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| Steve |
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
To rez or not to rez: that is the question
It is getting better but sometimes there
are still rezzing problems. Tim made these two snapshots of me during a party when my
outfits were mixed. A restart fixed it.
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| Chaps Party |
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| Waterloo Party |
OIL PARTY
Snapshots of the Oil Party
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| Zee and Call |
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| Azza |
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| Call |
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| Caasper |
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| Tim |
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| Ellbee and Steve |
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| JK |
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| Christo |
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| Norbie |
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| Corvus |
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| Eleu |
Friday, August 26, 2016
This Old Rig - Freddie Frank
An oil rig is a
structure on land or in the sea that is used when getting oil from the ground.
Development of oil drilling
Oil was known to exist in the Oil Creek Valley of
northwestern Pennsylvania, but there was no practical way to extract it. Its
main use to that time had been as a medicine for animals, humans and the early
development of kerosene. In the late 1850s Seneca Oil Company (formerly the
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company) sent its manager, Colonel Edwin L. Drake, to
develop a way to produce more ‘Rock oil’ from the ‘Oil Creek’. His employer
secured a piece of leased land just south of Titusville, a slow-growing and
peaceful community. Lumber was the principal industry at the time, with at
least 17 sawmills in the area. The land was chosen because for hundreds of
years Native Americans skimmed surface oil from the water near a naturally
occurring ‘Oil seep’. (Even today Oil Creek still has some natural seeps).
Drake tried many ways to access and skim more oil. Eventually he attempted to
dig a deep hole by hand. When a hole collapse nearly killed his men, Drake
attempted drilling. He was told by local water well drillers that “You cannot
drill for Rock Oil”. Drake had to travel to New Kensington, PA, (over 90 miles
away), to find and hire a salt well driller, William A. Smith, in the summer of
1859. After many difficulties, they finally drilled a commercially successful
well on August 27. Considered the birth of the oil industry, it was an event
that changed the world.
The Drake well is often referred to as the
"first" commercial oil well, although that title is also claimed for
wells in Azerbaijan, Ontario, West Virginia, and Poland, among others. However,
before the Drake well, oil-producing wells in the United States were wells that
were drilled for salt brine, and produced oil and gas only as accidental
byproducts. An intended drinking water well at Oil Springs, Ontario found oil
in 1858, a year before the Drake well, but it had not been drilled for oil.
Historians have noted that the importance of the Drake well was not in being
the first well to produce oil, but in attracting the first great wave of
investment in oil drilling, refining, and marketing:
The importance of the Drake well was in the fact that it
caused prompt additional drilling, thus establishing a supply of petroleum in
sufficient quantity to support business enterprises of magnitude.
Oil
An oil is any neutral, nonpolar chemical substance that
is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (immiscible
with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (miscible with
other oils, literally "fat loving"). Oils have a high carbon and
hydrogen content and are usually flammable and slippery.
The general definition of oil includes classes of
chemical compounds that may be otherwise unrelated in structure, properties,
and uses. Oils may be animal, vegetable, or petrochemical in origin, and may be
volatile or non-volatile. They are used for food, fuel, lubrication, and the
manufacture of paints, plastics, and other materials. Specially prepared oils
are used in some religious ceremonies as purifying agents.
Types
Organic oils
Organic oils are produced in remarkable diversity by
plants, animals, and other organisms through natural metabolic processes. Lipid
is the scientific term for the fatty acids, steroids and similar chemicals
often found in the oils produced by living things, while oil refers to an
overall mixture of chemicals. Organic oils may also contain chemicals other
than lipids, including proteins, waxes (class of compounds with oil-like
properties that are solid at common temperatures) and alkaloids.
Lipids can be classified by the way that they are made by
an organism, their chemical structure and their limited solubility in water
compared to oils. They have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are
considerably lacking in oxygen compared to other organic compounds and
minerals; they tend to be relatively nonpolar molecules, but may include both
polar and nonpolar regions as in the case of phospholipids and steroids.
Mineral oils
Crude oil, or petroleum, and its refined components,
collectively termed petrochemicals, are crucial resources in the modern
economy. Crude oil originates from ancient fossilized organic materials, such
as zooplankton and algae, which geochemical processes convert into oil. The
name "mineral oil" is a misnomer, in that minerals are not the source
of the oil—ancient plants and animals are. Mineral oil is organic. However, it
is classified as "mineral oil" instead of as "organic oil"
because its organic origin is remote (and was unknown at the time of its
discovery), and because it is obtained in the vicinity of rocks, underground
traps, and sands. Mineral oil also refers to several specific distillates of
crude oil.Thursday, August 25, 2016
Dame Edna on her way to The Oval Theatre
Dame Edna
welcomes us all to a spectacular diva show at
The Oval Theatre Company (SLurl)
on
September 3rd, 5th, 7th or 9th, 2016, at 1PM SLT.
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