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- Code Number:
- IPOV01P01_03
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Blowout Preventer, BOP, Glomar Coral Sea, Global Marine, Oil Drilling Rig, Port Arthur, Texas, July 1974
- IMO: 7366506
Gross weight: 6,054 tons
Summer DWT: 5,161 tons
Class society: American Bureau Of Shipping
Built: 1974
Builder: Levingston Shipbuilding, Orange Texas
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Workboat, Ship, Commerce, Maritime, Transportation, Shipping, merchant marine, Industry, Commercial-shipping, Petrochemical Industry, Hydrocarbon Industries, Industrial, Crude, Oil, Petroleum, Carbon Footprint ... --- ...
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Connecting The Dots With Vern
The true value for a gallon (4 Liters) of crude oil is arguably well in excess of $1,000,000 (Buckminster Fuller). To make oil, tiny organisms and organic detritus from before the time of dinosaurs have fallen and accumelated in the oceans. Storage, pressure and heat then transforms this sludge into what finally becomes crude oil. To make this short, all that time, space and energy required for this transformation is in fact incredibly valuable/expensive in todays terms. There is a misnomer that oil is not a renewable resource. It is actually in a constant flux of renewal, its just that it takes all these expensive dynamics to be in place including multiple millenias of time. Think about what the true cost of oil really is. Both monetarily and the destruction of a life supporting earth. It is time to stop this insanity. All of us. ... --- ... 2024
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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