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Non-Petroleum Energy And The Petroleum Engineer

SPE California Regional Meeting, 1979
The petroleum engineer has been identified almost exclusively with the petroleum and natural gas industries and his role has been viewed primarily as being related to the drilling for and primarily as being related to the drilling for and producing of oil and natural gas, which I shall producing of oil and natural gas, which I shall refer to ...
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Petroleum Refining

Scientific American, 1919
<div class="htmlview paragraph">A short account of the discovery and early development of the oils in the Appalachian Field is followed by a description of several oil-testing instruments and of modern refinery practice with diagrams and drawings.
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In Praise of Petroleum?

Science, 2002
A mong other difficulties,[*][1] the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10) struggled with defining “sustainability.” Typical of efforts to make concrete this slippery concept was a preparatory paper addressing one of the most pressing issues in human development: how to bring modern energy services to the one-third of humanity whose ...
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History of Petroleum and Petroleum Engineering

2009
Petroleum in its various natural forms is known and utilized by mankind since immemorial times. However, its industrial development at a large scale came only in the late XIX century, first as a raw material to produce lighting oil and lubricants, and then, at the turn of the XX century, as a powerful source of energy that partially substituted for ...
MACINI, PAOLO, MESINI, EZIO
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Beyond Petroleum?

Science, 2010
Remember some years back, when British Petroleum claimed that its initials stood for “Beyond Petroleum?” Its competitors were furious at the suggestion that it was leading the push toward renewable energy. Now that BP is responsible for an oil spill that is ruining beaches, livelihoods, and wildlife, these same competitors are telling U.S.
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Prebiotic Petroleum

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2014
This short communication summarizes a global and continuous reflection on the origins of life. "Prebiotic Petroleum" assumes that "the class of most complex molecules of life that may have geochemical and abiotic origin is the class of fatty acids with long aliphatic chains" and proposes a physical process for the formation of liposomes.
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Petroleum and Coal

Analytical Chemistry, 2001
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