Local Content Policies and Cameroon’s Petroleum Industry: Emerging Challenges and the Way Forward

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enow Godwill Baiye
Keyword(s):  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Local Content ◽  
The Way

Experience From Norwegian Programme on Ageing and Life Extension

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Ersdal ◽  
Erik Ho¨rnlund ◽  
Hans Spilde
Keyword(s):  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Special Priority ◽  
The Way

In 2005, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), gave special priority to a programme of ageing and life extension. The programme comprised technical investigations into how ageing will reduce the safety of the facilities and how this can be managed, plus cooperation with the petroleum industry to develop standards and guidelines for assessment of ageing facilities for life extension. In addition, audits have looked into the way operators are dealing with the implications of ageing facilities. This paper summarizes the outcome of the programme and the experience gained from it.

Modeling Hydrocarbon Processing

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teh C Ho
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Hydrocarbon Processing ◽  
Minimum Capital ◽  
Microscopic Interactions ◽  
The Way

Driven by the global competition and market demand, the petroleum industry is under increasing pressure to produce clean, high-value products from low-cost feedstocks with minimum capital outlays. This has triggered an urgent need to develop robust process models capable of predicting the effects of feedstock composition, operating conditions, and catalyst properties on product quality. To develop such models, one generally splits the reaction mixture at the molecular level, examines microscopic interactions among individual reactions, and then works all the way up to the macroscopic level. Along the way one performs lumping to keep the size and complexity of the problem at bay. This is not only crucial for practical applications, but also important for fundamental understanding, since one does not want to lose sight of the forest for too many trees. This paper gives an overview of new and emerging theoretical tools for building kinetic models for hydrocarbon processing. While the emphasis is on reaction kinetics, the question of reducing hydrodynamic complexities is addressed as well.

scholarly journals Local Content Implementation Enhancement through Infrastructure Development in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Industry

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Kwadwo Ayeh Obiri ◽  
Bassam Bjeirmi ◽  
Prince Boateng
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Resource Curse ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Local Content

Since the discovery of oil and gas (O&G) in commercial quantities in 2007, Ghana has made some progress in passing several policies such as Local Content and Participation Framework, ostensibly to stem the effects of resource curse – connotes countries with more natural resources turned to be undeveloped than countries without natural resources. Put it differently, the country’s local content is meant to stimulate industry development by indigenizing the needs of the petroleum industry. However, the above aim is constrained by the country’s infrastructure deficit of about US$ 2.5 billion annually needed to provide the enabling environment for the growth of indigenous companies. The study, therefore, is to propose policy options for enhancing local content implementation through infrastructure development. To that end, the policy implementation in Angola, Brazil and Norway is reviewed, and the research participants are purposively sampled and interviewed. Consequently, the study found that the regulatory institutions and legal framework should be strengthened to attract private investment in infrastructure development. In addition, a special provision should be inserted in future petroleum contracts to support the Infrastructure Fund; through infrastructure-for-oil trade; and encouraging voluntary contribution from oil companies in exchange for reduced taxes into the Infrastructure Fund. The findings contribute to the existing literature in local content development by moving the discussion from training, local employment and goods and services targets to developing host country’s local infrastructure for sustainable development of indigenous and foreign businesses.

scholarly journals How streaming services make cinema more important

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Terje Gaustad
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Home Video ◽  
Local Content ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe technocultural disruption triggered by digitization has radically changed the way in which we consume films outside cinemas and transformed content providers’ business models. In Norway, between 2010 and 2016, DVD/Bluray and subscription-based streaming services switched places as major and minor platforms for home video consumption. Hence, home video consumption has migrated from a high-yielding platform at the head of the home video release cycle to a low-yielding platform at the tail end, where films also face tougher competition from drama series and international content tends to surpass local content. A case study of the earnings generated by local films released by a major distributor in this period suggests that home video revenues have diminished, making local films much more dependent on theatrical revenues and vulnerable to changes in cinema-going behaviour.

Oil and natural gas prospects in South America: Can the petroleum industry pave the way for renewables in Brazil?

Energy Policy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 58-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Goldemberg ◽  
Roberto Schaeffer ◽  
Alexandre Szklo ◽  
Rodrigo Lucchesi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
South America ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
The Way
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