OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of using locally produced hydrogenated castor wax as a substitute for imported stearic acid GIVEN: Demand: 1‚000 bags per month of Stearic Acid (25kg per bag) Thickening agent – 12% of the weight of the final product (30% of product cost) Stearic acid Cost: Price - $1‚600/1000 kgs. FOB USA Sea Freight Cost - $1‚800 per container van (1‚000 bags @ 25kg. per bag) Fixed Ordering Cost – Php 3‚000 per shipment Custom Duty – 10% based
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CASE STUDY Shell Oil Company and the Brent Spar Shell Oil Company and the Brent Spar 1. The company failed to consider public reaction to their proposal of sinking the Brent Spar in June 1995 in Northern Scotland. They failed to look at how others would react and feel and neglected to take into consideration others’ point of views. They did research impacts and found this would be the best option and assumed everyone would agree and didn’t stop to think about how environmental
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World oil demand growth to outpace supply in 2010: poll Abstract The United States supply and demand for oil has affected all of us in some way. Oil prices have affected us in many areas such as: transportation‚ industrial‚ electricity‚ residential and commercial. Many families are feeling the effects of high oil prices at the pump‚ with the average gasoline at $2.71 per gallon. This oil price bubble of up and down helps us a class to see the significance of understanding supply and demand
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Should Kuwait develop new sources of income as an alternative to oil? Kuwait is one of the Arabian Gulf countries in the Western area; it is next to Saudi Arabia‚ and Iraq. Most of the‚ Kuwaiti people‚ know that the most important source for living is oil‚ and its used it on a daily bases. Therefore‚ the question is what is the history of oil in our country‚ Kuwait. According to Koc.kw.com‚ oil was found in business sums at Burgan Field in 1938. In June of 1946‚ His Highness Sheik Ahmad Al-Jaber
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British global energy company which is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. As a multinational oil company‚ BP is the UK’s largest corporation‚ with its headquarters in London. BP’s headquarters is in Houston‚ Texas. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world‚ and one of the six private sector oil exploration‚ natural gas‚ and petroleum product marketing companies. Tony Hayward took over as the Chief Executive officer in May
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A rise in global oil prices by $ 10 per barrel would reduce India’s economic growth by 0.2 percentage points and also affect the country’s current account deficit‚ Goldman Sach said. "A VAR (value-at-risk) analysis suggests that a $ 10 increase in oil would reduce GDP growth by 0.2 percentage point‚" Goldman Sachs said in its latest edition of ’Asia Economics Analyst’. India on Monday voiced serious concern over the rising crude oil prices‚ which have touched a two-year high‚ and said it could
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The Exon Valdez oil spill disaster occurred on March 24‚ 1989. This was the most devastating human-caused disaster in the United States history until twenty-one years later when The Deepwater Horizon occurred on April 20‚ 2010. Both disasters had a deadly effect on environmental life. These two incidents linked individuals taking shortcuts and being overconfident. Catastrophes do not happen by accident; something has to trigger them. Three main reasons why the disaster at Deepwater Horizon occurred:
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Section: 1. Profitability Test ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Net interest income covers -What you understand by the term Profitability -Cost of idle funds What is the basis of calculating cost of idle funds -Identify Space related cost -Branch Profitability Report is published on ____ basis -Basis of Allocated Cost is -Identify Manpower related cost -SR for counterwise details required for transfer
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This case study is based on an ethical dilemma due to a 2011 oil spill. Enbridge had an oil spill near Wrigley. Although the company has taken responsibility for the spill‚ the members of the community are uneducated people who live off the land. The members of the community do not understand the technical jargon buried in the 600 pages of documents the company has presented them with. To try and fix things they offered the community members $5‚000 to get a consultant. 1. The facts. Gather
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No. We should not continue using oil as the major source of energy. ------- Student ID: ------ 1st year‚ --- Professor --------- Workshop 1 class EE July 2‚ 2014 For the past several decades we have been relying on oil as our major source of energy. It is oil that driven the industrial revolution and turn the global economy into what it is right now. However‚ the increasing rate of our reliance and hunger for oil has been causing us devastating problems so awful that we can’t afford to ignore
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