whereas American industry has available large supplies of natural gas; the refiner in the U.S.A. can therefore produce high quality fuels partly by catalytic cracking of heavy distillates, but his European counterpart has no such opportunity and must rely to a much greater extent on catalytic reforming processes to produce high quality fuels from straightrun naphthas. Again, while demand for hi...

The ISU Crop Bioengineering Consortium (CBC) was organized to address the urgent, grand challenge to provide sufficient food, feed, biofuels and biorenewable chemicals for the world’s burgeoning population, through basic and applied research, to enable the bioengineering of valuable traits in a variety of crops. Importantly, the novel technologies employed can produce bioengineered crops that c...

Workers in the petroleum industry are potentially exposed to a variety of petrochemicals, including benzene or benzene-containing liquids. Although a large number of studies of petroleum workers have been conducted to examine leukemia and other cancer risks, few existing studies have investigated cell-type-specific leukemias. One of the major reasons for the lack of cell-type-specific analysis ...

Petroleum is a complex mixture of lipophilic chemicals, some of which are likely to be substrates for the microsomal mixed function oxygenases. Petroleum retailers, by virtue of their occupational exposure potential, are a group likely to receive relatively heavy exposure to petroleum products in comparison with the general public. Urinary thioether output may provide a simple, non-invasive tec...

In the rubber industry, plasticizers for rubber compounds mainly consist of petroleum derivatives. Consequently, the rubber industry is in constant competition with many petroleum consumers. This competition places an economic strain on rubber companies such as HEXPOL RUBBER COMPOUNDING L.L.C. In order to alleviate this strain, natural oil alternatives to petroleum plasticizers are of novel res...

AMAR KHOUKHI∗,‡, MUNIRUDEEN OLOSO∗,§, MOSTAFA ELSHAFEI∗,¶, ABDULAZEEZ ABDULRAHEEM†,‖ and ABDULAZIZ AL-MAJED†,∗∗ ∗Systems Engineering Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA †Petroleum Engineering Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA ‡[email protected] §[email protected] ¶[email protected] ‖[email protected] ∗∗aamajed@...

There are many challenges associated with development of offshore petroleum fields. Subsea production facilities are increasingly used in the petroleum industry as the technology has matured and quality increased. The use of subsea technology has advantages as well as challenges. Based on a literature review this paper identifies some if the development challenges related to the design and oper...

Aquamicrobium defluvii W13Z1 was isolated from petroleum-contaminated drill cuttings from the Bohai Sea and could degrade petroleum hydrocarbon with 5% NaCl at 15°C. Here, we present the 4.8-Mb draft genome sequence of this strain, which may provide useful information about the mechanism of petroleum degradation in drill cuttings.

BACKGROUND In general, organic solvents are inhibiting many physiological enzymes and alter the behavioural functions, but the available scientific knowledge on laboratory solvent induced organ specific toxins are very limited. Hence, the present study was planned to determine the sub-chronic toxic effects of petroleum ether (boiling point 40-60°C), a laboratory solvent in Sprague-Dawley (SD) r...