The Caspian Sea is the largest inland body of water in the entire world. It provides beautiful views to the countries that border it, and an essential port for trade between these countries. A large amount of the world’s caviar is harvested from the large sturgeon population that thrives in its murky depths. The largest reason for dissention and political dispute between the neighboring nations of the Caspian is its enormous potential for some of the largest natural resource yields in the entire world.
The Caspian Sea is bordered by five nations. Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran, and Turkmenistan, all have interest in the development of this huge body of water. The three northern countries, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, signed a 2003 agreement dividing the northern 64% of the sea amongst themselves. Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have steadily increased their oil exploration in the region since the 1990s and have been rewarded with a 70% increase in oil production.
The Caspian, in terms of oil output, is believed to hold up to 200 billion barrels of oil. This amount would be as much as a quarter of the entire Earth’s reserves and would be worth upwards of 10 trillion dollars in today’s market. Controversy erupted with the dissolution of the Soviet Union; many of the newly independent states did not recognize the ancient treaty signed by Russia and Persia that divided the lake in the middle. Preliminary solutions have been reached in the interim, dividing the region amongst the five nations, but of course, not every nation feels the new terms of division are satisfactory.
Conflicts are sure to arise between all five nations in the future because of the current situation. Currently, several oil fields are in dispute because they are shared between two or three of the countries. Iran and Azerbaijan both claim exploratory rights to the same fields; Iran has even opened fire on Azerbaijani ships venturing into this disputed area. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are grappling over a shared field because one country feels the other is pumping much more than its fair share of oil.
The natural gas deposits in this area can also be seen as over 25% of the entire Earth’s proven supplies. The profit from the extraction of natural gas is a point of contention between these countries as well. The United States and other countries that import resources from the region are watching closely as these discussions take place, because the outcome weighs heavily upon the future energy supplies of the world.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Bolivia: Natural Gas Wealthy
The South American nation of Bolivia is second only to Venezuela in natural gas reserves in South America; third to the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The way these large supplies are managed, distributed, and moderated changed on May 1, 2006, when Bolivian President Evo Morales revoked all allowance of private companies capitalizing on Bolivia’s natural gas rich land. Until that day, private companies such as the Brazilian company, Petrobas, and American company, Exxon Mobile, had been allowed to amass much wealth by exploiting Bolivia’s bountiful natural gas reserves. Morales reflected this idea, remarking, “the time has come, the awaited day, a historic day in which Bolivia retakes absolute control of our natural resources.” Going even further, saying, “the looting by foreign companies has ended.”
Morales statement had been expected but the further action taken, namely, deploying state troops to gas fields, ensuring the companies adhered to his edict, had not been expected. Bolivian reclamation of natural gas resources followed shortly behind similar action taken by their larger neighbor, Venezuela, which recently voided private companies’ drilling contracts at 32 oil fields, evicting them permanently if they would not agree to cede 60 percent stake in all future oil yields to the state owned oil company. Another South American neighbor, Ecuador, has also taken legal action to limit profits made by foreign companies while drilling on Ecuadorian land.
Morales and Bolivia cannot completely sever their ties to these foreign natural gas companies as much as they wish to. In some ways, Morales’ move can be seen as a sort of bluff, because, Bolivia does not possess the technology, geologists, or equipment to extract the natural gas from their sturdy reserves on their own. His assertion can be seen as merely a move that reflects the nationalist attitudes prevalent in many South American countries in the present day. These ideas evoke feelings of pride within citizens of each country, empowering them with the desire to take back all these special resources that previous leaders had so freely given away for capital gain. To truly be free from the fetters of these foreign natural gas companies, Morales will most certainly encourage the scientific population of his citizenry to become more knowledgeable themselves in the methodology of exploration and extraction of these reserves, in order to seize not only control of the reserves, but to control the means of production that would keep the wealth provided by these rich natural resources within the borders of Bolivia.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Morales statement had been expected but the further action taken, namely, deploying state troops to gas fields, ensuring the companies adhered to his edict, had not been expected. Bolivian reclamation of natural gas resources followed shortly behind similar action taken by their larger neighbor, Venezuela, which recently voided private companies’ drilling contracts at 32 oil fields, evicting them permanently if they would not agree to cede 60 percent stake in all future oil yields to the state owned oil company. Another South American neighbor, Ecuador, has also taken legal action to limit profits made by foreign companies while drilling on Ecuadorian land.
Morales and Bolivia cannot completely sever their ties to these foreign natural gas companies as much as they wish to. In some ways, Morales’ move can be seen as a sort of bluff, because, Bolivia does not possess the technology, geologists, or equipment to extract the natural gas from their sturdy reserves on their own. His assertion can be seen as merely a move that reflects the nationalist attitudes prevalent in many South American countries in the present day. These ideas evoke feelings of pride within citizens of each country, empowering them with the desire to take back all these special resources that previous leaders had so freely given away for capital gain. To truly be free from the fetters of these foreign natural gas companies, Morales will most certainly encourage the scientific population of his citizenry to become more knowledgeable themselves in the methodology of exploration and extraction of these reserves, in order to seize not only control of the reserves, but to control the means of production that would keep the wealth provided by these rich natural resources within the borders of Bolivia.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Oil Discovery in Wyoming
Oil exploration and discovery within Wyoming has roots in the early 1800s, when this wild, beautiful country was still referred to as the Wyoming Territory, and still seemed boundless, raw, expansive, and virginal. One of the early explorers of this great territory, Captain Benjamin Bonneville, made a note in 1832 of a great “Tar Spring” that was much revered by fur trappers and the Native American population for its medicinal, healing properties. Other than retrieving a small quantity for use as horse ointment and treatment for their own aches and pains, the area remained untouched for the next fifty years, when a wildcatter named Mike Murphy ventured to that still undeveloped locale, braving Indian attacks and wild country, to drill Wyoming’s very first oil well. The oil was discovered at a depth of 300 feet near the very site Captain Bonneville and his men had stumbled upon a half-century prior. Word of Murphy’s find soon spread, and quickly, like-minded entrepreneurs rushed to the territory, many leaving California and their golden dreams, choosing instead to stake their claims for the crude at promising sites.
The most profitable of the new claims was the Salt Creek field discovered in 1887 by Cyrus William “Cy” Iba. Iba and family left California at the end of the gold rush and staked nearly 30 claims, but after a legal grapple with a group of New York investors known as “The Central Association of Wyoming” was left with only a small 80 acre parcel of what had become known as the “Jackass Claim”. This 80 acre claim would prove to be one of the largest oil supplies within Wyoming’s borders for many years to come.
The expansion of the Union Pacific Railroad Line brought more people, more business, and more industry to the territory; many of them were attracted by hopes of capitalizing on Wyoming’s newly discovered natural resource. The 1890s brought more significant oil strikes and investors banded together to finance Wyoming’s first oil refinery in 1895. The invention of the automobile created a new demand for the oil, and production and refining began to boom in Wyoming.
The 1920s saw many more oil wells springing up and in fact, one fifth of all the oil produced and refined in the United States in that decade was extracted at the Salt Creek field. Oil production continues in Wyoming in the present. Though many of its once ripe fields are exhausted, Wyoming’s place in the nation’s history of oil exploration continues.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
The most profitable of the new claims was the Salt Creek field discovered in 1887 by Cyrus William “Cy” Iba. Iba and family left California at the end of the gold rush and staked nearly 30 claims, but after a legal grapple with a group of New York investors known as “The Central Association of Wyoming” was left with only a small 80 acre parcel of what had become known as the “Jackass Claim”. This 80 acre claim would prove to be one of the largest oil supplies within Wyoming’s borders for many years to come.
The expansion of the Union Pacific Railroad Line brought more people, more business, and more industry to the territory; many of them were attracted by hopes of capitalizing on Wyoming’s newly discovered natural resource. The 1890s brought more significant oil strikes and investors banded together to finance Wyoming’s first oil refinery in 1895. The invention of the automobile created a new demand for the oil, and production and refining began to boom in Wyoming.
The 1920s saw many more oil wells springing up and in fact, one fifth of all the oil produced and refined in the United States in that decade was extracted at the Salt Creek field. Oil production continues in Wyoming in the present. Though many of its once ripe fields are exhausted, Wyoming’s place in the nation’s history of oil exploration continues.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Israeli Oil and Gas
When thinking of oil and natural gas in the Middle East, the rich fields of Saudi Arabia or Iraq often come to mind, but few in the populace think of Israel as a burgeoning bastion of oil and natural gas reserves. Oil exploration has actually been going on in the Holy Land since the early 1900’s, with first drilling beginning in 1947, once licenses and permissions had been properly acquired. The first oil yield came in 1955 when an original oil well in the Heletz area was deepened, and initially 18 million barrels were extracted; this well is still in production currently. Seven years later, a report prepared by Lewis Weeks, then chief Geologist of Exxon, was released to the Israeli government detailing a preliminary estimate of 500 million to 2 billion barrels of oil lying beneath Israeli soil.
Following the 1967 war in Israel, oil exploration and drilling again became a focus within Israeli borders, primarily on offshore platforms in the Gulf of Suez and in the Sinai region on the mainland, resulting in the finding of significant reserves of oil and natural gas. The 1970’s and 80’s can be seen as a time of expanded on-shore operations, concentrating on the Coastal Plain resulting in live oil recoveries of smaller amounts of show, but no commercial discoveries.
From 1986-1988, the Israeli government put a halt to all drilling and exploration, requesting that a study of exploration data from the last forty years be conducted. The company assigned to this project, Oil Exploration Investment, Ltd., performed a basin analysis of the whole of Israeli lands, outlining all previous exploratory endeavors, yields, etc. The hope of the Israeli government was to locate trends or patterns that would help positively identify true hopes for larger, future discoveries underneath the nation’s soil or bodies of water. Following this survey, Israel opened various areas up to privatized oil and natural gas exploration. By the end of the 1990’s, several large international oil and natural gas companies including British Gas, Enserch, Reading & Bates, and Noble energy set up their operations in several areas, primarily conducting offshore drilling.
The current decade has seen a change of focus from oil to natural gas discovery in Israel. Most of these discoveries have taken place at offshore platforms, and yields of upwards of 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas have been projected. These discoveries could prove quite advantageous for Israel and for its primary ally, the United States.
About the Author: Bob Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Following the 1967 war in Israel, oil exploration and drilling again became a focus within Israeli borders, primarily on offshore platforms in the Gulf of Suez and in the Sinai region on the mainland, resulting in the finding of significant reserves of oil and natural gas. The 1970’s and 80’s can be seen as a time of expanded on-shore operations, concentrating on the Coastal Plain resulting in live oil recoveries of smaller amounts of show, but no commercial discoveries.
From 1986-1988, the Israeli government put a halt to all drilling and exploration, requesting that a study of exploration data from the last forty years be conducted. The company assigned to this project, Oil Exploration Investment, Ltd., performed a basin analysis of the whole of Israeli lands, outlining all previous exploratory endeavors, yields, etc. The hope of the Israeli government was to locate trends or patterns that would help positively identify true hopes for larger, future discoveries underneath the nation’s soil or bodies of water. Following this survey, Israel opened various areas up to privatized oil and natural gas exploration. By the end of the 1990’s, several large international oil and natural gas companies including British Gas, Enserch, Reading & Bates, and Noble energy set up their operations in several areas, primarily conducting offshore drilling.
The current decade has seen a change of focus from oil to natural gas discovery in Israel. Most of these discoveries have taken place at offshore platforms, and yields of upwards of 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas have been projected. These discoveries could prove quite advantageous for Israel and for its primary ally, the United States.
About the Author: Bob Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Siberian Pipeline
As larger and larger oil fields have been discovered in the cold but beautiful Siberian region of Russia, China has watched, anxiously hoping to be first in line. Being the largest neighbor possessing an enormous population with gargantuan petroleum needs, China has tried its best to show Russian leaders that is in their best interests to export nearly all of their excess petroleum to the southeast via a proposed petroleum pipeline that would be constructed solely for distribution from these generous oil fields to China’s oil-needy populace.
Construction of this pipeline has met a few snags along the way however. Scientists and environmentalists alike have balked at the proposed route of the petroleum carrying line because of its proximity to protected and sensitive areas. The initial, shortest and most direct route proposed by the Transneft Corporation would begin in the Siberian city of Taysher in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, running through Skovorodino in the Amur region, and ending at the port of Perevoznaya in the Promorye region on the Pacific coast. This route would take the pipeline within 800 meters of the shores of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater lakes, Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is the world’s oldest lake as well and contains nearly 20% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater reserve. In 1996, it was pronounced a site of World Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), beseeching Russian leaders to provide for its preservation and protection from development and urbanization. Scientists want it protected as it is an exquisite representation of freshwater habitat, possessing an ecosystem that is of exceptional value in the area of evolutionary science.
Construction of the first stage of the pipeline began in June of 2006 and should be complete by early 2008. The first stage will not bring the pipeline into the Lake Baikal region yet, and has provided time for new answers and resolutions to the questions involving that area. Environmentalists prescribed a solution that Transneft head Semyon Vaynshtok said was out of the question. Vaynshtok proclaimed the idea of taking the pipeline 1000 kms to the north ludicrous, saying that it would make the pipeline unprofitable with that roundabout route. Scientists and environmentalist alike agree that this circumventing of that region is worth the extra time and money, especially considering the continuously occurring seismic activity within the Lake Baikal region that would surely threaten the pipeline’s integrity, making leaks and ruptures a constant concern. In hopes to appease everyone, Russian President Putin proposed a route shift to the north. Transneft opposed that plan, but split the difference, allowing for an extension to take the pipeline 400 kms north. Lake Baikal’s ancient ecosystem will now be safe, and China is assured to get all the petroleum it requires.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Construction of this pipeline has met a few snags along the way however. Scientists and environmentalists alike have balked at the proposed route of the petroleum carrying line because of its proximity to protected and sensitive areas. The initial, shortest and most direct route proposed by the Transneft Corporation would begin in the Siberian city of Taysher in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, running through Skovorodino in the Amur region, and ending at the port of Perevoznaya in the Promorye region on the Pacific coast. This route would take the pipeline within 800 meters of the shores of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater lakes, Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is the world’s oldest lake as well and contains nearly 20% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater reserve. In 1996, it was pronounced a site of World Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), beseeching Russian leaders to provide for its preservation and protection from development and urbanization. Scientists want it protected as it is an exquisite representation of freshwater habitat, possessing an ecosystem that is of exceptional value in the area of evolutionary science.
Construction of the first stage of the pipeline began in June of 2006 and should be complete by early 2008. The first stage will not bring the pipeline into the Lake Baikal region yet, and has provided time for new answers and resolutions to the questions involving that area. Environmentalists prescribed a solution that Transneft head Semyon Vaynshtok said was out of the question. Vaynshtok proclaimed the idea of taking the pipeline 1000 kms to the north ludicrous, saying that it would make the pipeline unprofitable with that roundabout route. Scientists and environmentalist alike agree that this circumventing of that region is worth the extra time and money, especially considering the continuously occurring seismic activity within the Lake Baikal region that would surely threaten the pipeline’s integrity, making leaks and ruptures a constant concern. In hopes to appease everyone, Russian President Putin proposed a route shift to the north. Transneft opposed that plan, but split the difference, allowing for an extension to take the pipeline 400 kms north. Lake Baikal’s ancient ecosystem will now be safe, and China is assured to get all the petroleum it requires.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Nigerian Oil
Nigeria’s coastal delta consists of mile upon mile of bogs and swamps. Underneath this sludge and soil are some of the richest deposits of petroleum ever discovered. Each week brings new discoveries and new riches to a primordial land filled with poverty and anarchy. Within these areas of undiscovered riches simple fisher people and villagers cohabitate with easily corruptible youth militia and violent pirates, and each have their opinion and stake in the exploration and exploitation of this wild country. The United States and other desperately energy-hungry nations are clamoring for the rights to dig here, for the projected yield grows in millions of barrels of oil as more and more fields are discovered.
Thirty percent of the world’s newly discovered oil reserves in the past five years are found on Africa’s west coast, and for the United States, it couldn’t have come at a better time. The United States imports most of its daily-used oil from Canada and Mexico. Canada’s Prudhoe Bay and other fields export nearly 1.6 million barrels of oil each day to the U.S. via the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. Another 1.6 million daily barrels arrive from the south, from the oil rich deposits in the Gulf of Mexico. As these two oil supplies are slowly exhausted, the new Nigerian supplies gain importance. Nigeria has steadily risen in importance for United States oil consumption holding at nearly 1.1 million barrels imported per day. This 1.1 million barrels accounts for 10 percent of the United States’ oil imports, and the present administration projects this will rise to nearly 25 percent of American oil consumption by the end of the decade.
What does this mean for the poverty stricken population of southeastern Nigeria where most of the bogs and oil lies? For some villagers and local fisherman uneager to see colonization, exploration, and industrialization, the oil is seen as an evil poison, especially when accidental spills wreak havoc upon the ecosystem. Two spills into tributaries of the Kolo River changed life forever for a small village of 1000 people whose inhabitants fish to survive. The oil spill killed all of the fish and now the population must look further for subsistence in terms of food and occupation. Political motivation also fuels infighting over the rich oil fields. Youth militia in support of one group or another have taken over extraction stations, threatening to destroy them unless their demands were met; one such demand was for an expedient release of the particular faction’s political prisoners held by the Nigerian government.
The United States and other nations are keeping close watch over the politics of the Niger Delta, selfishly hoping to exploit in whatever means possible to help provide the oil their nations thrive upon. Ecosystems and ancient cultures inherent to these areas must stay strong in order to survive.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Thirty percent of the world’s newly discovered oil reserves in the past five years are found on Africa’s west coast, and for the United States, it couldn’t have come at a better time. The United States imports most of its daily-used oil from Canada and Mexico. Canada’s Prudhoe Bay and other fields export nearly 1.6 million barrels of oil each day to the U.S. via the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. Another 1.6 million daily barrels arrive from the south, from the oil rich deposits in the Gulf of Mexico. As these two oil supplies are slowly exhausted, the new Nigerian supplies gain importance. Nigeria has steadily risen in importance for United States oil consumption holding at nearly 1.1 million barrels imported per day. This 1.1 million barrels accounts for 10 percent of the United States’ oil imports, and the present administration projects this will rise to nearly 25 percent of American oil consumption by the end of the decade.
What does this mean for the poverty stricken population of southeastern Nigeria where most of the bogs and oil lies? For some villagers and local fisherman uneager to see colonization, exploration, and industrialization, the oil is seen as an evil poison, especially when accidental spills wreak havoc upon the ecosystem. Two spills into tributaries of the Kolo River changed life forever for a small village of 1000 people whose inhabitants fish to survive. The oil spill killed all of the fish and now the population must look further for subsistence in terms of food and occupation. Political motivation also fuels infighting over the rich oil fields. Youth militia in support of one group or another have taken over extraction stations, threatening to destroy them unless their demands were met; one such demand was for an expedient release of the particular faction’s political prisoners held by the Nigerian government.
The United States and other nations are keeping close watch over the politics of the Niger Delta, selfishly hoping to exploit in whatever means possible to help provide the oil their nations thrive upon. Ecosystems and ancient cultures inherent to these areas must stay strong in order to survive.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Military: United States’ Oil Consuming Lion
Perhaps all Americans are aware that the United States is in no way threatened of losing it’s place as the top oil consuming nation in the world. What some may not be aware of is the immense amount of oil the United States military itself uses each and every year. In fact, if the U.S. military were a country, it would be the 38th largest consumer of petroleum in the world, consuming around 160 million barrels of oil each year. This gargantuan usage amounts to over $10 billion of oil by today’s price levels.
The United States government consumes 2% of the entire amount of oil used in the nation each year; 97% of that usage swallowed by the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense used an average of 440,000 barrels of oil each and every day in 2004. That amount of oil is greater than the daily output of one of the nation’s most generously producing oil fields, Prudhoe Bay in Alaska.
All of the military usage is not for tanks, ships, aircraft, and the like, but most of it is. Only 25% of the military oil usage is for heating and powering their many large government buildings. The other 75% of military oil usage is for what is referred to as “mobility” type fuel. This includes all the fuel the military uses for every type of moving machinery, from attack vehicles to essential power generators.
Truth be told, as of late, the U.S. military has taken various productive steps in efforts to curb its seemingly unquenchable appetite for petroleum. The Department of Defense has spent many hours researching and implementing renewable energy sources in many of their facilities across the nation and world. They have recently become one of the largest single generators and consumers of renewable power in the entire nation. For example, at the U.S. Naval installation near Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval engineers have successfully installed and brought into operation a pair of wind powered turbines that are able to meet a quarter of the base’s power needs during the windy months of the year. They are even recycling their used cooking oil at the base and mixing it with diesel fuel, producing a biodiesel blend that fuels many of the base’s service vehicles. With these efforts and more, the U.S. military hopes to decrease its usage and also its need for foreign oil. Private business and transportation companies could profit by adopting new renewable strategies as well.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
The United States government consumes 2% of the entire amount of oil used in the nation each year; 97% of that usage swallowed by the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense used an average of 440,000 barrels of oil each and every day in 2004. That amount of oil is greater than the daily output of one of the nation’s most generously producing oil fields, Prudhoe Bay in Alaska.
All of the military usage is not for tanks, ships, aircraft, and the like, but most of it is. Only 25% of the military oil usage is for heating and powering their many large government buildings. The other 75% of military oil usage is for what is referred to as “mobility” type fuel. This includes all the fuel the military uses for every type of moving machinery, from attack vehicles to essential power generators.
Truth be told, as of late, the U.S. military has taken various productive steps in efforts to curb its seemingly unquenchable appetite for petroleum. The Department of Defense has spent many hours researching and implementing renewable energy sources in many of their facilities across the nation and world. They have recently become one of the largest single generators and consumers of renewable power in the entire nation. For example, at the U.S. Naval installation near Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval engineers have successfully installed and brought into operation a pair of wind powered turbines that are able to meet a quarter of the base’s power needs during the windy months of the year. They are even recycling their used cooking oil at the base and mixing it with diesel fuel, producing a biodiesel blend that fuels many of the base’s service vehicles. With these efforts and more, the U.S. military hopes to decrease its usage and also its need for foreign oil. Private business and transportation companies could profit by adopting new renewable strategies as well.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
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