What Has Been the Position of Petroleum in Human Progress? (Half IV)

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By Julián Salazar Velásquez

Ed. observe: Geologist and petroleum engineer Julián Salazar Velásquez, with almost a half-century within the Mexican and Venezuelan oil industries, is a number one educator and proponent of free market power. Along with quite a few articles, his guide Gerencia Integrada de Campos de Hidrocarburos (2020) is a primer on the oil business worth chain. His four-part abstract (see Half I, Half II, and Half III) ends at this time.

“I’ve two choices: to stay silent within the final years of my life and witness the destruction of the world financial system, as simply occurred in Venezuela. Or alert many to the menace to blessed dwelling to keep away from a repeat of destruction. In clear conscience, I go for the second!”

The position that fossil fuels have performed within the progress of humanity in 4 revolutions is simple:

• Mechanization with steam engines powered by coal;
• Massification of electrical energy, generated first by coal and later by falling water, oil, and pure gasoline
• Computing
• Digitization and synthetic intelligence

The mineral power story can incorporate one other of the extremely essential indicators within the high quality of life, equivalent to agricultural and livestock growth and meals manufacturing. (Figures 12 and 13)

Agricultural growth has the identical growth as the opposite indicators seen beforehand, the place international progress is mirrored within the main position of fossil fuels from coal and oil at the start and subsequent growth of the Industrial Revolution.

On this case, the usage of land for cultivation and grazing, which immediately impacts the meals provide, has additionally grown exponentially since 1850, with values ​​beneath one billion hectares previous to that date rising to 5 billion at this time. Think about that fossil fuels transfer the agricultural equipment represented by tractors, irrigation tools, harvesters and meals transport–and contemplate the petrochemical merchandise derived from oil and gasoline equivalent to fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and fungicides utilized in agriculture which have made potential agricultural growth supplying meals to a rising world inhabitants, now at eight billion.

Because of this, the fateful predictions of famine occurring on the planet, predictionsin 1972 and 1976 by the Membership of Rome and Stanford College respectively, weren’t fulfilled. Fairly the alternative, the general public well being drawback is now the prevalence of weight problems attributable to overeating and different points.

Many readers may ask: Do these fuels equivalent to coal, oil and gasoline not produce environmental air pollution or unwanted effects in on a regular basis life?

In fact, sure! All human and industrial exercise produces results on the surroundings, and environmental-protection legal guidelines and rules govern strong, liquid and gaseous /waste in all international locations. However this isn’t why campaigns are proposing to ban all the pieces that impacts the surroundings, even when the advantages of that which is being banned are big in comparison with the tradeoffs.

It’s inadmissible to ban the exploration and exploitation of oil and gasoline (and the usage of their fuels and merchandise) due to environmental air pollution, when it may be minimized by means of the usage of applied sciences and by compliance with the procedures established by legislation. Selling and imposing “anti-oil and gasoline” campaigns primarily based on hypothetical unfavorable results of CO₂ emissions is the issue, the misdirection, that must be redirected.

As I discussed in my most up-to-date article on this matter, revealed on my networks and in Petroleum Journal: Vitality Transition or Transgression?:

…when analyzing the disclosure of the causes and actions to be taken to counteract the local weather phenomenon, it’s evident that the protection within the overwhelming majority of the media, social and technical networks, is inclined in direction of the primary line of thought, that’s to say, in direction of the origin generated by the emission of CO2 and CH4 gases and actions aimed toward minimizing or eliminating the usage of fossil fuels within the medium time period and selling the “power transition”. Taking the foregoing into consideration, I responsibly affirm that “if we begin from a prognosis with out confirmed scientific foundation, the actions dictated by worldwide politics, such because the discount or prohibition of the usage of fuels derived from hydrocarbons, are incorrect and with none impact within the climatic phenomenon; due to this fact, its penalties will moderately have a really robust unfavorable impression on the worldwide financial system.

Conclusion

At this stage of my life, fulfilling my mission of disseminating information, experiences, and convictions, it’s my inescapable responsibility, as knowledgeable within the upstream oil business, to denounce the “demonization” marketing campaign in opposition to fossil fuels regardless of their incalculable contribution to human welfare. Mineral energies, the fossil fuels, the carbon-based energies—plentiful, inexpensive, storable, and dependable—are important to world progress.

I’ve been an eyewitness, not as a result of I learn or noticed it on tv or was instructed about it, however as a result of I’ve skilled the destruction of Venezuela and its oil business by selling and implementing unviable political and financial fashions. What has occurred in my nation is akin to what’s now being promoted at a worldwide stage. Abandoning freedom and devastating a utilitarian business on false premises is like driving a automotive with each the accelerator and brake in full simultaneous use.

I’ve two choices: to stay silent within the final years of my life and witness destruction of the world financial system simply as has occurred in Venezuela. Or alert many to the menace to blessed dwelling to keep away from a repeat of destruction. In clear conscience, I go for the second!

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