... on the emission reductions these leaders have taken, leveling the playing field across theindustryand ensuring this smart environmental and business practice is used in all states where gas ... reviews of these standards every eight years EPA’s existing air toxics standards for oil andnaturalgas production, andthe standards for naturalgas transmission and storage were issued in 1999 ... EPA’s NaturalGas STAR Program show that some of the largest air emissions inthenaturalgasindustry occur as naturalgas wells that have been fractured are being prepared for production During...
... Associate Professor of PetroleumandNaturalGas Engineering and Environmental Systems Engineering inthe John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at the Pennsylvania ... commercial and industrial sectors The fourth involves the demand for transportation fuels, including gasoline and diesel fuel The fifth and final component involves the electricity generation sector The ... drilling wells and then capping them until pipeline infrastructure can be built to carry thegas to market Given time lags in constructing pipeline gathering systems and connections to major interstate...
... of the Standard Handbook of PetroleumandNaturalGas Engineering As inthe first edition, the first objective in this edition was to continue the effort to create for the worldwide petroleumand ... Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology inthe fall of 2000 She is now a new BS graduate inpetroleum engineering and is happily working intheindustry Raven Gary spent her last two years in college ... petroleumandnaturalgas exploration and production industries an engineering handbook written inthe spirit of the classic handbooks of the other important engineering disciplines This new...
... of the classic handbooks of other engineering disciplines The two volumes reflect the importance of theindustry its engineers serve (i.e., Standard and Poor’s shows that the fuels sector is the ... Thus, the decision was made to write an entirely new handbook and to write this handbook inthe classic style of the handbooks of the other major engineering disciplines This meant giving the handbook ... from both the American Petroleum Institute andthe Society of Petroleum Engineers The authors thank these two institutions for their cooperation inthe preparation of the final manuscript The authors...
... than those in real estate industry Considering the situation of real estate industry, currently, the real estate industry is facing with the difficulties in borrowing from banks since the excess ... particular, the following theories will be considered: (i) the ‘M&M theory’; (ii) the ‘Agency theory’, (iii) the ‘pecking order theory’ and (iiii) the ‘trade-off theory’ The decision on the capital ... its financial structure However, many theories have the converse argument with M&M such as pecking order theory andthe trade-off theory, the agency theory According to agency theory, the financial...
... outlook oil outlook and for gas for theindustrythe oiloil andand ingas 202 gasindustryindustry inin 202 202 Big spenders The outlook for the oil andgasindustryin 2012 Big spenders ... gasindustryin 2012 The oil andgasindustry barometer Findings from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s survey of oil andgasindustry professionals Key points • Optimism is high across theindustry ... of their conventional counterparts drilled to delineate drilled drilledtoto the delineate delineate potential, thetheand potential, potential ,and andindustryindustryindustryindustry including...
... representing the interests of the emerging economies The sections below cover these pressing issues and discuss some of theindustry s responses Key findings emerging from the research include the ... reductions and low recovery of gas demand The excess of gas that pushed gas market prices downwards in 2009 should continue to decline in 2011, owing to the recovery of gas demand growth in Asia andin ... ahead? The outlook for the oil andgasindustryin 2011 Key points n NOCs are playing an increasingly assertive role in exploration and production, while driving harder bargains with the IOCs they...
... (including North of Africa, and main islands Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica) and 3) three inthe western Mediterranean (Continental Spain (2) and South France) The zones were well defined inthe ... where the oleaster or the olive was found sustains some other sites inthe west (Spain, see fig in [35]) andinthe east (Cyprus) Using the same methods (Wide sampling, Bayesian clustering, FCA and ... 500m in Spain [31] (Figure 2) The olive tree was introduced into the New World in South America by the Spanish (explorers and monks) at the beginning of the 1500’s (Colombia, Peru, but later on the...
... generation Naturalgasand coal comprise the majority of the remaining fuel used by theindustry (Kramer 2009) Incidental amounts of pulping vent gases and pulping by-products (tall oil and turpentine) ... the country Major industrial CHP “prime mover” technologies include steam turbines, gas turbines, reciprocating engines, and fuel cells Of these, steam andgas turbines dominate in U.S pulp and ... calcining The CaO produced inthe lime kiln is used inthe causticizing reactions that take place inthe green liquor slaker and causticizers to produce the NaOH used inthe white liquor In the...
... addressing the immediate concerns of companies inthe wake of the pandemic As they stand, however, they are neither creative nor far-reaching in their orientation The progressive nature of the disease ... on demand for labour and skills; and impact on production costs and consumer demand The second part, investigating the business response to HIV/AIDS, contained the following indicators: the existence ... employed and trained Training was conducted at the HSRC in Pretoria from 31 May to June 2006 Twelve trainers took part, and they represented the HSRC, the laboratory and couriers The training content...
... the beginning of theindustryin 2005 through the end of the first quarter of 2009 with $2.5 billion on lease and bonus and other land payments andthe remaining $2.2 billion on equipment and supplies ... depending on the composition of the gas, is transported to a large facility that heats and cools thegas until nothing remains within the gas; but mostly methane (see Figure 14) Thenaturalgas ... student inthe Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University Rebecca Entler – Ms Entler holds B.S degrees in Energy Business Finance and Energy Engineering from the...
... determinant of agricultural land-use change, its form andthe intensity of change inthe Mekong River Basin in a particular locale are influenced by other factors, including land-tenure policies, international ... shows the increase inthe crop-area demand inthe whole Mekong River Basin projected by this study as compared against the 2000 observed paddy area data inthe Mekong parts of Yunnan, Laos, Thailand, ... manufacturing, and farm and market waste (postharvesting, transport, and retail losses) Discussing Food Demand Estimates Year 2000 cereal (rice, maize, and wheat) demand inthe Mekong River Basin was...
... used in this case The reason is the necessity of converting the cover data into the seven-point Braun-Blanquet scale While working at the site, the cover ratios of the individual species inthe ... water stagnates at the site after floods recede The ordination analysis (Fig 3) suggests the recession of water-demanding species in time, and on the other hand, also an increase inthe wood flora ... the canonical axis (time) projected against EIV for the moisture of the given species The fitting of the resulting field of points shows a shift inthe species composition of the herb layer The...
... assignment of land and forest and support the farmers participating in protecting and taking care of the forest have been carried - There is the seed supply from the neighboring forests (Tay Con Linh Nature ... the succession process Soil inthe grass vegetation cover contains the lowest protein content (0.12%) and then that inthe low and high shrub vegetation covers has gradually increased 0.27% and ... research thesis "Studying on the actual status of the vegetation cover andthe process of natural forest recovery in Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang province " The objectives of the study It determines and...
... Management inthe Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences IndustryThe following is the final version of the Executive Summary of the findings of a survey conducted among executives inthe pharmaceuticals and ... sciences industry during October 2009, and comparison with the findings of the broader survey conducted in May and June 2009 Preface Risk management inthe pharmaceuticals and life sciences industry ... analysis and wrote the report The findings and views expressed inthe report not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor Katherine Dorr Abreu was the editor and project manager Madelaine Drohan...
... adults These studies also were not useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR andthe vaccinee’s ... heterogeneity inthe efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported inthe individual studies Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site andthe data validity score as covariates, they ... vaccination of adults andthe type of vaccine strain administered precluded the inclusion of these factors as covariates inthe random-effects regression model However, these researchers determined...
... financial crisis and recession and these, in turn, contribute to the financial instability The EU financial system mixes traditional and capital markets banking and this is interacting with the sovereign ... large role) The UK (based on the Vickers Report)14 is implementing the most significant reform since the crisis (including ring-fencing retail banking from investment banking), the USA has the Volcker ... strategy and including a proper cleaning up of bank balance sheets, recapitalisation and separation are critical to solving this crisis while maintaining the euro intact The interim role of the ECB and...
... (B2C) testing out retail opportunities beyond the increasingly saturated and pricey Tier cities and recognising the growing spending power of those in also seeing more brands and industries Internet ... retailing Online retailing in Asia will continue to grow strongly on the back of rapid leading markets, Japan and South Korea, losing share to China and 22 infrastructure andin payment and security ... undernourished andthe biggest also been adding manufacturing capacity in Asia to meet rising demand, though foreign companies operating in they are now increasingly consuming according to the Nutrition...
... threonine biosynthesis pathways in Arabidopsis the following procedure was used Firstly, the kinetic links inside the branch-point and between the branch-point system andthe rest of the pathway ... Inthe following the model is used to investigate the sensitivity of the two-enzyme system to the different input variables and to explain the behaviour of the branch-point in terms of the kinetic ... represented inthe gure as dotted lines The dashed square indicates the limits of the Phser branch-point system analysed inthe present paper In microorganisms branching between the methionine and threonine...
... On the other hand, inthe far Northeast, along the Mekong River, over 2030 mm is received annually Variation inthe average amount of rainfall is therefore notable inthe Northeast During the ... pineapple and upland rice (RRIT 2005) Cherdchom et al (2002) reported four main integrated rubber farming systems inthe South of Thailand emerging during the financial crisis inthe late 19 1990's The ... introduced in Asia in 1876, when seeds were first shipped from the Amazonas to the United Kingdom and further to Ceylon and planted there Inthe following year, rubber trees were planted in Singapore and...