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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"national oil company"”.
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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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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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The relationship between transformational leadership, organizational culture and employees job performance of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
… employees’ job performance at Abu Dhabi oil and gas companies is not satisfactory. Therefore, this research examined the effect of transformational leadership on job performance of employees at Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, with the mediating role of organizational culture. In this …
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The effect of increased national oil company sales on OPEC and the long run structure of the international petroleum market
Thesis. 1979. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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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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Antecedents of trust in corporate bankingin the United Arab Emirates
… in the Central Bank of Abu Dhabi and in a multi-national oil company provided triangulation. The antecedents of trust in the banking sector in an Arab/Muslim context fall into three clusters: “Cognitive”, “Affective” and “Religion, culture and shared values”. All were investigated in an …
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Innovation in the management of upstream state oil contracts in the Republic of Congo : from transaction to Cooperation for Economic Development
… the often competitive interests involved in oil contracts and the ensuing strategic dilemmas faced by both the Republic of Congo and international oil companies that operate in that country. Throughout this thesis, we use the Issues-Frameworks-Actions approach to identify, analyze and propose …
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Examining employees level of happiness in relation to productivity in oil and gas industry Abu Dhabi, UAE
… happiness has increasingly become a vital in oil and gas industries. When people are happy, they tend to work better, they stay at their jobs and also they produce better quality results than the unhappy employees. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is seventh among the largest natural resource in …
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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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Integrated, Basin-To-Reservoir Scale, Geologic and Geophysical Studies of a Carbonate-Hosted, Hydrocarbon Reservoir of the La Vela Basin, Northwestern Venezuela
… 3D seismic data and 52 wells from the Venezuelan national oil company (PDVSA) to assess carbonate reservoirs of the La Vela Basin (LVB). The LVB produced small quantities of oil and gas from carbonate reservoirs of early Miocene age since the 1970’s and is located 100 km east of the La Perla …
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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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A system thinking approach to addressing implementation challenges of local content policy in resource-rich countries.
… (HRC), technology and finance in the Ghanaian oil industry. ST considered the challenges as a 'system', thereby providing a comprehensive approach to identifying and analysing the interconnections among the variables affecting the challenges of LCP implementation. Underpinning ST and CLD is the …
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Development of a methodology for evaluating investments in infrastructure for the sustainable exploitation of shale energy in Argentina
… known by geologists from the beginning of the oil industry, but only became economically extractable in the 2000s, with the use of two old technologies developed in the US and already used on conventional fields: hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. With this "discovery," the Argentine …
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Oil from ice : examining the impact of energy development on Canadian Arctic sovereignty
The Canadian Arctic is facing new international challenges as global warming melts Arctic ice, opening up new shipping routes and access to untapped, potentially rich resources. As it has in the past, Canada is turning to defense spending to help strengthen its sovereignty in the region. …