This paper examines the ability of the oil market variance risk premium (VRP) to predict both financial and key macroeconomic series. Interest in understanding movement in such variables increasingly considers measures of investor risk and the variance risk premium, which incorporates both...

Effectively, the government of Iraq, not the Iraqi people, owns the oil wealth; the oil industry is a government monopoly. We make the case against such monopoly and for a competitive oil industry. We estimate the share of oil in real output to be relatively large, and show that most...

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the crude oil viscosity and liquid-dynamic noise characteristics of the oil transfer pump. A 3-step mathematical characterization model is proposed to describe the relationship between the viscosity and the corresponding water content of...

In April of 2018, an optical gas imaging (OGI) and full flow sampler (FFS) emissions measurement study of pneumatic controllers (PCs) at 15 oil and natural gas production sites in West Virginia was conducted. A total of 391 PC systems supporting 66 working wells were found. All were classified...

The effectiveness of two different biomaterials, i.e. Aloe Vera and Acorn leaves, has been tested in treating a real industrial petroleum wastewater through a coagulation-flocculation-sedimentation process. Experimental activities were aimed at evaluating the optimal operating conditions, in...