-- Pratical information for conducting business -- Important laws and regulations affecting business -- Oil

Oil Prices and Conflicts 17 The New Environment: Lower Oil Prices 17 Fiscal Consolidation and Conflict

/ Zuozhuo Zhao, Zhihai Zhang -- Optimizing oil production / Yixiao Huang, Lei Zhao, Simin Huang -- Ways of

oil and gas boom in the United States / Benjamin Hunt, Dirk Muir, and Martin Sommer -- Canada

oil -- 6. The resource blessing -- 7. Oil curse or monarchical exceptionalism? -- 8. Conclusions.

, constructed a novel evaporative system, and invented drilling tools later employed in oil and natural gas

' Collapse Alters the World of Investing -- 3. Oil Shocks Generate Massive Payments Imbalances -- 4. Anti

this important economic sector. The focus is on metal and non-metallic commodities rather than oil

-1980s : oil shocks and imports from Japan -- The 1990s : lean production, mergers and acquisitions

and usage of individual feedstocks, such as wood and sugar starches, oil crops, industrial biomass

-- Fundamentals of Upstream Oil and Gas -- Upstream Project Risks -- Commercial Structures and Upstream Contracts

under severe economic strains. This is particularly the case for oil exporters whose near-term prospects