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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 120, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe recent federal approval of Royal Dutch Shell's oil-spill response plans for the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort seas grant exploration access to previously protected Arctic waters and is touted by advocates as a green...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 120, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAll around the world, oil and gas companies are being forced by resource declines to drill in less accessible areas, and the Arctic is their newest frontier. he geology above the Arctic Circle--that is, everything above...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPrevious reports using archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic data have proposed that petroleum was extracted by pre-contact aboriginal populations in western Pennsylvania employing wood-lined pits. A suite of...
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From:Alaska Law Review (Vol. 33, Issue 1)The Alaska Law Review is pleased to present our June 2016 issue, the first in our thirty-third volume. I am proud as both an Alaskan and as editor-in-chief of this journal to share the following three articles and three...
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From:Nature (Vol. 548, Issue 7668) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Smythe (corresponding author) [1]; Stuart Haszeldine [2] As sometime energy advisers to the UK government, we are concerned that fracking of unconventional oil and gas formations risks being classed...
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From:Arctic (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed(Received 31 October 2011; accepted in revised form 24 May 2012) ABSTRACT. This study was motivated by the potential development of offshore oil exploration leases in the Canadian Southern Beaufort Sea, an area...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 103, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs natural gas has risen in importance in the United States across all sectors, many have questioned the long-term viability of natural gas reserves to sustain this growth. Although North American reserve levels appear...
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From:Nature (Vol. 489, Issue 7415) Peer-ReviewedOn 9 September, Shell began oil exploration in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, the first offshore drilling in the sea for more than 20 years. The drilling is designed to reach an oil reservoir at a depth of 2,400 metres,...
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From:Environmental Law (Vol. 35, Issue 4)The rule of capture has been an integral part of oil and gas law since the completion of the first commercial oil well in Pennsylvania in the 1840s. The early development of the rule was subsumed within the larger...
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From:Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Vol. 136, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFor the past 40 years, the scarcity of conventional resources has shaped U.S. energy policy. Now a bounty in unconventional oil and gas has overturned that thinking. LAST FALL, OFFICIALS FROM AROUND the world...
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From:Revista Inovacao, Projectos e Tecnologias (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article presents important aspects related to the project management process, mostly based on the PMI (Project Management Institute) methodology. It addresses key issues for project success, such as what should be...
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From:Film History (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article traces the introduction of cinema to the Gulf through the archives of the India Office Records (IOR). The records of the political agent in Bahrain illustrate clearly the extent to which cinema was closely...
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From:Arctic (Vol. 51, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSTEPHEN R. JOHNSON (1) (Received 10 August 1997; accepted in revised form 22 March 1998) ABSTRACT. Environmental scientists were concerned that construction of the Endicott Project in the outer Sagavanirktok River...
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From:Science (Vol. 247, Issue 4947) Peer-ReviewedWhen a Radical Experiment Goes Bust AFTER 3 YEARS of punching more than 6 kilometers down into the tough granite of central Sweden, drilling crews gave up last September. Swedish investors had hoped the well, called...
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From:Science (Vol. 229) Peer-ReviewedNatural oil seepages observed on the surface of the earth were the first signs that pointed to the possible presence of petroleum accumulations below the surface. The Drake well, located on the basis of such natural...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedResearch on the modeling of rock mechanics parameters is of great significance to the exploration of oil and gas. The use of logging data with the Kriging interpolation to study rock mechanics parameters has been proven...
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From:Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI. BACKGROUND ON THE RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY The international oil and gas market represents one of the largest and most important industries in the world. Major companies travel to some of the most remote...
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From:Middle East Policy (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAzerbaijan, Kazakstan, and Turkmenistan have the potential to benefit most from the reserves of oil and gas in the Caspian Sea basin. Russia has expressed intense interest in dominating these vast resources, although the...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUS Interior Secretary Gale Norton has signalled that the Bush administration is bracing itself for a lengthy fight over its proposal to allow oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....
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From:The Energy Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Hubbert-Deffeyes "peak oil" (HDPO) model predicts that world oil production is about to enter a period of sustained decline. This paper investigates the empirical robustness of this claim. I use out-of-sample...