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Will British Petroleum Pay for the Damage they have done in The Gulf of Mexico?
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John Holko, owner of Lenape Resources, Inc. based in Alexander, manages and/or owns about 500 hydraulically fractured natural gas wells, 139 of which are in Livingston County.
He holds a petroleum engineering degree from Pennsylvania State University and has been active in the gas and oil industry since the early 1980s.
He recently offered to answer questions relating to technical aspects of gas drilling, and to explain why he believes the benefits accompanying high volume hydraulic fracturing in New York State would greatly outweigh any of the postulated harms.
LCN: How is ‘hydrofracking’ different from traditional gas well drilling?
Holko: The technology which has changed the way we recover natural gas is horizontal drilling. Hydrocarbons occupy layers of rock which may only be 50 or 100 feet thick.
When recovering any natural resource, the more you can expose yourself to, the more you can recover. Hydraulic fracturing as a technology dates back to the 1940s, but through advancements with drill bits and hydraulic applications we’ve gone from simply drilling a vertical hole into the ground to being able to lay the well bore flat and drill through the formation the same way the formation is layered.
Analyzes technical and cost factors to plan methods to recover maximum oil and gas in oil-field operations, utilizing knowledge of petroleum ...
To provide technical support to the LNG Plant EPC Division related to technical interface to upstream parties To provide technical support to the Manufacturing Division related to upstream gas supply and condensate delivery. Minimum 20 years oil and gas industry experience in various aspects of FEED and EPC of production facilities and pipelines, including at least one major gas project in Indonesia....
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Chemical engineering progress He has successfully helped a wide range of companies in the process, ... he worked in production engineering and safety engineering/emergency relief system ... |
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The Safety Relief Valve Handbook, Design and Use of Process Safety Valves to ASME and International Codes and Standards The Safety Valve Handbook is a professional reference for design, process, instrumentation, plant and maintenance engineers who work with fluid flow and ... |
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Lee's loss prevention in the process industries, hazard identification, assessment, and control ... of Heating and Ventilation Engineers Institution of Industrial Safety ... of Petroleum integrated pollution control International Petroleum Industry ... |
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Chemical process safety, learning from case histories Institution of Chemical Engineers, Loss Prevention Bulletin: Articles and Case Histories from Process Industries throughout the World, vol. ... |
BP's Bubbling Cauldron
"NASA staff gradually got used to the fact that it was violating its own rules," says Krause, who threw his hat into the ring to serve on the National Commission's proposed oil and gas industry safety institute. "The great problem is that you do that a
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Use of Toxic Acid Puts Millions at Risk
These “process safety management” standards require companies to conduct inspections, analyze hazards and plan for emergencies. In all, at those 32 refineries inspectors found more than 1000 violations, including nearly 600 at the BP refinery in Texas
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Attention to Detail Just like with any process at the Arizona power plant, it is centered around a standard operating procedure. “We have a procedure on how maintenance technicians take oil samples,” says lubrication engineer Bryan Johnson. “For every task, there's a work |
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Graduates need to train for Uganda's 20000 oil jobs It is wrong for one to think that, to get a job in the oil and gas industry, one should enroll and complete a four-year petroleum engineering degree. In Malaysia, university graduates with their degrees and diplomas have undertaken short-term petroleum |
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Stewarding a national oil firm through testing times We have a dedicated team helping us to lift our performance in the targeted areas of personal safety, health, process safety, environment, reliability and efficiency. Bapco sees this as an opportunity to achieve excellence in these critical areas and |