Occidental Petroleum and Valero Energy Corporations Columbia College Introduction Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) and Valero Energy Corporation (Valero) are both international oil and gas companies, with Valero also specializing in marketing of transportation fuels, petrochemical products, and power. Each company has made an international footprint on the earth by extracting billions of gallons of oil and petroleum products worldwide. Oxy was founded in California in 1920, but
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The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst disaster in U.S. history.(Worse than not graduating high school) Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the time the well was capped on July 15, 2010 (87 days later), an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil had leaked into the Gulf
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Cultural International/Global B. Corporate Review Mission The mission of Filoil Gas Company is to provide qualified entrepreneurs a good source of earnings by operating their own retail stations. Our company is dedicated in providing quality petroleum products and services for all its customers and is geared towards helping elevate the lives of Filipinos. Vision Filoil’s vision is to become the national symbol of energy and power for the new generation. Filoil believes that the Filipinos can
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Delivery date: April 19th 2013 NPRE 101 – INTRODUCTION TO ENERGY SOURCES END OF TERM PAPER PROF. RUZIC HYDRAULIC FRACTURING AND THE EAGLE FORD SHALE Patricio Calles Almeida – UIN 651559726 Everyone knows that the urge to find an alternative to fossil fuels is one of the top priorities of technology researchers and scientists. We also know that the United States is becoming more and more dependable on foreign resources as the national ones are running low. However, fossil fuels are still
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BP, one of the biggest energy companies in the world, had an oil rig explosion, causing the largest spill in the U.S. history. On April 20, 2010 the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig resulted in the deaths of 11 workers and the leakage of over four million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. To show that BP is a company that takes responsibility for its actions, BP created the Gulf of Mexico Restoration page to provide information about the situation. “Gulf of Mexico Restoration” website
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Apache Corporation was conceived over 50 years ago. Its growth has created a company that is built to last. Apache was formed in 1954 with $250,000 of investor capital with the simple concept of becoming a significant and profitable oil company. Today, Apache Corporation is one of the world's top independent oil and gas exploration and production companies. Apache Corporation engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. The company’s
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High Fuel Prices and its Effect on the U.S. Economy The United States economy as a whole has been rapidly dwindling down of late, from its all time high marks in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Many Americans believe that the cause for this large downswing in the economy is due to the fact of the cost that the United States is putting into the War in Iraq. The war has caused some economic inflation over the past couple of years however; there are other factors that tie into the economic problem
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Review of Wall Street Journal Case 1 Article Name: Japanese Rush to Sell Gold as Price in Yen Jumps Article Address: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323820304578412283865306950.html?mod=WSJ_business_AsiaNewsBucket#articleTabs%3Darticle Review: The news shows when Japanese currency Yen is softening, the gold price is rising in Japan, which causes Japanese families rush to sell gold to gain more money. The phenomenon may indicate that the gold demand in Japan is slightly elastic
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Chevron Corporation What began as the Pacific Coast Oil Company on September 10, 1879 in San Francisco transformed into what is now Chevron Corporation, recently ranked 8th among the world’s top oil companies by Petroleum Intelligence Weekly in 2011, second among US oil companies behind ExxonMobil. The company has a market capitalization of over $204.9 billion. They have expanded into essentially every area of the energy industry, including exploring for, producing, and transporting crude oil and
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Matthew Hecker Mr. McIntire Public Speaking 2 2 November 2012 Alternative Forms for Transportation With the rising gas prices, more and more people have turned to other forms of transportation to save every dollar to make it through this hard economy. Many have turned to public forms of transportation, such as busses or trains. Others have taken up another growing form of transportation, carpooling. Some have even taken it upon themselves to get a bicycle, or walk, which would be means of
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