What do you know about fracking? Fracking. A loaded word that has come to carry many, often negative, connotations with it. Most everyone at this point in time has heard of fracking and has a rough idea of what fracking is. Fracking technically speaking is a technique that extracts things like oil and gas from […]

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There are a lot of precautions companies must take when it comes to drilling for oil or gas. Well management involves the monitoring and reduction of harmful effects associated with oil drilling rigs, such as the release of formation fluid into the atmosphere. Formation fluids are gases or liquids that naturally occur in the earth. […]

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What is it and how is it made? Petroleum naturally occurs beneath the surface of the earth. It is a yellow to black liquid that is collected through oil drilling in order to be refined into fuel. When intense pressure and heat is applied to large quantities of dead organisms buried beneath sedimentary rock, petroleum […]

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Ethanol: This renewable fuel is an alcohol made from plant materials such as grasses, corn, and sugar cane.  The use of ethanol as fuel has increased dramatically in the United States within the last 10 years because using ethanol can help reduce oil dependency and greenhouse gas emissions. Although it varies by region, most of […]

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