ENGL 145 English for Business I
Additional Worksheet # 1(Company Profile)
ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is a state owned company, established on 2Th November 1971, to operate in all areas of oil and gas industry. In less than three decades, ADNOC has steadily broadened its activities through different subsidiaries in exploration and production, support services to the oil and gas industry, oil refining and gas processing, chemicals and petrochemicals, maritime transportation of refined products and distribution.

ADNOC's main responsibility is to explore for oil and gas in Abu Dhabi and produce the hydrocarbon in the most efficient way. The first oil was discovered in Abu Dhabi in 1958 and since then, a significant number of major oil and gas fields have been found and developed. Now that some of those fields have been producing for decades, ADNOC needs more and more sophisticated technologies to ensure maximum production without jeopardizing the ultimate recovery from the fields. In order to safeguard the long-term future of the company, ADNOC and its operating companies continue to explore for new oil and gas accumulations onshore as well as offshore. The challenge is to find every year as much new hydrocarbon as has been produced during that year.
It is proposed to .increase the gas processing and natural gas recovery capacities in Abu Dhabi. The two projects, Onshore Gas Development Project Stage III (OGD III) and Asab Gas Development Project Stage II (AGD ll) are in the Front End Engineering and Design stage and will include facilities for the recovery of 4800 tons per day of ethane, which can support a production capacity of 1.2 million tons per annum.

The natural gas/ethane recovery facilities are expected to be commissioned during the second quarter of 2007 and will provide the impetus for further development of the petrochemical industry. Studies for future development of the petrochemical sector include the expansion of the fertilizer and polyethylene lines and the introduction of new product lines of other gas and oil derivatives.

I. COMPREHENSION

A) Put (T) if the statements are true and (F) if they are false. Correct the false ones.

___1. ADNOC expanded its activities in less than 30 years.

___2. ADNOC's most important task is to explore for oil and gas in all of the United Arab
Emirates.	

___3. A significant number of major oil and gas fields have been found and developed in
	Abu Dhabi in 1958.	

B) Answer the following questions. Write short answers.

1. What is ADNOC's main duty?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Why does ADNOC need more and more sophisticated technologies?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Where are ADNOC and its subsidiary companies exploring for new oil and gas? ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

4. ADNOC's main activities include:
•	_____________________________
•	_____________________________
•	_____________________________
•	_____________________________
•	_____________________________
•	_____________________________

II. VOCABULARY
A)	Replace the underlined words with their synonyms from the list in the box. There are more words than required.

Enlarged	Principal	Treatment	Secondary	Companies	
Sea	Discover	Mission	Professional	Considerable	
Main	Complicated	Endangering	Integrated	Deposits	
Function	Founded	Forming	Final	Danger	
Guarantee	Advanced	Decreasing			

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is a state owned company, established on 27th November 1971 to operate in all areas of oil and gas industry. In less than three decades, ADNOC has steadily broadened its activities through different subsidiaries in exploration and production, support services to oil and gas industry, oil refining and gas processing, chemicals and petrochemicals, maritime transportation and refined products and distribution.
ADNOC's main responsibility is to explore for oil and gas in Abu Dhabi and produce the hydrocarbon-in-the most efficient way. The first oil was discovered in Abu Dhabi in 1958 and since then, a significant number of major oil and gas fields have been found and developed. Now that some of those fields have been producing for decades, ADNOC needs more and more sophisticated technologies to ensure maximum production without jeopardizing the ultimate recovery from the fields. In order to safeguard the long-term future of the company, ADNOC and its operating companies continue to explore for new oil and gas accumulations onshore as well as offshore. The challenge is to find every year as much new hydrocarbon as has been produced during that year.

B) Fill in the blanks using the correct part of speech of the word in brackets.

1. The company _________________ for the __________________for oil and gas and
	                   (responsibility)                           (explore)

    the_________________of hydrocarbons _________________.
	 (produce)                                                  (efficient)

2. In order to_________________ the petrochemical sector, ADNOC plans 
                        (development)     
                                                                          
     to_________________  the fertilizer and polyethylene lines and_________________new   
                  (expansion)                                                                              (introduce)

     product lines

3. The number of oil and gas fields increased _________________  since 1958.
                                                                                 (significant)

C) Find in the reading passage words which have the same meaning as the following:

1. Something new that forces you to make a lot of efforts to reach assigned objectives: ______________________
2. Ten years: ______________________
3. Products created or made from other products: ______________________
4. A natural or chemical product used to make plants, vegetables and fruits to grow better: ______________________
5. More additional future: ______________________
6. Force or motivation that encourages or causes something else to happen: _________________
7. In the sea but not very far from the land: ______________________
8. Step, level: ______________________
9. A part or area of the business activity of a country: ______________________