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The Marcellus Shale: Drilling and Issues after Recent Environmental Problems

efforts to extract the abundance of natural gas in the Marcellus shale. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Glossary 1.2 Pur...

The Impact of External Influences on the Performance of Shell

impact on the financial performance of the company. However, it is also possible to see the way in which the increasing oil prices...

Single Commodity Economy of Kuwait and its Difficulties

for their most basic needs. There is no question that Kuwait is faced with a problem, and that is determining...

Protected Wildlife Areas, Oil Exploration, and Ethics

of the balance to be considered to be between "pleasures" and "pains" while John Stuart Mill changed the balance to one between "h...

Middle East and Oil

itself was followed by an oil embargo (Stanislaw and Tergin, 1993). Although the Yom Kippur War was won in a matter of days by Isr...

Types of Drilling Fluids

a similar task, these are collectively known as "deflocculants and filtrate reducers" (OilWorld, 2002). If shale inhibition is req...

An NPV and Costing Accounting Case Study

running. Therefore the preparation and legal costs may also be included in the capital cost, increasing the level of the asset sho...

BP and the Gulf of Mexico

at which time the oil had been spilling for 50 days. He said that the federal government had taken aggressive actions but admitted...

Louisiana Verses the Federal Government Prosecuting Obstruction of Justice in Offshore Incidents

Crimes can occur in any setting under any situation. While we tend to think of crime as activity involving...

Currency Exchanges and Exportation of Oil

boom could affect Azerbaijans macroeconomic stability by being a risk to monetary stability, through the uncertainties associated ...

Media and Environmental Issues

any news interest in the first place: The scientific conviction that global warming is happening and is being caused by man incre...

Financial Performance of Shell Oman

The writer looks at the performance of Shell in Oman comparing the firm to two other firms; Al Maha and Oman Oil. The ratios exami...

PETROLEUM OPTIONS FOR CHINA

Focuses on China's oil shortage problems and discusses potential solutions. There are 5 sources listed in the bibliography of this...

Global Economy and 2 Macroeconomic Problems

The world has not faced the same degree of wide spread banking problems that it does today since the era of the Great Depression, ...

Lasting Damage of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska

that if you travel over the area by plane and look down, it does seem as though ecological balance has been achieved, that time ha...

Gas Prices Assessed Econometrically

to modern business. OPEC began increasing oil prices less than two years later; the country and indeed the entire developed world...

Oil Industry of Syria

first need to consider the oil industry and its development. The time before the well known cartel of OPEC, the development of thi...

Profit Generation and Business Ethics

In ten pages this paper discusses if a commercial organization's profit generation is adversely affected by moral or ethical busin...

Three Women at the Spring by Picasso and Three Women by Leger Compared

In five pages these 1921 oil paintings are contrasted and compared using such criteria as style and composition as evaluated by th...

Santa Barbara, California Oil Platforms and Pollution

A reversal is now underway, albeit a slight one. At the very least the rate should be flat; that is, as many platforms being remo...

Operational Discharges, the Law, and Marine Pollution

pollution. Maritime law has recognised the need to protect the environment for many years. However, there are still many breaches...

Syria's Gas and Oil Industries

12 to 13 years, and not only to a smaller amount. In-ground oil is expected to be depleted at the end of that time....

1970s' Netherlands and Natural Gas Industry

the purchase of oil products, an event that was indeed seen in the oil crisis of 1973. * When the price of gold jewelry rises by 1...

Breakdown in Communications and the Exxon Valdez Catastrophe

2002). Once the harbor pilot had guided the Valdez past Rocky Point, left the vessel in command of Hazelwood (Exxon Valdez Disaste...

Gas Pricing and Cenex Case Study

cents a gallon. This tax is paid directly by the consumer, and producers have few choices available to them in efforts to maintai...

Alaska's Drilling for Oil Controversy

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper discusses the controversial practice of drilling for oil in Alaska in terms of a possi...

Critique of Vertumnus and Pomona Painting by Francois Boucher

artist of rare proportion who effectively coupled his own singular and distinctive style with that of the refinement of the period...

Oil Industry Recycling

In thirteen pages this paper examines oil recycling and its industry role with various types of recycling approaches considered. ...

Fire Inquiry Design Regarding an Offshore Platform Fire Investigation

In five pages this report presents the inquiry and process of a fire investigation regarding an offshore oil platform's design fla...

A New Oil Company Accounting System

The task of an established oil company embarking on a new accounting system is the primary focus of this paper consisting of eight...