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1) Oil and gas revenues are increasing state tax collections from severance and sales taxes.
2) Economic activity and jobs in the oil, gas, and chemical industries are growing significantly in Texas regions like the Eagle Ford.
3) As the US increases oil and gas production, it is becoming more energy independent and even a net exporter of some fuels.
Ports-to-Plains Energy Summit
Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, CO
April 7, 2011
Hydraulic fracturing has been in the news lately. Learn exactly what the process is and how it is impacting economic growth and energy security.
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Strong team with E&P and project management skills.
BRS’s first entry into the European market through AleAnna Resources LLC and their joint Italian properties.
BRS Resources: <a>http://brsresources.com</a>
IR Smartt Inc: http://irsmartt.com
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Ports-to-Plains Energy Summit
Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, CO
April 7, 2011
Hydraulic fracturing has been in the news lately. Learn exactly what the process is and how it is impacting economic growth and energy security.
BRS Resources is an international energy company actively pursuing opportunities in the Mediterranean Basin, with its primary focus in Italy.
Strong team with E&P and project management skills.
BRS’s first entry into the European market through AleAnna Resources LLC and their joint Italian properties.
BRS Resources: <a>http://brsresources.com</a>
IR Smartt Inc: http://irsmartt.com
IR and DFT studies of Co/TiO2 Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. This work was presented at the 22nd North American Catalyst Society meeting on 9 June 2011. It elucitates the structure of Co and CoO Fischer-Tropsch catalysts used in production of synthetic fuels..
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Time and climate change - London Climate Forum 2012Clive Bates
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Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
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Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
1. How Shale is Impacting the Texas Economy
Extraction Chemicals
Refining
2. After 30 years of decline,
Jan 1981=100 tight oil drives production growth
120
New Mexico
110 U.S.
Texas
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
Jan-1981 Jan-1985 Jan-1989 Jan-1993 Jan-1997 Jan-2001 Jan-2005 Jan-2009
SOURCE: Energy Information Agency.
3.
4.
5. Oil and gas revenues impact a variety of state taxes
Severance taxes
Sales taxes on energy equipment
Retail sales in energy regions
Sales tax collections up 10.1% in July from July
2011
State wide oil and gas severance taxes up 61% in
first six months of this fiscal year to $1.8
UTSA study: in 2011 EF generated $312 million in
state taxes
6. 30 Bone Springs Barnett
10
25 Real Weekly Wages
Real Weekly Wages
20 Avg Emp
Avg Emp
5
15
10
0
5
0
-5 -5
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Spraberry Wolfcamp Eagle Ford
20 10
Real Weekly Wages Real Weekly Wages
10 Avg Emp Avg Emp
5
0 0
-10 -5
-20 -10
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
*Growth rates are year-to-year. Adjusted with U.S. chained Personal Consumption Expenditures index deflator.
SOURCE: Quarterly Census of Wages and Employment; Bureau of Labor Statistics
7. Oil rises while shale and weather crush natural gas
12
Oil/Gas*
10
8
6
4
2
0
Jan-1974 Aug-1979 Mar-1985 Oct-1990 May-1996 Dec-2001 Jul-2007
*Refiners acquisition cost of imported crude / natural gas wellhead price (BOE).
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration. Author's Adjustments.
8. Planned expansions and new facilities in Gulf Coast
could increase U.S. ethylene capacity by nearly 30
percent by 2017
More pipelines and fractionation capacity are also
being added
Two large TX refineries recently announced
expansions
9. the U.S. becomes a net exporter of gasoline and diesel
Exports of Product Triple Diesel & Gasoline net imports plunge
4000 1500
3500
1000
3000
500
2500
0
2000
-500
1500
-1000
1000
Distillates
500 -1500
Finished Motor Gasoline
0 -2000
2000 - Jan 2003 - Jan 2006 - Jan 2009 - Jan 2012 - JanJan-1974 Sep-1983 May-1993 Jan-2003
SOURCE: Energy Information Agency.
10. Cents/lbs Divergent Oil & Gas Prices lead to rise Ethane advantage
60
50
40
30
Ethane
20
10
0
-10
-20
Naphtha
-30
-40
Jan-1997 Oct-1998 Jul-2000 Apr-2002 Jan-2004 Oct-2005 Jul-2007 Apr-2009 Jan-2011
SOURCE: Muse, Stancil, and Co Ethylene Cash Margins. Author's adjustments.
11. 2011 Nameplate 2011 Ethylene Feedstock Mix*
Capacity 1.0
NGL
Area tonnes/year 0.9
Naptha
0.8
Asia 29,242,000 Gas oil
0.7
Other
Middle East 24,059,000 0.6
0.5
United States 27,593,206
0.4
Western Europe 24,384,000 0.3
0.2
0.1
* Percent of capacity reporting feedstock usage for each
0.0
region was: Asia-82%, ME-46%, U.S.-99%, WE-89%, ROW-
56%. 73% of global capacity reported feedstock use. Asia Middle United Western
SOURCE: 2012 International Survey of Ethylene Steam East States Europe
Crackers. Author's calculations.
12. Company Location Capacity Start-Up
(mm lb/yr)
Dow Chemical US Gulf Coast 4,200 2014-2017
Ineos Lake Charles, LA 3,000 2018
CP Chem Baytown, TX 2,500 2016/2017
Braskem/Idesa Mexico 2,200 2015
Shell Chemical Northeast US 2,000 2016+
Formosa Point Comfort, TX 1,760 2015
LyondellBasell Texas, Illinois 1,450 2012-2014
Dow Chemical Hahnville, LA 800 2012Q4
Williams Lake Charles, LA 600 2013Q3
Westlake Chemical Lake Charles, LA 230 2012
Ineos Chocolate Bayou, TX 230 2013
Source: Chemical Week, December 2011
13. The Eagle Ford
Special thanks to Dr. Keith Phillips.
Senior Economist, San Antonio Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
14. Millions of barrels
100 92.8
(projected)
90
80
70 Gas production
(barrels of oil equivalent) 51.2
60
(projected)
Oil production
50
NGL production
40
24
30 (projected)
20
10
0
2009 2010 2011 2012
Source: Texas Railroad Commission
15. Lease payments $7.5 billion, 2007 - 2011
Royalty payments $5.2 billion, 2007 - 2011
Total EF personal income in 2009 was about $23.0
billion, $12.2 billion without Webb and Brazos counties
16. Annualized job growth
(percent)
30
25
Mining
20
General freight trucking
15 Pipeline transportation
10
5
0
Corpus Christi Houston San Antonio
Source: Texas Workforce Commission, Author' s calculations
17. Rig count in slow decline on oversupply of gas and gas liquids
Number
2,500
Gas directed
Oil directed
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
Jan-2008 Jan-2009 Jan-2010 Jan-2011 Jan-2012
SOURCE: Baker Hughes
Editor's Notes
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Exports of US refined products have grown rapidly in recent years. -- Exports are a product of (1) excess US capacity, (2) weak domestic demand, and (3) strong demand from developing countries -- Refiners experienced good profits during the last decade, and invested in expansion of existing plants. Between 2000 and 2010, domestic refining capacity grew 14 percent. -- The run-up in oil prices from 2003-2008 discouraged domestic consumption of oil products. US oil consumption is down 3.2 percent since 2000. -- Rapid growth in the developing world led to strong foreign demand for oil, and exports from the Gulf Coast grew 166 percent between 2000 and 2010, to over 2 million barrels per day. -- The Gulf Coast accounted for 78 percent of US petroleum product exports by 2010