Essays on Energy Industry

Business Sustainability in the Middle East – How Solar Energy Use can be Effectively Commercialized in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East

Abstract

The objective of this paper was to study this option from the perspective of the United Arab Emirates and Middle Eastern Countries. This paper is a proposal for a qualitative exploratory research that aims to identify both the challenges and opportunities in relation to solar power generation and commercialization, and the introduction of sustainability management methods and strategies in the UAE and the Middle East. The target population would be the people working in power generation ...

Introduction

Policy makers and leaders around the globe have realized the need to protect the environment for sustainable operations and the future generations. The energy industry has now turned to renewable sources of power such as water, wind, biogas, etc. Wind power currently serves as the cheapest avenue for large-scale renewable energy. The transformation to more environmentally conscious practices requires the support of the government and other stakeholders. New Zealand strives to set the pace and standards for other nations in terms of utilizing renewable sources of power (Schaefer, Lloyd, and Stephenson, 2011). This essay assesses the development of electricity ...

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Executive Summary SunEdison is a renewable energy company. Its revenue comes from semiconductor wafer manufacturing, solar energy business and TerraForm Power (wind power and global business). The company has recently filed for bankruptcy due to poor operational performance and its inability to serve its $11 billion debt. Luckily for the company, first and second lien holders have provided the required capital to continue operation. Overall, the renewable energy market is growing at a very high rate. However, due ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Ratio analysis is one of the most common methods of analyzing a company. They are simple to calculate needing only public information from financial statements. The purpose is to use past relationships of financial accounts to predict future results. Perhaps the most important ratios involve operating income. ROE, gross profit margin, operating margin, and net profit margin give information about how the company achieved results in the past. Of these, operating margin is the most important. This ratio demonstrates a company’s ability to generate income from normal business operations. Look for at least a 10% margin. Extraordinary items ...

Introduction

The issue of hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking” an innovation how to extract natural gas from minerals such as shale rock has become very controversial as of recently in the United States. Large sections of the United States especially in the Northeast have lots of shale rock which has caused many oil and gas companies naturally to extract the region’s resources. This over time has caused many conflicts between the oil companies, local residents as well as local, state and federal authorities. Many people question how safe of a process fracking is and what are the unknown ...

Results and Discussions

As mentioned in the research strategy section of this paper, a combination of quantitative and quantitative data was utilized during the study’s implementation phase in an effort to systematically answer the research question. The main research question basically asks whether it is feasible to establish solar energy as a main source of energy for majority of Saudi Arabian households by the year 2020. The expected answer to this question is a yes, as defined by the perceptions of the individual households in the country and the projections and expert opinions of a professional working in the energy industry ...

World climate change experts observe that carbon emission is a major cause of the climatic havoc in the world today ranging from floods, typhoons, Tsunamis, fires, and floods. Experts predict that more harm if the current destruction continues and the human kind is at risk. Global Thermostat (GT) gives a promising solution to eliminate carbon dioxide in the air attributed to climatic changes using an intensive technology. Success of GT will revolutionize the energy industry by providing effective and low-cost technology to extract Carbon dioxide from industries. The technology will also be used by heat intensive industries to make ...

Internal proposal for solar and nuclear energy

The purpose of this internal proposal is to propose the use of solar and nuclear energy as the main sources of energy to generate electricity to solve the current energy problems that face individual households, industries, and organizations across the globe.

Summary

The current energy crisis existing across the world is pushing countries to come up with effective sources of energy that are cost effective and friendly to the environment. Energy shortage and blackouts cause a lot of financial problems to people and industries. These energy shortages are as a result of economic, environmental and social problems. The decrease in ...

Calpine cooperation was founded in 1984 and currently the cooperation is the largest in America. The corporation generates electricity and thermal energy from natural gas and geothermal resources. With a fleet of around 84 power plants, the company generates around 270000 megawatts of electricity and through wholesale operations and retail business; the center serves in over 21 states and Canada. The corporation has taken a lead to ensure a cleaner energy for future use is in place. The focus of the center is to provide its esteemed customers with clean, efficient and reliable electricity and thermal energy. With this ...

What is renewable energy? Renewable energy is defined as a form of energy that is collected from sources that are naturally replenished on human timescale, this include the sun, tides, wind, rain and geothermal heat. Starting a company in the field of renewable energy would involve deciding from the major sources which of the renewable energy source is best suited for their endeavor. The area of renewable energy can be divided into four main areas that it provides energy for; electricity generation, a transportation, water and air cooling/heating, and rural energy services. Based on a report by REN21 2014 ...

(Caltex Brands 2016-2018)

Executive Summary

This report outlines a marketing plan for Chevron Singapore (Caltex brand). It has been observed that sales volume by Chevron Corporation has been declining over the past three years, and that is why this marketing plan was formulated to increase the sales volume, increase the Caltex brand awareness in those troubled markets and improve stakeholder and customer relationships between Chevron and the public. For a successful marketing plan, certain strategies which include PEST, SWOT, and Industry analysis were carried out. In PEST analysis, the factors arising from political, economic, social and Technological environments were analyzed. To ...

Introduction

The recent trends have had a major impact on the UK (United Kingdom) petroleum retail market. The trend impact has been on the number of petrol filling stations (PFS). The UK Petroleum Industry has undergone major changes since 1970. The changes impacted a decline of PFS with a closure of more than seventy-five percent of PFS and a further decline of twenty-nine percent in 2011 although there has been some reduction in the decline in last five years (Study of the UK Petroleum Retail Market., 2012). Independent dealers had a lot of pressure from the hypermarkets, and this has ...

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION: OIL AND GAS SECTOR

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Actions for claims in the energy industry often involve large investments, a robust sense of public interest, and “cross-border” features that warrant the development of a special structure to resolve disputes (International Center for Energy Arbitration). In the belief of Akinjide-Balogun (2000), the possibility for disputes among the players and stakeholders in the global energy sector remains at a high level. This should not come as a surprise owing to the presence of a number of complicated commercial relationships as well as the high costs in exploring for and harnessing vast amounts of hydrocarbons. Arbitration ...

Introduction

TransCanada Corporation is a company that operates in the energy industry within the geographical boundaries of North and South America, specifically, the United States, Canada, and a small portion of Mexico in the South. Its main trade is the storage and transmission of power generated from various sources. Its main source of power generation—that it stores and eventually transmits to its clients, is natural gas, although other major energy sources such as coal, nuclear, wind and hydrogen sources are also included in its portfolio.

This company currently holds a small, but still significant portion of the entire market for energy. One ...

Abstract

This paper looks into the organization structure of Chevron Corporation both at the home office as well as in the international division. It explains how the current organization structure is organized as well as that of the international division. The paper further discusses the various international strategies and business environment and its influence on the corporation organizational structure. It then recommends the changes that would be embraced to ensure growth and sustainability in a competitive energy industry as well as achieve its strategy and attain corporate mission.

Introduction

Chevron Corporation is a multinational energy corporation whose headquarters are located in the San ...

Pennsylvania act 13 is a law that was passed that would limit the area that a company or individual would embark in Hydraulic fracturing. It provides for the lack of issuance of a license to any establishment that would wish to employ Hydraulic fracturing in the environment that is close to the living environment of the citizens. This is because the process of hydraulic faulting creates spaces in the soil that cause the land to sip in elements that pollutes the water that is used by the people. This law is a revision of the oil and gas act of 1984. According to ...

This article gives an elaboration of a science-minded junior called Daniel Nocera and his vision in the world of sustainable energy. The article shows that Nocera grew up in America when the oil prices were skyrocketing and the crash of the stock markets. The article elaborates the artificial leaf invented by Nocera with the use of the chemistry of photosynthesis. This innovation is useful and aims at solving the current energy problem which was facing the U.S. The purpose of this article is to show clearly the way in which the way Nocera used the chemistry of knowledge in ...

Introduction

Alternative renewable energy continues to grow popularity because of the upsetting climate change caused by greenhouse gases, exhaustion of non-renewable energy resources and rising global demand for energy. Renewable resources of electricity production are vital progress and are fundamentally motivated by cost. Solar energy is clean and profuse that is why it is the best among the available substitutes. The modern solid-state photovoltaic (PV) technology began in 1954 upon the discovery of silicon (Si) diodes photovoltaic effect . Crystalline Si and a wide range of thin film solar cells, which are inorganic, are the prevailing photovoltaic technologies employed nowadays . ...

Abstract

This entire analysis reveals the fact and effectiveness of the Energy market and its regulations. The entire analysis is revealing that regulations are important for the companies operating in a certain market for their core effectiveness. Liberalization, which is one of the dominating factors found in the market, will affect the economies particularly. It is also evaluated and confirmed through this entire analysis that competition is increasing in all over the world, and in different industries of the world, and among them the name of Energy market is one of them. European Union (EU) is trying to empowering the Energy ...

Introduction

Investment and return are the two flip sides of the same coin. There are certain pre-requisites that are essential for the investment purpose, and it would be used on the basis of analysis. There is tradeoff finds among the risk and return approach of an investment, and the most effective investor is the one who has the ability to manage the investment in a well organized and perfect manner (Davies and Servigny, p.34). Making of portfolio and diversification is one of the most important aspects from the viewpoint of investment purpose, and investors are delivering their best to maintain their ...

Introduction

The efforts to conserve our environment ensure a safe habitat for both the current and especially the future generation and controlling pollution in the energy sector is a crucial exercise. The role of clean energy technology available in the market is a positive step in giving the opportunity to more people to participate in protecting the environment from harm by avoiding pollutants with extensive damage. However, facing stiff competition from traditional energy producers, the clean energy industry stands a slim chance of succeeding in its revolutionary plans. The government policies that entail requirements for production of more energy from clean sources, influences investors ...

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Introduction In the 21st century, two facts will pose significant threats to the global economy. One, the demand for energy across the globe will grow by at least 50 percent by 2030, and the use of non-renewable energy sources will continue to be the main source of energy, supplying 86 percent of global demand. Alberta, Canada is in a prime position to capture a major part of the global energy demand market. Located in the western part of Canada, Alberta is second only to Saudi Arabia in identified energy reserves among the global market players. Majority ...

Green power is a subset of renewable energy and symbolises those renewable energy assets and technologies that give the most elevated environmental profit. It is electric energy delivered by renewable, even more naturally agreeable sources, prompting less negative air, water and regular asset sways. Average innovations used to make green power are sunlight based, wind, geothermal, biomass, and low-affect hydropower. Biomass incorporates landfill gas and farming squanders. USA Green Power potential sources are essentially geothermal; wind and sunlight based. As per Robert, Americans are no doubt overpowered with cases about renewable energy options. Advocates for these innovations say that ...

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In recent years, solar energy in Turkey is receiving increasing attention because of the high rate of population growth and modernization of the economy, requiring the use of energy efficient technologies and alternative energy sources. Moreover, Turkey is now highly dependent on external energy supplies about 68 % of energy consumed in the country is imported, and each year the demand for energy will only increase. 1.1 Background Potential of solar energy in Turkey is very high due to the large number of sunny days per year. Until 2007, Turkey was not adopted any ...

Executive Summary for ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips is an American multinational dealing with energy. The Houston, Texas-based company ranks among the world’s Fortune 500 companies and is the world’s largest independent pure-play exploration and production companies. The company explores for, produces, transports and markets bitumen, Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs), Liquefied natural Gas (LNG) and crude oil around the world. ConocoPhillips came into being following the merger of Phillips Petroleum Company and Conoco Inc. in 2002. In 2012, the company had a revenue of US$62 billion, more than 16,900 employees and was producing about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day. It currently ...

Introduction

Shale oil/gas production has been a sensitive issue in the recent few years. Many of the advocates view the strategy as the future solution to the current oil and gas aspects that continue to affect the standards of livings based on the fluctuations on the prices due to influence of various factors such as political instability among other entities (DeGette 2011). Under what is termed as “The Shale Gas Revolution” the essence of share oil/gas has been an essential and important entity within the energy industry today. The revolution marginal impact on the natural gas market and the entire energy ...

Introduction

Public relations and what it encompasses is probably one of the largest unsolved yet not so popular issues in the field of media and reporting. It is important to take note at this point that although directly correlated, public relations and mass media are not the same. Mass media is the use of different methods and technologies to disseminate information or basically anything that may either pertain to the truth or what the people or the masses would want to know. Public on the other hand, while it certainly uses the power of media to communicate and manage relationships, ...

2) What are your short and long term career objectives? What skills/characteristics do you already have that will help you to achieve them? What do you hope to gain from the degree and how do you feel it will help you achieve the career objectives you have? (please do not exceed 500 words) After graduating with my Master’s in Business Administration, I intend to utilize my skills and experience at a global private equity firm such as Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. I hope to acquire a role in the realm of mergers and acquisitions and business development. Considering ...

Military reluctance towards the report implementation

Military branches have shown reluctance due the feasibility of the report DSB proposed for implementations. The report is very illustrative on the solutions but there are the loopholes the report possesses. Historically the military have trained for the incidents where there is an immediate response to the crisis at hand. The implementation of the report means new methods of the tackling shortages of energy supplies among others. Most of the military equipment is old. The systems that were made earlier are old but still used in the running of the business of the military. The military is overwhelmed ...

1 I agree with the answer given. It is true that hurricanes are environmental problems that pose a threat to the energy infrastructure security in nations. Hurricanes have been reported to take down power lines, result to flooding of electric substations, and cause storms that traverse offshore production pipelines and rigs, power plants, energy import and export sites and coastal refineries. The answer gives examples of hurricanes that had devastating results on the energy infrastructure on the shores of United States such as hurricane Katrina and Sandy. The answer articulates the fact that, within hours of the sighting of ...

The production of electricity is a major focus of energy use, with the United States generating about 4 billion kilowatthours of electricity in 2012, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA, 2013). Coal remains the most common source of energy for this process, while renewable energy sources, such as solar, are the type of energy source that is showing the highest growth rate (EIA, 2013). As the consumer demand for electricity keeps increasing, it makes sense to compare the various means of producing it to determine the advantages and disadvantages of using the different forms of energy available. One ...

In 2012, global private investment in solar power was $142.5 billion dollars for a meager return of $93 billion (Isola, 2013). This is a loss of 35 percent, which is far from profitable. The inability of the solar industry to show a profit reflects its use of inefficient technologies and poor business models. It is simply too early in the technology development to justify pouring large investments into the industry. With the current state of the solar energy industry, the produced energy remains too expensive to compete in the energy market. Until the solar energy industry becomes profitable, decreasing dependency on oil ...

Energy industry has of late become a very crucial part of the world economy. The best example is exhibited by the reliance on energy by any industry and this makes virtually the whole world economy to be run by the energy industry. For this reason, the energy industry has come to the spotlight requiring great regulation and control so as to ensure equitable allocation and responsible use of the energy being supplied to the economy (John, 2011). For this reason, energy sector has become a very important sector of the economy which has attracted very many investors. This has made ...

Marathon petroleum Corp is a multi- national company that deals with exploration, refining, transportation and sale of petroleum products and gas. The company whose main offices are located in Findlay, Ohio has been in business since 1998 after its formation from Ashland Inc. and marathon Oil Company. It operates and owns over eight thousand miles of pipeline used to transport its refined products (Plunkett, 2008). The fact that marathon petroleum Corp has invested in operations in all aspects of petroleum production adds value to its finished products and gives is a comparative advantage over its competitors who mainly specializes in specific ...

Introduction

The environment is affected in different ways as the energy industry is trying to get the energy needed. The impact of energy transformation on the environment varies from one source to another. During any particular energy transformation, the energy is lost as heat to the environment. However, there has been increasing awareness by energy industry on protecting the environment, and thus is in the process of reducing its impact in the long-term (European Environment Agency & AEA Technology Environment, 2002).

Effects of Electricity Generation and Transmission on the Environment

All the methods employed for converting energy to generate electricity have various effects on the environment. These impacts can either ...

In today's world of increasing energy needs and environmental concern establish our focus towards more alternatives to use non-renewable energy sources. One of such alternative can be solar energy. Solar energy simply is the energy produced by sun and can be collected elsewhere. Sun creates its own energy by a thermonuclear way that make a conversation of about 650,000,000 tons of gas hydrogen into helium per second. This process creates electromagnetic, heat and radiation.

Government policy, Politicians involvement and solar panels systems

Our world consumes electricity which is mostly provided by oil, gas, and coal. All These sources, are cheap but have some drawbacks. They pollute our ...

Technology

Innovation is the process of is bringing socially together the skills and knowledge of different persons to generate a new knowledge or skills. These best skills can brought together by hiring best researchers with specific experience and training . If we look at the pre-industrial economy, In limited technological education and knowledge, this combining of best skills has to occur through personal contacts, it show that effectiveness of individual's as an innovator of technology will be dependent on the skill of his social network persons. First we need to understand technology ethics and process involve in saving solar energy through solar ...

ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ROLE OF ENGINEER

Engineering Ethics and the Environment: Ethical and Professional Role of the Engineer

Engineers play an integral role in how our world is designed, built, constructed and maintained. Stovall (2011) pointed out that even though engineers work in a variety of fields such as structural, mechanical, chemical and aeronautics, they all have in common their “involvement in the research, design, construction, and maintenance of the technological and physical infrastructure that underpins human society.” Ethics and social responsibility is considered by some engineers to be an integral part of their professional obligations. On the other hand some engineers might say ‘The ethical ...

Marketing Petrochemicals

Abstract

Petrochemicals are a word used to mean all the chemical compounds or products that are obtained from petroleum and natural gas. Petroleum and natural gas are used in making petrochemicals since they are cheap and available. Their processing procedure to obtain the petrochemicals is also easy. Examples of primary petrochemicals are aromatics, methanol and olefins. From the primary petrochemicals, intermediate and derivative products can be obtained through chemical conversions. The chemical conversion usually varies depending on the desired end product. Petrochemicals, just like any other manufactured or processed commodity has to be marketed well in order to make ...

Siemens AG

With upwards of $103,124.8 million in annual revenues in 2010, Siemens AG is an electrical engineering and electronics conglomerate with global operations, engaged in the manufacturing of health care, energy and industrial products. It has operations in 190 countries across the world, employing 405,000 employees.

Strategic and tactical Decisions

Siemens sold off its real estate division to Wohnbau, Volkswohnung and GBW Gruppe in 2009, followed by the 28% acquisition of Archimede Solar Energy, which is based in Italy. The company did also acquire a 25% stake in Germany’s BGZ Beteiligungsgesellschaft Zukunftsenergien (BGZ), which is specialized in the financing, development and operation ...