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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...

Oil Prices

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

New Synthetic Motor Oil Development

time, there was, of course, virtually no interest in a synthetic motor oil anywhere outside of a laboratory. Application in aviat...

Saudi Arabia and Environmental Issues

navy in the northern Persian Gulf when smuggling oil form Iraq in the. This resulted in a three mile wide oil slick that places t...

Elasticity of Oil Prices

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

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...

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...

"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...

The Management of the BP Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Crisis

Louisiana, where the water was roughly 5,000 feet deep. At roughly 9.45 pm2 there was an explosion resulting from high pressure me...

Is BP Amoco Ethical?

(Stonehill and Dullum, 1990; 34). When looking at BP the general approach as well as specific issues needs to be considered and lo...

Drill Baby, Drill...Still?

In the 2008 Presidential campaign, Sarah Palin flippantly outlined her proposal for getting...

The Oil Spill During the Week of June 6, 2010

mention of surges of natural gas, but rig workers report that numerous surges were experienced in the weeks prior to the explosion...

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...

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...

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...

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...