The sale of oil and gas is one of the most important components of the Syrian economy. Unfortunately, since the discovery of these resources, the Syrian people have not benefited from the revenues earned. This study deals with the development of oil and gas production and the geographical distribution of fields, as well as production control, deterioration of production, refining and selling me...

Hardly a day passes without news about violent acts from the Niger Delta appearing on the headlines of local and international newspapers, or news broadcast media. Such reports vividly document incidents of violence—clashes between rival armed groups, and between militias and government troops, killings, sabotage of oil pipelines and installations, and a thriving transnational trade in stolen o...

Gas coning is a tendency of the gas to impel the oil downward in an inverse cone contour toward the well perforations. Once the gas reaches the well, gas production will dominate the well flow and the oil production will hence significantly decrease. From an economical and operational standpoint this condition is undesirable since the gas price is much lower than the oil price, and the gas hand...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of the addition of different vegetable oils to the diet on the fermentation pattern and methane production in Rusitec fermenters. For this purpose four treatments were randomly allocated to sixteen fermenters in a completely random design. Inoculum was obtained from four ruminally fistulated Merino sheep fed lucerne hay and concentrate....

This study explores how Norway, as a latecomer to oil production, was able to develop both effective oil companies and an internationally competitive oil service industry. The article focuses on two rather distinct phases: the protectionist phase, in which a strong focus on local content fostered skilled Norwegian oil companies as well as a national oil service industry, and the phase of libera...

The Hubbert model assumes that the worldwide production of crude oil will follow a bell-shaped curve. Oil prices are expected to increase, or even to spike up, at or after the production peak. However, the Hubbert model provides no description of price trends. We also lack historical data that can be used as a guide, since so far there have been no cases of a complete, worldwide depletion of a ...

The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration recently predicted that world oil production could continue to increase for more than three decades, based on the recent US Geological Survey (USGS) evaluation of world oil resources and a simple, transparent model. However, it can be shown that this model is not consistent with actual oil production records in many different regio...