Taxation is one of the significant phenomena in any economy as it not only generates revenues for existing government, but also serves as a fiscal tool and stabilization policy. One of the main types of taxation is the petroleum tax which accounts for more than 30% of revenue for developed countries and more than 85% for developing economies. This work focuses on petroleum producing giants in ...

Representing the knowledge domain of a petroleum system is a complex problem. In the present study, logical modelling of shared attributes of resources industry entities (dimensions or objects) has been used for construction of a dynamic and time-variant metadata model. This work demonstrates effectiveness of multidimensional data modelling for petroleum industry, which will be further investig...

A large quantity of data in earthquake, well-log, grilling, geology and other non-seismic geophysics, has been accumulated during long period of petroleum prospecting. These data are stored in papery document and managed in low efficient manual management. This paper proposed this petroleum exploration information management system which adopts SQL Server2000 as database server and combines B/S...

In the post-9/11 United States, there is a heightened awareness of further terrorist attacks. Prominent amongst these concerns are attacks against infrastructure intended to disrupt the US economy, defense and society through destruction of power supply, bridges, highways, ports, sewer and water supply. In particular, the US depends on petroleum fuels. Disrupting petroleum fuel supply would cle...

This study was investigated the efficiency of activated persulfate and ‎in-vessel composting for removal of total petroleum hydrocarbons. ‎Remediation by activated persulfate with ferrous sulfate as pre-treatment was done at batch system. In the chemical oxidation, various variables including persulfate concentrations (10-3000 mg/g as waste), ...

The microbial community response to petroleum seepage was investigated in a whole round sediment core (16 cm length) collected nearby natural hydrocarbon seepage structures in the Caspian Sea, using a newly developed Sediment-Oil-Flow-Through (SOFT) system. Distinct redox zones established and migrated vertically in the core during the 190 days-long simulated petroleum seepage. Methanogenic pet...