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In many countries, natural resources have been detrimental to the economic development. The literature on “the resource curse” shows a bleak relationship: countries with large natural resources generally experience lower economic growth than other countries. Norway does not fit into this...
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The structure of the oil and gas industry is being disrupted by technical developments which increase supply and reduce … East oil supplies. Upstream, expectations of scarcity are changing to expectations that, at current prices, national oil … match NOC needs. Downstream oil markets are dividing into the OECD markets where growth has been reversed and a non …
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Energy resources in Iran consist of the fourth largest oil reserves and the second largest natural gas reserves in the … Strategy, Iran needs $200 billion of investment in the country's first industry (i.e. oil), and given the objectives of the …'s energy status. Afterwards, oil future scenarios which developed by Research center of Iranian parliament, have been analyzed …
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Energized by service members wounded and killed protecting fuel convoys in Iraq in the mid-2000s and stunned by the oil …'s efforts to lessen its oil consumption. However, the ability to turn policy into practice has met numerous challenges from … within and without the defense establishment. The question remains whether the DOD will be able to move beyond oil in a …
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Solar energy is a growing source of electricity supply. Oil companies including BP and Shell recognized this early on … explanatory power of key constructs from innovation theory in accounting for the big oil companies' experience with solar … technology. Ultimately, the findings suggest that oil companies would have done better to treat their solar businesses as …
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general equilibrium (CGE) model is employed. The model is benchmarked in an oil producing country with declining production …, namely Cameroon. The results show that the PIH renders public finances less vulnerable during the post-oil transition …. Therefore, the PIH cannot be the only basis for better management of oil revenues in the country. …
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The future of oil has become an important topic of the discussion of energy policy in China. This paper attempts to … present a full picture of the current status and future trends of China’s oil development through system analysis. First, we … map a Sankey diagram of China’s oil flow to reveal the physical pattern of China’s oil supply and consumption. Then, we …
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per capita and CO2 emissions per capita based on the total energy consumption. For the disaggregate analysis, we used oil … model and for the oil and electricity consumption models. The long- and short-term income elasticities of carbon emissions … are negative for the gas consumption model. This result indicates that if the Saudi Arabian economy switched from oil to …
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behind the wide welfare variations observed among oil producing countries. How weak governance and corruption influence … revenue management and expenditure decisions, as well as the possible welfare benefits derived from oil, are broadly discussed …. How they impact upon volumes of oil produced has, however, attracted little attention. This paper combines a review of the …
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The article explores oil and natural gas development in the Arctic. While several commentators have argued that an … study finds that oil and natural gas production in the Arctic is dependent on a range of variables. By using climate … perspective on the much debated question of whether or not the Arctic will become a region driven by oil and gas production. …
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