories of the origin of oil suggested that this black substance was nothing more than ... whale urine that settles on the bottom of the oceans, and then penetrates into the earth's interior through underground channels. In the study of the origin of oil, there is also an alien trace. At the...
The derrick is a key component of the drilling rig equipment and is designed to perform the following functions: handling tripping operations with drill pipes and casing pipes; maintaining the drill string on the traveling system during drilling with unloading; placement of a set of drill pipes and drill collars (DC) and thick-walled drill pipes (TBT); accommodation of the...
This oil is considered a real benchmark, the best oil in the world. This is due to the fact that the composition of such oil makes it possible to achieve maximum recovery of oil products from Brent oil. Such oil is produced in the United States of America, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and southeast...
"Junk" energy: sludge. California produces 700,000 tons of dried sludge (insoluble deposits from steam boilers as sludge or in solid form) per year, from which about 10 million kWh of electricity per day can be produced. The University of Nevada, Reno, dries the sludge to make it combustible for a gasification process that turns it...
