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US data firm blows s**t out of server
This will cheer up those backroom boys among you who've ever had a strong desire to let a server have it with an arsenal of weapons, but didn't have a Springfield Armory M14, Heckler & Koch MP5 or IMI Uzi to hand: Marvellous, and we offer a round of applause to keepgoing.biz, which promises to protect your data in scenarios …
Big guns ! Big guys ! Small.... ?
I'd guess so...
Americans and their toys
Well, hell...
Huh - that's where I sometimes go to shoot. I hope to hell they cleaned the place up afterwards.
BTW - that's an M11 in .380ACP (aka 9mm Short), not a Mac10, which is a .45ACP
No expense spared.
Nice to see they pushed the boat out there, a crappy old Compaq Desktop EN that might possibly have been as advanced as a P3, a skanky old G2 ML370 rack mount that's missing it's front bezel and what looks like it might have been a HP P4 mini tower. Way to raid the junk room guys.
I prefer the HP vids where they fire a .50 cal through an EVA or create a gas explosion in a server room and destroy kit that wasn't rescued from the bin.
It appears to me that there wasn't any active comms to that server (or electricity for that matter) so I'm wondering how it was being backed up???
Oh really?
"We keep you going, no matter what happens!"
So if there's a simultaneous attack against all data centers they use, plus someone finds out where the off-site backups are stored and blows them up, everything just keeps going? It sounds like the cloud dream come true, but is more likely an invitation for litigation with a strap line like that!
bulletproof hosting?
If only those boys could be recruited to "service" some servers in Hong Kong and certain Eastern Bloc countries...
@bulletproof hosting?
If you have the IP address and evidence for the ones in HK, I know exactly who to contact.
We fired the CTO.
It took six JATO packs, but it worked...
'nuff said.
Keepgoing.biz? Nah. Stick the backup copy on a DVD, and leave it on a train. It'll emerge in a newspaper office somewhere, from which, as history has proved that for a small fee it can be safely retrieved.
Bloody pointless exercise. Rednecks shooting something that hasn't fought back. Yet.
What a bunch of dicks.
I do hope
they properly disposed of the equipment according to WEEE legislation afterwards.
lol at the guns
I too noticed the World War 2 guns. I am ashamed to realise that I know most of those guns names despite living in a country where they are quite illegal. Computer games are a bad influence!
There goes the Zion mainframe
They are working without earplugs and backstop?
Quite an array
And automatic weapons too, which are (IIRC) quite difficult to get/own, even in the US. Especially a 50-cal! What kind of outfit are these guys? Or where exactly in the US are they based?
"portable firepower" ?!?
Should that not be 'Mobile Firepower', in keeping with IT jargon?
They where sending packets to a server, afterall...
now they get fu*ked by the authorities for littering
If they were in London, they'd have about 50 fines up the a*s - littering, pollution, making a nuisance, blah.
Lucky bugs; felt great to see them screw the servers
Missed out on the grenades, napalms and nukes, eh?
those guns know nothing
One of them was holding the Tommy gun by the magazine!
If they don't don't know what a forestock is for they shouldn't be allowed near guns (even American ones).
Now if you had a Vickers MG, you could shoot up server racks for hours without stoppage*
*that's stoppage of the gun, server performance would drop off rapidly
"and restores [data] completely in minutes"
Restores it to what? There's nothing left!
Hot Damn ....... Texans gone Wild and Renaissance Rogue ...Private Pirate?
It is an interesting ambiguous business but with solid virtual based ethics, which would give IT a ..... well, Real and SurReal Advantage wouldn't be misleading.
"What is you actually do in the war, Daddy? " .... is one of those questions which would have an answer worth listening to, if well articulated by VentureNetworkers .... http://www.vnetinc.com/Pages.aspx/About-Us-Overview.
Tut tut
Holding the thompson by the mag can cause jamming (not the musical kind) and cause a group of redknecks to laugh at your firearm ineptitude.
Nice server...
It would be a shame if something.... happened to it
lliving in a country where they are quite illegal
I wonder where they got those weapons? They are things I have absolutely no need for but, I want them anyway. I live in the midwest US where there are plenty of firearms but I've never seen any of those around.
Right up until the end I thought they were demonstrating a new way to dispose of sensitive data so that it couldn't be recovered. What a sham! What a disappointment!
IT Guys with Guns
These are the guys who can never let anyone get the last word in a flame war.
I'll bet their online avatars are total badasses.
Pretty pointless demonstration though. I guess our company doesn't need them because we have guards at our building's entrance.
Recognize one?
One of those guys used to our President.
I don't see a MP5 in there. I see someone with what looks like a GSG-5 (with a real suppressor over the fake can that comes with it) shooting at the equipment.
btw: most guns in the US are not suppressed or automatic. It takes a lot of paperwork and money to get automatic weapons. Most civilians who legally own weapons use simple semiautomatic or bolt-action/pump-action/lever-action weapons. It costs a lot of money (we're talking several thousands) to get a legal automatic sear or an automatic weapon and anywhere from a $200 to $400 fee to get approved by the ATF, not to mention requiring a Chief Law Enforcement Officer to sign off on it (or barring that, a trust, which is more money).
Those hicks/yokels/rednecks/etc. that you see shooting automatics and lobbing grenades/cannons/etc. constitute less than 5% of the lawful gun-owning populace.
@Andus McCoatover
>>>Bloody pointless exercise.
There has to be a *point* to having fun now? My - what a grey, depressing world you must live in. Oh, wait - it's England. I get it now :)
>>>Rednecks shooting something that hasn't fought back. Yet.
I seem to remember that they were good enough to have seen off the English pretty sharpish back in the day - hope your Orwellian surveillance-society is keeping you safe when you cower in your bed at night, forbidden from even punching a burglar yourself.
God forbid you find a gun in your garden and try to do the right thing - get banged-up for 5 years, eh?
To be honest mate, I think in your quoted situation, business continuity MAY be a moot point... Most of your employees would be dead, and America will be under invasion. Which UNLESS that simultaneous attack was carried out by us, would probably be bad news.
Still, I need to look at business continuity... Perhaps I'll throw that scenario in the DR plan and use it as an excuse to see if I can get away with sentry guns, minefields, and an armoury in the server room...
For emergencies of course...
Going 'Postal'
You can now downsize employees safe in the knowledge that after they have returned and massacred the remainder you can Keep Going.
When you absolutely, positively have to make a point ...
... you really can't beat a 50 cal !!!
Network admins are between the lusers and the servers. I say these guys were shooting in the wrong direction...
RE Ian Ferguson
What are you complaining about it looked like a pretty green data center to me.
sigh Merkins not all Texan tools
Is it me or did that video look like the tech geek equivalent to the guns and babes video Samuel Jackson is watching in Jackie Brown? Still just to let our euro readers not have the common misconception that America is a Judge Dredd society with everyone packing heat right out of the cowboy movies, most in America don't need guns to get a hardon. I have lived in some of the most gun friendly areas in America and in any decent sized city you very rarely ever see a gun and if someone has one you can guarantee they will get our overzealous redneck polices attention (one thing I do miss about living in Europe is how the people actually look at the police force for most part as helpful public servants instead of redneck assholes out to put the hurt on you because you ain't one of them). You just hear from the very loud lunatic fringe like the woman that was packing heat to her daughters soccer game legally and then was shot by her husband in a domestic dispute less than year later (http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/gun-toting_soccer_mom_is_shot.html)
Guns are their to protect you and it is lies that they increase your odds of dying of a gunshot wound by 42x if you have a gun in the house. Still I would rather the rednecks play with their guns out in the woods and burn off testosterone than bottle it up and blow up abortion clinics.
Eddie Shoestring...
Eddie Shoestring... only needed a Baseball Bat when he reformatted his IBM Mainframe.
British restraint. Those who lived through the '70s will recall that Eddie was an IT person before he became a Private Detective. He had become overwhelmed by a need to reconfigure the machine he worked with..... (grin).
Act your age
not your show size, guys.
(always wanted to say that)
What I'm surprised at is...
... how they _legally_ got their hands on sound suppressors?
Didn't someone already demolish a server or five on video?
Didn't HP already do this, and rather better (HP-UX, Linux, NonStop, VMS, Windows restart times compared) a couple of years ago? June 2007 is when the "disasterproof" server video appeared on Youtube but they'd already done one for storage stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMCHpUtJnEI for the "disasterproof" servers video
http://h20338.www2.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/solutions/storage-disaster-proof-solutions.html for the video and loads of in-depth backup material
Disclaimer: I hate HP as much as you do, but just occasionally they get something nearly right.
Hang on a Sec!
A group of gun totting rednecks are able to storm into our data centre, start shootin' the shit of everything in sight and according to KeepGoing.biz, I am supposed to happy in the knowledge that the company will be able to contyinue to function. Fuck that, fuck the servers, the backups and the company I'm getting the hell out of dodge
To All Those Scared to Pick Up a Gun and Shoot IT
It's like sex. Get out of the IT basement, into the sunlight and actually try it ... you might like it. For sex I recommend the kitchen ... lots of tables and counter space.
Restore in minutes?
Interesting. Worth a test. I have a couple of TB waiting for just this to happen. And we have only a couple of dialin lines available for backup. Hello? Miss? Anybody there? Thought so... :-)
But the demonstration was nice. Are they available for consulting? There's this customer, see, and their infernal IT sucks...
Best commercial ever,
but I still wouldn't use their services. Sure they can abuse servers with nice weapons, but they haven't proven they can maintain data; only destroy hardware.
Let's take off and nuke 'em from space. It's the only way to be sure
where do I begin?
1) They actually got PAID to do that!
2) They should have started at 88mm and got bigger
3) I defy any real sys admin to look me in the eye and say they weren't a little big jealous!
4) When they opened fire, I almost had a "happy ending" moment.
5) That video was almost as liberating as the time I had my cell phone "accidentally" run over by a tank.
I'm with the rednecks here, should I seek professional help?
Processors are tough
I've never shot up a computer but I did take some old AMD and Cyrix processors out to the range. On one, I'd tried drilling through the brown ceramic coating over the chip but just scratched it with a high speed steel bit. Turns out a .45 ACP and 7.62 Tokarev both made the chips shatter very prettily.
"My - what a grey, depressing world you must live in. Oh, wait - it's England. I get it now :)"
Er, no. I'm in Finland. True freedom. (Except from the taxman, natch! ;)
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Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX)
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November 2, 2007 11:00 am ET
Stephen J. Crowe - CFO
George Kirkland – EVP, Upstream and Gas
Mike Worth – EVP, Global Downstream
Jim Aleveras - General Manager, Investor Relations
Dan Barcelo - Banc Of America Securities
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Welcome to Chevron's third quarter 2007 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I will now turn the conference over to the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Chevron Corporation, Mr. Steve Crowe. Please go ahead, sir.
Stephen J. Crowe
Thank you, Matt. Welcome to Chevron's third quarter earnings conference call. Today on the call I'm joined by George Kirkland, EVP, Upstream and Gas; Mike Worth, EVP, Global Downstream, and Jim Aleveras, General Manager, Investor Relations. Our focus today is on Chevron's financial and operating results for the third quarter of 2007. We'll refer to the slides that are available on the web.
I remind you that today's presentation contains estimates, projections and other forward-looking statements and ask that you review the Safe Harbor statement on slide 2.
Turning to slide 3, the company reported earnings of $3.7 billion in the third quarter compared with $5 billion in the third quarter 2006. Earnings of $1.75 per diluted share were down from $2.29 per share reported for the same quarter last year.
Both periods reflected about $400 million or approximately $0.19 per share of net charges associated with non-recurring items. The main driver for the earnings change was a decline of over $1 billion in downstream profits. Escalating costs for crude oil feedstocks could not be fully recovered in the market. This impact was global, but it was especially significant on the US west coast. Overall, third quarter results were $1.7 billion lower than our record second quarter 2007, which Jim will discuss shortly.
Return on capital employed for the trailing four quarters was 22%. During the quarter, we retired about $2 billion of debt, reducing the debt ratio to about 7.5% at quarter end.
Third quarter share repurchases totaled $2 billion, reflecting an accelerated buyback pace. As we projected in last quarter's conference call, we completed the December 2006 buyback program during the third quarter. In September, we announced and initiated a new repurchase program of up to $15 billion over a period of up to three years.
Jim will now take us through the quarterly comparisons.
Jim Aleveras
Thanks, Steve. My remarks compare third quarter results to those of the second quarter 2007. As a reminder, our earnings press release compared third quarter 2007 with the same quarter a year ago.
Turning to slide 4, third quarter net income was $1.7 billion lower than the record level of the second quarter. Lower downstream margins were the most significant component of the change. Upstream realizations increased, but the benefit was partly offset by lower international liftings due to the timing of cargoes.
Additionally, the second quarter included the $680 million gain on the sale of Chevron's investment in Dynegy, while the third quarter reflects a smaller, $265 million gain on the sale of the company's Benelux Fuels marketing assets.
Separate from these major asset sales, there was a further $300 million adverse effect between the sequential quarters due to net non-recurring charges. The most significant factor was the difference in tax items, contributing to a $230 million variance between quarters. Addition non-recurring items, along with other factors in the aggregate, were responsible for a negative variance of about $130 million as shown on this slide.
Except for large discrete items, it has not been our practice to identify smaller non-recurring charges and credits. We did so this quarter because of the large swing in these smaller items between the second and third quarters.
Just to recap, the third quarter included $415 million less in gains on major asset sales and $300 million more in smaller, non-recurring net charges than did the second quarter. This amounts to an adverse swing of more than $700 million between sequential quarters of more than $0.33 per share.
Turning to slide 5. Slide 5 summarizes the results of our US upstream earnings which fell by about $90 million between quarters. Higher realizations benefited earnings by about $135 million between quarters. Higher liquids prices contributed $250 million to earnings, but lower natural gas realization had a $115 million offsetting impact.
Chevron's domestic crude oil realizations were up about $9.80 per barrel between quarters, around $0.50 per barrel less than the increase in average WTI spot prices. This partly reflects Gulf of Mexico production that is priced on a lagged basis. This is a benefit when prices are falling, but a headwind when prices are rising.
Our natural gas realization fell by a little over $1.10 per thousand cubic feet, which is in line with the average changes in bid week pricing at Henry Hub in California and in the Rockies.
Our volumes were slightly lower due to storm-related shutdowns in the Gulf, maintenance work and natural field declines. These were partly offset by one more producing day in the third quarter.
Asset retirement obligations were higher by $60 million mainly due to an adjustment to the abandonment provision for offshore California properties that were previously sold. The other bar on this slide reflects higher exploration expense, asset impairment and the absence of gains on some small operations we sold in the second quarter.
Turning to slide 6, this slide compares upstream international earnings, which fell about $120 million between the second and third quarters. Stronger liquids realizations benefited earnings by almost all of the $285 million impact shown on this slide. Natural gas effects, while positive, were essentially negligible. Liquids realizations improved by about $5.80 per barrel, in line with the rise in spot BRENT prices.
Lower liftings spread across multiple countries reflected the timing of cargos and reduced earnings by $240 million. We were in a net under-lifted position in the third quarter, which brings the year 2007 to a balance liftings position.
Tax adjustments reduced earnings by about $80 million between periods. The variance in the other bar includes asset impairment charges.
Turning to slide 7, slide 7 summarizes the change in worldwide oil equivalent production including volumes produced from oil sands in Canada. Daily volumes were down by 39,000 barrels between quarters. Maintenance-related shutdowns in the UK North Sea were the largest factor in this change. George Kirkland will discuss production volumes in more detail in a moment.
Turning to slide 8, our US downstream results in the third quarter fell nearly $900 million from the prior quarter. Margins were down $680 million. Both refining and marketing margins fell, but the decline was particularly large for west coast refining margins. Breaking out the $680 million, over 90% of that amount was refining margins, and over two-thirds of that amount, in turn, was related to the west coast. Crude prices rose more rapidly than product prices during a period when product inventories were ample.
West coast margins also include an unfavorable variance in final pricing adjustments for long haul crude. Lower refining volumes reduced third quarter earnings by $90 million, primarily due to a fire at our Pascagoula, Mississippi refinery in mid-August as well as other planned maintenance there. The unfavorable variance in the other bar on this chart includes employee termination benefits and provisions for litigation. Both the second quarter and third quarter included environmental remediation charges in this segment.
Turning to slide 9, international downstream earnings of $487 million were $30 million lower than the second quarter. Released downstream margins dropped by about $275 million, in line with the change in indicator margins. Asian refining margin indicators fell by one-third and indicator margins were sharply lower in Europe as well. As was the case in the US; the price of crude rose more rapidly than the price of refined products during the quarter. These lower margins fully offset the gain on the sale of our fuels marketing business in the Benelux countries. The other bar on this slide includes asset impairment charges, lower shipping earnings and employee termination benefits.
Looking at slide 10, this slide shows the chemical operations earnings in the quarter were $103 million, essentially unchanged from the prior quarter. The results for oil sands improved due to higher ethylene margins and reduced utility costs. Aromatics benefited from improved styrene earnings reflecting higher margins and increased volumes. Aromatics also benefited from the absence of an asset writedown we mentioned in the second quarter. The other bar includes an environment reserve provision in the third quarter.
Slide 11 covers all other. Second quarter results included the $680 million gain on the sale of our interest in Dynegy, which was partly offset by $160 million of charges related to the early redemption of Texaco capital bonds. Similar to the second quarter this segment includes about $70 million of environmental remediation expenses for legacy Texaco and Unocal sites that have been closed or sold. Third quarter net charges for this segment fell at the high end of our standard guidance range of $160 million to $200 million as we advised in our interim update.
That completes a brief analysis of the quarter. Back over to you Steve.
Stephen J. Crowe
Thanks, Jim. We wanted to use a portion of today's teleconference to give George Kirkland and Mike Worth and opportunity to update you on our upstream and downstream business developments respectively. We'll start with George. He'll turn things over to Mike and then we'll open it up for your questions.
George Kirkland
Thank you, Steve. I'll start on slide 13. Before I provide you with an update of our major capital projects, I would like to review our 2007 production results. This slide compares our net OEG production through the first nine months of 2007 versus the first nine months of last year. Although we are down 50,000 barrels a day this year, we can point out 90,000 barrels of losses in 2007 that are attributable to our contractual change in OPEC curtailments in Venezuela.
Our production efforts this year have been focused on managing our base business declines and capturing gains from major capital projects that have recently come online. The low base business decline is a positive indicator of our base business efforts.
However, there are many moving parts in the base business -- workovers, development wells, reliability and so on -- and it's too early to say that our typical 4% to 5% base decline rate has changed.
Now I'll update you on some of our key projects. Please turn to slide 14. Let's start in the Gulf of Mexico deepwater with our Tahiti project, where we have a 58% net working interest. As a reminder, Tahiti is designed to have a production capacity of 125,000 barrels of oil per day and 70 million cubic feet of gas per day.
We have continued to progress this project by completing installation of export pipelines, completing five of the six development wells, and installing a significant portion of the sub sea production system and flow lines. The spar hole is complete and the top sides are near completion. The hole and top sides will be ready for offshore installation once replacement mooring shackles and components are delivered and the rescheduling of the installation is finalized.
A metallurgical problem with the original shackles was identified in June and installation activities were deferred in order to insure that the facilities would be put in a safe and reliable operation.
Installation of the truss spar is now scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2008. The top side installation, the mating with the spar, is targeted for the third quarter of 2008. First production is now expected by the third quarter of 2009, approximately 12 months later than originally planned due to the shackle replacement and the installation rescheduling.
Now let's turn to slide 15. We also continue to progress our Blind Faith project, located in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. In July we purchased an additional 12.5% working interest in this project, bringing our total interest up to a 75% share. The top sides have been lifted onto the hole and all three development wells have been drilled. Positive results from the development drilling supports the future drilling of a fourth well by 2009.
Off shore installation and well completions are scheduled to commence in November of this year, with first production expected by the second quarter of 2008. Blind Faith has a production capacity of 45,000 barrels of oil per day and 45 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Now onto slide 16 where I will update the status of the Agbami Deepwater Nigeria project. It's floating production, storage and off-loading vessel has left the fabrication yard in South Korea and is being towed to the offshore Nigeria location. This FPSO is the largest of its type in the world and will be moored and ready for hook-up in the first quarter of 2008. It has a processing capacity of 250,000 barrels of oil per day and a storage capacity of 2.1 million barrels of oil. We have already drilled 11 producers and seven injectors. We have two rigs working on the completions of these wells. We are on-track for first oil by the third quarter of 2008. We expect to be at full capacity within one year of start up. As a reminder, Chevron has a 68% interest in this project.
Now turning to slide 17, I'll cover the Tengiz SGI/SGP project. We anticipate that sour gas injection and the first production will begin in the fourth quarter of 2007. As a reminder, Chevron has a 50% working interest in TCO and the expansion start up, which we call Staged Oil, will enable us to increase production by about 90,000 barrels a day gross. The second generation plant which is pictured here should be fully operational by the second half of 2008. This will add another 160,000 barrels of production per day.
The labor disruption of 2006 extended the construction period but we have made great strides in keeping this project moving forward. The combined SGI/SGP project has been one of the most complex and challenging, multi-billion dollar projects that Chevron has ever led, and we are glad to see this project nearing its completion and start-up.
In the interim period between project start-up and the Caspian pipeline expansion, alternative rail export routes ensure we can export the full plant output.
Now let's turn to slide 18. Production growth in the near term is all about the start-up and ramp-up of these highlighted major capital projects. Before I finish this morning, I wanted to cover other key milestones that occurred during the third quarter.
The first two bullets further illustrate that our large queue of opportunities are moving forward. Gorgon has passed a couple of very important milestones recently. We received environmental approval from the Western Australian Minister for the Environment in September, and Federal Minister for the Environment in October. Our engineering efforts are focusing on the permit conditions, modularization opportunities and execution planning.
In Indonesia we started up the Darajat III geothermal project in July. This facility adds 110 megawatts to the West Java power grid. The Darajat facility now has a total capacity of 260 megawatts.
The next two items are examples of how we replenish our development queue. In August we announced the Malange oil discovery in block 14 deepwater offshore Angola. This well encountered more than 200 net feet of oil sands. The well was tested at a rate of over 7,500 barrels of oil per day of high quality crude. Future drilling is planned to assess potential reserves and assist in the development design.
In July, we reported the successful prevention test of the Rosebank appraisal well, located some 100 miles Northwest of the Shetland Islands. This well, in approximately 3,700 feet of water, flow-tested 37 degree API light oil at restricted rates of 6,000 barrels of oil per day. The appraisal and evaluation program should be completed by November of this year and will allow us to determine the future work program and development of this discovery.
We also recently announced our extension of the production period for Thailand blocks 10 through 13. By securing this production extension we will now be able to move major investments forward on the Platong II project. Platong II is the planned expansion of the existing Platong assets, which are currently producing 250 million cubic feet a day and 40,000 barrels a day of hydrocarbide liquids. Platong II will add gas processing capacity and enable our oil and gas projects to be accelerating.
Now I'll turn it over to Mike.
Mike Worth
Thanks, George. Moving to slide 19, I would now like to update you on key downstream initiatives beginning with operational excellence. Improved reliability continues to be our top priority. We have resolved many high-risk conditions which have caused unplanned downtime. Despite these improvements, we experienced significant crude unit fires this year at Richmond and Pascagoula. These incidents remind us that we still have work to do, and have further strengthened our resolve to improve reliability to enhance capabilities, processes and equipment.
While the fire at Pascagoula was unfortunate, our incident response was swift and effective, limiting the impact and preventing any injuries. We expect to complete repairs during the first quarter 2008. The demolition phase is proceeding safely. Critical equipment orders have been placed, and delivery is scheduled. We're taking steps to optimize conversion unit utilization while the crude unit is offline.
As the left chart shows, lost utilization from unplanned downtime this year has been slightly greater than in 2006, due to the two fires. However, we continue to drive down the number of unplanned outages, as shown on the right. Incidents per quarter at our largest operated refineries have fallen more than 50% since 2005.
Since the first quarter turnaround, crude unit utilization at Richmond has been consistently strong, averaging 101%. Our UK refinery has also operated very well the entire year, also averaging 100% crude utilization. Conversion unit utilization at these facilities has also been very strong.
Turning to capital projects on slide 20, we are progressing well in terms of achieving the major milestones we committed to earlier this year. During the quarter, our South Korean joint venture refinery completed construction of its [reside] upgrade project ahead of schedule and on budget. We expect the upgrade to lower crude costs by about $1 per barrel, increase light product yield by 33,000 barrels per day, and add 15,000 barrels per day of new lubricant base oil production. A new vacuum column, among the largest in the world, and a new hydrocracker, lubricants base oil plant, and other conversion units have begun commercial operations.
On the west coast, we are currently modifying our El Segundo coker during a planned turnaround, to enable a shift to heavier and higher sulfur crudes and to improve coker reliability. We expect to meet our product supply commitments during the turnaround and to have the heavy crude enhancements online by year end.
We completed the Caspian blend integration product at our UK refinery ahead of schedule and on budget. We now have the ability to feed Caspian blend crude at rates up to 40% of total feed. This will provide an economic outlet for growing equity production.
Finally, we announced sanctioning of the Continuous Catalytic Reforming project at Pascagoula. The new CCR will improve utilization and optimize product yields. Gasoline production at the refinery is expected to increases about 10% with completion anticipated by mid-2010. In summary, we are ahead of schedule, or on track to complete the significant capital projects we committed to bringing online this year.
Moving to slide 21, we are also making significant progress in high grading our portfolio. As you can see from the map, we have made a number of divestments in the past two years on top of ongoing efforts to reduce the capital intensity of our branded retail network.
As you recall, back in March we announced our intent to pursue divestments in Europe and Latin America. We have followed through and succeeded in monetizing assets in businesses we no longer considered strategic. In March, we sold our 31% interest in the Nerefco Refinery in the Netherlands and other assets there, generating $1.1 billion in after-tax proceeds. During the third quarter, we closed the sale of our fuels marketing business in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg for about $500 million in proceeds excluding a final adjustment expected by year end.
We also reached agreements to sell our proprietary, consumer and commercial credit card businesses. We believe these arrangements will enhance the payment products we offer our customers, while enabling us to maintain the strong brand loyalty associated with our cards.
More portfolio improvement opportunities are being evaluated and we'll share progress on these in the future. We are working to create a more focused footprint for our marketing businesses. Fewer markets, but stronger positions in those markets will help us reduce costs and further improve returns on divested capital.
Now I will turn it back over to Steve.
Stephen J. Crowe
Thanks, Mike. That concludes our prepared remarks. We'll now take your questions, one question per caller, please. Matt, please open the lines for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Our first question comes from Dan Barcelo - Banc Of America Securities.
Dan Barcelo - Banc Of America Securities
Good morning, gentlemen. Thank you for the update, particularly on the projects, it was quite useful. I wonder if you could spend a little bit on Gorgon. Having received a lot of the environmental approvals, could you talk a little bit about maybe the costs you are looking at now? I know it may be premature as you're still trying to cost and phase that, but any thoughts about how you'd phase the development, and particularly on the costs for Gorgon? Thank you.
George Kirkland
Dan, let me start off. I think you've highlighted a lot of the points that we've still got to address. In my comments I mentioned that we need to go back and look at the permit conditions. We have a significant number of permit conditions that we've got to have mitigations fully vetted and understood how we would handle where we don't get into a cost issue during the construction stage.
So we are presently back looking at all those conditions, and I would add one other area that we're really spending a lot of time on is the modularization. Remember we're building this on Barrow Island. We've got the ability to do a lot of modules and bring them in to minimize the actual work on the island. That in many ways helps us, because the situation at the island, the constraints we have about moving equipment in there. We need to have a really good plan, and modularization will really help us there.
Those are the items that we're really focusing on at this point in time. I expect I'll be able to talk quite a bit more about schedule and where we are at our March analyst meeting, and at that point in time I will try to really give a lot more details around the plan forward on Gorgon.
Your next question comes from Doug Leggate - Citigroup.
Doug Leggate - Citigroup
Steve, the one-off items this quarter, I guess I'm thinking specifically about refining marketing. You've given us some breakdown on the larger items, environmental mediation and so on, but it seems that there were quite a number of fairly significant items, particularly on the US downstream. Could you go into a little bit more detail if you can on just to quantify that?
Stephen J. Crowe
Sure, I'll ask Jim to handle that. We anticipated that might be a question, since we kind of foreshadowed on our October 9th interim update that there would be a fair number of non-recurring items that affected the results this quarter. So Jim?
Jim Aleveras
Doug, your question was with respect to the US downstream?
Doug Leggate - Citigroup
Well clearly across the businesses would be useful, but that was the one specifically where we saw a bit of a gap.
Jim Aleveras
Well in the US downstream again, the effects were primarily margin-related. If we look at the non-recurring charges between the second and third quarter, there was not a significant difference in that particular segment, in the US downstream segment.
Doug Leggate - Citigroup
Then the absolute number this quarter is what I'm trying to get, the absolute impact.
Jim Aleveras
The absolute number in the third quarter was about $50 million negative.
Doug Leggate - Citigroup
Okay. Do you have that for the other divisions?
Jim Aleveras
In terms of our segments?
Doug Leggate - Citigroup
Jim Aleveras
For the third quarter the US upstream, the non-recurring charges in aggregate were about $100 million negative. For the international downstream, the net non-recurring charges were about $250 million negative. As I mentioned, for US downstream it was about $50 million negative.
For the international downstream, because of the gain on the Benelux assets, the change or the impact was a favorable $165 million. I should point out that's $100 million less than the gain on the Benelux assets. So there was the gain on the Benelux assets of plus $265 million and there were net non-recurring charges of negative $100 million.
In the chemical segment, the impact was negative $40 million; and in the all other segment, the impact was about $100 million for a total of $400 million that we quoted in our earnings press release.
Doug Leggate - Citigroup
The 121 employee termination and litigation, you're not terming that a one-off item in the U.S.?
Stephen J. Crowe
Yes we are, Doug, and it's not a large item but the severances that were recognized in third quarter results were both in the United States as well as international.
Thanks very much for your question. May we have the next question please?
The next question is from Paul Sankey - Deutsche Bank. Your question, please?
Paul Sankey - Deutsche Bank
I want to ask a question about India but if I could just make an observation further to Doug's point -- I'll not phrase it as a question -- you have in the earnings supplement a table of special items and other adjustments by quarter with nothing in it; but you're identifying $400 million of specials.
Again, I don't want to use up my question on that but I do find it slightly odd that there's zero reported within that table and I was wondering why that is, but if we could just...
Jim Aleveras
We won't count that as a question. So in the post Reg G world we live in, which goes back a few years now about making pro forma adjustments to GAAP earnings, these items were properly recognized in the third quarter. They're event-driven as in the case of sales or the recognition of impairments or severances and the like.
We don't view them, these happen for all large companies in varying degrees from period to period. We just felt there were enough of them that occurred in the quarter that we should highlight it for the analyst community in the interim update and in the press release.
It's really, then, left up to the individual analyst to determine whether or not those should be taken out in order to get more of a clean earnings from your perspective. So, it's only that, Paul.
Paul Sankey - Deutsche Bank
I just found it strange that. In terms of India, could you just update us please, in that you haven't mentioned it here amongst your major initiatives, could you just talk a little bit about the status of the expansion that you've got going on there, firstly?
Secondly, the timing and potential for you to expand your position. Finally, a progress update on how you're getting on with the upstream elements of that whole move that you made there. Thanks.
Stephen J. Crowe
Thank you, Paul. I think I'll ask Mike to talk a little bit about the progress that we're seeing on the downstream side.
Mike Worth
I think there were three parts. I'll take the first two and I'll hand the upstream one off to George. The refinery construction is progressing very well. Over 97% of the engineering work is done and the construction is well underway. I think the announced start date for that refinery is 2008, and I fully expect that start-up to occur next year.
Relative to our investment position, as you know we have a 5% stake and subject to a number of other agreements being negotiated, the opportunity to increase that to 29%. We have not concluded those other agreements and no decisions have been made as to the ultimate decision relative to our equity share in that refinery.
I'll ask George to comment on the upstream.
Paul Sankey - Deutsche Bank
Could I just ask you the timing next year -- you mentioned '08 obviously for the refinery -- that's presumably a first-half event. Secondly the timing, if you could just remind us on the increase on the stake when we'll get an answer on that would also be interesting. Sorry to interrupt. Thanks.
Mike Worth
I think the announced start date for the refinery is actually second half '08. The timing for our final decision on our investment position is subsequent to the refinery start-up.
Paul Sankey - Deutsche Bank
George Kirkland
On the upstream issue, I would say we still have interest in the KG Basin. But, Paul, there's really not been much progress in really developing that opportunity. So really it's nothing really to report at this point in time.
Paul Sankey - Deutsche Bank
Are there any initiatives that there might be something, George, that you could talk about? Or we can have more of an idea? Thanks.
George Kirkland
Really nothing to talk about at this point in time. Paul, it's just not ready and there's a lot of other people besides us that are interested in that. So I really don't have anything to report.
Our next question is from Mark Flannery - Credit Suisse.
Mark Flannery - Credit Suisse
Yes. My question is to George, and it concerns the decline rates. You said that it's too early to say whether or not the base decline of 4% to 5% is to be changed. Could you just expand a little on that, and tell us what kind of things specifically you're doing presumably to get that rate down obviously? When do you think it would be appropriate to talk about a new decline rate in the upstream?
George Kirkland
I'll answer the last part of that question first. I want some run time to see exactly how we are influencing it. Specifically we've got I think great processes where we in effect do base business audits around the world and we audit from the reservoir through all the facilities. We look at reliability. We look at reservoir performance. We look at the interactions between the surface facilities and the subsurface facilities to make sure we don't have any bottlenecks. We've been on that process, for now about three years.
It continues to turn up opportunities for us to optimize our production around the world. We are seeing some influence. This first nine months of this year we've had some great successes in South Texas with some development wells, which we used good seismic technology there, and had some good results there. We've got some other places where we've focused on our water floods and we've seen some decline rates shallow out.
We've got a lot of history of multiple years where this 4% to 5% decline rate is what we've been typically seeing. So I'm encouraged by the first nine months, but I want a lot more run time and I am confident that the processes that we've put in place are going to help us for the long period improve our recovery and reduce our decline rates in greatest sense, but I think it's a little bit too early and that's why I made those comments that way.
Mark Flannery - Credit Suisse
George, would you characterize this as mostly EOR type stuff, or I mean are you spending more money on enhanced oil recovery or is a sort of mix of things?
George Kirkland
It's a mix of things. It is not one focus. We have four to five areas that we really focus on; and in some places, we get it out of just system reliability, raising the reliability, the run times. Some places it's hey, we find a facility that we can push more barrels through and we see that we've got reservoir capability to match to it and not have to spend a lot of monies on facilities.
So we're doing all those type things like, once again, from the reservoir through the sales point to try to optimize the system in all our business units around the world.
Your next question comes from Mark Gilman - Benchmark.
Mark Gilman - Benchmark
Relating to Pascagoula, could you give an idea as to the size of the crude unit that is down?
More generally, I guess I was a little surprised to see the sanctioning of the CCR project, and I'm assuming that in having done so the distillation expansion at Pascagoula which had been under evaluation is now no longer on the table. Could you comment on the validity of that observation?
Mike Worth
Yes, on the crude unit it's about 160,000 barrels per day and on the CCR, that is an independent project. We've got old fixed-bed reformers that need to have the catalyst regenerated so we've got to pull reformers offline for catalyst regeneration, and it significantly impacts our ability to get the utilization at the facility up. So this is a reliability project that has a very strong economic pay out, and frankly, there are not many of these fixed-bed reformers still in operation in the industry. So it's really upgrading the technology to the current state-of-the-art.
The evaluation of other alternatives for Pascagoula continues. I think I've indicated that we would reach a final decision on that next year. Certainly, you're seeing project economics challenged in the refining sector on the Gulf Coast as well as the rest of the world by the cost environment, by the questions about the margin environment, uncertainty about biofuels penetration and future demand, etcetera. So we're factoring all those into our evaluation of alternatives, and we'll have more to say about that next year as that work is complete.
Mark Gilman - Benchmark
Mike, if I could just follow up on that. If you're considering an expansion, I don't know how you go about properly sizing what the replacement reforming capacity ought to be.
Mike Worth
Well on the reforming, it fits into a refinery that is configured with a number of other facilities that has streams that create feed for the reformer. What we're doing is taking existing intermediate streams and we are installing facilities that essentially you can look at as a de-bottleneck or a capacity creep kind of a project that enables us to more fully utilize the streams available within the refinery and increase the utilization.
Your next question comes from Neil McMahon - Sanford Bernstein.
Neil McMahon - Sanford Bernstein
Maybe this is a quick one you don't have many answers for, but most of the impact on the refining in the US, the negative impact as you said was on the west coast. Just wanted to go into maybe walking through some reasons for that, and did you have hedges in places there that could have caused some of those losses?
Mike Worth
As Jim showed earlier, when you compare the third quarter to the second quarter, our US earnings were down nearly $900 million. More than two-thirds of that decline was due to industry margins, and really the balance for the US was due to lower volumes, and that is primarily Pascagoula.
So I think the quarter-to-quarter comparison is pretty straightforward on those two pieces. We have some pricing effects on our crude oil into the refining system that we see most acutely at times of rapid change in crude prices, and our foreign crude that we purchase that is long-haul crude gets provisionally price while it's on the water, and so we'll see the effect of those increases before we actually capture the margin for running that crude.
So we do have some paper effects that you see in an environment like this that are exacerbated by the amount of long-haul crude that we run and the way that we price crude into our system.
Neil McMahon - Sanford Bernstein
So you don't really do hedge accounting then on those long-haul crudes or in the west coast?
Mike Worth
We mark the pricing to current period pricing, and we run our refineries to capture the margin of the day, so we convert the pricing to run-month pricing, and so what that does result in is some open paper that is price conversion off the feed stock to the run month.
Jim Aleveras
Let me just add on that point, again, as Mike said, those are part of the contractual provisions. They're not hedging, per se, so when a cargo is lifted it has a contractual term as to when it'll be priced so many days after lifting. In a rising market, as we've seen here in the third quarter, that works adversely against us. Thank you very much for the question and the follow-up.
Your next question comes from Paul Cheng - Lehman Brothers.
Paul Cheng - Lehman Brothers
Mike, if I look at the third quarter market conditions, Gulf Coast 3 to 1 crack spread is roughly in the $11 to $12 per barrel and the California crack is probably about $13, $14. While they advanced sharply from the second quarter, but they are really not that bad from a historical standards standpoint. If you look at your earnings, I mean adjusting for the $50 million in environmental remediation charges and also the $90 million loss related to Pascagoula, you earned $30 million. Is there a structural problem with your asset there then that your hardware just needs to be revised sharply in order for them to be more sustainable in a more normal pricing environment?
Mike Worth
No, I don't think there is a structural problem in the market or in the refinery. I think the indicator margins did decline more sharply on the west coast than on the Gulf coast and with a skew to our downstream where we have more than half of our US refining capacity on the west coast, that sharper decline will affect us to a greater degree.
Paul Cheng - Lehman Brothers
Mike, I'm talking about on an absolute level that the crack is still topping out in the $10 to $15, which is not really that bad.
Mike Worth
Let me take another shot at building on the question that Neil was asking. We have these non-ratable pricing effects related to the change in crude prices which are most significant because the amount of long-haul crude that we bring into the west coast. And so if you look at 3Q07 versus 3Q06 you would see that the margin declines are not especially severe and the absolute level of margins, as you say, are not as extreme as the earnings delta might indicate; but if you look at 3Q06, we saw crude prices drop by about $11 a barrel over the quarter. In 3Q07 we saw crude prices increase by $11 per barrel in the quarter, and so those non-ratable pricing effects have significant knock-on accounting effects that get unwound subsequently as we actually run the crude, but in the quarter they create pronounced effects on our west coast downstream performance.
Paul Cheng - Lehman Brothers
Mike can you quantify it for us?
Mike Worth
I don't have the numbers in front of me to quantify that, Paul.
Jim Aleveras
You know, Paul, you're talking on average maybe 15 million barrels of long-haul crude on the water, and as Mike said in the earlier period a year ago, we saw crude prices from beginning to end of the quarter drop by $11 a barrel, and just the reverse effect that occurred here in the third quarter. That is going to be a material impact on the comparison between adjacent years on a variance. it's one of the reasons why sometimes the indicative margin doesn't become realized for our company. Thanks for your question.
Your next question comes from John Herrlin - Merrill Lynch.
John Herrlin - Merrill Lynch
With Thailand you said that you extended the contract. Are the terms still similar, or are they higher for the country?
Stephen J. Crowe
Do we have similar terms? It's still the Taiwan terms. We do have some issues with related to how we extended it, but overall the terms are basically the same.
John Herrlin - Merrill Lynch
You were pretty active at the last Central Gulf sale. Could you give us a sense on how many of the leases were Miocene versus, say Paleocene?
Stephen J. Crowe
I think my memory of the major targeted prospects, I believe it was nine or 11 in total that we really captured major new prospects. All of them but one was the lower tertiary.
Your next question comes from Mark Gilman - Benchmark.
Mark Gilman - Benchmark
George, if you could, on Block 14 in Angola, could you tell me whether or not there are separate PSCs for each of the fields, and the extent to which there are rate of return thresholds built into those production-sharing contracts, pursuant to which profit barrels and profit percentages would step down once the threshold was reached?
George Kirkland
Mark, I'm going to limit my comments a little bit, I will tell you that we have different development areas around each field. Our development areas have typically in block 14, been larger than what we had seen in the past and in some cases, they have been more or less brought together to allow cost recovery to be moved from one development to another. So we have had larger development areas than in the past. I'm not going to speak about the contractual pieces beyond that.
Your final question comes from Michael LaMotte - JP Morgan.
Michael LaMotte - JP Morgan
A question related to upstream cost pressures, as your spending is shifting more towards completion and production, are you seeing any changes in the rate of change of cost there? I would think that completion inflation is probably not as high as drilling in rigs, offshore rigs in particular.
George Kirkland
Let me take a shot at this one in a couple of ways. First off, remember we are operating in 25 to 30 countries around the world, we've got a whole portfolio of projects that are in anything from the early phase, engineering to just about to start up and actually a lot of them in start up.
The ones that are late in phase, we know contractual costs very, very well. Those projects are not seeing and have not seen the same movement in costs as projects in the early phases.
I would tell you whether a project is an onshore project in North America or if it is an offshore project or a deepwater project, all of those in effect, change the outcome of the cost increases.
I'll give you a couple of examples of what we've seen and maybe that will help you get a little bit of context. We had a project in Angola, we brought online in deepwater project in Angola that we brought online a little over a year ago, we're doing a very similar project that's in the fabrication stage at this point, so we understand contractually what the cost is going to be for drilling, for building of all the facilities, the installation, so we have got the contracts really nailed down.
There's a five to seven-year difference in the life cycle of the two projects and when you compare project A to project B, we see almost a 100% increase in the cost of doing the similar work. So that's very typical in the deepwater where you've seen rig rates go up. Deepwater rig rates have gone up two to three times over a five-year period.
Other areas we are not seeing the same, and once again every project we look at individually because you've got a different mix of contracts that are either in place, and we have some period at a different rate than what we see in the future so we look at everything on a specific project-by-project basis.
I would tell you one of the best areas to look at, maybe to give you a view of what the cost in the general industry what's happened there in the last probably five to seven years, is to look at the CERA, the Cambridge Energy Research report that was published, I believe in the last year. What it basically shows is over the period from early 2000 to late '06, about 180% to 190% increase in their index. So they've shown a significant move in that index, and I think it's very indicative of the general industry.
Michael LaMotte - JP Morgan
Is there anything in the component cost that is leading you to think about redirecting capital on the margin? Anything inflationary in the components side that would lead you to rethink project or redirect capital to better return?
George Kirkland
We do that. I would tell you the one that's probably been impacted the most is shelf Gulf of Mexico where we made some decisions on changing how much capital we were spending on some of our delineation and development wells there. Rig rates had moved way, way up very quickly. If you look at the pricing side of Henry Hub gas and you see the gas price has not moved; as a matter of fact, gas has moved down and oil has moved up. So we would have a bias there at this point in time to be oilier if we have a choice. We've got some projects because of the cost run-up on the services and the downturn on the gas price, that they are not really projects that are viable. So they are put back on the shelf.
Jim Aleveras
In closing, let me say that we appreciate everyone's participation on today's call. I especially want to thank each of the analysts on behalf of all the participants for their questions during this morning's session. Matt, back to you.
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's third quarter 2007 earnings conference call.
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Exceptional view of the ocean, the coast and the sunsets above the Pointe du Raz and the Île de Sein. The house has a 4000m2 garden and is 100m from the sea. A wild and peaceful beauty. Direct access to a nice sandy beach, a pebble shore and to the coastal path. The house is very pleasant with its large outdoor terrace south-west facing and its west facing veranda with dining and sitting area. There is another sitting room with fireplace and a living room with dining area. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 2 toilets. We can see the sea from every window. Large basement with washing machine, tumble dryer and ping-pong table. Many sports and several cultural and tourist activities. Pets are welcome under condition.
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Monistat is an over-the-counter anti-fungal treatment for yeast infections and is sometimes used to treat dogs. The product is a Miconazole Nitrate which comes with an applicator including gel and cream forms. Yeast infections do occur in dogs, mostly on the skin or ears, and are caused by an overgrowth of certain fungus such as Malassezia.
If you are dealing with a K9 vaginal issue please bring your the dog to the vet ASAP. Most other yeast infections are common and not very serious in dogs, although they are bothersome and should be treated. Often, an imbalance in the growth of yeast cells can lead to sores and lesions of the skin.
The first signs of yeast infection include irritation, burning, itching symptoms but you'll likely see the irritation on your dog. Monistat, when used properly, can help your dog get rid of a typical yeast infection but consulting with a vet is preferred.
Can I Give My Dog Monistat? Answer: Yes, for ear or skin infections
Yeast infections are not limited to humans and affect all animals, including dogs, in different ways.
Using Monistat for your dog's infection, in certain situations, could help them. You must remember, however, that most human medications are actually quite dangerous for dogs to be taking.
Dogs suffer yeast infections but when dealing with an infection of the vagina, it is best to let a veterinarian handle it. More often these infections will occur in and around the ears. Sometimes visiting a vet is not an option, in which case you may be able to apply Monistat to treat their yeast infection. K9-affected areas of the skin and ears tend to respond well to Monistat treatment when done properly.
Preventing K9 Yeast Infections
To help prevent your dog from developing yeast infections preventative actions can be taken. Always make sure to dry your dog off well when they come inside after being in the rain or playing in water. Ensure that your dog isn't continuously wet or damp in places prone to yeast infections.
Unneeded moisture in certain places on your dog can account for many yeast infections that occur. This is entirely preventable and you likely won't need Monistat if you follow those tips.
Another way to help prevent these infections is by using a mild dog soap when washing your pet. Avoid abrasively cleaning your canine with harsh soaps. Again, please make sure to properly dry your dog off after washing them. This will ensure a healthy, clean, and dry body less prone to infection.
Accidental Ingestion of Monistat
If your dog has already broken into the Monistat and ate it all, do not panic. In this case, be sure to keep a close eye on your dog to check for any unusual behavior. Depending on how much of the Monistat was consumed and their size, treatment options and negative effects to the dog may vary. If your dog doesn't show any outwardly abnormal signs, the Monistat may pass through their system without harm.
Some of the telltale signs of a serious case of poisoning include swelling or discharge from the eyes, twitching, smelling, or itchy ears, heavy breathing, or significant behavioral changes. You need to seek medical attention for your dog immediately upon observing any of these.
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Yeast infections that occur in dogs are very different than the ones that occur to humans and therefore require different care and treatment. Monistat can be a tricky medication to inject, and injecting this into a dog would be even more difficult. You would not want to harm your animal in any way more than the yeast infection is already harming them. For this reason, such vaginal issues should really be treated directly by a vet.
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The Heat (or Enthalpy) of Vaporization is the quantity of heat that must be absorbed if a certain quantity of liquid is vaporized at a constant temperature. In a solution with both a vaporized and liquidized states, the kinetic energy of the vapor is higher than the kinetic energy of the liquid. Temperature follows kinetic energy, showing a lower temperature in the remaining liquid.
The Enthalpy of Vaporization is measured using constant temperature, meaning that something must be added to bring the lower temperature to the temperature of the solution prior to vaporization. To raise the temperature (and as a result, the kinetic energy), heat is added. The Enthalpy of Vaporization measures the amount of heat added, because it is the quantity that must be absorbed for a liquid to remain at constant temperature during vaporization.
The ΔHvap is expressed in kJ/mol.
\[ \Delta H_{vaporization} = H_{vapor} - H_{liquid}\]
\( \Delta H_{vaporization}\) corresponds to the change in enthalpy of vaporization. It is usually written as ΔHvap. Hvapor and Hliquid are the absolute enthalpies of the given gas state and liquid state of a compound or element. Because they are not in the process of changing, it is impossible to measure their values. Therefore, Hliquid and Hvapor simply exist to represent the gas and liquid phase enthalpies.
However, enthalpy is a function of state meaning that under a specific set of conditions, the change in enthalpy of the gas and liquid has a unique value. Absolute enthalpies cannot be measured, but by subtracting the absolute enthalpy of the vapor state and the absolute enthalpy of the liquid state, the given difference has a unique value that can be measured. Because heat is added to the system to maintain the temperature, vaporization is an endothermic process. This means that the \( \Delta H_{vaporization}\) is always positive.
Condensation is the opposite of vaporization, and therefore \( \Delta H_{condensation}\) is also the opposite of \( \Delta H_{vaporization}\). Because \( \Delta H_{vaporization}\) is an endothermic process, where heat is lost in a reaction and must be added into the system from the surroundings, \( \Delta H_{condensation}\) is an exothermic process, where heat is absorbed in a reaction and must be given off from the system into the surroundings.
ΔHcondensation = Hliquid - Hvapor = -ΔHvap
Because ΔHcondensation, also written as ΔHcond, is an exothermic process, its value is always negative. Moreover, ?ΔHcond is equal in magnitude to ΔHvap, so the only difference between the two values for one given compound or element is the positive or negative sign.
|Example 1
2.055 liters of steam at 100°C was collected and stored in a cooler container. What was the amount of heat involved in this reaction? (The ΔHvap of water = 44.0 kJ/mol.)
1. First, convert 100°C to Kelvin.
2. Find the amount involved (in moles).
nwater = PV/RT = (1.0 atm)(2.055 L)/(0.08206 L atm mol-1 K-1)(373.15 K)
3. Find the ΔHcond.
ΔHcond = -ΔHvap, so
4. Using the ΔHcond of water and the amount in moles, calculate the amount of heat involved in the reaction. To find kJ, multiply the ΔHcond by the amount in moles involved.
Vaporization- (or Evaporation) the transition of molecules from a liquid to a gaseous state; the molecules on a surface are usually the first to undergo a phase change.
In a system, a liquid is boiled and some of the molecules are converted to gas. The Heat of Vaporization corresponds to the heat that the liquid lost when the molecules phase changed. The Enthalpy of Vaporization, conversely, is the amount of heat applied to the system to boil the liquid. As a result, the temperature of the liquid remained constant, while the given heat was absorbed to convert the molecules.
ΔHvap = Heat of Vaporization
|Example 2
If a liquid uses 50 Joules of heat to vaporize one mole of liquid, then what would be the enthalpy of vaporization?
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"Jongmyo is the oldest and most authentic of the Confucian royal shrines to have been preserved." - World Heritage citation
posted by: pseudoprime
location: Seoul, Korea
date approved: 12/6/2011
last visited: 12/5/2011
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty - Jeongneung Cluster
Samneung Park contains two Royal Tombs.
date approved: 12/5/2011
last visited: 12/4/2011
Historic centre in Riga
posted by: Edgars Laicans
location: Latvia
date approved: 11/25/2011
last visited: 5/25/2014
Península Valdés - Patagonia, Argentina
The Valdés Península is an important nature reserve which was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.
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location: Argentina
date approved: 11/7/2011
last visited: 1/25/2011
Los Glaciares National Park - Santa Cruz, Argentina
Los Glaciares National Park in the Santa Cruz province of Argentina was declared a World Heritage Site in October 1981 by UNESCO.
date approved: 11/6/2011
last visited: 11/30/2009
Iguazu National Park - Misiones, Argentina
Iguazu National Park in the Misiones province of Argentina was declared a World Heritage Site in 1984 by UNESCO.
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Alatornio Church - Struve Geodetic Arc
Bell tower of the Alatornio Church was used as Struve Geodetic Arc point.
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location: Finland
date approved: 11/3/2011
last visited: 8/4/2013
Petäjävesi Old Church
Old Church in Petäjävesi.
date approved: 11/2/2011
last visited: 7/13/2014
Old Rauma
The Old Town of Rauma
last visited: 10/20/2013
Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki
Bronze age burial site in Lappi, Rauma.
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Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
The Verla groundwood and board mill museum in Jaala, Kouvola.
last visited: 11/16/2013
Kathmandu Valley
The seven locations include the Durbar Squares of Hanuman Dhoka (Kathmandu), Patan and Bhaktapur, the Buddhist stupas of Swayambhu and Bauddhanath and the Hindu temples of Pashupati and Changu Narayan.
posted by: sassainfl
location: Nepal
date approved: 10/14/2011
last visited: 9/13/2014
Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church - London, UK
This UNESCO World Heritage Site covers an area of London where the buildings are probably known to people throughout the world such as Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster.
posted by: Master Mariner
location: London, United Kingdom
date approved: 10/2/2011
last visited: 7/5/2014
Athabasca Glacier, World Heritage Site, Alberta, Canada
The fascinating and accessible Athabasca Glacier is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks and is a World Heritage Site, as this plaque proclaims.
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location: British Columbia, Canada
date approved: 8/21/2011
last visited: 7/14/1995
Burgess Shale, near Field, British Columbia, Canada
The Burgess Shale was added to the World Heritage list in 1980. The site is located inside the Yoho National Park, part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Park.
last visited: 9/2/2013
Lake Louise, part of The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Alberta, Canada
A large, official "World Heritage Site" monument is located at Lake Louise.
location: Alberta, Canada
date approved: 8/15/2011
last visited: 7/14/1985
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai - Belgium
Begun in the 12th century on even older foundations, the building combines the work of three design periods with striking effect.
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location: Hainaut, Belgium
date approved: 8/6/2011
Belfries of Belgium and France - Beffroi de Tournai, Belgium, ID=943-032
The belfry (French: beffroi) of Tournai, Belgium, is a freestanding bell tower of medieval origin, 72 metres in height with a 256-step stairway.
Belfries of Belgium and France - Beffroi de l'Hôtel de Ville de Loos, (Nord) France, ID=943-043
[FR] Le beffroi se rattache au style néo-flamand présent en Flandre et en Hollande. [EN] The belfy of Loos was built by Louis Cordonnier in 1884.
location: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
last visited: never
Belfries of Belgium and France - Beffroi de l'église St-Martin de Cambrai, France, ID=943-036
[FR] C'est en 1395 que Cambrai obtint définitivement de l'empereur Venceslas l'autorisation de posséder un beffroi. [EN] Originally part of a church that no longer stands, the belfry is one of the most impressive pieces of architecture in the town.
last visited: 11/11/2014
Belfries of Belgium and France - Beffroi de l'Hôtel de Ville de Lille, (Nord) France, ID=943-042
[FR] Le beffroi de l'Hôtel de Ville de Lille, inauguré en 1932, est le plus haut de la région Nord-Pas-de-Calais. [EN] When it was inaugurated, this was the highest reinforced concrete tower in the world.
date approved: 8/3/2011
last visited: 7/8/2014
Wieskirche in Bavaria, Germany
The Wieskirche, in the foothills of the Alps, is plain outside but inside is a real Rococo treasure trove.
posted by: Arkhan
location: Bayern, Germany
date approved: 7/30/2011
last visited: 10/6/2011
Fortifications of Vauban, La citadelle d'Arras
[FR] Surnommée "la belle inutile", la citadelle dArras, fut construite selon les plans de Vauban entre 1668 et 1672.[EN] Built between 1668 and 1672, the Citadel was rapidly nicknamed 'the beautiful useless'
date approved: 7/28/2011
last visited: 2/16/2012
Belfries of Belgium and France - Beffroi de l'Hôtel de Ville d'Arras, ID=943-045
[FR] Le beffroi d'Arras est un beffroi bâti sur la place des Héros à Arras. Du haut de ses 77 mètres, il domine la ville. [EN] Inspired by the Gothic style, the 75 metres tall belfry of Arras overlooks the Place des Héros.
date approved: 7/27/2011
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik
A gothic-renaissance cathedral in center of Šibenik city.
posted by: haggaeus
location: Croatia
date approved: 7/25/2011
last visited: 8/21/2014
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