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    world (Robinson, 2015). Hugely because of the oil reserves found in the country, Kazakhstan has benefited from averaging 8% growth rates since 2000 for their GDP and has given significant rise to the per capita income (International Monetary Fund, 2013, p. 3). These large oil reserves have given many countries great interest in the country and continue to provide money to this region to help ensure their own interests are secure in regards to providing oil for their own

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    Generally, organizations are concerned with giving back to the society in order to appreciate the contributions of the host community to their growth, sustainability and survival according to Oko & Agbonifoh (2014). Using this as the basis of their operations, corporate alertness is increasingly being given to corporate social responsibility philosophies. Most business organization thus work on the idea of maximizing the positive effects of their operation on the society as the negative impacts of

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    Drilling Alaska I recently read an article in Scientific American (May 2001) titled “the arctic oil & wildlife refuge.” The article addresses the issue of whether or not science has the ability to clarify the potential economic benefits and the ecological risks of drilling into the nation’s last great coastal wilderness preserve. What I began to wonder after reading the article is, if we humans should continue our scientific and technological petroleum endeavors even though we are causing

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    Benin being the expansionary country and Libya being the recessionary country. Benin’s economy is primarily dependent on agriculture and cotton. They also produce textiles, beans, rice and other items like that. Benin has also begun producing offshore oil. Since 1990, Benin has went through an economic recovery. A large input of outside investment from public sources has reduced the economic struggles of the early 1990s caused by global recession. Benin is rapidly growing its economy and is starting

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    Saudi Arabia is very well known for its reserves of oil and gas, holding the second largest oil reserves and the sixth largest natural gas reserves in the world. The political situation of Saudi Arabia resembles that of an absolute monarchy, in which the King of Saudi Arabia is both the head of state and government, as well as commander in chief

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    61. Given the recent international attention to the refugee and migrant crisis, the issue of human smuggling from the coast of Libya has also come to the fore. Libya serves as a nexus point for the Central Mediterranean Route, the name given to the migratory flow from North Africa to Malta and Italy through the Mediterranean Sea. The various routes from Western Africa and the Horn in Africa converge on the Libyan coast before the perilous Mediterranean Sea crossing. 62. According to Frontex, “[i]n

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    Expansion of a business is a very important element because it can bring us to another level of higher in our business level. As we can see here we are comparing between Petron and PETRONAS. To expand both companies, an international expansion should be preferred. International are very famous and it has been one of the reason of a company to be famous and better known around the world. Petron has also linked with international companies even though it is not that famous in our own very company.

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    largest oil reserves and is a major producer and exporter. This attribute comes with great demand for faster means to get the oil produced to different areas where it is needed. The Keystone Pipeline XL project is however one of such means, created to transport oil from Alberta, Canada and the Bakken Shale Formation in the United States to Steele City, Nebraska for onward delivery to Cushing, Oklahoma, and refineries in the Gulf Coast area. The United States is the world’s top crude oil consumer

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    regarding the possible acquisition of MW Petroleum from Amoco to Apache. MW Petroleum Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amoco Corporation which has its own reserves, management team and with full ownership in geologic and engineering data. MW Petroleum, a free-standing exploration company that was even as large as some of independent oil companies. It operated exploration and development for well, approximately working interests in 9,500 wells in 300 production areas. The growth of MW was very

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    regarding the possible acquisition of MW Petroleum from Amoco to Apache. MW Petroleum Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amoco Corporation which has its own reserves, management team and with full ownership in geologic and engineering data. MW Petroleum, a free-standing exploration company that was even as large as some of independent oil companies. It operated exploration and development for well, approximately working interests in 9,500 wells in 300 production areas. The growth of MW was very

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