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    Executive Summary The paper is on an analysis of role of aviation industry in Colombia and United Arab Emirates. Colombia is a developing country based on agriculture and oil reserves. In the past, they had many internal problems with guerillas, and cocaine smuggling. But, now Colombia is safer and has diversified there industries, and is mainly focusing on tourism and aviation. UAE on the other hand, is a fast developing nation with the second largest economy in the Middle East. They have major

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    The discovery of oil reserves in the Persian Gulf marked the beginning of the evolution of Iran to a modern industrial nation. (Document A) As the demand for crude oil skyrocketed, the wealth generated by Iran soared. The distribution of this wealth became a matter of contention. Additionally, with the transformation of Iran to an industrial nation, the introduction of western culture posed a problem for the strict Islamic community. The Iranian Revolution was a result of the economic, political

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    basic foodstuffs like cooking oil and rice when the store opens in the morning. As the sun rises they continue to stand in line under

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    million people. Our government is conflicted in regards to a difficult position in the debate over climate change and the proposal to limit our carbon omissions by 15 percent in the next five years. Our country, Saudi Arabia, has the world’s largest oil reserves and an economy exclusively centered on the export of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are known to be the major drives of climate change, thus causing a problematic deliberation for our government. Our country has an arid climate, which is highly vulnerable

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    Introduction Currently the global crude oil price was upside down, the factor that make the fall price have been be to cases to the world. Which is it is always become the global problem. The paper is organized as follows. The second one explain about the organization and the war, how can they change the price when no one cannot know the price will up or not. The third one presents how the condition of the crude oil make the price change, like the supply demand of the oil. The fourth section discuss the

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    Eytan Davidovits Professor Hill Economics 191 20, March 2015 Economic History of Israel and Saudi Arabia Israel and Saudi Arabia are two countries in close proximity to each other, yet seem to be different in almost every metric. Saudi Arabia has a $744 Billion GDP, while Israel only $290 Billion (The World Bank), yet when breaking the GDP into GDP per capita, Saudi Arabia lags behind Israel at with a GDP per capita of $25, 961 whereas Israel is at $36,051. Israel and Saudi Arabia both became economic

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    In the article “Hoping for a Price Surge, Oil Companies Keep Wells in Reserve,” the case is unique. At the time, the price for oil in 2015 was significantly lower than the previous year. The almost 60% cost difference led to as many as 4,000 oil companies keeping their oil on reserve until prices for the market rose. Anadarko Petroleum is one of the companies holding reserves. They were acting accordingly to the law of supply which states that when the price of goods increases, so does the quantity

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    To date, the majority of oil spill operations are rarely capable of recovering and/or treating more than a small portion of the oil which was spilt.12 Within the Gulf of Mexico it was estimated that nearly 4.9 billion barrels of oil were spilt, and approximately half of the oil spilt was 100% methane which and is still within the Gulf today.12 The oil was able to rise to the ocean surface and extended over an estimated 68,000 square miles—this is approximately the same size as the state of Oklahoma

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    Canada’s oil sands are among the largest oil reserves in the word. This is evident from the fact that Canada is ranked third for the largest oil reserve in the world, after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia (“Oil Sands,” n.d.). “Oil sand”, is a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay, water and bitumen (Gosselin et al., 2010). It is a very dense and extremely viscous oil that must be treated before it can be used to produce usable fuels such as gasoline and diesel (Gosselin et al., 2010). In North America

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    California, east bound of the southern slope of Sierra Nevada into Mojave Desert, west of San Joaquin Valley, southern part of Tehachapi Mountains. It is geopolitical due to being the largest agricultural base in California, one-tenth of overall U.S oil fields. According to the 2010 Census, Kern County holds a population of 839,631 of which 59.5% are White, 5.8% African American, 1.5% Native Americans, 4.2% Asian, 49.2% Hispanic or Latino, and 0.1% Pacific Islander. Of these population, Mexican heritages

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