ENGR 2595 | Shale Oil | A Controversial Energy Source | | Gabriel Lessard-Kragen, Daylon Hutton, Nikolai Sie | 12/4/2014 | | Table of Contents Table of Figures i Introduction 1 What is Hydraulic Fracturing? 1 Socio-Economic Impacts 3 Local Economic Impacts 3 U.S. National Economic Impacts 5 International Economic Impacts 6 Environmental Issues 8 Water Impacts 9 Greenhouse Gases 11 Liability 12 Conclusion 13 Bibliography 14 Table of Figures Figure
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Working Paper The BP Oil Spill as a Cultural Anomaly? Institutional Context, Conflict and Change Andrew J. Hoffman Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan P. Devereaux Jennings University of Alberta Ross School of Business Working Paper Working Paper No. 1151 October 2010 This work cannot be used without the author's permission. This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Sciences Research Network Electronic Paper Collection:
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Strategic Management Report On “Sui Southern Gas Company Limited” Prepared By: Hassan Mirza (2861) Mohammad Kashif (1714) Submitted To: Mr. Tariq Kaleem Dated: 9th January 2011 BRIEF HISTORY * Sui Southern Gas Company Limited is Pakistan’s leading integrated gas companyformed on March 30, 1989 following a series of mergers of three pioneering companies, namely : 1. Sui Gas Transmission Company Limited 2. Karachi Gas Company Limited 3. Indus Gas Company Limited
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Is Shell really Arctic ready? Nick Butler | Jan 14 2013 14:59 | 10 | Share Shell's drilling barge the Kulluk. Getty Images There are two important lessons from the mounting problems facing Shell as a result of the series of accidents that have afflicted its drilling programme in the Arctic. The first is that major companies must have the capacity to call a halt and to break the inexorable internal momentum that so often makes it impossible to stop projects once they have started. The ability
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spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over a span of 87 days. This catastrophic environmental disaster is known as the Gulf Oil Spill occurred on April 20, 2010 about 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana. An oil drilling rig (Deepwater Horizon) leased by British Petroleum (BP) ignited and exploded spewing 42,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf. Two days later the rig sank increasing the spill rate to 210,000 gallons of oil a day. Analysis – Government intervention The U.S. Government named BP as the responsible
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ranking of the world's 500 largest corporations (O'leary, 2012). In 2013 alone the company brought in revenues of $451.2 billion with a net income of $16.5 billion. Royal Dutch Shell Group, an oil and gas company, was created when Royal Dutch Petroleum and British based Shell Transport & Trading merged in 1907; the company is headquartered in the Hague, Netherlands but is incorporated in the London and Wales. (About Shell). It was in the early 20th century that the company began its dominate climb
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A SUMMER TRAINING REPORT ON “STUDY OF CORPORATE BUDGET AND PROJECT APPRAISAL” SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT (FINANCE) By Abhay Goyal 13DM006 Under the guidance of Dr. Girish Jain Mr. Anil Kumar Professor DGM (F&A) Accounting and Finance ONGC BIMTECH New Delhi 2013-15 TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS CERTIFICATE FROM MENTOR v CERTIFICATRE FROM HR vi
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Tesla: Supercharging the Future by Akash G. Nandi An honors thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science Undergraduate College Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University May 2013 Professor Marti G. Subrahmanyam Faculty Adviser Professor Joseph Foudy Thesis Adviser 1 I. Introduction...................................................................................................................Page 4 A. The Inefficiency of Cars
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chemical feedstocks and energy. Our Oil Sands business, the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, extracts bitumen from oil sands in Alberta, western Canada and converts it to synthetic crude oils. Our Oil Products business makes, moves and sells a range of petroleum-based products around the world for domestic, industrial and transport use. Its Future Fuels and CO2 business unit develops fuels such as biofuels and hydrogen and synthetic fuels made from natural gas (GTL Fuel) and potentially from biomass; and
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The Unsafe Culture of BP The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The British Petroleum Company (BP) gulf spill started in April of 2010, and was first contained in July of 2010; it took the company 2 months to actually start the process of containing the spill. The Associated Press and The New York Times, reported that a total of 94 to 184 million gallons of oil were unleashed on the shores off the Gulf. This disaster has caused controversial
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