Key Features:Presents detailed statistics of the oil and gas sector in ChinaExamines the Chinese oil industry from a cross-disciplinary political economy as well as international relations perspective.

For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions' hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon , Patricia I. Vasquez...

Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana-its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public stew with myths about...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- The Oil Boom, 1901-1905 -- The Drillers, 1901-1910 -- The Other Hands, 1901-1910 -- Moving on up North, 1910-1922 -- The Panhandle: Populating Cow Country, 1919-1930 -- East Texas: Changes in the Patch, 1930-1935 -- Way Out West,...

The petroleum fiscal system for a country is essentially the taxation structure, including royalty payments, that has been established by legislation. More broadly, the fiscal system includes all aspects of the contractual and taxation framework that governs the relationship between the host...

Key Features:The book is a pioneering work on the subject of logistics environment, status of development, emerging enterprises, infrastructures, and governmental policies for China. It is the first full-length academic publication on the subject in EnglishThe book consists of selected topics...

The Studies in the History and Culture of the Islamic Orient (STIO) is the series of "Supplements" to the journal Der Islam. Both are published by the Section for the History and Culture of the Near East in the Asian-African Institute of the University of Hamburg. The Section was established in...