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Offshore Enviroment Concerns

Article by Nichole Fowler

It appears times may be changing as politicians have altered their positions on the offshore drilling ban to cater to the high demand, both nationally and internationally, for fuel. This flippant change in political position can negatively impact marine life, as well as other aspects of our environment. Offshore drilling always had its risks as far as employee safety, but if the ban is lifted, more environmental risks surface for aquatic life.

The initial federal ban was passed in 1981 by Congress to protect sites off the coast of California and Massachusetts. A decade after the initial ban, President George H.W. Bush put his own ban which was later extended through to the year 2012 under Bill Clinton’s presidency. Extending up to 200 miles offshore, the Outer Continental Shelf is ideal hunting ground for oil companies. President Barack Obama is an advocate of the offshore drilling expansion, perhaps making the ban against offshore drilling a thing of the past. Moving rigs further out to land previously untouched by oil platforms could be in our near future; an obvious maneuver to distance the United States from foreign fuel dependency, but a big hazardous threat to the environment.

In 2008, ExxonMobil suspended their exploration near Madagascar when over 100 whales began beaching themselves onshore. Immobile and unable to push themselves back into the sea, these whales died as a result of dehydration or by the pressure of their own bodies causing their lungs to collapse. Sea creatures such as the whale often beach themselves on shore when they are very sick and/or dying. Some scientists argue that the chemicals released and involved in the oil drilling process could be a contributing factor. Others will argue that merely disrupting the habitat can inflict harm on the local marine life. Offshore drilling can harm the environment beyond the oil spills or leaks. These magnanimous projects taken on by man can generate excess water composed of oil, metal cuttings and other chemicals involved. The excess heterogeneous mixture is later disposed right back into the sea. The offshore drilling can diminish populations of marine life as lifecycles are disrupted by the toxic chemicals. These animals can even develop cancer if exposed continually to a nearby oil platform.

Averages of 400 oil spills occur each year. This number will only continue to increase if the ban on offshore drilling is lifted. Oil rigs and its companies will be allowed more access to waters once untouched by man’s drilling machinery. Offshore drilling is already listed as one of the most dangerous jobs to man. Now, offshore drilling could possibly be one of the most dangerous jobs to marine and land life.

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Dallas-Based MediSend International Opens BioMedical Repair Lab


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Dallas-Based MediSend International Opens BioMedical Repair Lab

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) March 22, 2006

Hospitals and medical facilities in the United States upgrading or replacing biomedical equipment are donating it to MediSend International to be shipped to developing countries lacking valuable diagnostic and treatment equipment. Often the biomedical equipment that is donated is in need of repair. Until now much of the equipment has had to remain in storage.

MediSend has opened a state-of-the art biomedical repair laboratory in their North Dallas headquarters. The large, well-equipped laboratory, funded by the ExxonMobil Foundation, has the capacity to repair and refurbish the biomedical equipment that MediSend ships to vulnerable populations worldwide, and also serves as a training facility where biomedical repair engineering students obtain first-hand experience working with complicated biomedical equipment. The laboratory’s operations are completely wireless and use Fluke Biomedical diagnostic tools and repair equipment, along with Four Rivers asset management software.

“It is a natural extension of our operations to have the capability of repairing the biomedical equipment,” says Nick Hallack, President and CEO of MediSend. “We see this as a major step in our ability to help improve healthcare conditions in developing countries and are grateful for the generosity of ExxonMobil,” says Hallack.

MediSend’s Biomedical Repair Laboratory is providing a special internship program for one of MediSend’s community partners, Texas State Technical College. TSTC students have already begun working on equipment and receiving first-hand, on-the-job training under the guidance of

Costel Rizescu, PhD.

“The lab will enable MediSend to provide life-saving tools to developing countries,” says Dr. Rizescu who adds that the new biomedical repair lab also offers a “great volunteer opportunity” for biomedical engineers and professors wanting to give of their time and expertise.

The repaired equipment will be shipped in good working condition and will receive a Certificate of Approval from the MediSend Biomedical Repair Laboratory. Shipments will also contain spare parts and manuals as well as the supplies required to perform the specific tests or treatments.

Last year ExxonMobil’s generous support allowed MediSend to send shipments of medical equipment and supplies to El Salvador, Tsunami-ravaged Indonesia, Columbia, Equatorial Guinea, and Angola. With the aid of NGO’s such as the World Health Organization, United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP), Save the Children, Cure International and the International Red Cross, supplies have made it into the waiting hands of doctors and surgeons in countries where medical supplies are desperately needed.

MediSend is a non-profit agency that addresses the medical supply and health care needs of developing countries worldwide. With donations from manufacturers, distributors, and hospital systems, MediSend provides shipments of medical aid to pre-qualified public and charitable institutions abroad. After MediSend collects supplies and equipment, the items are inventoried, repaired when necessary, and distributed to charitable institutions in long-term programs.

For more information on program sponsorship and volunteer opportunities at MediSend, call Nick Hallack at 214-575-5006, extension 112.

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Core sample

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MethodsPlease help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page. (August 2007)gravity coring, in which the core sampler is dropped into the sampledrilling exploration diamond drillingvibracoring, in which the sampler is vibrated to allow penetration into thixotropic media. Management of cores and dataCoring is the method to retrieve cores samples from the ground. Coring is often utilised in ocean drilling and surveying. Scientist often using coring to acquire core samples for study.Drilling equipment is often used for coring. Rock core is often taken during mineral exploration operations to help determine the rock type and amount of mineralisation present. A diamond impregnated core bit is used which is rotated to cut an annulus of rock, producing a rock core which extends through the bit into the core barrel. In a wireline system, the core barrel can be retrieved using a wire cable that is run inside the drill rods. Thus, the drill rods do not have to be removed from the borehole each time a core run is complete. Diamond coring can be carried out to depth of 2000m using conventional mineral exploration drilling equipment. Core can be recovered from deeper wells but the operation becomes more expensive.The technique of coring long predates attempts to drill into the Earth mantle by the Deep Sea Drilling Program. The value to oceanic and other geologic history of obtaining cores over a wide area of sea floors soon became apparent. Core sampling by many scientific and exploratory organizations expanded rapidly. To date hundreds of thousands of core samples have been collected from floors of all the planet oceans and many of its inland waters.Access to many of these samples is facilitated by the Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples,”A collaboration between twenty institutions and agencies that operate geological repositories.”The above agency keeps a record of the samples held in the repositories of its member organizations. Data includes”Lithography, texture, age, principal investigator, province, weathering/metamorphism, glass remarks and descriptive comments” LayeringMain article: StratigraphyAny natural medium at or under the Earth surface or other body that is consistent enough to maintain a solid or semi-solid structure is layered. The layering comes from successive deposition or growth in time of structural or compositional variants of the medium.Most familiar to us are the stratigraphic layers of the Earth surface on which the geologic history of the surface is based; for example, the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, etc. Each layer in this case contains distinctive fossils generated by the evolution of species. Layers often are divided into sublayers.Layering is more pervasive than the broad outline of the Geologic Time Scale leads us to believe. Any change in environment causes a new layer to be deposited. A succession of plant species in a region, for example, causes a succession of layers containing different pollen in ice and mud. Variation in rainfall causes tree rings to be of different widths. Informational value of core samplesScientific coring began as a method of sampling the ocean floor. It soon expanded to lakes, ice, mud, soil and wood. Cores on very old trees give information about their growth rings without destroying the tree.Cores indicate variations of climate, species and sedimentary composition during geologic history. The dynamic phenomena of the Earth surface are for the most part cyclical in a number of ways, especially temperature and rainfall.There are many ways to date a core. Once dated, it gives valuable information about changes of climate and terrain. For example, cores in the ocean floor, soil and ice have altered the view of the geologic history of the Pleistocene entirely. See alsoIce coreScientific drillingCore drill External linksCore SampleAquifer Core SamplesCore from Walden PondIce Core Datingv  d  ePetroleum industryExplorationPetroleum engineering (Reservoir simulation  Seismic to simulation)  Petroleum geology  Geophysics  Seismic (Seismic inversion)  Petrophysics  Core samplingDrillingDrilling engineering  Underbalanced drilling  Directional drilling  (Measurement while drilling  Geosteering)  Drilling fluid  Drill Stem TestDevelopmentCompletion (Squeeze job)  Well logging  Pipeline transport  TracersProductionArtificial lift (Pumpjack  ESP  Gas lift)  EOR (Steam injection  Gas reinjection)  Water injection  Well intervention  Upstream  Midstream  Downstream  RefiningTechnical challengesDifferential sticking  Drilling fluid invasion  Blowouts  Lost circulationOil and gas agreementsProduction sharing agreements  Concessions  Service Agreements  Risk agreementsData by countryTotal energy (consumption per capita  intensity)  Natural gas (consumption  production  reserves  imports  exports)  Petroleum (consumption  production  reserves  imports  exports)SupermajorsExxonMobil  Royal Dutch Shell  BP  Chevron Corporation  ConocoPhillips  Total S.A. (See also: National oil companies)Major oil provincesNorth Sea  East Texas  Persian Gulf  Athabasca oil sands  Gulf of Mexico  Venezuela  Niger Delta  RussiaRelated articlesOPEC  History of petroleum  Peak oil  Oil price increases since 2003  Price of petroleum  Society of Petroleum Engineers Categories: Glaciology | Mining | Well logging | Environmental science | Geophysics | Petrology | StratigraphyHidden categories: Articles to be expanded from August 2007 | All articles to be expanded

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SF Jury Awards $1,083,000 in Asbestos Cancer Case


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SF Jury Awards $ 1,083,000 in Asbestos Cancer Case

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2006

A jury has awarded $ 1,083,000 to Merle Sandy, a 60–year–old retired pipefitter suffering from asbestosis and colon cancer caused by his on–the–job exposure to asbestos. Asbestosis is a painful scarring of the lungs that causes shortness of breath and reduced lung capacity. It is not curable. Mr. Sandy underwent surgery for the colon cancer, but the tumor has spread to his liver and his condition remains serious.

The defendant, Exxon Mobil Corporation, is the former owner and operator of an oil refinery located in Benicia, California, where Merle Sandy did industrial maintenance work. He was exposed to dangerous levels of asbestos while removing insulation and working with asbestos gaskets, packing and welding blankets.

Employed by an independent contractor, Mr. Sandy worked at the Benicia refinery from 1970 through 1974. He also worked at the refinery in 1977 and 1979. Although Exxon Mobil personnel oversaw Mr. Sandy’s work, the company did not disclose that the products he was working with were hazardous, or provide information about the location of asbestos at the refinery, the plaintiff said. Exxon Mobil also did not instruct Mr. Sandy about how to work safely to prevent asbestos exposure or provide him with respiratory protection.

The testimony of Exxon Mobil’s medical officials, as well as internal documents, established that the company was fully aware of the risk of disease posed by asbestos dust at its refinery properties as early as 1937, according to the plaintiff.

Christopher Andreas and Andrew Chew of the Novato, CA office of Brayton Purcell represented Merle Sandy at trial. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Gail Dekreon presided. The case is Merle Sandy v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (San Francisco Superior Court, No. 324212).

About Brayton Purcell:

For over 20 years, Brayton Purcell has helped clients protect their legal rights in the face of devastating losses such as illness, injuries, and harm to family members. The law firm enjoys a national reputation for the high quality of its personal injury and product liability work, particularly in the areas of asbestosis, asbestos colon cancer, asbestos lung cancer, mesothelioma and other asbestos diseases.

For more information, call 415-898-1555 or visit our firm web site at http://www.braytonlaw.com. For legal, legislative and medical news about mesothelioma and other asbestos cancers, see our specialty web sites, Asbestos Network at http://www.asbestosnetwork.com and Mesothelioma Network at http://www.mesotheliomasite.com

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Q&A: Are there any ExxonMobil engineering jobs in Hong Kong?

Question by Rhi: Are there any ExxonMobil engineering jobs in Hong Kong?

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According to their website, there are two positions open for professionals seeking employment. However, since you didn’t specify whether or not you were a recent university graduate or someone already working in the field, I recommend you start with their employment options page:

http://www.exxonmobil.com/USA-English/HR/Siteflow/HK.asp

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Sema Show in Las Vegas, is quite a show

Article by Nick Wilkerson

Well really that hard to disassociate car tuned, or modified and even poisoned, if you will, a bunch of kids drawers of road races that fill with trinkets their vehicles, many utility and questionable taste, in the style set out by the movie The Fast & The Furious.But the fact is that the universe of accessories, at least in the United States is far, far beyond that. To be exact, $ 36.7 billion in addition. Year.There the automotive accessories industry is viewed very differently, and private, especially in a country accustomed to measure almost everything by value, move that amount of money, companies and jobs.The big difference from what happens in Brazil and other countries for the American reality in the universe of accessories, or tuning, is the result of simple noun: organization. To which serves the best representation for four-letter acronym – Sema.Sema is a nonprofit, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, born in 1963 as Speed Equipment Market Association. Gathers today more than 7000 members, manufacturers and distributors of accessories of all kinds, all focused on the aftermarket. It’s kind of Sindipeças accessories, to focus on the national reality.And this membership organization makes all the difference. Together, manufacturers paddling course where the tide favors them, carrying thousands of businesses and consumers. Or, how to fold the entity, “the love for vehicles and their performance and personalization.”The strength of the Shema goes far beyond what one might imagine at first sight. In 2003, for example, has established itself at the center of American power, Washington DC, with a lobby group called Sema Political Action Committee, or simply Sema CAP. And it already has, among others, with 81 deputies and 12 senators – Republicans and Democrats.In other words Sema has very strong performance in everything that can benefit or pose threat to it and its members. Ensures that the CEO Christopher Kersting goal is to fight for clear rules with regard to security, application and use of automotive accessories.Bringing back the equation to the Brazilian reality, here Sema was directly involved, for example, in recent discussions about legalization of couplers, release the use of GPS in the panel, the mandatory use of tracking and more. And it would have great influence on the decisions of the National Department in this regard.Sema also conducts programs and events related to automotive safety and education at the wheel, even for children – is radically against cracks or handles, for example. Kersting ensures that “Sema is a major center of business development and technology to its members and to society. Your goal is to meet the industry’s widest possible way, helping members develop their businesses and consumers to buy safe products that enhance performance, appearance, comfort or convenience of their vehicles. “It was precisely based on this reasoning that Sema has managed to place in the minds of aficionados vehicle brands that are now a reference, and were born mostly from the surname of their creators in the business of fund-of-facing backyard races: Brembo, Edelbrock, Foose, Mallory, Shelby, Simpson, Thompson, Weber …And not just by chance one of today’s most active committees of Sema is the international business. It is one of the approaches to which the organization focuses more on stress for its members to send their products to other parts of the United States around the world – so many booths at the SEMA Show brought multilingual board: We export. And for that, once again, the organization uses its marketing and political knowledge.Because he knows very well that in many countries Sema customization or modification of vehicles is simply prohibited by the traffic law, the case of Brazil, China and Italy, for example – though not exactly in the three met to the letter. But the group has clear vision that this is an important obstacle to their ambitions to grow internationally, and seems willing to do what is necessary to reverse the situation.Linda Spencer, director of international relations and government Sema offers promptly “any kind of legal and political aid to other markets”, ie know-how to countries of the entity governing the use of automotive accessories, which in table means the official opening of new international markets to its affiliates.For all this and more as the Sema Show, an annual event on the 40th anniversary edition in 2007, always held the first week of November, is much more than just a tweaked saloon cars, as it may seem at first sight.The SEMA Show was born in 1967 in Los Angeles as a showcase for products manufactured by members of the entity. And today is the largest room accessories and tuned cars in the world, including car by which they make great efforts (see box).There are about 100 000 m2, 2,000 exhibitors and 125,000 visitors from 100 countries around the Las Vegas Convention Center. In 1967 were meager 98 exhibitors and 3000 visitors, only the United States. The difference in numbers is the perfect mirror of Sema and growth of their exposure.The stands are mostly small and simple – basically just carpet, tables, parts and cars – which helps explain the flood of exhibitors. But it is necessary breath of athlete – and tennis – to scroll through all the halls, separated by sectors: 4×4, accessories in general, audio, and mobile electronics, competition and performance, tools and equipment, tires and wheels, and restoration. The booths of the manufacturers are purposely spread over these areas, forcing all to visit. There were Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Lexus, Nissan, Scion, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota – the official sponsor of the event – and Volkswagen. And suppliers garbo 3M, BASF, Bosch, Continental, DuPont, Eaton, ExxonMobil, Firestone, Garrett, Goodyear, Lear, Mahle, Pilkington, Pirelli, PPG and Shell, among others.Impossible to measure both the special vehicles on show: the fact is that do not fit in the pavilions and the appropriate amount is still wedged in the open area – rain is rare in Las Vegas, which helps. 4×4 pickup trucks ranging from huge height of six feet, the low-riders are able to prevent ant pass under them.By the very nature of the show suit and tie are not exactly welcome, or common. Lose shot crooked hats, tattoos and piercings – but it is worth remembering that the entrance is closed to the public, limited to guests directly involved with the industry.Originally published in the journal AutoData. 220, December 2007

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ExxonMobil enjoyed record profits and payed no US taxes in 2009. How many US jobs did they create?

Question by S O: ExxonMobil enjoyed record profits and payed no US taxes in 2009. How many US jobs did they create?
ExxonMobil and other oil companies are required to pay very high tax rates in many “other” country’s (higher than the marginal corporate tax rate in the US). Obviously this high rate in other country’s should deter them from employing labor outside the US, and drive them to create jobs in the US, due to our lower corporate tax rate.

So… Does anyone know just how many “new” jobs ExxonMobil has created in the US due to our low rate of corporate taxation?
ME – Lies? About what?http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Tax/ge-exxon-paid-us-income-taxes-09/story?id=10300167
ME – And nobody pays it. Change your answer again.
MikeGolf – ExxonMobil paid 0 dollars in US taxes. They paid 15 billion to other country’s they do business in. Does Fox not cover this stuff when they whine about high corporate tax rates in the US?
John – Apparently their lower here than the country’s that ExxonMobil is actually paying taxes to do business in. Since they paid zero here.

Best answer:

Answer by Me
Stop with the lies.

They employ THOUSANDS of Americans and they do pay taxes. The SHAREHOLDERS pay taxes too.

BTW Einstein the USA has the second highest corporate taxes in the world.

EDIT: Did you know that shareholders pay taxes on the profits? They own the company.

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SF Jury Awards $1,083,000 in Asbestos Cancer Case


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SF Jury Awards $ 1,083,000 in Asbestos Cancer Case

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2006

A jury has awarded $ 1,083,000 to Merle Sandy, a 60–year–old retired pipefitter suffering from asbestosis and colon cancer caused by his on–the–job exposure to asbestos. Asbestosis is a painful scarring of the lungs that causes shortness of breath and reduced lung capacity. It is not curable. Mr. Sandy underwent surgery for the colon cancer, but the tumor has spread to his liver and his condition remains serious.

The defendant, Exxon Mobil Corporation, is the former owner and operator of an oil refinery located in Benicia, California, where Merle Sandy did industrial maintenance work. He was exposed to dangerous levels of asbestos while removing insulation and working with asbestos gaskets, packing and welding blankets.

Employed by an independent contractor, Mr. Sandy worked at the Benicia refinery from 1970 through 1974. He also worked at the refinery in 1977 and 1979. Although Exxon Mobil personnel oversaw Mr. Sandy’s work, the company did not disclose that the products he was working with were hazardous, or provide information about the location of asbestos at the refinery, the plaintiff said. Exxon Mobil also did not instruct Mr. Sandy about how to work safely to prevent asbestos exposure or provide him with respiratory protection.

The testimony of Exxon Mobil’s medical officials, as well as internal documents, established that the company was fully aware of the risk of disease posed by asbestos dust at its refinery properties as early as 1937, according to the plaintiff.

Christopher Andreas and Andrew Chew of the Novato, CA office of Brayton Purcell represented Merle Sandy at trial. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Gail Dekreon presided. The case is Merle Sandy v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (San Francisco Superior Court, No. 324212).

About Brayton Purcell:

For over 20 years, Brayton Purcell has helped clients protect their legal rights in the face of devastating losses such as illness, injuries, and harm to family members. The law firm enjoys a national reputation for the high quality of its personal injury and product liability work, particularly in the areas of asbestosis, asbestos colon cancer, asbestos lung cancer, mesothelioma and other asbestos diseases.

For more information, call 415-898-1555 or visit our firm web site at http://www.braytonlaw.com. For legal, legislative and medical news about mesothelioma and other asbestos cancers, see our specialty web sites, Asbestos Network at http://www.asbestosnetwork.com and Mesothelioma Network at http://www.mesotheliomasite.com

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Dallas: 2010 ExxonMobil CSJP Kick-Off

The ExxonMobil Community Summer Jobs Program celebrates the start of its 20th year in Dallas.
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1001 Narcille Baytown, Tx 77520. 2000 sq ft. home on a corner lot!! It is a very spacious 3 bedroom and 2 full bath house. It also has a very spacious living room and dining room. Wait until you see the master bedroom (huge) with a master closet….not to mention a fire place!! This house is located in a great neighborhood (quiet). It also has a must see backyard that is huge and has a storage shed that is very sturdy (built the old fashioned way!). The video will fill you in and get you itnterested….for lease (or sale). Plenty of jobs in Baytown, Tx (that pay well!!). This house is located in the Goose Creek School District and it is home to Exxon Mobil and Lee College. What a great place for kids to grow up. Joe 832 434 7788
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ExxonMobil Further’s Algae Biofuels Research With New Greenhouse

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