Beyond bringing back our girls: Is Nigeria sleeping on the rights of our women? ABSTRACT: This article examines the human rights of women in Nigeria in the light of the recent abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok Community in Borno State of Nigeria. It argues that the abduction of the Chibok girls is part of a series of violations of women’s rights in Nigeria. In reality‚ there are thousands of Nigerian women whose rights are being violated on a
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SKPP 1313 Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering Quiz 1 (20 marks) Name: _____________________________________________________ Answer all questions 1) Petroleum engineer can be divided into several groups. Name one of them and briefly explain his main duty. [3 marks] __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________
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Throughout the duration of this course‚ you will be performing literature reviews and presenting findings on the topic of petroleum. For this specific assignment‚ please do the following: Identify a topic or a problem faced by the global petroleum industry. Once the problem has been identified‚ your goal is to solve it. Provide an overview of the problem and a solution that is supported by current research. Tips for Selecting a Topic or Problem What subject within the global oil and gas industry
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INTRODUCTION Background Pioneer Petroleum was founded in 1924‚ through a merger within industrial‚ pipeline transportation‚ and refining fields. PP has evolved over the last 60 years into a company that now also works with agricultural chemicals‚ plastics‚ and real estate development concentrating in gas‚ oil‚ petrochemicals‚ and coal. In 1990‚ PP improved their coker and sulfur recovery facility to make their refining process more efficient and in turn has become one of the lowest cost refiners
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5th February 2010 Beyond Petroleum Business Economics Assignment Student I.D: 1331260 Table of Contents 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Political 4. Economical 5. Society 6. Technology 7. Law 8. Environment 9. Conclusion 10. Appendix 1 11. Appendix 2 12. Appendix 3 13. Harvard Reference Abstract: BP is a British global energy company and is the 4th largest company in the world. This report is in relation to BP’s profitability‚ product
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Jeff Grisan April 7‚ 2011 Case Study #2 British Petroleum “BP is one of the world ’s largest energy companies‚ providing its customers with fuel for transportation‚ energy for heat and light‚ retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items” (BP‚ 2011). The organization is the fourth largest company in the world‚ operates in over 80 countries and employees more than 80‚000 people. BP produces approximately 3.8 million barrels of oil equivalent per day with more than 18
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Three factors that influence BP oil companies operational and contingency planning include‚ unexpected oil spills. Sometimes the company may experience unexpected oil spill that will require them to change from the original plan. The second factor is natural calamities. Sometimes they cannot control things like floods‚ which can cause oil burst and affect the flow of the plan. The third factor is Man-Made calamity. These affect the plan of the company because they need to address it immediately.
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November 2006‚ 90 – 97. Supply Chain Management in the Petroleum Industry: Challenges and Opportunities RAED HUSSAIN Department of Quantitative Methods & Information Systems‚ Kuwait University‚ Kuwait TIRAVAT ASSAVAPOKEE Department of Industrial Engineering‚ University of Houston‚ Texas‚ U.S.A. BASHEER KHUMAWALA Department of Decision and Information Sciences‚ University of Houston‚ Texas‚ U.S.A. Supply chain management in the petroleum industry contains various challenges‚ specifically
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CASE: SHOULD WE GO BEYOND THE LAW? ETHICAL DILEMMA - The right to make profit versus the duty to protect the environment. OBJECTIVE - To make the company realize the importance of protecting the environment. - To help Chem-Tech become an ethically and socially responsible company. CONCEPTS / ANALYSIS - Sta Clara University published the five sources of ethical standards that can guide a person in making an ethical decision. Below are two of the five approaches they suggested: The Utilitarian
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Transforming Data into Information By John C. Belt‚ PRG / 211 07-03-2012 Boriphan Siriat Transforming Data to Information One of the main roles of a programmer is to determine what Data is and what information is because the two differ from each other and apply their knowledge to convert data in to information. They take these two variables and develop a way to solve the problem they are trying to solve with both the data and the information. The data within the graph shows a correlation
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