Energy industries and utilities

HAVE YOU been tasked with developing a plan to transition your organisation to 100% renewable energy but need more information to make this project a success?

New drilling techniques for oil and natural gas are propelling an energy production renaissance in the United States.

Ludwig's Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants Incorporating Process Safety Incidents is ever evolving starting with the first edition some 60 years ago.

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) technology are promising forms of low-temperature electrochemical power conversion technologies that operate on hydrogen and methanol respectively.

Functional Materials for the Oil and Gas Industry: Characterization and Applications discusses the latest techniques in characterization and applications of functional materials in the oil and gas industry.

Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natural gas reserves, has been hit hard by economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions since its 1979 revolution.

Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait.

After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, the so-called 'last empire', in 1991, the countries of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan - and of the Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia - became independent nations.

American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.

The quest for oil can be seen as a defining principle of global US foreign policy, an imperative which has shaped and redefined the practice of American diplomacy, especially in the wake of 9/11, which raised questions about the stability of global oil resources.

The American bombing of terrorist bases in Afghanistan under the protection of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement has brought the Taliban into sharp focus as the most radical and extreme Islamic movement in the world today.

Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices and polio are both booming, where small villages challenge giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own mini-state.

The 1973 'Oil Shock' is considered a turning point in the history of the twentieth century.

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost.

The 1973 'Oil Shock' is considered a turning point in the history of the twentieth century.

The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, on 25 October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history.

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, commonly known as OPEC, has been a notoriously opaque and mysterious organization.

The quest for oil can be seen as a defining principle of global US foreign policy, an imperative which has shaped and redefined the practice of American diplomacy, especially in the wake of 9/11, which raised questions about the stability of global oil resources.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union into independent states was among the most momentous political phenomena of the twentieth century.

This original analysis of the Middle East water problems highlights questions and issues which have so far only received minimal attention.

This is a study of the geo-strategic implications of the Taliban.

Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices and polio are both booming, where small villages challenge giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own mini-state.

Oil and natural gas are now acknowledged to be the driving forces of international politics.

The environmental, the economic - and indeed the political - impact of the catastrophic 2010 blowout of BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has highlighted the central part played by oil in the modern world.

It has long been acknowledged that in America the car is king.

The nuclear fuel cycle is characterised by the wide range of scientific disciplines and technologies it employs.

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) technology are promising forms of low-temperature electrochemical power conversion technologies that operate on hydrogen and methanol respectively.

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) technology are promising forms of low-temperature electrochemical power conversion technologies that operate on hydrogen and methanol respectively.

Oil has played a major role in Venezuela's economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922.

Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States.

Eco-nationalism examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its substantial decline after 1991.

In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue.

In Landscapes of Power Dana E.

Outstanding Title by Choice MagazineOn the banks of the Pacific Northwests greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert.

A Brookings Institution Press and Chatham House publicationNinety percent of the world's oil reserves are entrusted to state-owned companies.

The human drama, and long-term lessons, of the Fukushima nuclear disasterThe Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 presented an enormous challenge even to Japan, one of the world's most advanced and organized countries.

Although the airline, railroad, telecommunications, and electric power industries are at very different stages in adjusting to regulatory reform, each industry faces the same critical public policy question: Are policymakers taking appropriate steps to stimulate competition or are they turning back the clock by slowing the process of deregulation?

This reference has been written for emergency response personnel, plant safety specialists, and emergency response coordinators.

The UN's Net Zero goal is to limit the rise in mean global temperatures to 1.

From 1868-1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China.

While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all.

Volume 2 of the Getenergy Guides series explores the challenges of developing a technically competent workforce for the oil and gas sector globally.

This book examines the reduction of natural resource revenue dependency in resource-rich countries.

From 1868-1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China.

The nuclear fuel cycle is characterised by the wide range of scientific disciplines and technologies it employs.

The human drama, and long-term lessons, of the Fukushima nuclear disasterThe Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 presented an enormous challenge even to Japan, one of the world's most advanced and organized countries.

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) technology are promising forms of low-temperature electrochemical power conversion technologies that operate on hydrogen and methanol respectively.

Dieses Buch bietet als Band 2 einer zunächst vier Bände umfassenden Reihe grundlegende Informationen zum Thema „Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit“.

Quite a large number of major oil and gas projects are failures with respect to their costs, schedules, and operational performance.

In using risk-informed approaches for ensuring safety of operating nuclear power plants (NPPs), risk importance measures obtained from probabilistic risk assessments (PRAs) of the plants are integral elements of consideration in many cases.