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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]
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 ...
List of crude oil products; Financial and political. List of oil exploration and production companies; List of largest oil and gas companies by revenue; Chronology of world oil market events (1970–2005) Energy crisis: 1973 oil crisis, 1979 energy crisis; Energy development; Petroleum politics; World oil market chronology from 2003; Oil ...
With policy reform, drug recalls, medical breakthroughs and plenty of layoffs, 2010 proved to be an exciting -- if not entirely positive -- year for health care. The passage of the controversial ...
LONDON -- In this edition, David Kuo and veteran oil and gas expert Malcolm Graham-Wood discuss the resources industry and potential winners from the sector. Companies in the spotlight include BP ...
Public utilities are meant to supply goods and services that are considered essential; water, gas, electricity, telephone, waste disposal, and other communication systems represent much of the public utility market. The transmission lines used in the transportation of electricity, or natural gas pipelines, have natural monopoly characteristics.
The Health consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are health effects related to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. An oil discharge continued for 84 days, resulting in the largest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, estimated at 206 million gallons (4.9 ...
payments to physicians increase health care costs and may result in unfair competition. When a device manufacturer pays a physician to influence the physician’s use or recommendation of its products, rather than to advance a legitimate medical interest, the additional costs are passed on to the patients, Federal health care programs, and private