Throughout most of the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries the US was the world's foremost oil producing and exporting nation; it was also the first important producing nation to pass its all-time oil production peak, which occurred in 1971. The impacts on the US of its own oil peak for the nation's economy and foreign policy are rarely discussed in that country, but they have been considerabl...

the analyze of petroleum contracts demonstrate that in respect to the intensity of the cooperation between the state company and oil companies, we could find the different evaluative categories of the contracts on upstream oil industry.historically, the first generation of the petroleum contracts was the concession agreement in which the transferring of ownership was the base. the license agree...

Sept. 18 (N SIP S) Gi1:1lo Andreotti 's Italian government thi� week successfully organized a new consortium of Western European oil companies to replace the Rockefeller family's "Seven Sisters " cartel in managing oil supplies to the European continent. The formation of the new consortium. composed of the West German. French. Belgian. and Italian state oil com­ panies. coincides with the North...

The CIA was originally established as an agency charged with putting together information from all other intelligence agencies. However, in the midst of the Cold War and with the election of President Eisenhower, a new role for the CIA surfaced. Across the globe, in Iran, in 1951 the people had elected a Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossaddegh, who opposed British control over Iranian oil fields. T...

the purpose of this research was to analyze and compare occupational stressors and organizational coping resources in sport authorities of iran oil company. this research was a descriptive survey. iran oil company sport authorities (n=170) were divided into three groups of managers, experts and coaches. morgan table was used and 117 subjects were randomly selected as the sample of this study. s...

The oil and gas industry is involved in a global supply-chain that includes domestic and international transportation, ordering and inventory visibility and control, materials handling, import/export facilitation and information technology. Thus, the industry offers a classic model for implementing supply-chain management techniques. In a supply-chain, a company is linked to its upstream suppli...

A system that applies a method of knowledge-intensive case-based reasoning, for repair and prevention of unwanted events in the domain of offshore oil well drilling, has been developed in cooperation with an oil company. From several reoccurring problems during oil well drilling the problem of ”lost circulation”, i.e. loss of circulating drilling fluid into the geological formation, was picked ...