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  2. Health and environmental impact of the petroleum industry

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    Crude oil and petroleum distillates cause birth defects. [27] Benzene is present in both crude oil and gasoline and is known to cause leukaemia in humans. [28] The compound is also known to lower the white blood cell count in humans, which would leave people exposed to it more susceptible to infections. [28] "

  3. Factorio - Wikipedia

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    Factorio is a construction and management simulation game developed and published by Czech studio Wube Software. The game was announced via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in 2013 and released for Windows , macOS , and Linux on 14 August 2020 following an early access phase, which was made available on 25 February 2016.

  4. Water injection (oil production) - Wikipedia

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    In the oil industry, waterflooding or water injection is where water is injected into the oil reservoir, to maintain the pressure (also known as voidage replacement), or to drive oil towards the wells, and thereby increase production. Water injection wells may be located on- and offshore, to increase oil recovery from an existing reservoir.

  5. List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the ...

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    State had active oil and or gas wells as of April 2015 [134] but no accidents have been uncovered. – Major crude oil train derailment in Mosier, a small town in the Columbia gorge spilled and burst into flames June 2016. The accident was due to railway dysfunction and bad parts.

  6. Oil depletion - Wikipedia

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    In 2005, U.S. crude oil imports peaked at twice as high as domestic production; since then, U.S. oil production has increased, and imports have fallen 41%. [11] The conventional peak of oil extraction in 1970 was predicted by one of the two projections proposed by Hubbert in 1956.

  7. Parts of Texas ‘out of water’ as the rest dries out, ag ...

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    Some regions of Texas have already run out of water — and the rest face a looming crisis, the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Sunday. “We lose about a farm a week in Texas, but it ...

  8. Mexico City could run out of water in months: Travelers ... - AOL

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  9. Health consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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    The carcinogens of concern in crude oil are benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are present in oil and in the air as a result of offshore controlled burning of crude oil. [10] During the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill, an estimated one of every 20 barrels of spilled oil was deliberately burned off.