In the oil industry, huge saving may be made if suitable multi-interface level measurement systems are employed for effectively monitoring crude oil separators and efficient control of their operation. A number of techniques, e.g. externally mounted displacers, differential pressure transmitters and capacitance rod devices, have been developed to measure the separation process with gas, oil, wa...

Preliminary Draft Comments Welcome Oil has been an important energy source in the U.S. for over 100 years. Increased reliance on foreign supplies has resulted in potential vulnerability, while high U.S. production costs, coupled with a dynamic market price, have resulted in a volatile domestic industry. The Federal government has responded with many initiatives. Military expenditures in the Per...

Data on total U.S. oil consumption and worldwide oil production comes from the Energy Information Association (EIA). Data on household consumption and GDP come from the BEA’s NIPA surveys. Data on TFP, hours worked, and capital supply are from the San Francisco Federal Reserve.1 Data on oil futures are for the NYMEX West Texas Intermediate (WTI) contract, and come from the Commodity Research Bu...

S teel industries play a key role in the national economy and welfare of the society in many steel manufacturer countries. It is found that manufacturing and consuming of steel products would be a key indicator to measure and evaluate economic and industrial performance of a country. Nowadays, countries with the large natural oil and gas resources (e.g. Iran) attempt to select an alt...

since the strategies and plans for e-commerce development are different for different industries and since the oil industry is one of the most important industries in Iran, the scope of this research is thus confined to that of the oil industry in Iran. The main aim of this study is to identify and classify the different features of e-commerce development stages and features based on the differ...

The US shale exploration and production (E&P) industry has grown since 2007 due to the development of new techniques such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. As a result, the share of shale gas in the US natural gas production is almost 50%, and the share of tight oil in the US crude oil production is almost 52%. Even though oil and gas prices decreased sharply in 2014, the product...

Drilling industry and its technical services are among the complex and advanced technology-based industries in the cycle of oil exploration and production. In this regard, the logging services role as one of the pillars of technical services is very important due to technological complexity and the importance of the results in the evaluation of oil and gas reservoirs. The complexity had caused ...

What do we know about ageing at work? Evidence-based fitness for duty and health in fire fighters. The current enthusiasm for fracking takes me back to the oil crisis of the late 1970s. I had been asked to see a post-thoracotomy patient and, when he recovered, found that his lesion had been pneumoconiotic. When I enquired which mine he worked in, he told me that it had been a shale mine and sin...

The problem of degradation of agricultural residues from palm oil industry is increasing due to its expansion. Lignocelloulosic waste from these industry represent large amount of unutilized resources, this is due to their high lignin content. Since white rot fungi are capable of degrading lignin, its potential for the degradation of lignocelloulosic waste from palm oil industry was accessed. T...