Canada has 171 billion barrels within its borders. However, nearly all of these reserves are located in Alberta's "sandpits," a terrain that makes the oil and gas harder to extract from the earth than it is in other countries. However, technological innovations are expected to make extractin...
Petroleum companies are divided intoupstream, midstream, and downstream, depending on the oil and gas company's position in the supply chain. Upstream oil and gas companies identify, extract, or produce raw materials. Downstream oil companies engage in the post-production of crude oil and natural ...
Oil wells and other types of resource extraction become more expensive to build because the easiest to extract resources tend to be used first. Pollution becomes more of a problem. Universities start producing more graduates with advanced degrees than there are job openings paying enough to justify ...
Due to the presence of polar and non polar components in ME’s, they are very good solubilizing agents. Their properties can be adjusted to suit the drug to be carried by optimizing compositions, types of both the surfactant and the co-surfactant in addition of course to the oil used in ...
Lots of oil is locked in difficult underground formations that are hard, if not impossible, to exploit using current technology.Moreover, those first 1 trillion barrels were among the easiest to reach. The days of easy gushers and overnight millionaires are long gone. Now the going gets ...
However, the sand-to-water ratio of quicksand can vary, causing some quicksand to be less buoyant. "By the same token, if the quicksand were deep, as in up to your waist, it would be very difficult to extract yourself from a dense slurry, not unlike very wet concrete," said Rick Woo...
“Dr. Bill Livingston, Celebrated Cancer Specialist” was the very image of the traveling snake oil salesman. He was neither a doctor nor a cancer specialist; his real name was not even Livingston. More to the point, the “Rock Oil” tonic he pawned was a useless mixture of laxative and...
A repairing cream containing 4% zinc oxide, 2.5% dry colloidal oat extract, 0.5% oat oil, 0.2% copper sulfate, and 0.1% zinc sulfate used to treat various irritant dermatitis showed an overall rate of effectiveness superior to 82% [47]. The topical application of zinc has been shown to ...
The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. This is according to Montréal-based international human rights lawyer John Philpot. He spoke on M...
Drilling companies contract their services to E&P companies to extract oil and gas. Well-servicing companies conduct related construction and maintenance activities on well sites. About Hydrocarbons Hydrocarbonsmake up crude oil and natural gas, which are naturally occurring substances found in rock in ...