Recently last summer I trekked with a scout group at Philmont Scout Rance in Cimarron, New Mexico. There we learned an extent of information about historical fires and prevention. The first inhabitants og Philmont were the Jicarilla Apache and Moache…
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Slant drilling often is the preferred method of oil drilling that is less costly overall by providing more opportunity for profit and may be less invasive to parts of our natural environment. Instead of the older style method of vertical drilling, selecting a site and only drilling…
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Almost everybody has committed an environmental crime mostly they are smaller ones, but many people have also committed big ones. Environmental crime in the sense of violating a law of the land is the more serious type of crime that…
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When Eyjafjallajokull (pronounced AY-uh-fiat-luh-YEU-koot-luh, with the ‘EU’ as in liqueur) began its second eruptive cycle on April 15, the resulting ash cloud grounded airplanes from the Mediterranean Sea to the Arctic Circle. As long as the eruption shows no sign…
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The U.S. Department of Energy has a brochure on directional drilling, It says, “…Oil and gas at depths recently considered unreachable can now be tapped. Smaller accumulations once thought to be uneconomic can now be produced profitably. Fields under wetlands…
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The current British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may well affect onshore operations in several ways. As the evidence continues to support the initial observations that the failsafe mechanism known as the blastoff preventer failed to perform…
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One of the greatest challenges for offshore oil and gas production is to preserve our fragile ecosystem and to protect humans and our fragile ecosystem. Safety guidelines, equipment oversight and regulations have been developed and documented for all offshore drilling companies, In most…
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An oil riser is an integral part of a drilling rig, which is a long complex pipe that connects the floating or anchored rig to the wellhead situated below the sea. The subsea well is drilled through the oil riser and enables the…
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An oil riser (more properly a drilling riser) is part of the piping system of an offshore well. It is a large-diameter pipe that connects the drill rig on the surface to a complex on the seafloor that includes the…
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The mechanics that could describe the formation of the third planet from the sun has defied an adequate scientific explanation for decades. Theories abound about how the big bang gave birth to the universe, as we know it, eventually spawning…
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