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    world's fifteen-largest proved reserves of natural gas with an estimated 2.407 trillion cubic meters, ranking it between China and Malaysia in this respect (CIA World Factbook, 2012). Most of these fields are in the country's western Caspian region. That basin is home to some of the world's best oil and gas reserves. Other Caspian nations such as Russia, Iran and Turkmenistan are all among top ten in the world for proved reserves of natural gas (Ibid). An estimated 80% of Kazakhstan's production

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    Fracking shouldn’t be used to release oil and natural gas because it makes the airheavier and is renewable. Opponents of fracking mostly focus on the local environmentspotential consequences. The new fracking technology and other types of equipments mostlyfocus on generally to natural gas extraction. The idea of fracking first began in the 1860s and thestudy between oil and gas production output the amount of pressurized treatments being used.Fracking is the process of injecting liquid at high pressure

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    of energy and petrochemical companies. Their operations are divided into four businesses, which are upstream, downstream, integrated gas, and projects and technology. Upstream focuses on exploration of new liquids and natural gas reserves. Integrated gas focuses on liquefying natural gas (LNG) and converting gas to liquids. The downstream division turns crude oil into a range of refined products, which are then moved and marketed around the world for use. Projects and technology is responsible

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    Rundle, fracking saves the consumer money. The wellhead cost to produce natural gas in January of 2000 was two dollars and sixty cents per one thousand cubic feet. At an alarming rate, the cost at the wellhead to produce natural gas had risen to eight dollars per one thousand cubic feet by January of 2006. Comfortingly, the wellhead cost dropped to two dollars and eighty-nine cents by the end of 2012. Impressively, gas production increase and price decrease over the time period are a result of fracking

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    According to the U.S. Department of Energy there are various methods of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) which give oil producers the potential to produce 30 to 60 percent (or more) of a reservoir’s original oil. There are three commercially successful categories of EOR which include thermal recovery, gas injection and chemical injection. There are pros and cons to each category of EOR and each has a different associated environmental impact and risk. Additionally, each method has different potential

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    reappear in the 1960’s due to air pollution and later on General Motors Corporation announced its first modern, mass-produced electric cars in 1996 to the public. Since then, the electric cars are now more popular in the twenty-first century due to the oil prices. As for gasoline, according to Martin V. Melosi, was “first gasoline-fueled, four-stroke cycle engine was built in Germany in 1876.” and later became popular in America because the gasoline-fueled car is able to travel far distance, faster, cheaper

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    barrels of liquids and 32 trillion cubic feet of gas (Strategy, 2012). Range has a wide customer base. The company sells its gas production to customers including pipelines, utilities, gas marketing firms, industrial users, and local distribution. Its natural gas liquid (NGL)

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    Strategic Analysis: Cimarex Energy Co. Introduction and Thesis The oil and gas industry is one of, if not the, largest industries in the country currently. Companies related to this industry range from exploration to transportation to retail. There are many companies operating in the industry, but one in particular is especially interesting, and that is Cimarex Energy Co. This paper will analyze the industry and Cimarex Energy’s strategy and core competency, and give an evaluation of the findings

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    Imagine an economy in the United States if we were an oil exporting country, like those in the Middle East. The States falls victim to those countries because we do not export quite as much as they do. This problem could potentially be solved by upping the amount of oil and gas fracking. Then, that now unused oil can be sent out to other countries, turning a profit here. Although many people believe that it is harmful to the environment, and bad for the public around it. The largest being that it

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    (hereafter, NCDMB) and the International Oil and Gas Companies (hereafter, IOCs) in the implementation of, and compliance with, local content sustainability rules in petroleum contracts in Nigeria. The aim is to apply an accountability-based conceptual framework of accounting to address three major accountability issues within the context of the broader natural resource governance practices. Firstly, to critically establish, within the context of the Nigerian oil and gas industry, the relationship between

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