Baku Petroleum

the Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan ( BTC ) pipeline Cyber

Initial reports surfaced in 2009 that a state-sponsored cyber actor had successfully intruded upon servers essential to the BTC pipeline operations and caused a temporary disruption in pipeline transfers. It was further reported that a team of western experts were able to assist the pipeline operator in restoring the system enabling a return to normal operations. Few details were provided other...

Meldonium use by athletes at the Baku 2015 European Games.

BACKGROUND The aim of this report was to estimate the prevalence of meldonium use in athletes competing in the Baku 2015 European Games to contribute to the surveillance of substances on the 2015 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Monitoring Program. Meldonium is reported to be used by athletes to potentially enhance personal performance and shorten the recovery period after physical activity. M...

Petroleum microbiology

Microbial enhanced oil recovery: literature survey http://www.clw.csiro.au/publications/science/2008/ WFO-MicrobialOilRecovery.pdf This report is well referenced and contains some general information on enhanced recovery techniques and biosurfactants. Oil spill: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill This Wikipedia entry is a good starting point for information on oil spills. Parts of...

Optical Activity of Petroleum

HE question of the origin of petroleum has long been debated. In the history of this question, the fact of the optical activity of petroleum has occupied an important place. It was pointed out ( 1 , 2 ) by Walden that "inorganic" hypotheses for explaining the origin of petroleum did not account for its optical activity. Because of the increasing certainty that all petroleums possessed optical a...

NOTES ON Petroleum Processing