Department Of Petroleum Engineering

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Q: When wad the department of Petroleum Engineering was establish?

A: at which university?

Q: Would it be feasible to get a masters in petroleum engineering with a bachelors in geology?
Currently I’am studying at the University of Texas at El Paso my major is geology I am in my last year of my under grad. I am going to continue with my masters. I was just going to do geology but I have been looking at the petroleum engineering departments at some grad school and it seems interesting, a big plus I have wanted to do oil all along its why I got into geology. What I am wondering is would I even be allowed to enter a petroleum engineering grad program with a bachelors in geology or would I have to take a lot (no more than 12 hours) of support classes? The schools I am considering are New Mexico Tech, Texas Tech and Oklahoma University Norman.

A: Graduate Engineering Schools normally require undergraduate degrees in Engineering. They may make exceptions for “close” undergrad degrees, but will usually impose several bridging courses. It’s hard to say whether Geology is close enough, because a Petroleum Engineering undergrad degree requires many Math courses.

A Master’s graduate in Petroleum Engineering who does not have an undergrad degree in Engineering will not be allowed to take Professional Engineer examinations in most states ( or there will be decade-long “experience” requirements).

Q: Prospective Petroleum Engineering Transfer Student to University of Texas or Texas A & M?
What are my chances of being admitted to the petroleum (or mechanical) department at Texas A & M or University of Texas with the following credentials:

Finance Degree (3.4 cumulative GPA)

Also I am currently enrolled in the following classes:

Calc1
Physics 1 (with calc)
Chem 1
Geology

I hope to have above a 3.0 for the current math and science classes.

Best,

A: Fairly good with the 3.4 GPA as long as that is from a reputable university or community college. They seem to be a little more lenient for transfer students as compared to students applying straight out of high school.

Also, if you are trying to stay in state for Texas schools also consider Texas Tech which has a very good reputation within the oil & gas industry. Further, the University of Houston just began their Petroleum Engineering degree program and you might also consider that possibility. The Houston program had been Petroleum electives within another Engineering program.

Q: What to say to the dean?
I’ve been trying to get into the petroleum engineering department for two years now and even though I have three internships under my belt, (these companies want me back as well next summer) my grades aren’t the best (which is why they haven’t let me in the department yet). I NEED to get in this semester or I will have to transfer colleges completely. I have to talk to the dean of this department to try to let me in; what things should I say to convince him to accept me?

A: Your grades speak for themselves.

You probably should enroll in Petroleum Engineering Technology (“Process Technology”).

Q: Computer Science considered an engineering degree?
I notice the great majority of Universities list computer science in the “Engineering” Department. Therefore could a Computer Science Degree be referred to as a engineering degree? just as how a MIS degree is in the “Business” Department, and could be referred to as a business degree?

Therefore would it be acceptable to say “I have an engineering degree in computer science”?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer’s_degree
According to Wikipedia, Engineering Degrees Include:

Common abbreviations of engineering disciplines (U.S. and Canada)
An abbreviation of the discipline is often used to represent an engineer’s degree where one might typically use M.S. or Ph.D. Several are potentially ambiguous, especially P.E.

Agricultural Engineer – Ag. E. or A.E.
Architectural Engineer – AR. E.
Bioengineer – B.E. or Bio. E.
Biomedical Engineer – B.M.E.
Chemical Engineer – Ch. E. or Chem. E.
Petroleum Engineer – P.E.
Building Engineer – B.E.
Ceramic Engineer – Cer. E.
Civil Engineer – C.E.
Clinical Engineer – C.E.
Computer Engineer – Cp. E.
Computer Scientist – C.S.
Electrical Engineer – E.E.
Electronics Engineer – Ec. E
Electrical and Electronics Engineer – E.E.E.
Industrial Engineer – I.E.
Structural Engineer – S.E.
Software Engineer – S.E. or S.W.E.
Engineer in Aeronautics and Astronautics – E.A.A.
Engineer in Computer Science – E.C.S.
Engineer in Mechanics – E.M.
Environmental Engineer – Env. E.
General Engineer – G.E.
Geological Engineer – G.E.
Materials Engineer – Mat. E.
Mechanical Engineer – Mech. E. or M.E.
Manufacturing Engineer – Mfg. E
Mechatronic Engineer – M.T.E.
Metallurgical Engineer – Met. E.
Mining Engineer – Min. E
Naval Engineer – Nav. E.
Nuclear Engineer – Nucl. E.
Ocean Engineer – Ocean. E.
Production Engineer – Prod. E.
Systems Engineer – Sys. E.

A: The question is in dispute.
There are several ways to look at this. One way is to ask whether Computer Science grads can get a Professional Engineering License. Well, theoretically it’s possible, but CS is not a recognized path to a Professional Engineering license. Computer ENGINEERING, on the other hand is recognized and ABET-accredited as a true Engineering degree. (ABET also accredits some Computer Science degrees).

Some jurisdictions (such as Ontario, Canada) license “Software Engineers”. IEEE Certifies “Software Professionals” (Engineers).

Q: Please i need help reviewing my letter of intent.its my first time writing one.?
Im applying to the school of architecture and environmental design (BEDs/M.Arch) at Dalhousie and I need help reviewing my letter of intent. Could any please be so kind to read through and give me their opinions/advice ? its quite lengthy (about 490 words) but the faculty site asked to include pretty much everything. I’ve never had reason to write a letter of intent before so this is my first. thank you.

My name is Osah Russell. I am a 20 year old Nigerian male and currently a student enrolled under the Faculty of Engineering, of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
I am a broadly minded, creative thinker whose creativity and active imagination have evolved quite interestingly over the years into the deep passion I have for my environment, its contents and how proper environmental principles and structural design conceptualization as well as implementation can aid achieve the balance sought where man and his environment can exist in a feasible, symbiotically stable equilibrium.
Consequently, I intend furthering my education at the University of Dalhousie under the School of Environmental Design and Architecture so as to partake in the highly competent learning atmosphere at an Institution that is passionate about architectural education, an Institution that upholds both high national and international reputations as well as standards and presently is the only architecture program in Canada that includes integrated co-op work terms alongside a compact yet comprehensive University schedule. Thus it has become my greatest priority to further my education at such an esteemed School and in due course form part of successful alumni at the University of Dalhousie.
As aforementioned, I am presently studying Petroleum Engineering at the undergraduate stage. I just commenced my third year studies at the university level. I do some work as a graphic artist and sometimes work at a young local studio within the City of Port Harcourt.
During the past three years of education at the University of Port Harcourt, I have learned skills that range from everyday communication and relations, change and conflict management to social and organizational learning.The team work experience garnered from work and time spent at the studio have also enhanced my ability to understand, appreciate and effect the required organization on my surroundings as well as compose my environment to fit prevailing working conditions.I am also quite versed with design oriented computer applications, primarily, Adobe’s Photoshop and Autodesk’s 3d’s Max.
Furthermore, I believe I possess outstanding written and oral communication attributes and have excellent creative, observational, appreciatory, and analytical skills essential to meet the intense demands requisite to pursue and obtain a professional degree in architecture at such a prestigious School.
I am most confident I will like and indeed find motivating the subjects offered under the architecture program at The University of Dalhousie. I will also acclimatize to my environment using all apt and necessary means not only to elevate myself as a student but also as a critically thinking, resourceful mind, for the good of my fellow students and colleagues, the University at Dalhousie and my environment as a whole.
Thus it is my sole intention to apply for the architecture program (BEDs/March) offered at the University Of Dalhousie under The School of Architecture.
I will be most grateful if my application is considered in favourably.
Sincerely Yours,
Russell Osah.

A: Here’s my edited version of your letter….

Dear Sirs;
My name is Osah Russell and I am a 20 year old Nigerian male student currently enrolled under the Faculty of Engineering, of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
I am a broad minded, creative thinker whose creativity and active imagination have evolved quite interestingly over the years into the deep passion that I have for my environment, its contents and how proper environmental principles and structural design conceptualization as well as implementation can aid in achieving the balance sought for man and his environment to exist in a feasible, symbiotically stable equilibrium.
Consequently, I intend furthering my education at the University of Dalhousie under the School of Environmental Design and Architecture so as to partake in the highly competent learning atmosphere at an institution that is passionate about architectural education An institution that upholds both high national as well as international reputations and standards, and presently is the only architecture program in Canada that includes integrated co-op work terms alongside a compact yet comprehensive university schedule. Thus, it has become my greatest priority to further my education at such an esteemed school and, in due course, form part of successful alumni at the University of Dalhousie.
As I mentioned prior, I am presently studying Petroleum Engineering at the undergraduate stage. This is my third year of studies at the university level, and I am doing some work as a graphic artist while also working at a young local studio within the City of Port Harcourt.
During the past three years, I have learned skills that range from everyday communication and relations, change and conflict management, to social and organizational learning.The team work experience garnered from work and time spent at the studio have also enhanced my ability to understand, appreciate and effect the required organization on my surroundings as well as compose my environment to fit prevailing working conditions. I am also quite versed with design oriented computer applications, primarily, Adobe’s Photoshop and Autodesk’s 3d’s Max.
I believe I possess outstanding written and oral communication attributes and have excellent creative, observational, appreciatory, and analytical skills essential to meet the intense demands requisite to pursue and obtain a professional degree in architecture at such a prestigious School. Furthermore, I am confident that I will enjoy and be motivated by the subjects offered under the architecture program at The University of Dalhousie. I will also use all apt and necessary means to not only elevate myself as a student, but also as a critically thinking, resourceful mind for the good of my fellow students and colleagues, the University at Dalhousie and my environment as a whole.
That being said, it is my intention to apply for the architecture program (BEDs/March) offered at the University Of Dalhousie under The School of Architecture.
Your favorable consideration of my application would be gratefully appreciated.
Sincerely Yours;

Q: Has Control of Iraq’s Oil Been a Liberation or a Colonization?
In a recent report for Harper’s Magazine, “The Black Box, Inside Iraq’s Oil Machine,” Luke Mitchell describes traveling the southern Iraqi oil field of Rumaila with a petroleum engineer working for Foster Wheeler, a Houston engineering firm hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “to oversee much of the oilfield reconstruction,” and protected by private guards employed by the British security company Erinys. He describes what’s left of the Iraqi oil industry after decades of war, sanctions, civil war, sabotage, and black-market theft — a run-down industrial plant with a rusting delivery system that, at a technical level, is now largely in the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Energy, the State Department, and private contractors like KBR, the former division of Halliburton…
…At the most basic level, he reports that many of “Iraq’s native oil professionals,” who heroically patched up and held together a broken system in the years after the first Gulf War, have (along with so many other Iraqi professionals) fled the country. He writes:

“The Wall Street Journal in 2006 called this flight a ‘petroleum exodus’ and reported that about a hundred oil workers had been murdered since the war began and that ‘of the top hundred of so managers running the Iraqi oil ministry and its branches in 2003, about two-thirds are no longer at their jobs.’ Now most of the [oil] engineers in Iraq are from Texas and Oklahoma.”

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Iraq_PentagonConstructSite.html
“As you know, the Administration set several benchmarks for the Iraqi government, including passage of the “Hydrocarbon Law” by the Iraqi Parliament. The Administration has emphasized only a small part of this law, the “fair” distribution of oil revenues. Consider the fact that the Iraqi “Hydrocarbon Law” contains a mere three sentences that generally discusses the “fair” distribution of oil.

Except for three scant lines, the entire 33 page “Hydrocarbon Law,” is about creating a complex legal structure to facilitate the privatization of Iraqi oil. As such, it in imperative that all of us carefully read the Iraqi Parliament’s bill because the Congress is on the record in promoting oil privatization.

This war is about oil.”

U.S. Representative, and Democrat presidential Candidate, Dennis Kucinich in Congress May, 25, 2007.

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=12901&sectionID=15

A: The short answer, a Colonization by American Empire!

I posited the following diatribe in another question, but it fits here as well:

Poor deluded schmucks!! This is what your success looks like:

After ethnic cleansing of formerly mixed neighborhoods is complete… A relative calm descends o’er the land. Soon the people begin to realize that we, EXXON-Mobil, Conoco-Phillips, BP et al are raping them dry and they then NATIONALIZE their OIL industry just like everyone else has, i.e, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela and IRAN…..

All that blood and treasure expended for what? a few years of looting the Iraqi OIL fields!!!!!

Q: Does This Sound Like A Liberated Country Or A Colonized Country?
In a recent report for Harper’s Magazine, “The Black Box, Inside Iraq’s Oil Machine,” Luke Mitchell describes traveling the southern Iraqi oil field of Rumaila with a petroleum engineer working for Foster Wheeler, a Houston engineering firm hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “to oversee much of the oilfield reconstruction,” and protected by private guards employed by the British security company Erinys. He describes what’s left of the Iraqi oil industry after decades of war, sanctions, civil war, sabotage, and black-market theft — a run-down industrial plant with a rusting delivery system that, at a technical level, is now largely in the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Energy, the State Department, and private contractors like KBR, the former division of Halliburton…
…At the most basic level, he reports that many of “Iraq’s native oil professionals,” who heroically patched up and held together a broken system in the years after the first Gulf War, have (along with so many other Iraqi professionals) fled the country. He writes:

“The Wall Street Journal in 2006 called this flight a ‘petroleum exodus’ and reported that about a hundred oil workers had been murdered since the war began and that ‘of the top hundred of so managers running the Iraqi oil ministry and its branches in 2003, about two-thirds are no longer at their jobs.’ Now most of the [oil] engineers in Iraq are from Texas and Oklahoma.”

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Iraq_PentagonConstructSite.html

A: ya, that was the plan man!!!

Q: Global Warming – The other side of the argument.?
Believe global warming is primarily caused by natural processes
Scientists in this section conclude that natural causes are likely more to blame than human activities for the observed rising temperatures.
•Khabibullo Ismailovich Abdusamatov, mathematician and astronomer at Pulkovskaya Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the supervisor of the Astrometria project of the Russian section of the International Space Station: “Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy – almost throughout the last century – growth in its intensity…Ascribing ‘greenhouse’ effect properties to the Earth’s atmosphere is not scientifically substantiated…Heated greenhouse gases, which become lighter as a result of expansion, ascend to the atmosphere only to give the absorbed heat away.” (Russian News & Information Agency, Jan. 15, 2007 [9]) (See also [10], [11], [12])
•Sallie Baliunas, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: “[T]he recent warming trend in the surface temperature record cannot be caused by the increase of human-made greenhouse gases in the air.” (Capitalism Magazine, August 22, 2002)[13] Baliunas and Soon wrote that “there is no reliable evidence for increased severity or frequency of storms, droughts, or floods that can be related to the air’s increased greenhouse gas content.” (Marshall Institute, March 25, 2003) [14]
•David Bellamy, environmental campaigner, broadcaster and botanist: “Global warming is a largely natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed.”[15]
•Reid Bryson, emeritus professor of Meterorology: “It’s absurd. Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.” [16].
•Robert M. Carter, geologist, researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia: “The essence of the issue is this. Climate changes naturally all the time, partly in predictable cycles, and partly in unpredictable shorter rhythms and rapid episodic shifts, some of the causes of which remain unknown.” (Telegraph, April 9, 2006 [17])
•George V. Chilingar, Professor of Civil and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Southern California: “The authors identify and describe the following global forces of nature driving the Earth’s climate: (1) solar radiation …, (2) outgassing as a major supplier of gases to the World Ocean and the atmosphere, and, possibly, (3) microbial activities … . The writers provide quantitative estimates of the scope and extent of their corresponding effects on the Earth’s climate [and] show that the human-induced climatic changes are negligible.” (Environmental Geology, vol. 50 no. 6, August 2006 [18])
•Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa: “That portion of the scientific community that attributes climate warming to CO2 relies on the hypothesis that increasing CO2, which is in fact a minor greenhouse gas, triggers a much larger water vapour response to warm the atmosphere. This mechanism has never been tested scientifically beyond the mathematical models that predict extensive warming, and are confounded by the complexity of cloud formation – which has a cooling effect. … We know that [the sun] was responsible for climate change in the past, and so is clearly going to play the lead role in present and future climate change. And interestingly… solar activity has recently begun a downward cycle.” (The Hill Times, March 22, 2004 [19])
•William M. Gray, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University: “This small warming is likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations. Ocean circulation variations are as yet little understood. Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential.”[20]) “I am of the opinion that [global warming] is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people.” [21]) “So many people have a vested interest in this global-warming thing—all these big labs and research and stuff. The idea is to frighten the public, to get money to study it more.”[22])
•Yuri Izrael, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “There is no proven link between human activity and global warming.”[23]
•Zbigniew Jaworowski, chair of the Scientific Council at the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw: “The atmospheric temperature variations do not follow the changes in the concentrations of CO2 … climate change fluctuations comes … from cosmic radiation.” (21st Century Science & Technology, Winter 2003-2004, p. 52-65 [24])
•David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware: “About half of the warming during the 20th century occurred prior to the 1940s, and natural variability accounts for all or nearly all of the warming.” (May 15, 2006 [25])
•Marcel Leroux, former Professor of Climatology, Université Jean Moulin: “The possible causes, then, of climate change are: well-established orbital parameters on the palaeoclimatic scale, … solar activity, …; volcanism …; and far at the rear, the greenhouse effect, and in particular that caused by water vapor, the extent of its influence being unknown. These factors are working together all the time, and it seems difficult to unravel the relative importance of their respective influences upon climatic evolution. Equally, it is tendentious to highlight the anthropic factor, which is, clearly, the least credible among all those previously mentioned.” (M. Leroux, Global Warming – Myth or Reality?, 2005, p. 120 [26])
•Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa: global warming “is the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities. The atmosphere hasn’t changed much in 280 million years, and there have always been cycles of warming and cooling. The Cretaceous period was the warmest on earth. You could have grown tomatoes at the North Pole”[27]
•Tim Patterson [28], paleoclimatologist and Professor of Geology at Carleton University in Canada: “There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth’s temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years. On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century’s modest warming?” [29]
•Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology, The University of Adelaide: “We only have to have one volcano burping and we have changed the whole planetary climate… It looks as if carbon dioxide actually follows climate change rather than drives it”. [[30]]
•Frederick Seitz, retired, former solid-state physicist, former president of the National Academy of Sciences: “So we see that the scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.” (Environment News, 2001 [31])
•Nir Shaviv, astrophysicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “[T]he truth is probably somewhere in between [the common view and that of skeptics], with natural causes probably being more important over the past century, whereas anthropogenic causes will probably be more dominant over the next century. … [A]bout 2/3’s (give or take a third or so) of the warming [over the past century] should be attributed to increased solar activity and the remaining to anthropogenic causes.” His opinion is based on some proxies of solar activity over the past few centuries. [32]
•Fred Singer, Professor emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia: “The greenhouse effect is real. However, the effect is minute, insignificant, and very difficult to detect.” (Christian Science Monitor, April 22, 2005) [33] “The Earth currently is experiencing a warming trend, but there is scientific evidence that human activities have little to do with it.”, NCPA Study No. 279, Sep. 2005 [34]. “It’s not automatically true that warming is bad, I happen to believe that warming is good, and so do many economists.” (CBC’s Denial machine @ 19:23 – Google Video Link)
•Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: “[T]here’s increasingly strong evidence that previous research conclusions, including those of the United Nations and the United States government concerning 20th century warming, may have been biased by underestimation of natural climate variations. The bottom line is that if these variations are indeed proven true, then, yes, natural climate fluctuations could be a dominant factor in the recent warming. In other words, natural factors could be more important than previously assumed.” (Harvard University Gazette, 24 April 2003 [35])
•Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London: “…the myth is starting to implode. … Serious new research at The Max Planck Institute has indicated that the sun is a far more significant factor…” (Global Warming as Myth [36])
•Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Center: “Our team … has discovered that the relatively few cosmic rays that reach sea-level play a big part in the everyday weather. They help to make low-level clouds, which largely regulate the Earth’s surface temperature. During the 20th Century the influx of cosmic rays decreased and the resulting reduction of cloudiness allowed the world to warm up. … most of the warming during the 20th Century can be explained by a reduction in low cloud cover.” [37]
•Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, Professor Emeritus from University of Ottawa: “At this stage, two scenarios of potential human impact on climate appear feasible: (1) the standard IPCC model …, and (2) the alternative model that argues for celestial phenomena as the principal climate driver. … Models and empirical observations are both indispensable tools of science, yet when discrepancies arise, observations should carry greater weight than theory. If so, the multitude of empirical observations favours celestial phenomena as the most important driver of terrestrial climate on most time scales, but time will be the final judge.” (In J. Veizer, “Celestial climate driver: a perspective from four billion years of the carbon cycle”, Geoscience Canada, March, 2005. [38], [39])
[edit] Believe cause of global warming is unknown
Scientists in this section conclude it is too early to ascribe any principal cause to the observed rising temperatures, man-made or natural.
•Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and Director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks: “Thus, there is a possibility that only a fraction of the present warming trend may be attributed to the greenhouse effect resulting from human activities. This conclusion is contrary to the IPCC (2007) Report, which states that “most” of the present warming (+0.7°C/100 years) is due to the greenhouse effect.”[40]
•Claude Allègre, geochemist, Institute of Geophysics (Paris): “The increase in the CO2 content of the atmosphere is an observed fact and mankind is most certainly responsible. In the long term, this increase will without doubt become harmful, but its exact role in the climate is less clear. Various parameters appear more important than CO2. Consider the water cycle and formation of various types of clouds, and the complex effects of industrial or agricultural dust. Or fluctuations of the intensity of the solar radiation on annual and century scale, which seem better correlated with heating effects than the variations of CO2 content.” (Translation from the original French version in L’Express, May 10, 2006 [41])
•August H. “Augie” Auer Jr., retired New Zealand MetService Meteorologist, past professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wyoming: “So if you multiply the total contribution 3.6 by the man-made portion of it, 3.2, you find out that the anthropogenic contribution of CO2 to the the global greenhouse effect is 0.117 percent, roughly 0.12 percent, that’s like 12c in $100.” “‘It’s miniscule … it’s nothing,’”. [42]
•Robert C. Balling, Jr., director of the Office of Climatology and a professor of geography at Arizona State University: “[I]t is very likely that the recent upward trend [in global surface temperature] is very real and that the upward signal is greater than any noise introduced from uncertainties in the record. However, the general error is most likely to be in the warming direction, with a maximum possible (though unlikely) value of 0.3 °C. … At this moment in time we know only that: (1) Global surface temperatures have risen in recent decades. (2) Mid-tropospheric temperatures have warmed little over the same period. (3) This difference is not consistent with predictions from numerical climate models.” (George C. Marshall Institute, Policy Outlook, September 2003[43])
•Chris de Freitas, Associate Professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland: “There is evidence of global warming. … But warming does not confirm that carbon dioxide is causing it. Climate is always warming or cooling. There are natural variability theories of warming. To support the argument that carbon dioxide is causing it, the evidence would have to distinguish between human-caused and natural warming. This has not been done.” (The New Zealand Herald, May 9, 2006 [44])
•David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma: “The amount of climatic warming that has taken place in the past 150 years is poorly constrained, and its cause–human or natural–is unknown. There is no sound scientific basis for predicting future climate change with any degree of certainty. If the climate does warm, it is likely to be beneficial to humanity rather than harmful. In my opinion, it would be foolish to establish national energy policy on the basis of misinformation and irrational hysteria.” (Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, December 6, 2006 [45])
•Richard Lindzen, Alfred Sloane Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences: “We are quite confident (1) that global mean temperature is about 0.5 °C higher than it was a century ago; (2) that atmospheric levels of CO2 have risen over the past two centuries; and (3) that CO2 is a greenhouse gas whose increase is likely to warm the earth (one of many, the most important being water vapor and clouds). But–and I cannot stress this enough–we are not in a position to confidently attribute past climate change to CO2 or to forecast what the climate will be in the future.” [46] “[T]here has been no question whatsoever that CO2 is an infrared absorber (i.e., a greenhouse gas — albeit a minor one), and its increase should theoretically contribute to warming. Indeed, if all else were kept equal, the increase in CO2 should have led to somewhat more warming than has been observed.” (San Francisco Examiner, July 12, 2006 [47] and in Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2006, Page A14)
•Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville: “We need to find out how much of the warming we are seeing could be due to mankind, because I still maintain we have no idea how much you can attribute to mankind.” (George C. Marshall Institute Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy, April 17, 2006 [48])

Still convinced that this new religon is right?

A: I’ve always thought man-made global warming was crap… but it’s a big business now and a new way for governments to get money with “green Taxes”

Q: i got a offer letter from uk? is it genuine??????
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:28:28 +0530 (IST) Printer Friendly Version
From: neco_recruitments@yahoo.com

Subject: CLIENT/EMPLOYER: O.O G (OCEAN OIL AND GAS) LONDON
Language Mail Full Headers

JOB REF: OOGL 07/01446

CLIENT/EMPLOYER: O.O G (OCEAN OIL AND GAS) LONDON

LABOUR CONSULTANT: TIMESJOB.COM

DATE: 19/02/2008

Attn: EMPLOYEE

This is to inform you that OCEAN OIL AND GAS in London is presently recruiting
new qualified expert rates into the under listed departments; Interestingly
most of our clients are not actively looking for a new job, but are keen to
consider the right opportunity based on the current accreditation in their
individual careers.

We listen carefully to what is important to you with regard to career, family
and lifestyle. We then use our connections and investigative skills to identify
interesting opportunities that meet your criteria. Some of the moves we engineer
are in-country, but the vast majorities are international placements (world
wide) with some of the best firms in the country

DETAILS:

NECO RECRUITMENT ; with the mandate to recruit qualified professionals in the
Engineering sector for the fulfillment of the requirements of (Ocean Oil and
Gas) in London as contained in the gazette on the oil states monitory
accommodation and absorbed by the federal Monitory allotment of the GREAT
BRITAIN, LONDON ,we seek to write your consent after recommendation from our
labour consultants based on recent Engineer consolidations and increased
Engineering system in GREAT BRITAIN LONDON.(OCEAN OIL AND GAS) intends to
invite prime experienced Professionals, capable of rendering expertise
assistance in the categories alphabetically listed below:

1) Architect Engineering

2) Marine Engineering

3) Mechanical Engineering

4) Electrical Engineering

5) Electronics-Telecommunication Engineering

6) Construction Engineering

7) Aerospace Engineering

Computer engineering

9) Accountant

10) Production Engineering

11) Drilling Services

12) Civil Engineering

13) Petroleum Engineer

And others.

Requirement:

Job openings shall require a thorough exercise of dedication and commitments to
duty in individual specialty.

Entitlement, Compensation and Benefits packages include; A very attractive net
salary paid in Pounds Sterling or Dollar equivalent depending on employee home
country and currency preference.

. Quality single or family housing accommodation in secured environment.
. Free medical care and attention in London for employee and family.
. Excellent educational assistance benefits with family status employment.
. Paid airfares allowing full flexibility on holiday travel.
. Personal effects shipment and excess baggage allowances.
. Full access to most of the finest and social recreational facilities in LONDON
on duty free days.

CONTRACT DURATION:
Level 1: 24 Months, (Two Years) and renewable only on satisfactory performance
by employee.

Level 2: Full time
Interested candidates must have not less than 4 years experience in their
relevant areas of specialization and should forward their resumes/CV with
verifiable reference(s) as word attached document: neco_recruitments@yahoo.com
Interested candidates are also required to contact our London Local Office
strictly for the purpose of this project.

NOTE; As soon as we receive your cv / resume we shall send it to our
international screening department for proper screening and verifications.

And only the successful screened employees shall be contacted after the
international screening.

CONTACT:

Dr John Gray
Head Of Recruitment Services.
Neco Recruitment inc,
London
+447031873546

A: One big thing that stands out is that you reply to a Yahoo email account, and not one from the company that is supposedly recruiting.

I’d call it a scam and delete it.

Q: A second college degree .Please help ?
Hi guys,

Thanks for looking in to this. I would highly appreciate your suggestions and ideas on this. Here is the deal. I am going to be in a junior standing a computer science student next semester. But I have only picked one course from the department and the rest is core general courses like any college student . I intend to graduate in the coming two years but I am planing to add a second degree in petroleum engineering at other colleges like Texas tech or Texas A&M after I graduated from my current , a private college which doesn’t have the program I am looking for (Engineering program) .I am now planning to take as many as pre-engineering courses as I can before I graduate from my current school . My question is ..is it realistic that I will reach my goal and be a petroleum engineer. What are the pros and the cons of my planning. I just feel like I need to gather as many information as possible perhaps if there are things that I am not seeing right now but some body can . Please advice. Thanks a lot

A: It would take you longer to graduate than an engineering major. You’d have to take quite a bit of prerequisites. Petroleum Engineering is a very specific field. However, I’m unsure of what you are asking. Are you looking for a Graduate degree? or a second undergraduate (you can bypass getting an undergraduate for PETE and get a graduate degree if you already have a degree and a certain number of prerequisites).
I would highly advise that you take summer classes at the university you intend on going to for the second degree. Enroll for the summer session, talk to a counselor, get an A or B in the courses you take there and you’ll be set for your second degree. No matter direction you are going in TAKE summer classes at that University.
Also, just don’t take pre-engineering classes like “pre-engineering” those are worthless prerequisite wise. Take classes like Thermodynamics, Statics, Differential Equations, Fluids, Strengths, Industrial Statistics, ect (these are REAL engineering classes that you will actually need if you don’t want to take forever with your second degree. Classes like Physics and Calculus are givens. Also, take geology courses- you’ll need those. I doubt a non-engineering college will offer much of these classes, that is why I must stress that you attend summer school at the University you plan to attend. I won’t be easy. If it were, everyone would do it.

Q: What do you know that these people don’t ?
Khabibullo Abdusamatov, mathematician and astronomer at Pulkovskaya Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy – almost throughout the last century – growth in its intensity…Ascribing ‘greenhouse’ effect properties to the Earth’s atmosphere is not scientifically substantiated…Heated greenhouse gases, which become lighter as a result of expansion, ascend to the atmosphere only to give the absorbed heat away.”[13][14][15]
Sallie Baliunas, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: “[T]he recent warming trend in the surface temperature record cannot be caused by the increase of human-made greenhouse gases in the air.”[16]
Reid Bryson, deceased, former emeritus professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “It’s absurd. Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”[17]
George V. Chilingar, Professor of Civil and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Southern California: “The authors identify and describe the following global forces of nature driving the Earth’s climate: (1) solar radiation …, (2) outgassing as a major supplier of gases to the World Ocean and the atmosphere, and, possibly, (3) microbial activities … . The writers provide quantitative estimates of the scope and extent of their corresponding effects on the Earth’s climate [and] show that the human-induced climatic changes are negligible.”[18]
Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa: “That portion of the scientific community that attributes climate warming to CO2 relies on the hypothesis that increasing CO2, which is in fact a minor greenhouse gas, triggers a much larger water vapour response to warm the atmosphere. This mechanism has never been tested scientifically beyond the mathematical models that predict extensive warming, and are confounded by the complexity of cloud formation – which has a cooling effect. … We know that [the sun] was responsible for climate change in the past, and so is clearly going to play the lead role in present and future climate change. And interestingly… solar activity has recently begun a downward cycle.”[19]
David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester: “The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, does not show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming. The inescapable conclusion is that the human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming.”[20]
Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University: “global warming since 1900 could well have happened without any effect of CO2. If the cycles continue as in the past, the current warm cycle should end soon and global temperatures should cool slightly until about 2035″[21]
William M. Gray, Professor Emeritus and head of The Tropical Meteorology Project, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University: “This small warming is likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations. Ocean circulation variations are as yet little understood. Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential.”[22] “I am of the opinion that [global warming] is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people.”[23] “So many people have a vested interest in this global-warming thing—all these big labs and research and stuff. The idea is to frighten the public, to get money to study it more.”[24]
William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology: “There has been a real climate change over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that can be attributed to natural phenomena. Natural variability of the climate system has been underestimated by IPCC and has, to now, dominated human influences.”[25]
George Kukla, retired Professor of Climatology at Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said in an interview: “What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.”[26]
David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware: “About half of the warming during the 20th century occurred prior to the 1940s, and natural variability accounts for all or nearly all of the warming.”[27]
Marcel Leroux, former Professor of Climatology, Université Jean M
Science advances through hypotheses based on a set of assumptions. Other scientists challenge and test those assumptions in what philosopher Karl Popper called the practice of ‘falsibility.’ Trying to disprove hypothesis is what real science is all about. Yet the hypothesis that human addition of CO2 would lead to significantly enhanced greenhouse warming was quickly accepted without this normal scientific challenge. As Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences said, the consensus was reached before the research had even begun. Adherents to the hypothesis began defending the increasingly indefensible by launching personal attacks, essentially trying to frighten scientific opponents into silence.
All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year’s time. For all four sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.
This was for 2007 and when the 2008 mean temp came out it was down again.
I would like to see the names of all the pro global warming scientist that belive it is caused by humans.
CARBON DIOXIDE MAKES UP 0.037% OF THE EARTHS ATMOSPHERES AND YET YOU DISMISS WATER VAPOR LIKE IT MEANS NOTHING TO THE ATMOSPHERE. LOOK UP THE PERCENTAGES YOUR SELF, IT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE.

A: TOO LONG DIDN’T READ

Global Warming = Al gore’s Bullshit

Q: Letter of Intention for college?
My cousin is comming from another country to study in a college in the summer time.. we wrote this intention of letter for her. I just wantted to know if it was a exeptable letter and if i should revise any part of it please tell me… THANKSSS…

10/18/09
Dr./Mr./Ms. XXX (contact person’s last name)
Title
Organization Name
Street Address

Dear Dr. XXX:

I am a student currently attending my third year in Kocaeli Unversity Department of Chemical Engineering. I would like to attend one of your Chemical/ Environmental internship during the summer period. I am currently taking courses on English, Technical English, Entry of chemical engineering, Physics, History, Math, Physicochemistry, General Chemistry Laboratory, Physicochemistry Laboratory, Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Organic Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis, Fluid Mechanics, Statics, Mass and Energy Balances, Heat Transfer, Numeric Analysis, Polymer Chemistry.

I was looking for colleges in United States and my aunt informed me about your college. She is a United States Citizen who lives nearby your college. When she mentioned about your excellence in eduction, and your well known name in this area she also told me it would be a great opportunity for me to take part in your summer internship program!

I had my internship in Pfizer (drug company) in summer 2008 in Turkey. I am an active member of UCTEA Chamber of chemical Engineers Student Commissions. I took seminars about paint in Yildiz Technical University. I worked at 7th international Paint and Auxiliary Products Industry Exhibition which was held in Istanbul, Turkey. During the Exhibition I had a great chance to join the conferences. I had a chance to also expand my knowledge on Polymers. I also had a lot of observation in the exhibit.. As I mentioned as a member of UCTEA we are planning a lot of technical trips. One of our trips included Tupras Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corporation. I would like to improve myself in the are of chemical engineering. I graduated as a valedictorian in my Senior year of High school. I have passed all of my college courses from the previous years. I am fluent in writing and speaking English. I believe I am qualified to be a part of your researches and learn gain more knowledge on this subject. I am currently tutoring four high school and middle school students. I also enjoy playing basketball, watching movies and theater.

Thank You for your time and consideration.

A: Please do not think I am being cruel because I am not. Having said that what you need to do is have someone proof read this letter. There are many errors. Example: I am currently taking courses ON English. It should be I am currently taking courses IN English. Also, I had my internship in Pfizer… It should be I had my internship AT Pfizer. You have too many errors dear for me to go through all of them. Here is another one, I would like to improve myself in the AREA, you left out the second A. And another, I will type it the correct way. I believe if I were a part of your research team I would gain valuable knowledge on this subject.

I would leave out the I am fluent in writing and speaking English. He will see that when reading this letter which is why it must be without flaws. No errors, period. All in all this is a very nice introduction. You did a good job.

I am so impressed with your cousin’s credentials and I know the contact person will be too. I wish her the best on a very bright future. You are a nice person and she is blessed to have you as a relative. I love it when people care about each other and show it.

Q: I got a offer letter from uk American Eagle Tankers Petroleum Co. UK,can u tell me is it froud r jenuine?
American Eagle Tankers Petroleum Co. UK
2 Harbour Exchange Square, London, E14 9GE

Job Ref: AET 02/10457 Date: 10-05-2010

RE: SUCCESS LETTER
We refer to your earlier forwarded application for job engagement with relations to American Eagle Tankers Petroleum Co. UK Project in (London) and job reference number: AET 02/10457

On the above subject matter, the American Eagle Tankers Petroleum Co. UK Management hereby congratulates you on your successful emergence based on detailed recruitment by our official recruitment consultants; the Human Resources Department of American Eagle Tankers Petroleum Co. UK
Further details are as follows:

DESIGNATION: HVAC, R&D ENGINEER
Working Hours: Monday – Friday: 8am – 4pm Saturday: 10am – 2pm
SALARY: Pounds 10,620.00 (Ten Thousand Six Hundred Twenty Pounds) per monthly /take-home (After tax), Sterling or Pounds equivalent depending on Home country and currency preference.
JOB LOCATION: 2 Harbour Exchange Square, London, E14 9GE
START DATE: You shall be expected to resume on site on the 10TH JUNE. 2010.

TERMS OF AGREEMENT

FOR CARRYING OUT EXPATRIATE SUPPORT SERVICES BETWEEN
American Eagle Tankers Petroleum Co. UK
AND
SECOND PARTY
This agreement is made on the 10TH. MAY. 2010,
ARTICLE 1: CONTRACT PERIOD
The contract period shall be for Contract duration: The contract shall last for duration of 12 consecutive months; 1 year and could be renewed only if employer is satisfied with employee’s services. This is with effect from the 10TH. JUNE 2010
You shall be required to finish up with your Affidavit of Guarantee papers before the 30TH MAY. 2010. as a proof of readiness to join Honda Motors Company United Kingdom

ARTICLE 2: FEES FOR SERVICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENTS
2.1 AET shall pay Employees on satisfactory performance of the services the sum 10,620.00(Ten Thousand Six Hundred Twenty Pounds) per monthly or Pounds equivalent depending on employee’s home country.
2.2 AET shall pay for services rendered by employee by Cheque presented on a monthly basis at the rate stated therein
2.3 Payments of undisputed invoices will be made by HMC to the employee monthly.
2.4 AET shall pay all fees in Pounds or US dollars equivalent depending on employees’ home country and shall be paid; 75% to an offshore account provided by Employee and 25% locally.
Employer for each intercontinental trip shall pay Pounds 2, 520.00 flat rate travel/entertainment allowances to employee. Travel shall be by business class/first class. However for the purpose of commencement, the cost of travel ticket shall be paid in addition to travel/entertainment allowance. Cost shall be substantiated and shall be the rate charged at the Period/time of purchase.
Employer shall also take care of employees’ travel ticket including that of employees’ family only on employees’ early notification to employer and as shall be requested by employee.
2.5 COMFIRMED EMPLOYEES
Confirmed employees are those employee’s that have successfully acquired and forwarded his/her Affidavit of Guarantee papers from a British High court to the employers’ management-duly certified by the Morgan Rose Solicitors Then they shall be entitled to above benefits.

2.6 OTHER BENEFITS
. Quality single or family housing in company community.
. Personal effects shipment and excess baggage allowances.
. Access to some of the finest social and recreational facilities in UK
. Free medical care in UK for you and your family for contract duration.
. Excellent educational assistance benefits with family status contracts.
. Complete meals also for you and your family as deemed Appropriate, Life insurance Policy.
. Maximum and efficient security both in work place and housing Community.
Computer resources: Laptop Computer, 1.6 GHz Processor, 256 MB RAM, 24XCD-RW, 30GB Hard Drive, Floppy Drive, Integrated Network Adapter, Internal 56K Modem, Spare Battery and Necessary Software. Full time Internet access is also made available
Phones: the employer will provide each employee with one (1) landline and one (1) mobile telephone. This shall have a reasonable credit limit application per month.
Local transportation: Honda 2008M shall be fully provided for employee and family by employer for mobility of labor.
Adequate private office space in a conducive and comfortable work environment shall be provided for each employee.
. Employees’ shall be authorized three (3) times paid vacation during the term of the contract, to be used at the employees ‘discretion after duly informing and receiving approval from employer’s management. Employer will pay for travel expenses (i.e. flight tickets, Visa and Work permit Processing) and flat rate travel allowance of GBP2, 520.00.

ARTICLE 3: TERMINATION
3.1 This Agreement may be terminated: -
(i) If the services stated therein are not rendered satisfactorily.
(ii) If th

A: FAKE

Note that failure to provide the affidavit of guarantee within the stipulated time would mean an automatic termination of appointment.

Q: QINATUS OIL USA is it really a legit oil company?
­ QINATUS OIL INDUSTRIES
110 Wall Street
New York, NY 11439
Tel: 1-718-383-1461­­
­Fax: 1-336-322-9264­­­­
­
­­­
Email:- qntusoilcana@y­ahoo.com

YOU ARE WELCOME TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE­ DEPARTMENT OF QINATUS OIL INDUSTRIES.
HON­ESTLY WE ARE LOOKING FOR WORKERS ABROAD WHO CAN WORK IN OIL FIELD.

WE HAVE VACANCIES IN ALL THE THREE ARMS OF THE INDUSTRIES:
(1)­ THE OIL ENRICHMENT SECTION.
(2) SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT.
(3)­ ADMINISTRATIVE­ BLOCK.
VACANCIE­S AND SALARIES:
1) OIL ENRICHMENT SECTION: (PROFESSIONALS­ ONLY) SALARIES
CHEMIC­AL
EN­GINEERS ­ $10- 16,000
PETROLEU­M ——–­– $10 -16,000
ELECTRI­CAL ———– ­ $10 -16,000
ELECTRO­NICS ————
AU­TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERS ­ $10 -16,000
ETC. ­ ­
———-­—– Negotiable
ALL ALLOWANCIES ARE NOT INCLUDED
2) SOCIAL WELFARE:
CANTEE­N ATTENDANTS, CLINIC ATTENDANTS,
As
w­ell as entry-level

A: It’s a scam – one of dozens

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