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Ensuring services are of the highest quality and responsive to the needs and wishes of patients; Ensuring that health services are effectively targeted so as to improve the health of local populations; Improving the efficiency of the services so the volume of well-targeted effective services is the widest, given the available resources. [7]
Originally called the E&P Forum (for oil and gas exploration and production), [2] in 1999 the current name was adopted. Most of the world’s leading publicly traded, private and state-owned oil & gas companies, oil & gas associations and major upstream service companies are members. The IOGP claims its members produce 40% of the world’s oil ...
Oil is "acutely lethal" to fish - that is, it kills fish quickly, at a concentration of 4000 parts per million [25] (0.4%). The toxicity of petroleum related products threaten human health. Many compounds found in oil are highly toxic and can cause cancer (carcinogenic) as well as other diseases. [23]
Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, as operator for partners Phillips Petroleum (ConocoPhillips) and Stanolind Oil & Gas , completed its historic Ship Shoal Block 32 well in November 1947, months before Superior actually drilled a discovery from their Vermilion platform farther offshore. In any case, that made Kerr-McGee's Gulf of Mexico well, Kermac No ...
In geology, a petroleum play, or simply a play, is a group of oil fields or prospects in the same region that are controlled by the same set of geological circumstances. [1] The term is widely used in the realm of exploitation of hydrocarbon-based resources.
The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC),< formerly the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, is a United States organization, representing the governors of 31 member and seven associate states, that works to ensure the nation's oil and natural gas resources are conserved and utilized to their maximum potential while protecting health, safety and the environment.
Although some oil was produced commercially before 1859 as a byproduct from salt brine wells, the American oil industry started on a major scale with the discovery of oil at the Drake Well in western Pennsylvania in 1859. The American Petroleum Institute was founded on 20 March 1919 and based in New York City. [1]
Oil & Gas France Suez SA Power France 60,856.45 07/05/1999 Total Fina SA Oil & Gas France Elf Aquitaine Oil & Gas France 50,070.05 08/11/1998 British Petroleum Co PLC Oil & Gas United Kingdom Amoco Corp Oil & Gas United States 48,174.09 09/01/2010 Petrobras Oil & Gas Brazil Brazil-Oil & Gas Blocks Oil & Gas Brazil 42,877.03 10/16/2000 Chevron Corp