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America Has More Oil Than Saudi Arabia

The United States has plenty of oil within US borders. We don't have to rely on foreign oil anymore! It is just a matter of drilling and getting the oil out. The oil is there! Remember the song...."America,...

2 comments    oil alternative energy coal
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Oil Rig Life: Oil Drilling Rig Jobs

Rig Life. What does it take to work on a drilling rig? It really takes a hard working, easy oing person to succeed on the rigs.

5 comments    life jobs drilling
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What Do We Get From A Barrel Of Oil

A barrel of crude oil consists of 42 gallons of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons. They are different lengths and weights of hydrocarbons. During the refining process they break down the hydrocarbons in...

0 comments    oil gasoline diesel
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Will The Real ANWR Please Step Forward

ANWR, the Artic National Wildlife Preserve may well become the battleground for the opposing political factions who would control our future use of fossil fuel energy.

0 comments    politics environment oil
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How Oil Wells Are Drilled and Drilling Rig Theory

The process by which an oil or gas well is drilled has changed little in the last hundred years. The technology and equipment though have become much more complex. Hard working men and sometimes women,...

energy oil offshore
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Black Gold | A Brief History of Oil Drilling

More than 3,000 years ago people knew about the energy source that comes from deep inside the earth. In ancient Mesopotamia in the Middle East, black, sticky oil, called bitumen, often seeped to the surface...

0 comments    business ships petroleum
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Spinner II Centrifuge By-Pass Filtration Unit

n the world of heavy equipment, catastrophic mechanical failure can deliver the knockout punch to a company's bottom line. Big industry counts on the mechanical backbone of the business to be operational. The...

0 comments    oil industrial engines
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Politics and Falling Oil Prices

Senator John McCain becomes convinced that we should expand oil drilling off our coasts and in the lower forty-eight states. President Bush overturns an executive order banning more offshore drilling. Senator...

4 comments    finance money politics
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How Large Is The Marcellus Shale? Unconventional Gas Reserves

Map of the Marcellus shale formation gas resource. From Geology.com The Marcellus Shale is a layer of rock that lies under Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, New York, Maryland and other Northeastern states,...

0 comments    energy environment natural gas
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Water Watchers: New TV series informing our community about water pollution

Interview by Grace C. Visconti with Bruce Henning of Eagle’s Breath Entertainment Inc. ©2008    Background on Bruce Henning and Eagle’s Breath Entertainment Inc. : Coaldale, Alberta Canada...

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