You can download Offshore Safety Case Training at http://www.scribd.com/doc/5052863/Offshore-Safety-Case-Training-ppt This is presentation can be used to train safety training to offshore operator personnel to convey a strong message: “If the safety systems are not operated and maintained well, then major accidents can happen” Other links: Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (H.U.E.T.) Offshore Safety Performance Management.doc Offshore [...]
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Oil is pumped from deep underground and under seas. Once it has been collected, it is transported to a refinery where it is turned into useful products for customers. A barrel of crude oil is 42-gallons. From this, regulations force refineries to turn at least 50 percent into gasoline. Crude oil from each reservoir has [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 — Petrovietnam plans to sell a 49% stake in its Dung Quat refinery, which is scheduled to go online in February (OGJ Online, Dec. 11, 2008). “Petrovietnam would appraise the refinery’s value and negotiate with foreign partners before selling the stake,” said Petrovietnam chairman Dinh La Thang. The Vietnamese firm, which [...]
A refinery is a factory. A refinery takes a raw material (crude oil) and transforms it into petrol and hundreds of other useful products. A typical large refinery costs billions of pounds to build and millions more to run and upgrade. It runs around the clock 365 days a year, employs hundreds of people and [...]
Crude oil, natural gas and coal are fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are very precious resources because they are non-renewable (once they’re used, that’s it!). We can also make lots of organic chemicals from them, needed to make products such as paints, detergents, polymers (including plastics), cosmetics and some medicines. Fossil fuels were formed from the fossillized [...]
