05.07.2009
The maximum amount of stress that a material can sustain without failure
The largest quoted oil services group. Global oilfield and information services company with a major focus on energy. Shares in Schlumberger rose 231% between 2004 and 2007 whilst those of ExxonMobil the world’s biggest quoted energy company rose only 89% in the same period
To be carried out after infrastructure has been laid on land such as an underground natural gas pipeline
The Samsung Ceyhan (SCP) oil pipeline is due to be completed during 2009-2010. The pipeline is due to transmit CPC blend oil, as it passes via north Turkey southwards (ENI is the operator)
Nonpartisan organization that aims to reduce America’s dependence on oil, addressing business and technology, politics and advocacy, and public education and media. >
Main energy sectoral levels are transportation, heating, power generation, cooling steam. At the sectoral level, transportation is the key for future oil demand growth, with the greatest potential in developing countries, where levels of vehicle ownership are still very low. Four billion people live in countries with less than one car per twenty people. In OECD countries this ratio is typically around one car for every two people, close to saturation