Nepal’s unique geographical features, frequent political disturbances, strikes, a limited and complicated road network, frequent road breakdowns, government interventions as well as a volatile international oil market make the supply chain of Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) rather unique. We analyze different risks in the NOC supply chain and discuss what can be done to find inventory strategies th...

Although methanogenic degradation of hydrocarbons has become a well-known process, little is known about which crude oil tend to be degraded at different temperatures and how the microbial community is responded. In this study, we assessed the methanogenic crude oil degradation capacity of oily sludge microbes enriched from the Shengli oilfield under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. The ...

Product distribution account for a significant portion of the logistical costs of a product. Distribution activities are repetitive in nature and they impact the delivery lead time to customers. A well designed supply chain network can substantially improve these costs and lead times. This paper presents a supply chain network design approach for distribution of petroleum products of a retailer...

Issues related to structures of goods and information are frequently discussed in the logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. But, only few contributions are exploring the financial structures associated with supply chains. This paper presents a framework to identify the appropriate financing source used for supply chain. It is extensively noticed that although various financing...

supply security of energy is one of the main challenges of industrialized countries in recent decades. also, it has been noted that in recent years other countries like new emergence asian countries and latin american countries, have understood the role and importance of energy. however, oil and gas have more importance for numerous reasons such as convenience availability, high thermal value a...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain SJTD-1 can utilize long-chain alkanes, diesel oil, and crude oil as sole carbon sources. We report the draft genome sequence of strain SJTD-1 (6,074,058 bp, with a GC content of 66.83%) and major findings from its annotation, which could provide insights into its petroleum biodegradation mechanism.

background and objectives: petroleum hydrocarbons are harmful to the environment, human health, and all other living creatures. oil and its byproducts in contact with water block sunshine to phytoplanktons and thus break the food chain and damage the marine food source. this study aims to isolate the crude oil degrading and biosurfactant producing bacteria from the oil contaminated soils of gac...