They were posted in a really excellent technical analysis of the Fukushima disaster on The Oil Drum site.
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Back in March, Providence Resources revealed that its tests at Barryroe had confirmed there was enough oil at the site to declare it as the first commercially viable oil well in Ireland.
And the villain of Disney's most recent film, "The Muppets, " is an oil baron intent on drilling for oil at the site of the Muppets' theater.
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Within Russia, it is fast acquiring a new and different fame as the site of oil and gas projects so huge that the rest of the Russian Far East, a graveyard of heavy industry, hopes to share the spoils.
But the main methods of oil capture at the spill site are continuing despite the weather.
Remedial work at Rho posed all the usual challenges that go with dismantling an oil refinery and ridding the site of hydrocarbon and metal residuals.
But this could take a couple of months, so BP has plans to lower a massive dome over the leak site to suck oil from the seabed into vessels that can take it for safe disposal.
Three east coast refineries have been shut down in the past four months (first Sunoco, then Valero, and most recently Shell announced Jan. 7 it would shutter its Montreal refinery and turn the site into an oil terminal).
Two oil companies that operated at the site -- BP and Statoil -- said they were pulling non-essential personnel from Algeria.
Economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy Web site says that rising oil and gasoline prices have not necessarily pulled up the price of other goods.
Oil production has taken place on this site for at least 15 years.
Recently, Chevron and Stratus knocked heads over a Portland, Oregon environmental contamination site that Chevron and other oil-related companies have been sued over.
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The Plan C drill -- an enormous oil drilling platform that dominates the rescue site -- had reached 156 meters (512 feet), Sougarret said.
The quay will be built on the site of a former Shell oil refinery on the South bank of the Tees, which has been lying vacant for around 20 years.
Altela provides on-site water desalination to mining and oil and gas companies.
The convoy was heading from Baiji -- the site of Iraq's largest oil refinery -- to Ramadi, in Iraq's volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad, the police official said.
Live video taken by robots at the well site appeared Thursday to show more oil being released than in prior days, but authorities said they didn't know whether the flow actually had increased.
Under a new owner, the site is creating jobs to carry out oil rig refits and handle renewable energy contracts.
Observers say the rare talks demonstrate a concern that the oil may be carried by currents far from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The company has already secured the expertise of the world's leading oil multi-national, Exxon Mobil, to explore its site at Drumquin.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in the mid-1980s brought in a company from Texas that specialized in putting out oil fires and began the long process of cleaning up the site and capping it.
The site says 7.2 percent of the national daily oil consumption is attributed to heavy-duty truck idling.
Additionally, the site offers a potential 1.7 billion barrels of oil as well.
Alberta, Canada is site of the world's largest extraction operations from oil sands, heavy earth laden with bitumen, a hydrocarbon-rich mineral.
The company provides specialty products to the oil and gas industry through its four business units: well-site services, tubular services, offshore, and accommodations.
Evisors began in 2009 as a project at Harvard Business School, where Fredrik Maroe, son of a Norwegian oil company executive, teamed up with three other students to start the site as a class project.
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All but 10% of his revenue comes from Super Blue Stuff, although he offers other products made with emu oil, meat and leather, including shampoo, jerky and handbags on his Web site, www.bluestuff.com.
Providence Resources Plc, an Irish and UK company, has confirmed its Barryroe site, 30 miles off the Cork coast, should yield 280m barrels of oil.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management requested that NOAA investigate the site after it was originally detected as an "unknown sonar contact" by Shell Oil Company during a 2011 oil and gas survey of the Gulf, government officials said.
An interesting note in the financial statements was the news that in September Suncor become the first oil sands company to complete surface reclamation of a tailings pond, a key step in returning the site back to nature.
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