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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Oil resources"”.
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Investigating the Environmental Impacts of Western Canadian Tight Oil Resources
… of an unconventional resource known as tight oil. In 2017, oil production from this resource reached 430 thousand barrels per day, accounting for approximately 10% of all Canadian crude produced. Despite rapid development, the environmental impacts associated with the production and use of …
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The Oil Blessing: Reexamining Conflict in the Muslim World
<p>An influential conventional wisdom holds that oil causes intrastate conflict and that oil in particular explains the prevalence of domestic political violence in the Muslim world. I show that the relationship between oil and intrastate conflict in the empirical literature is more ambiguous than …
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Non-thermal Recovery of Heavy oil and Oil Sands Using Nanoparticle
Heavy oils and oil sand resources are considered the largest portion of known energy resources, comprising 70% of total resources. Still, there is potential to increase oil production from these resources to fulfill future global energy needs. There have long been serious critiques of the methods …
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Oil, Geopolitics, and Economic Growth in Azerbaijan
… approximately three billion barrels of proven oil reserves. Azerbaijan has been extremely successful in attracting foreign investment in its oil sector. There are currently five contracts signed between the government of Azerbaijan and consortiums of international oil companies for development …
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Development of Scaling Crieteria for Waterflooding and Immiscible CO2 Flooding in Unconventional Reservoirs
As conventional oil reserves are depleting, the rising energy demand as well as advancements in well drilling and stimulation technologies have attracted increasingly interests in exploiting the unconventional oil resources (e.g., tight oil and heavy oil). Tight oil resources in Canada are mainly …
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Political Economy of Natural Resources and Governance in Iran: An Empirical Investigation
In this dissertation, I investigate the role of oil resources and economic and political institutional quality on the economic performance of Iran. To this end, I examine four related themes. First and foremost, I provide a detailed picture of the economic structure of Iran and compare its …
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Offshore construction contracts in the oil industry
The search and exploration for oil resources at sea began in the 1920s on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela and on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Since then, there has been a continuous development of research and drilling techniques. The first offshore oil well was drilled in Louisiana in 1947 at a …
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Offshore construction contracts in the oil industry
The search and exploration for oil resources at sea began in the 1920s on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela and on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Since then, there has been a continuous development of research and drilling techniques. The first offshore oil well was drilled in Louisiana in 1947 at a …
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Perceptions and Grievances: Impact of Resource Governance on Protracted Conflicts in Nigeria's Niger Delta
… the setting of conflicts associated with crude oil production and the distribution of proceeds from petroleum rents, royalties, and taxes. In the mid-1990s, grievances and protests against perceived unfair allocation of oil resources started peacefully among the Ogoni and a handful of …
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Bringing Urban Agriculture to the University of Cincinnati
… problems, several of which will only worsen as oil resources become limited. Additionally, as urbanization trends continue transporting food great distances will result in excessive food prices. All of these issues provide strong reasons to plan for urban food production</p><p>This thesis …
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An Improved Vapour Solvent Injection Technique for Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery
There are tremendous heavy oil and bitumen resources in Canada, and most of them are located in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Thermal-based recovery techniques, such as steam flooding, cyclic steam stimulation (CSS), and steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), are effective and have been …
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US foreign policy and energy resources during the George W. Bush administration
… with respect to access to foreign energy resources, which took on an even higher priority because of his ties to the oil industry and the belief that the US was suffering from an energy crisis and relative economic decline. Energy procurement was linked to his other foreign policy priority …
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An assessment of carbon sources for the production of synthetic fuels from nuclear hydrogen
… fuel demand in the US is unsustainable. Oil resources are finite, and causing heavy US reliance on oil imports. Therefore, the development of alternative transportation fuels that do not depend on oil is becoming increasingly necessary. Our research investigates the feasibility of …
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Political Economy of Healthcare in Post-conflict Timor-Leste: Contestation and Ownership in Policy-Making
… ownership in situations of aid-dependent and oil-dependent, with particular reference to the case of the reconstruction of the healthcare system in Timor-Leste. The study demonstrates that, in a range of areas, the FRETILIN government (2002-2007) was able to exercise some autonomous …
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Climate Responsibility : The Instrumental Rationales of Private Oil Companies
… of corporate social responsibility (CSR), of two oil companies, ExxonMobil and Shell. The study is a comparative case study of the climate responsibilities of two private oil companies, that makes use of academic literature and recent primary sources of the case companies, such as sustainability …
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The development and structure of Libyan television broadcasting, 1968-1995
… slowly over centuries because it had few resources available for advanced growth. This forced Libya to delay the establishment and development of its broadcast media (particularly television) until 1968. Libya has since developed into a modern State, thanks largely to its oil resources and …
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Treatment of Produced Water Using Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Technique and Ionic Liquids
As population grows, more water and oil resources are needed to make more products. In addition, more contaminants are also created due to daily uses. Consequently, environment protection will be a necessary duty for everyone. As produced water is a by-product from the oil production process, and …
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Mechanistic study of slug formation and evolution in high-viscosity-liquid/High-density-gas multiphase flows in channels/pipes
… demand coupled with dwindling conventional oil resources has pushed unconventional oil, such as heavy oil, to become one of the most important future energy resources. However, design and operation of pipelines to transport heavy-oil/gas flows have raised new challenges associated with …
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Oil Nationalisation and Managerial Disclosure: The Case of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 1933-1951
… towards the understanding of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC, now British Petroleum) practices in Iran and thereby providing a clear picture of how nationalisation evolved on 1st May 1951 and how it was perceived by the stock market. Nationalisation brought into sharp focus issues affecting …
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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.
… 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 the common approach in the literature has been to assess performance using the metrics applicable to …
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