In groups, students research basic information on the industry's operations and the ways it prepares for and manages natural disaster, keeping in mind the example of oil companies from "Another Storm Casualty: Oil Prices" (e.g., the evacuation of offshore operations, closing of oil terminals, possible use of federal oil reserves).
Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus) provides another interesting example of oil accumulation in a sink tissue that in most other plant species is devoid of this storage product.
3. What are some other examples of oil making environmental news in recent times?
Analysis of the murals revealed the use of oil-based paints, making the 7th-century murals some of the earliest examples of oil painting in the world.
In a section on its Web site about Texaco in Ecuador, a document, "Response to Claims," states, "Examples of oil producing nations that today allow the discharge of produced water rather than injection into the ground are the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Kuwait, Angola and Nigeria, along with Ecuador".
Olive oil, Canola oil, Sunflower oil, and peanut oil are examples of oil that are monounsaturated fats.
On the example of the oils from oil reservoirs of different ages in the Samara region, Russia (oils 1 3), it is shown that the MMDs of n-alkanes in the asphaltenes were quite different depending on the age of the oil reservoir from which the oils were produced (Fig. 1).
Examples of oil-bearing shales are the Bakken Formation, Pierre Shale, Niobrara Formation, and Eagle Ford Formation.
There are numerous examples of oils where the common name used does not at all relate to the oil's actual botanical classification.
So here we have a clear-cut example of how oil traders' perceptions can have direct bearing on the retail prices of heating oil and other refined petroleum products.
But one senator wouldn't let the oil theft go: Dennis DeConcini, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Investigations, whose report concluded, "Koch Oil is the most dramatic example of an oil company stealing by deliberate mismeasurement and fraudulent reporting".
