I am frequently asked to visit offshore production platforms to sort out problems with the oil export or the produced water quality where the ultimate issue is not poor control in the export or water-handling systems but due to over-aggressive level control at the reception end of the process. One of the tools available to decouple the front and back ends of the production train is error square...

This research on relationship marketing aims to revisit and reposition different foci of trust, commitment, performance perception in the export/import relationships explore interconnectedness effects. We have collected self-reported survey questionnaire responses from 142 non-oil exporters Ecuador. The data were analyzed with SmartlPls 3.0 software. found that calculative commitment negatively...

Patchouli is the largest non-oil export commodity among essential oil exports in Indonesia. However, quality of patchouli Indonesia considered to be very low. Traditional distillation carried out a small capacity and uses simple method based on large difference boiling points or one volatile components. This process produces poor such as acid number more than 8, dark oil, alcohol less 30%, high...

In this study we investigate the economic effects of carbon taxes on the Russian economy. The main findings of this study are the following: an introduction of carbon taxes compensated by an increase in lump-sum subsidies may weak the Russian economy through higher energy costs. Moreover, such an environmental tax reform could induce Dutch disease in Russia because of increases in the domestic ...

increasing non-oil exporting is among the most important concerns for iran. software industry is among the knowledge based and profitable ones. identification of factors affecting export performance of software developers can improve planning that in turn results in increasing software export. in this research a model consisting of seven important variables in software industries including: com...

In the past few months considerable prominence has been given in the local media over the beneficial qualities of palm oil and in particular some of its health promoting properties. This has been a latent response to the campaign against palm oil by the American soyabean lobby as well as the aborted ASA proposed Tropical Oils Labelling Bill. The. national concern over this issue is understandab...

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...

Acute volatile movements in primary commodity prices have drawn enough interests from empirical researchers. Exports of these commodities account for the bulk of export earnings of developing countries. The traditional demand based framework has been unable to explain the marked deterioration in these prices during 1980s. This paper tries to ascertain the role played by real oil prices in expla...

Bacillus pumilus strain CCMA-560 was isolated from an oil-contaminated mangrove swamp and was shown to produce biosurfactants. The strain appears to be capable of degrading some plant cell wall-related compounds, including hemicelluose and pectin. Genes for biopolymer export and polysaccharide intercellular adhesin synthesis were also annotated.