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Against The Grain: Railroad Ramifications As Oil Crosses Wheat Country, Laura Scheer
Against The Grain: Railroad Ramifications As Oil Crosses Wheat Country, Laura Scheer
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Over the past two years, grain growers along Montana’s Hi-Line have experienced significant shipping delays because of heavy traffic on the railroads in the northern plains. The delays caused declines in wheat prices and many farmers had to build extra storage to house the crops they couldn’t get on the rails. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, the main railroad serving the Hi-Line, blames the congestion on harsh winter weather, a larger than average crop harvest and an increase in shipping demands across all sectors. Farmers say the railroad has favored increasing shipments of crude oil from the Bakken shale formation …
Impact Of The Keystone Xl Pipeline On North American Crude Oil Prices, Shawn Ian Stuart
Impact Of The Keystone Xl Pipeline On North American Crude Oil Prices, Shawn Ian Stuart
Honors Theses
This paper determines the economic impact of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline project. As the Keystone XL pipeline is extremely controversial it is beneficial to determine the impact on North American crude oil prices. Determining the economic impact the Keystone XL pipeline will have on crude oil prices will be a large detriment of whether the pipeline is economically beneficial. By using spot crude prices from different regions around North America and adding capacity of crude oil transmission from western Canada to southeast United States this paper determines the changes in regional spot crude oil prices. As the economic conditions …
The British North Sea: The Importance Of And Factors Affecting Tax Revenue From Oil Production, Mark Hill
The British North Sea: The Importance Of And Factors Affecting Tax Revenue From Oil Production, Mark Hill
Theses and Dissertations
The oil industry is the richest and most influential industry in the world. The industry has moved the fates of nations. Oil is required to fight wars and exert power, and the restriction of this energy source is paramount to the restriction of movement, control, and in the end, power. Management of this resource and the tax revenue it generates are of serious strategic importance, both domestically and internationally. Understanding the results of taxation for this important commodity is important to international relations as well. The tax system affects tax revenue, government actions, oil company actions, and the oil supply …
The Prices Of Crude Oil And Refined Petroleum Products In The U.A.R. During The Nineteen Fifties, Sabet Kiddis Rizkalla
The Prices Of Crude Oil And Refined Petroleum Products In The U.A.R. During The Nineteen Fifties, Sabet Kiddis Rizkalla
Archived Theses and Dissertations
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