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The Economics of Oil

looking at the macroeconomic impact of oil during the oil shock of the 1970s and the more resent oil crisis the highly complex inf...

Macroeconomics; The Price of Oil

price was higher in real terms than it is today. It is also worth noting that the major peak seen towards the right of the chart b...

Oil Prices

The writer looks at the different events or influences that could result in oil prices increasing. Events such as war, natural di...

Business Proposal for Mobile Oil Change, LLC

It appeals to businesses that have their own fleet mechanics and those that do not. Those businesses that maintain their own flee...

Hubbert's Peak

(The Coming Global Oil Crisis 2003). Some Middle Eastern countries said their oil peaked in 1970, which allowed OPEC to create an ...

The Petrochemical Industry in Saudi Arabia

reserves are in these areas. One of these oil fields is the largest oil field in the world; Ghawar, this onshore oil field alone ...

Michael Klare's Resource Wars and War Over Oil Reserves of the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and South China Sea

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

Paint and Art

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

Oil Production Questions

would reduce the delays in the process, possibly by a considerable level (Marathon, 2010). Tools such as pumps within the pipeline...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Strategy at Anadarko Petroleum

The oil industry already was operating under pressure before adding the complications of the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. In th...

PEAK OIL THEORY AND OIL PRODUCTION

that "prices will rise unless demand declines commensurately" (Campbell and Laherrere, 1998; p. 61). Whats interesting is that Cam...

Case Study of Gulf Oil's 1984 Takeover Bid by Mesa

should also look closely at the way in which Gulfs exploration and development programs are structured. For instance, what is the ...

Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller

experiences that were helpful to me that I recollect with pleasure was one in working a few days for a neighbour in digging potato...

Foreign Control and Drilling for Oil in the Gulf of Mexico

Shell Oil Company and Aramco Oil Company are two of the largest petroleum producers and refiners in the world. These...

Truman Proclamation/Continental Shelf

over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...

Blood for Oil: The Evils of the Military-Industrial Complex

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

Loss of Well Integrity

This essay discusses maintaining oil and gas well integrity and identifies guidelines for safety. The BP Deepwater event is used a...

The Deepwater Horizon Problem

and wetlands along the coasts. BPs first response to contain the oil spill was to dump about two million gallons of dispersants...

Asian Agri Market and Strategy

market trends, where there is high level of sales, the company has some concerns regarding the potential future of the commodity. ...

"Cancer Alley" and Environmental Justice

This paper describes the case made against Shell Oil Company by the residents of "Cancer Alley," a stretch of the Mississippi with...

Oil and World Politics

as though the U.S. seems to want control over much of the energy -- as evidenced by whats going on in Russia now. When Russian Pre...

Elasticity of Oil Prices

Asian oil fields, the worldwide supply of oil was rather stable and predictable. Demand remained rather constant, though seasonal...

International Trade Increases and Oil Price Impacts

and as such this theory was built upon and developed by theorists such as Ricardo, which helps to explain, to a greater extent, wh...

The Oil Industry

the top 10 producers of oil, comparing 2006 with 2008, looking not only the position in terms of being a major oil producer, but a...

Sustainable Business

rural areas since before the beginning of Chinas capitalist experiment; currently it exceeds 15 percent in some areas even by gove...

NIGERIA OIL, AND THE CURSE OF BLACK GOLD

of Nigeria, which is exporting more oil (United Arab Emirates, 2009). Granted, the systems of government are very differe...

IMPACT OF OIL PRICES ON THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

One of the culprits of all of this change involved spiking oil prices, which led to an increase in gas prices at the pump. This, i...

Implications of Shell's Supply Chain Shift

supply Shells competitors as well, with items specific to the oil industry. Other suppliers are those offering more general items...

Low Tech Options for Reducing our Continued Dependence on Foreign Oil

past few months, the exorbitantly high prices we have been forced to pay at the pump in that last year remind us that depending on...