Oil Company Research Papers Samples For Students

Introduction

Shell Oil Company is an energy and petrochemical company that is headquartered in Houston, Texas. The parent company of Shell Oil Company is called Royal Dutch Shell. The Company has investment program as their strategy aimed at realizing profits and delivering sustainable growth. The Company focuses on the exploration of new and gas and oil reserves and the development of major products; this is in the upstream. In the downstream, the company has strategy aimed at achieving sustainable revenue generation from their assets and their selective investment. Shell Oil Company one of the largest energy and petrochemical company in ...

Introduction:

Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) was established in 1934 by Anglo-Persian Oil Company . The Chief Executive Officer of KOC is Hashem S. Hashem. KOC reportedly produced 2.9 barrels of oil per day in 2012 . The organization is a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and is deemed to be responsible for “exploration, drilling, production and transportation of hydrocarbon resources within Kuwait” . KOC does not belong to the world’s biggest oil and gas companies; but KPC ranked 9th . The organization’s headquarters is located at Ahmadi, Kuwait .

Kuwait Oil Company Typical Operations:

KOC’s operations are categorized under exploration, drilling, and production. In addition, its official ...

Management

Introduction.
British petroleum and Oil Company (Bp oil) is an International oil company that supplies energy and petroleum product worldwide.The company has experienced three major disasters since 2005. In 2005, the explosion happened in Texas City oil refinery killing approximately 18 people and injured several people. Such crisis brought damages and losses of approximately $1.9 billion. In 2006, a pipe which had corroded burst and spill two hundred gallons of crude oil in Alaska. April 2010, the deep-water horizon oil exploded (Gulf of Mexico); a major disaster that led to large and shocking environmental pollution ever recorded in the history ...

Business law and ethics

Business law and ethics

Introduction

Bankruptcy can be defined as the inability of a person or an entity to repay some debt. Bankruptcy is mostly used in legal framework where a debtor fails to honor his or her outstanding debts to a creditor in the course of business. Bankruptcy in big corporations involves long court battles as they try to relieve themselves out of the huge debts that may have been accrued over time. In the legal entity bankruptcy is instituted to try free up the debtor's obligation in paying the debt he or she owes the creditor. Bankruptcy proceedings involve measuring and ...

Secretary of Labor v. Cities Service Oil Co.and theOccupational Safety & Health Review Commission

Introduction

This appeals court case is about five individuals – four employed by Cities Service Oil Co. and one employed by an independent contractor – of whom four died as a result of inhalation of hydrogen sulfide, while cleaning so-called water knockout tanks belonging to the oil company and located on the Stoltenberg lease near Holyrood, Kansas.
The case came to the appeals court because the Secretary of Labor petitioned for review of the original decision by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission which had issued citations and ...

Abstract.3

Introduction..3

Literature Review.4

Brief History of the Company..6

Discussion7

Lean Manufacturing.7
Capacity Planning Issues..8

Building New Oil Refinery or Extending Existing Capacity9

Managing Oil Refinery9
Delivery of Different Fuels to the Filling Stations.9
Recommendations..10

Stages of New Strategy Implementation.10

Conclusion11
Appendices14

References.15

Operation Management in ADNOC
Abstract
The current paper relates implementation of lean manufacturing at ADNOC – national oil company operating on the territory of UAE. The necessity of implementation of operations management techniques is conditioned by increasing competition in the world markets and cost pressure. There were several aspects of the proposed operations strategy outlined with regard to the culture and structure of ADNOC. Operations management strategy was developed ...

Business

Research Paper
Abstract
ENOC Oil Company is owned by the United Arab Emiratis, in other words the company is public and was established in 1993. ENOC employs about 3500 individuals. ENOC is expanding over its borders in collaboration with the Saudi Arabian company Aldrees to set up service stations in Saudi Arabia. The ENOC oil company is also investing in foreign holdings in the Caspian Sea. The company is dynamic in the domestic and the global market. Due to losses in fuel sales the company needs to find ways to make up for the losses. This study proposes to ...

Saudi Arabia-US Relationship

Saudi Arabia and United States share a healthy and strong relations for last almost eight decades since both the nations started having full diplomatic relations. The history of the relationship between both the countries is a long drawn one and dates back to 1930s. This relationship based on mutual respect and common interests has stood the test of the time. Though there have been minor hiccups through the journey of over 80 years, they have failed to impact or derail Saudi-US cooperation and relations. The relationship is not only based on the economic interests that both the nations draw from trade and ...

I have reviewed your memo regarding our client Howdy Brewster describing his business activities and the recent events which have occurred that could have an impact on his 2011 tax returns. His business is a farm and dairy operation on 850 acres of land. The land has been in the family for close to 125 years. There are three existing houses on his property.

Mr. Brewster recently signed a contract with Aztec Oil and Gas Pipeline to allow the company to lease a portion of his land in order to run a pipeline; Aztec will need access to maintain the pipeline over its ...

Part 1: Company Selection and Analysis:

Introduction
The company selected for our management analysis is the Saudi Arabia’s National Oil Company, Saudi Aramco. This is a company that does its operations by doing an exploration and also producing of petroleum products. Moreover, the firm has a fully integrated refining plant that works in collaboration with the marketing department of the company to ensure that customers are aware of their products. The company was founded in the late 1930s after Saudi Arabia became a concerted nation ("Saudi Aramco - Profile"). After the unification was successful, around 1933, the Government was able to grant the Standard ...

Economics 15: Research paper

Markets – late 19th Century/early 20th Century
Monopoly, Oligopoly and Trusts
The late 19th - early 20th century was the time of rapid development of American industry. In 1895, the majority of industries were competitive with no dominating companies. As a result of intense competition, many weak and small companies “disappeared”. Large and successful capitalistic associations based primarily on a system of participation got the name of trusts and corporations. One after another, the industries occurred in the hands of small groups of entrepreneurs, who used any methods to achieve complete control over these sectors of the economy. By 1904, ...

Saudi Aramco is among the largest companies producing oil in the world, with operations in oil and gas fields, with Ghawar oil field being its largest oil field. Headquartered in Dahran, East of the Arabian Peninsula. The company’s heart is in oil production, end employing a significant number in terms of workforce, among some of its employees being engineers, mining professionals, and geologists. The company has had a distinguishing factor that has propelled it in terms of research, on establishing better ways of exploring its oil and gas reserves, with the operations being streamlined by an operational, well monitored computer ...

Background Information

The Muckrakers refer to a network of investigative journalists that set out to expose the corruption and abuse of power by state officials around the beginning of the twentieth century. The name ‘muckraker’ became popular after it was cited from a speech delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt in which he agreed with the course of the muckrakers but criticized some of the means that they resorted to in achieving their objective. Muckrakers played a significant role in shaping the attitude of the people towards large American businesses.
It is argued that some muckrakers derived inspiration out of the trust-busting activities of ...

Introduction

Going by the history of Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, there is evidence that the rulers, either the colonizers or the local leaders leaned on one side in terms of policies and leadership that they imposed on the Bedouin and the urban merchants. As it will be discussed below, the rulers in Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, put in place policies that eventually improved the comfort of the Bedouin such that they changed most of their nomadic activities to adopt dwelling in places that they received the support by the powers in place. The urban merchants did not benefit from this ...

1. Discuss the interactions of New Jersey politics with the national Progressive movement. In your answer, discuss specific aspects of reform/anti-reform initiatives.

The Progressive Movement of the United States was a major era for political reform that brought the United States into the 20th century. Local governments and states participating in this movement did so unofficially, but effectively, ousting corrupt officials and attempting to balance budgets, repair industry and purifying the government. New Jersey was no exception; a number of Progressive Era policies were enacted during that time, and the election of Woodrow Wilson, a prominent proponent of these Progressive policies and ...

I have reviewed your memo regarding our client Howdy Brewster which describes his business activities and the recent events which may impact his 2011 Federal Tax Return. Here is a review of the factual information about Brewster which pertains to the income tax questions. His business is an eight hundred fifty acre farm and dairy operation. About 150 Holstein milk cows are part of the dairy operation. Approximately 150 Black Angus steers are raised to sell. Brewster has one part-time employee. He employs his two teen-age sons for the daily farm work. The land has been in the family for ...

Summary of the Interviews

The mission for the oil and energy company required the organization to meet and exceed expectations of their customers, workers and shareholders while providing a safe, profitable and career advancement for the shareholders and employees. The mission for the Galveston District is to operate and maintain flood controls and navigation facilities and at the same time administer laws pertaining to civil works. The mission statements for these two companies show that they strive to offer advancement in terms of organizational development.
Both companies value developments at individual and organizational level. This is evident in the cultural aspect where each ...