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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"National oil companies"”.
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National oil companies and resource nationalism: a challenge for a petroleum resource-rich state.
Debates on the relevance of national oil companies (NOCs) as a means for a state to adequately manage their petroleum resources have been put forward by some critics. Some critics argue that the traditional national oil company model is antiquated. At first, national oil companies were set up as …
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Chinese 'loan-for-oil' deals in Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador : local concerns and perceptions
China's international behaviour has been the subject of scholarly attention in the past decade. The implementation of the 'going out' strategy of international relations in Latin American countries has been inserted in the mainstream debate about China's rise. The Chinese national oil companies' …
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Estimating the rate of technical change in the oil and gas industry using data from private and national companies
Modelling the long term prices for crude oil and natural gas has been a critical undertaking of many governments, companies, and analysts. The most important goal of this exercise is to effectively project the price of crude oil and natural gas to inform and shape today's decisions. Most long-run …
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Olajipari együttműködések a vállalati stratégiák alapján = Cooperation in the petroleum industry in light of the corporate strategies
… felett őrködő állami olajtársaságok (national oil companies, NOC) és az olajkészletekkel alig rendelkező nemzetközi olajipari magántársaságok (international oil companies, IOC). A szakirodalomban uralkodó két egyik nézet egyike szerint az nemzetközi olajtársaságok a jövőben továbbra is …
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A study of restructuring in the Chinese petroleum sector
China's oil industry has experienced fundamental changes since 1988. China's oil market will be open to foreign companies just a few years after its entry into the WTO in the end of 2001. The three national petroleum companies had been privatized and listed in overseas capital market exchanges …
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On Power: How Colombia’s National Oil Company Can Support the Country’s Energy Transition
… is organized in two parts. Part I argues that national oil companies, which now own and produce most of the world’s oil, will be protagonists in the transition to low-carbon energy sources. The pathways that these companies take will be distinct from country to country and will define how the …
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Why is transparency not enough to address the institutions curse? A case study of Nigeria’s implementation of the EITI
… via institutional quality. The international community brought forward transparency and accountability through Transparency and Accountability Initiatives as potential solutions to underdevelopment in natural resource rich countries. This paper explores whether the EITI, a …
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National oil company reform from the perspective of its relationship with governments: the case of China
National Oil Companies ("NOCs") play an important role in a country's petroleum industry. Their relationship with their government is much more complicated than those between commercial oil companies and their shareholders due to the government's multi-dimensional role as a shareholder, resource …
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Two petro-states diverge: explaining the institutional evolution of Nigeria and Angola
It is well-established that oil wealth in weakly institutionalised states tends to undermine development instead of catalysing it. Cross-country regressions, however, struggle to explain why comparably oil-wealthy countries such as Nigeria and Angola experience different political and economic …
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An empirical investigation of the efficiency, effectiveness and economy of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation's management of Nigeria's upstream petroleum sector.
… empirically investigates how well the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) ensures value for money (VfM) in its exploitation of Nigerias oil resources. This focus on VfM distinguishes the study from other researches carried out on the performance of national oil companies (NOCs) where …
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A theoretical and empirical investigation of the barriers to the adoption of state-of-the-art information systems by Nigerian indigenous oil companies.
Currently, there are 49 indigenous oil companies (INOCs) and 28 marginal fields operators as well as 24 multi-national oil companies (MNOCs) operating in Nigeria. This study on Nigerian INOCs has found them to have inadequate state-of-the-art upstream information systems (IS) for their operations. …