Green Economy versus Dark Health: Risk Tolerance Boosts Adaptation to Soot-Contaminated Environment by Catherine N. Ekwe, Catherine C. Okpara, Larry O. Awo

“… There are growing mental health concerns over soot contamination of Niger-delta communities as a result of oil exploration activities. Our study sought to understand soot risk tolerance (SRT) as a pathway through which the association between exposure to soot (ES) and perceived soot risk concerns (SRC) could be explained among residents of oil-producing communities in the Coastal region of Nigeria. …”
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Thermally-responsive, nonflammable phosphonium ionic liquid electrolytes for lithium metal batteries: operating at 100 degrees celsius by Lin, X., Grinstaff, M. W., Kavian, Reza, Lu, Y., Hu, Q., Shao-Horn, Yang

“…Rechargeable batteries such as Li ion/Li metal batteries are widely used in the electronics market but the chemical instability of the electrolyte limits their use in more demanding environmental conditions such as in automotive, oil exploration, or mining applications. In this study, a series of alkyl phosphonium ionic liquid electrolyte are described with high thermal stability and solubility for LiTFSI. …”
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Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa by Vicente, P

“…We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being in power when the actual oil exploration begins. We test this proposition by analyzing the impact of the oil discovery announcements that took place in 1997-99 in São Tomé and Príncipe (West Africa). …”

Does oil corrupt? Evidence from a natural experiment in West Africa by Vicente, P

“…We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being in power when the actual oil exploration begins. We test this proposition by analyzing the impact of the oil discovery announcements that took place in 1997-99 in Sao Tome and Principe (West Africa). …”

A review and bibliometric analysis on applications of microbial degradation of hydrocarbon contaminants in arctic marine environment at metagenomic and enzymatic levels by Verasoundarapandian, Gayathiri, Chiew, Yen Wong, Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi, Gomez Fuentes, Claudio, Zulkharnain, Azham, Ahmad, Siti Aqlima

“…Primary sources of hydrocarbon pollution are instigated through oil exploration, extraction, and transportation in the Arctic region. …”

Spatio-temporal analysis of vegetation and oil spill intensity in Ogoniland by Dutsenwai, Hafsat Saleh, Ahmad, Baharin, Tanko, A. I., Mijinyawa, Abubakar

“…Ogoniland, Niger Delta Nigeria is an area that has been subjected to terrestrial oil spills from the beginning of oil exploration in the 1950s till date. Despite many studies and practical efforts by different organizations and multinational companies, oil spills continue to occur and their impacts persist. …”

THE STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND PH VALUE ON ADSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF UREA BASED SACRIFICIAL AGENT IN CLAY MINERALS by Andi Mohd Syaiful Andi Radi, Mazlin Idress, Farah Rosmaniza Redzuan

“…The Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) process has grown within the time oil exploration was conducted, and many recovery methods were invented to maximize production. …”
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A Model for Simulating the Upward Flow of a Viscous Fluid in a Fracture Network by Zhipeng Qin, Yang Li, Huifen Li, Jiakun Men, Shuhang Zhang

“…Fluid migration in a fracture network plays an important role in the oil accumulation mechanism and hence is key to oil exploration. In this study, we build a model by combining one-dimensional (1D) Navier–Stokes equations, linear elastic equations, and energy equations, and validate the model by reproducing the thickness profile of a fluid-driven crack measured in an experiment. …”
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Fractured Zone Detection Using Petrophysical Logs by Rescaled Windowed R/S Analyses and Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) of Yanchang Formation in Mahuangshan-Hongliugou Area, Ordos... by Jindong Gao, Lirong Li, Gaorun Gao, Shuwei Ma, Meng Li

“…Therefore, characterizing the characteristics of the fracture zones for tight oil exploration and development effectively is essential. …”
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Extraction of persistent lagrangian coherent structures for the pollutant transport prediction in the Bay of Bengal by V. Trinadha Rao, V. Suneel, Venkata Sai Gulakaram, Chilukuri Lakshmi Sravani

“…In addition, the application of cLCSs to study the transport of hypothetical oil spills occurring at one of the active oil exploration sites (Krishna-Godavari basin) was described. …”
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Hydrocarbon Pollution Detection and Mapping Based on the Combination of Various Hyperspectral Imaging Processing Tools by Véronique Achard, Pierre-Yves Foucher, Dominique Dubucq

“…The methods developed were then applied to two very different cases: mapping of the shoreline contaminated due to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) platform based on AVIRIS images (AVIRIS: Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer), and detection of a tar pit on a former oil exploration site. The detection strategy depends on the type of oil, light or heavy, recently or formerly spilled, and on the substrate. …”
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Exploring the preference for indigenous medicinal plant medicine in Buliisa District, Western Uganda by Kyazike Elizabeth

“…Though the harvesting poses a key conservation challenge, the secrecy embedded in the transmission of indigenous knowledge, education, Christianity and oil exploration is each equally a threat. The study recommends that since most herbal medicines have no overdose, there is a need to undertake more research to document the dosage and side-effects of using medicinal plants and compile a red list of the endangered species. …”
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Effects of Epidemics on Population; Actions of Central Government and Effective Factors (Northern Coast of Persian Gulf 1300-1320 A.H.S.) by Abdulrasool Khirandish, Akram Kavoosi

“…At the beginning of Reza Shah’s reign and the government’s attitude towards modernization, it was expected that diseases would be eradicated all over the Northern Coast of Persian Gulf; nevertheless, several factors such as war, drought, local Khans’ engagement, oil exploration etc. had an effect on the government’s actions and caused the government to pay attention to some areas more than others, so the population increased in these areas and other areas faced low growth and population decline. …”
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Short Survey of Architectures of Photovoltaic Arrays for Solar Power Generation Systems by Alexander Abramovitz, Doron Shmilovitz

“…The ongoing offshore oil exploration activities; the infrastructure for oil extraction, production, and transportation; and the inevitable oil spills cause severe damage to the environment and huge loss of sea life, flora, and fauna. …”
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An Improved Equilibrium Optimizer Algorithm and Its Application in LSTM Neural Network by Pu Lan, Kewen Xia, Yongke Pan, Shurui Fan

“…In this paper, the oil layers related to oil exploration are predicted using long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. …”
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Review on Fixed and Floating Offshore Structures. Part I: Types of Platforms with Some Applications by Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Ahmed Reda, Harrison Obed Butler, Idris Ahmed Ja’e, Chen An

“…This study examines the fundamentals of all types of offshore structures (fixed and floating), as well as the applications of these concepts for oil exploration and production. The study also presents various design parameters for state-of-the-art offshore platforms and achievements made in the industry. …”
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A new tectono sedimentary framework of the Jurassic succession in the Merjan oil field, Central Iraq by Mohammed Sadi Fadhel, Ali M. Al-Rahim

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THE EFFECT OF PRESSURE DEPRESSION ON THE WATER INFLOW VOLUME TO WELLS WHICH COVER CARBONATE ROCKS IN THE CARPATHIAN FOREDEEP BASEMENT, SE POLAND by Mirosław Rzyczniak, Marek L. Solecki, Dagmara Zeljaś, Stanisław J. Dubiel

“…Based on the results of 17 two-cycle DST reservoir tests, the dependence of the volume of the reservoir water flow rate from the Mesozoic carbonate reservoirs (Upper Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous) to the wells as a function of the mean depression of bottom pressure was researched in the selected oil exploration area in the Carpathian Foredeep basement, SE Poland. …”
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Final report to the National Science Foundation for the period July 1, 1978 to June 30, 1980 of project on cartel behavior and exhaustible resource supply : a case study of the wor...

“…Any forecast of this market depends on analysis of the likely demand for oil imports by major consuming countries, and the likely supply from exporters who behave as "price-takers" in their oil exploration and production. The resulting net demand for oil from the core members of the oil cartel determines the ability of OPEC to set prices. …”
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Marine pollution: a study into the insufficiency of punishment imposed on oil spillage in Malaysia / Nadiia Md Yazid, Adam Idris and Syazwani Turiman by Md Yazid, Nadiia, Idris, Adam, Turiman, Syazwani

“…As a developing costal state, geographically located in a region of intense oil exploration and development activities and lying across the main oil transport route between the oil exporting countries in West Asia and Japan and other importing countries in the East, Malaysia cannot expect to totally escape pollution. …”
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