Integrated and Safe Operations in the Offshore Oil & Gas Industry
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Oil resources are harder to get Oil is vital to industrial civilization in its current configuration as it accounts for a large percentage of the world’s energy consumption, ranging from as low of 32% for Europe and Asia, up to a high of 53% for the Middle East. Since 2005 and in the words of a spokesman from ExxonMobil, “All the easy oil and gas in the world has pretty much been found. Now comes the harder work in finding and producing oil from more challenging environments and work areas.”
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