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and potential for injury or loss of life associated with fire or H2S release. An excess pressure might occur, for example, if the flowline becomes blocked. Industry practice is to address this risk through the use of a safety instrumented system dedicated to protect the flowline from over-press...
I am not an oil industry person, but my analysis of the Permian basin suggests that for an 11 million dollar well (full cost including land and overhead) the discounted net revenue over the life of an average well will be equal to the well cost (I call this breakeven) when the well ...
We know enough about how oil fields work and what happens during the life of a given oil deposit to say that production of oil will peak, and then it will decline. Second, figuring out when that decline will happen isn't easy, for reasons I've already mentioned and more. Yet ...
When did a working man get the idea they require/deserve a luxurious tropical vacation...not just once in their lifetime, but every winter? I'm no puritan, but without a sense of recent history it is no wonder our host countries have also succumbed to the 'you can have it all', ...
Also, my life is now equally illuminated by the 8 watt bulbs that replaced the 60 watt ones. I still spend the money I save, I just spend it on something else. Dennis Coyne 01/06/2016 at 5:07 pm Hi Javier, You have a circular argument going. Why is it that the economy goes ...
Peak Oil.There seems to be a distinct possibility that we will be reaching the peak in world oil supply very soon–2014 or 2015, or even 2016. The way we reach this peak though, is different from what most people imagined: low oil prices, rather than high oil prices. Low oil prices ...
As far as the life on the planet goes it’s a temperature rate problem. So anything we do to cut back or eliminate GHG’s is a positive step. We are not going to stop climate change and we have little chance of changing the end point of a warm world. However, we can slow down ...