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Icon representing oil extraction.
Oil Derrick
Salt evaporation ponds on the shoreline of Chilika Lake, Orissa, India.
Saltworks
Top view of a mining truck
Petroleum industry: mining truck
Mining activities with drainage
Mine drainage
Water discharge from a sandstone quarry into Pipe Creek in Sandusky, Ohio.
Quarry Discharge
Water discharge from a sandstone quarry into Pipe Creek in Sandusky, Ohio.
Quarry Discharge
Illustration of a bulk cutter, used for deep sea mining.
Deep sea mining: bulk cutter
Tool to mine the sea floor.
Deep sea mining: seafloor mining tool
Illustration of a support vessel for deep sea mining.
Deep sea mining: support vessel
The Arctic is a region that presents particularly challenging conditions for the oil industry and for responders due to the increasingly extreme weather conditions (cold, ice, hurricane force winds) and remote location with limited response infrastructure.
Arctic Drilling
The second line of defense for the workers and the well to prevent a blowout is the group of equipment called blowout preventers (BOPs). BOPs and associated valves are installed on top of the casing head before drilling ahead after rigging up. These high-pressure safety valves and associated equipment are designed to shut off the well hole and prevent the escape of the underground fluids and prevent a blowout from occurring.
Blowout Preventer
Positioned by multiple vessels, an attempt to contain an oil spill is made using temporary floating booms. Booms are used to reduce the possibility of polluting shorelines and other resources, and to help make recovery easier. Booms help to concentrate oil in thicker surface layers so that skimmers, vacuums, or other collection methods can be used more effectively.
Oil Spill Containment
Illustration of an oil tanker.
Petroleum industry: oil tanker
Alkaline chemicals are added to mitigate acid mine tailings. When water is added to the alkaline chemicals, the exothermic (heat releasing) reaction burned through the cubitainer.
Exothermic reaction
This doser times the mechanical addition of alkaline chemicals to acidic mine tailings to mitigate the acidity.
The Doser
Salmon, Idaho
Private mines still worked
Illustration of hammer and chisel for mining
Mining: hammer and chisel
Illustration of oil rig platform
Petroleum industry: oil rig platform 2
Illustration of dredge 3
Dredge 3
An old salt mine in coastal Louisiana on a small, eroded barrier island
Abandoned salt mine
Aerial photo of coastal oil fields of Louisiana over eroding marshes
Oil fields of Louisiana
Oil gas extraction rig amongs eroding wetlands looking towards the Gulf, south east of Houma in coastal Louisiana
Oil gas extraction rig in coastal Louisiana
Oil rig in coastal Louisiana
Oil rig
aerial photo of Port Fourchon, coastal Louisiana
Port Fourchon
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