Abstract The explosion accident that occurred on board the offshore platform Piper Alpha in July 1988‚ it killed 165 people and cost billions of dollars in property damage. It was caused by a massive fire‚ which was not the result of an unpredictable accident but caused by accumulation of errors and questionable decisions. The destruction of the platform by an explosion and the subsequent massive oil and gas fire showed that the potential hazards of the offshore industry were greater than had been
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Huaorani of Ecuador Jenee Martin Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Jorge Garcia-Herreros 02/11/2013 Huaorani of Ecuador The Huaorani of Ecuador are one of the smallest Ecuadorian tribes and have historically dwelt in the remotest eastern region of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Comprising roughly 2‚500 people who live in “temporary settlements in an area of almost 20‚000 sq. km‚ completely covered by rain forest‚ they are surrounded by related and alien tribes/ethnic groups with a total population
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FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT SEMESTER JANUARY 2015 CBMS 4303 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION NAME: SIVANESWARAN A/L MUTHU SAMY NO MATRIKULASI: 900617026117-001 NO.TELEFON: 0146959439 GROUP TUTORS: Contents Introduction 1 Objectives: 2 Management Information System Definition and Functions 2 Decision Support System Definition and Functions 3 Executive Information System Definition and Functions
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LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC ALAGBADO ANNEX OTITOR SUNDAY .N. ND/BFN/ALG/010/750 LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC ALAGBADO ANNEX OGUNBONA EMMANUEL .G ND/BFN/ALG/010/690 PUBLIC FINANCE THE DEREGULATION OF THE DOWNSTREAM SECTOR OF THE NIGERIA OIL INDUSTRY IS MORE OF A CURSE THAN BLESSING. DISCUSS LECTURER IN CHARGE BAARISTER OGUNSEYE THE DEREGULATION OF THE NIGERIA DOWN STREAM SECTOR OF THE NIGERIA OIL INDUSTRY
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The Atchafalaya River is a river that decides the fate of the Mississippi river. If it hadn’t been for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‚ then the Mississippi would be a completely different river than the one we know today. Businesses would have fallen a long time and put the US in an economic collapse‚ but today people still complain about how it needs to be done. Multiple complaints from farmers to fisherman‚ it all relies on the Corps to regulate the water supply and to prevent a disaster. It
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS Submitted By: Moiz Ahmed AHM 07396643 Submitted to : Anthony Henry‚ Martin Brown Martin Bowles [pic] INTRODUCTION In today’s world the complexities in business are increasing day by day and due to the torrential amount of uncertainty and change taking place it is becoming far more difficult for the companies to gain edge over their competitors. According
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Case 1: Will Cooper Will Cooper had spent a total of sixteen years as a successful oil company service station lessee-operator1 in Halifax. In the fall of 1988‚ he was approached by the owner of another service station who wanted to sell his operation to Cooper. Cooper rejected the offer‚ but the owner persisted. Cooper eventually agreed to consider the matter seriously‚ committing himself to a decision by early January 1989. This was a genuine opportunity for Cooper to become the owner of his
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1996‚ 15–16). The Shell Company is the foremost extractor of petroleum; The Anglo Dutch Shell Petroleum Development Company‚ which produces 42.2% of the country’s daily petroleum output‚ followed by “Mobil (US) 21.2%‚ Agip (Italy) 7.5%‚ Elf 6.1%‚ Texaco Overseas Petroleum (US) 2.6% and others accounting for 1.7%” (Ejobowah‚ 2000‚ 33). Many of the other oil companies have little or no contact with the indigenous communities. Only Shell and Elf extract oil in the Niger Delta region‚ since Shell is
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* Local Refineries * International Refineries * Internationally recognized Oil & Gas traders * Total Petrol Station. * Conoil Petrol Station * Lister Petrol Station * Texaco Petrol Station * Agip petrol Station * And any other Petrol Station who are subsidiary to them. 2.3 ORDER QUALIFIER OF NNPC * A bonafide end user who owns a
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TABLE of CONTENT I. Introduction: 2 II. Nature of Knowledge and Information: 2 III. The Important of Knowledge Management: 3 IV. Knowledge Management and Leadership: 7 V. Knowledge Management Life Cycle: 10 VI. Conclusion: 13 VII. References:…………………………………………………………………...14 I. Introduction: From the past‚ people used knowledge to do all the things to survive such as hunting and planting. These days‚ survival in the human life and either in the business
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