James Cook (1728-1779) Famous For: Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. An English captain who circumnavigated around the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He made contact with the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New Zealand, and around the Indian Ocean back to the Atlantic. He died while serving the Crown in Hawaii.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] relies on laboratory tests called EPH [Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons] and VPH [Volatile Petroleum Hydrocarbons] to test for the presence of gasoline or fuel oil in drinking water.
Petroleum (crude oil) and raw natural gas and condensates are naturally occurring substances potentially containing thousands of individual chemicals called hydrocarbons. After crude oil is removed from the ground, it is sent to a refinery by pipeline, ship, or barge.In order to make finished petroleum products, these substances are separated at the refinery into different boiling fractions (i.e., gases, naphtha, residuum, etc.).fter crude oil is removed from the ground, it is sent to a refinery by pipeline, ship, or barge. In order to make finished petroleum products, these substances are separated at the refinery into different boiling fractions (i.e., gases, naphtha, residuum, etc.).