Oil Palm in Malaysia A gift from nature. A gift for life. About Palm Oil The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is an ancient tropical plant from the West African tropical rainforest region. It is still being cultivated there as well as across the tropics. Palm oil is extracted from the mesocarp of the fruit of an oil palm species. In Malaysia‚ the high yielding tenera‚ which is a cross between dura and pisifera species‚ is the most commonly cultivated palm tree. Basically‚ there are two main products
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Keller of the Standard Oil Company of California (Socal) is considering how much to bid for Gulf Oil Corporation (Gulf)‚ which is currently in the middle of a bidding war. Gulf is unwilling to consider bids below $70 per share even though their share price was $39 at the time Boone Pickens began purchasing shares in the hopes of a takeover. II. Statement of Facts and Assumptions Under the direction of James Lee‚ Gulf pursued a twofold strategy. First‚ Gulf renewed its focused on oil whereas in the past
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Oil Refinery in India An Industry Overview   Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 2 GLOBAL VIEW ON REFINING 3 INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 4 REGULATORY FRAMEWORK 8 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 9 FUTURE OUTLOOK 11 REFERENCES 12 "THE ONCE RELIABLE CONSTANTS HAVE BECOME GALLOPING VARIABLES" -ALVIN TOFFLER India the world’s seventh largest country and the second most populace nation has been a destination of unrealized potential. In the recent past it has seen as stir of economic activity changing the prim face of the
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Coconut oil’s competitors The competitors of coconut oil can be divided into 2 into groups direct competitors and indirect competitors. For direct competitors consist of the existing cooking coconut-oil producers that transform coconut oil into solid form and put it in clear glass bottle and liquid form in plastic bottle. The second group is indirect competitors which consist of the products that are used to for frying‚ baking‚ food preparation‚ flavoring that doesn’t involve heat and other types
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States is sitting on enough recoverable oil to power us for the next 250 years at our current usage rate... The United States is estimated to have 1.4 trillion barrels of oil—or 1.7 trillion‚ if the resources of Canada and Mexico are counted. There aren’t many options for quick relief from high prices at the pump‚ but it is very obvious the sooner we free ourselves from the shackles of oil dependence – foreign and domestic – the sooner we will be free of oil industry profiteering and political pandering
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An Assessment Whether the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998 Violates the 1987 Constitution A Thesis Proposal In Partial Fulfillment Of the Course Requirements in DOCULMG 2013 TABLE of CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Background of the Study .………………………………………………………………………... 3 Statement of the Problem ………………………………………………………………………... 6 Objectives of the Study …………………………………………………………………….......... 8 Significance of
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Oil is a product used by everyone‚ but sometimes oil is a problem. An oil spill is a leakage from an oceangoing tanker‚ pipelines‚ or other oil sources. Oil spills occur very frequently‚ and cause enormous ecological harm. About eight million barrels of oil are spilled each year. Tankers usually carry about five hundred million barrels of oil. Many oil spills‚ large in land or ocean coverage‚ have had major impacts on the earth and it’s inhabitants. Many animals die and some are injured in some way
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Oil refining in China Ed chen‚ a strategic planner at a international oil and gas firm was assigned with the task to look for investment opportunities in the china’s refining industry and also to see whether there was any room for foreign competition or if was a local-only-game. Downstream constraints have always been a major factor which will ease neither quickly nor cheaply”. “ Crude oil prices have continued to increase in the period 2001-2005 and according to the” Medium term oil market
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(NaturalNews) It’s true the almost five million barrels of oil that contaminated the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was an ecological nightmare. And residents of the area have complained for the last two years that the chemicals dumped into the area as an ill-thought-out solution have made many of them sick. But what about the ocean itself that has been treated as an experimental chemical dump by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and corporate giant BP? Turns out
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Oil Drilling in Alaska There is believed to be between 5.7 and 16 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil in Alaska. The only thing holding us back from drilling there because it would damage a protected national wildlife refuge in the act killing many animals. The controversy of whether to drill there or not has been going on since around 1977. The last two presidents we had were on different sides of how they felt about the drilling. There are many positives to drilling in Alaska but for every
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