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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....

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Types of Drilling Fluids

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

Sheil Oil and Cost of Capital

billion by the end of 2002 (Shell Oil Company, 2003). The key to using the WACC in this case would be to analyze the expected rate...

Cai Lan Oils and Fats Industries and Organizational Change

for future success. Many companies can effective manage change, but some with poor leadership cannot. In investigating this phenom...

Currency Exchanges and Exportation of Oil

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

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...

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...

California's Emergency Services and its Relationship with the Federal Government

and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

Laws and Regulations in Insurance Practice in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania

maintains two broad categories, Property/Casualty and Life/Health. Agents must be licensed in both to be able to sell policies in...

The Welfare States in the UK

crime rates were rising and inflation was rife (Slack, 1990). The main aims were to reduce the extreme levels of poverty, but many...

Questions in Social Organization

of change relates to many factors, one of which is the changes which occurred over time in agriculture. Additional exampl...

An Evaluation of the Steady-State Theory

the earth and so quasars are objects that come form the past, and this suggest that a few billion years earlier, the universe was ...

The Problems of Landlocked States

Hodder & Lloyd (1998), Africa has the majority of land-locked states. Not all continents have to deal with the problem of having a...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie

the promise by officials that Chessie would give workers ready access to thousands of case files on a statewide basis had yet to m...

Should the US Drill for Oil in Alaska?

a minimum. He points out that the protection that the oil companies have "provided for wildlife" at their drilling sites at Prudho...

Proverbs and Palm Oil in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages six passages of the text are critically analyzed in order to reveal the significance of proverbs in character communi...