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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Gas resources"”.
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Joint development of offshore polar oil and gas resources and the united nations convention on the law of the sea
… (JDZs) for the development of offshore oil and gas resources in the Arctic and Southern Oceans can effectively resolve competing continental shelf and outer continental shelf (OCS) claims arising under the provisions of Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC). …
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Joint development of offshore polar oil and gas resources and the united nations convention on the law of the sea
… (JDZs) for the development of offshore oil and gas resources in the Arctic and Southern Oceans can effectively resolve competing continental shelf and outer continental shelf (OCS) claims arising under the provisions of Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC). …
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Negotiating power over oil and gas resources in Senegal: The political economy of oil and gas in a ‘new producer’ country.
Negotiating power over oil and gas resources in Senegal: The political economy of oil and gas in a ‘new producer’ country. Ana Francisca Ramirez. Since its independence from France in 1960, Senegal has displayed relative political stability and institutional capacity, as well as peaceful democratic …
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Integrated Experimental Characterization of the Lower Huron Shale in the Central Appalachian Basin
… characterization is an essential step in the oil/gas exploration process and is of great significance in the evaluation of oil/gas resources. To evaluate the production potential of the Lower Huron shale in the central Appalachian Basin, matrix permeability, Raman spectroscopy, Fourier Transform …
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Creating a Regional Content Framework for the Oil and Gas Industry: A Case Study of the East African Community
The presence of oil and gas resources in Sub-Saharan Africa has brought both the gift and the curse. As Sub-Saharan African countries enjoy the abundance of natural resources such as oil and gas, on the one hand, these countries have also suffered immensely because of these resources. Oil and gas …
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Power Market Regulatory Structures and Electricity Security of Supply in Ghana
… first part of this study examines whether the gas resources available to Ghana should be used largely for power production or for the other alternative uses. The analysis shows that with the current trends in carbonisation and using gas resources to support electricity security of supply is the …
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Empirical studies on changes in oil governance
Regulation of the oil and gas sector is consequential to the economies of oil-producing countries. In the literature, there are two types of regulation: indirect regulation through taxes and tariffs or direct regulation through the creation of a National Oil Company (NOC). In the 1970s, many …
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Power and energy : geopolitical aspects of the transnational natural gas pipelines from the Caspian Sea basin to Europe
… over control of the Caspian Sea basin natural gas resources and the transportation routes among four world powers--Russia, the European Union, the United States, and China. The author assesses the risks posed by instability in the Caspian Sea states to the realization of proposed natural gas …
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Economic implications of natural gas vehicle technology in U.S. private automobile transportation
… imported. With significant domestic conventional gas resources, optimistic projections of unconventional natural gas resources, and the growing international liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, gas prices are expected to remain lower than oil. While natural gas currently provides approximately 24 …
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Kenya's Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Framework Governing the National Oil Corporation of Kenya: Transferable Lessons from Norway
Kenya’s discovery of oil and gas resources in 2012 has flung the upstream petroleum sector into the limelight. The state owned National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK), whose mandate includes operating in the upstream sector, is expected to play a significant role in supporting government’s efforts …
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A study of the non-tax fiscal regime for shale gas development in South Africa
… and exploitation of its possible petroleum resources particularly shale gas, following the estimation of just over 400 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of shale gas resources in the Karoo region. This, including the lodgement of five shale gas exploration right applications has necessitated the …
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In search of symbioses : an assessment of the relationships between two industrial estates and their adjacent communities in Trinidad, West Indies
… of heavy industries related to oil and gas resources. Over the past five decades, the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has significantly developed its energy sector, and has emerged as a prominent actor in the global oil and gas market. Petroleum operations have been in …
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The role of energy sector in sustainable development in Iran
… and environmental development of Iran. Natural gas and oil have dominated the total production of energy sources (TPES) in Iran for the past 50 years. Natural gas has also dominated the total final consumption (TFC) since 1999. Other alternative resources have been playing marginal roles in …
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Effect of flaw shape and penetrating fluids on hydraulic fracture initiation and propagation in porous material (gypsum)
… in the conventional natural reserves of oil and gas and the improvement of the technological capabilities, led to a considerable growth in the exploitation of unconventional oil and gas resources since the 1980s. Hydraulic fracturing is the process employed to extract hydrocarbons from these …
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Economic analysis of shale gas wells in the United States
Natural gas produced from shale formations has increased dramatically in the past decade and has altered the oil and gas industry greatly. The use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has enabled the production of a natural gas resource that was previously unrecoverable. Estimates of the …
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The Future of Biofuels: “An Investigation of Science and Policy in the UK/EU”
… fracking and the discovery of the new shale gas resources add further complication to this already complicated case. Although there is vast number of publications on biofuels, and they have been discussed extensively, to date, very little effort has been made to integrate the knowledge to …
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Managing the structure, regulation and infrastructure investment decisions in the natural gas industry of Ghana
In light of developing a nascent gas industry, present multiple challenges in restructuring, regulations and meeting infrastructure investments requirements. To identify an appropriate industry structure and provide suitable regulatory framework to attract adequate infrastructure investments are …
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Economics of using biomass electric power for energy application of light commercial building
… focus ed recently on use of renewable energy resources. The energy derived from biomass has a great potential in meeting this challenge by use of the state of art technology in gasifiers. Commercial units recently placed in the market have a potential of using the energy available in the …
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Synthesis, characterisation, and evaluation of supported cobalt molybdenum nitride for Fischer-Tropsch reaction
… as the most practical way to convert natural gas to hydrocarbon products including synthetic fuel depending on the catalysts and operating conditions. Australia has 25% of world's natural gas resources hence Australia's crude oil dependency can be reduced extensively by developing catalysts …
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The economics of US greenhouse gas emissions reduction policy : assessing distributional effects across households and the 50 United States using a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
… including: the latest data on natural gas resources and prices, the price effects on coal of EPA greenhouse gas and mercury regulations, the most recent trends in renewable energy pricing.
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