Check Out How oil and gas are Formed—-3 Easy Steps

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Everyone in his daily life are in contact with objects that depend on oil or natural gas on their making. For example In order for you are car to run it must be filled with oil, Most of you use gas for cooking.

Have you ever asked yourself where do this oil and natural gas come from?

Without using technical words, the article explains how oil and natural gas are formed with three easy steps. If a reader lack prior knowledge of oil and gas industry, do not worry the article uses simple language in order to give you a better understanding.

 

Note: Oil and natural gas are related products often found in tandem, so their process of formation is similar

Okay let’s see how oil and natural gas formed

Stage 1 – All of the oil and gas we use today began as microscopic plants and animals living in the ocean millions of years ago.. In the shallow water where these animals lived, sweep current comes on and pushes these animals down where there is not sufficient oxygen to live and so they die.

Over millions of years, these layers of sands and animals are burned and covered by more layers until the first layer get very deep.

Stage 2 – as they became buried ever deeper, heat and pressure began to rise. The amount of pressure and the degree of heat, along with the type of biomass, determined if the material became oil or natural gas.

 

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In an area where more shallow and organic materials were buried in a short time we get heavy oil

In area where organic materials were buried very deep over 2,000 meters for long time we get only we get lighter oil

If organic materials buried more than 6, 000 meter deep and for a long time we get only  natural  gas

 

Stage 3 – after oil and natural gas was formed. They tended to migrate through microscopic pores in the surrounding rock.

Some oil and natural gas migrated all the way to the surface and ran away. Other oil and natural gas deposits migrated until they were caught under impermeable layers of rock or clay where they were trapped.

These trapped deposits are the reason why we find oil and natural gas today.

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More Local Talents are Needed in Natural gas Industry

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Apart from infrastructure, the greatest obstacles in oil and   natural gas industry in Tanzania is scarcity of skilled labors at local level.

Although effort has been done to train local people inside and outside of the country, but the number of trained people  do  not meet the demand to serves the industry.

The shortage of locals people with knowledge and experience relevant  to oil and gas disciplines in  oil companies, consulting firms and tax authorities, will causes most of oil and gas projects in Tanzania to take longer than average. Also we will remain dependant from  foreign companies in terms of  technical expertise.

The local participation in the oil and natural gas sector in Tanzania is necessarily important as the key to succeed in this industry.

Having large number of skilled workers in the oil and natural gas sector will minimize cost that recently stay in the hands of foreigners and investors, as well as removing barriers in developing newly discovered gas resources.

What Does Natural gas discovery in Tanzania mean for  Local Entrepreneurs

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With this massive discovery of natural gas in Tanzania which is nearly 55.5 trillion cubic feet,  international companies and foreign  investors across the world are swarming in Tanzania to invest in natural gas sector.

What does it mean to Tanzania entrepreneurs?

 The logic here is very simple: there is unlimited opportunities in natural gas industry to create huge wealth, and that’s why many investors are attracted to it:

But the sad reality is that, most of local  entrepreneurs  are still place limit to themselves  with  excuses like “I m not good enough in oil and gas stuff” some of us we believe oil and gas business is only for “BIG BOYS”  with  big financial muscles

Discovery of natural gas in Tanzania means opportunities to Local entrepreneurs to creates financial freedom. This discovery of natural gas should inspire the creativity of locals entrepreneurs.

With this growth of Tanzania economy by 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2015 means demand of energy is going to increase,which increases the investment opportunities in Tanzania.

If you are very interesting in oil and gas business and you don’t know where to begin here 6 oil and gas business opportunity in Tanzania.  You can start with

Good Luck:

Never Miss: This Free Online Oil and Gas Training

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IFP  school is going to conduct another Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) relating to oil and energy.

This training which IFP school offers is very important because it meet the needs of petroleum industry and demand of society

  Features of training

  •        Free training
  • It takes five weeks
  • It starts 2nd November 2015
  • 2-3 hours per week
  • Certificate of participation and achievement(you will receive certificate at the end of the course through your email,
  • A serious game as a case study.

Who can join the train?

All petroleum professionals who wants to updates their knowledge, students, graduates and  any one who are very interesting in oil and gas sector.Even if you have back ground unrelated to oil and gas industry  I recommend you to participate in this course, you will learn a lot and the good news is , at the end of the course you will get certificate  which you can increase value of your CV .

I have already participate their previous training on over view of oil and gas industry, there a lot of people who were participating but they didn’t have e background relating to petroleum industry, Why you should not try?

If petroleum industry is your passion you will join.

How  to register for this online course.

Registration is very easy, you  would be asked to fill  two boxes.

the first box you will write your first name and in the last box you will be required to add your email, the you will click “Sign up” button you are ready to go and enjoy the training.

to begin your free registration click here:http://mooc.sustainable-mobility.ifp-school.com

 After successful completing this course participants will be able to

  • Different energy sources , the importance of oil and how it used  in transport and its consequences regarding to the environment
  • Explain the operation of 4 stock engine
  • Explain the specification of gasoline and diesel and objectives of each unit during the crude refining process
  • Explain the engine’s efficiency, the power and the torque
  • Explain the formation of pollutant emissions, identify  techniques used to reduce emissions and consumption and finally identify the different after treatment systems
  • List the pros and cons of hybrids and explain how they work, list the various alternative fuel used, and finally describe possible solution for reducing dependency on petroleum  products eg car sharing or  ecodriving.

  Final Words

When we talk about IFP school, we don’t talk about Tanzania only, IFP school is about international level.

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See Why in Tanzania Gas Industry, Transparency is Important

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Recently, transparency become hot in Tanzania’s Oil and gas Sector. Many organisations work hard on launch their findings  to promote transparency in natural gas industry

Yesterday the Friedrich- Ebert -Stiffung (FES)  Tanzania, launched its “Tanzania Oil and Gas Almanac” and present other  tools aimed at promoting  transparency in Tanzania’s oil and gas industry. you can also read: fes launched tanzania oil and gas almanac

Also on september 1st 2015, Twaweza organization released their findings which has shown 77 percent of Citizens want more information on recent natural gas discovered.

Few days ago   Poverty alleviation (REPOA) and Center for global deviation has done research, and their findings shows that most Tanzanians support publishing of all oil and gas contracts and government revenue generated from oil and gas . Read here:citizens of Tanzania support-extracting and selling of natural gas internationally

The key question here is why  these various organizations try hard to promote transparency in  natural gas industry in Tanzania?

They do all of these because transparency is necessarily important for emerging oil and gas producer country like Tanzania.

Now let us See

                           Why transparency is very crucial in Tanzania’s Natural gas industry?

1.Manage public expectations

By citizens being aware of the time frame of production, how big discovery it is, educate them difference between  a discovery and a commercially  proven discovery, we would be able to manage public’s  expectations like massive job creations to  Tanzanians,  you can also read . see why discovery of natural gas in  Tanzania Could not bring too many jobs to Tanzania as they believe

2.Improve fairness to Citizens 

Disclosure of financials data and contracts can help convince both citizens and companies that the process is fair,.

3.Reducing Conflicts

By identify which group require specific communcation including citizens living nearby producing regions, it might reduce conflicts and chaos, what happen in Mtwara was due to lack of right information to the citizens.

4.Public support

Tanzania as a new gas producers, by contract disclosure benefit the country because make the term public available can increase public support for project.

5.Wining the trust of Citizens

Disclosure of information related to tendering and licensing process could raise the citizens confidence as the revenues  generated from the Natural gas industry would not  only stay in the  hand of corrupt leaders and rich men instead will all citizens and country will benefit as whole.

MY FINAL WORDS

Transparency is very  essentials in Tanzania’s Natural gas industry,also engagement of average citizens is particularly important in avoiding conflict.  Also those information should published  in both  swahili and english language so as  can be easily  understod to every one

Dear  readers we love more you comments from all of these.

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Challenge: Can state afford a national petroleum company that is an Operator?

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In emerging oil and gas producer country like Tanzania interest in promoting national participation is growing dramatically

But  the two key questions are

  1. Whether and when it  is appropriate to create National Oil Company (NOC )  ?and
  2. What the role the  of National Oil Company  should have?

Although the decision of creating National Oil Company  (NOC) vary from one country to another.

.Some argue that creating  National Oil Company  early in the process helps build capacity and sector-specific knowledge that proves very useful if and when discoveries are made later. Others argue that the creation of National Oil Company simply diverts scarce government

resources. In many cases, the decision to create an NOC in oil hotspots is largely motivated by national political aspirations.

You can also read:how to win the trust of citizens in tanzania oil and gas sector

But  we can learn  from  Country like Norway where by the building of statoil’s operator capacity was due to ambition, dedication and stamina by company and its owner, also , coopearation and competition    have been key in developing Statoil’s operator capacity.

Life Cycle of a Well

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                       1.Exploration:This is the first stage in getting oil and gas to  market.This is where Geoscientists and Petroleum engineer work together to locate and drill into location that they think will produce oil.

                       2.Appraisal: After they finding the traces of oil and gas they must appraisal and evaluate the commercial potential of that discovery,in dong so the determine how much oil is available, the type of oil and gas that is present and extent of field size, In short they calculate if there is sufficient hydrocarbon to justify further investment. In other word will the field produce enough hydrocarbon to help recover all the cost and still make profit.

  1. Development: If they determine there enough oil, they will then plan development of the field, they select where are the wells to be drilled to determine the size and extent of the field next they plan budget equipment tools and manpower needed to bring the field into production.

  1. Production:This is where field start to produce oil and gas or its satart actually makes money,In fact the production stage is the only stages that makes money and must make enough to support other phases and still makes profit. This stages can last from few years to decades depending on the size of the field.

                     5.Abandonment: When there is no longer enough producible hydrocarbon to make profit the well will be shut down.