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    the tar sand industry, and yet there are not that many Canadians who are aware of the problems and benefits that this industry brings to our country. Every day we are destroying our nature and environment because of the economy benefits that the oil sands bring to our country. Canada is the parent of one of the major oil sands operations in the whole World. To be more specific, its located mainly in the province of Alberta, and it is started in 1967. Alberta has the third largest oil sand reserves

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    families, the need for oil has been growing more and more every year as humans want more and more products that use oil or are made from it. People and their need for oil far exceeds the need to fill up their car. It stretches out to vast amount of products that people use every day. Including plastics bags when they go shopping, the shampoo they use to clean their hair, the toys their kids play with and the insulation used to keep their houses warm. However with all the positives of oil they’re a lot of

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    and oil development and demand. For example, the resent issue of “The Wall Street Journal” published May 22, 2017 a special report titled: “innovation in Energy” with subsection “Get Ready for Oi Demand”. Almost all publications including in the WSJ are not addressing the innovations and developments in the oil and gas exploration from the conventional inland oil and gas wells. To improve the productivity in the conventional wells, the exploration industry mainly relies on the Enhancing Oil Recovery

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    The orangutan, one of the world’s great apes, resides on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. The forests of these islands are being destroyed in order to create palm oil plantations. Palm oil is in high demand due to its uses as a biofuel and as a vegetable oil. The palm oil industry is a major threat to the survival of the critically endangered orangutans, due to loss of habitat. This leads to illegal poaching since the orangutans are viewed as pests, leaving many young infants orphaned

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    John D. Rockefeller was the creator of the US Standard Oil Company, a company that dominated the oil industry, Which led to the establishment of the first successful U.S. Business Trust. Through the company, Rockefeller became one of the richest men in the US. With this money a new hobby emerged. Philanthropy, Philanthropy became a large portion of his life. Along with being a large supporter of industrialization. Even though critics tried to find holes in his system they often failed. However, all

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    and they raised $4,000. That same year, America’s first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The oil price at that time stayed unaffordably high since the industry was in infant level, demand wasn’t very high and, most importantly, the technology at that time couldn’t efficiently refine the crude oil. In 1863, Rockefeller and several partners entered the new oil industry by investing in a Cleveland refinery. Unlike other oil companies searching for another well, Rockefeller and his

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    Introduction and Background In the oil and gas industry, fracking is a major current issue that engineers are dealing with for the current state of the United states. Hydraulic fracking, or "fracking" is the process of drilling a well to the depth in the earth where shale rock is located. Once the drill bit reaches this specific depth, the drilling alters its path to a horizontal track into the shale rock in order to span the entire reservoir. Next, fracking fluid, consisting of sand, liquid chemicals

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    Around the world there is major controversy on the continuing support of the oil industry and fossil fuels. The production and consumption of oil affects the American citizen’s everyday life in some form or another. Many Americans have a strong view regarding the consumption and production of fossil fuels. Recently, especially on social media this particular controversial issue has been brought to the forefront due to the protests in regards to the Dakota Access Pipeline. In past major headlining

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    the most productive oil fields in the world, the small town of Los Angeles suffered a big change. By 1930, California was producing nearly one quarter of the world's oil output, and its population had grown to 1.2 million. In the flowing decades, urban and suburban area grew quickly, surrounding by closeness and more openness of the oil wells. People found ways to camouflaged machinery, decreased loud noises, vented methane pockets, as residents had to live closely to those oil production facilities

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    Oil has been one of the main source of energy in the world for the past decade. Oil industry has been growing ever since with the growth of demand for oil. At the beginning, the oil industry’s main focus was the search for oil fields and the discovery of new reservoirs. But since the conventional ways of extracting oil result in the recovery of a small portion of the available oil, the oil industry shifted its focus onto finding new ways to extend the life of the discovered wells and extract as much

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