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Venturing through opportunities, threats, weakness and strengths only the strong succeed in the business world. In spite of the countless procedures and methods that a business can use to succeed, it would be easier for business to reach self-actualization by taking external factors under consideration. External factors “refers to external aspects of the surroundings of business enterprise which have influence on the functioning of business. The external aspects of the surroundings are by large,…

The shale oil introduction in the oil market has made a gigantic impact in terms of the supply, demand and prices. This evolution might affect the major players in the market for the short and long run. However, there are a number of crucial factors that affect this advance process in extracting shale oil. First, the break-even price for United States’ shale oil is from 30$ per barrel to 90$ per barrel. In contrast, Saudi Arabia crude oil break-even price is 10$ per barrel according to…

Hometown of Laura Bush (former First Lady of the United States) is the one and only, Midland, Texas. The “Tall City” is twenty miles northeast of Odessa and thirty-nine miles southwest of Big Spring. Its exact coordinates are 31.9973° latitude and -102.007911° longitude and it is located in the Mountains and Basins region of Texas. The average annual high temperature is 80°F and the average low is 50.9° F. Midland gets 14.9 inches of rain and two inches of snowfall on average annually. The…

Lama Tamang 1 Pasang Lama Tamang Professor Sherry Sharifian Government 2306.73011 30 April 2017 Limiting the power of Local Control in Texas Local Control has been favored by most of the people in Texas but the recent issues related to Local Control has been addressed by most of the people. Misuse of the power has made the debate rise over recent years. Even the Texas political leaders have sued the government several times for the policies that are changing the Texas into the unrecognizable…

Government regulation, most of the gas and petro rights that the company has are owned by the government, the company earned these rights by paying money, but there is a chance of the government increasing these prices. Evaluation and analysis: From the SWOT analysis, we can see that the company has so many potentials to do better in the future and since the world is becoming a more energy based community, the requirement of oil is increasing by the time passes. In addition, the business has…

Over the last five years Venezuela’s economy has been decaying pretty badly. Most of the decline has come from government spending. Venezuela’s economy is dependent on how the oil revenues are now and what ends up happen with that is going to be what ends up happening with the economy in Venezuela. Around 95 percent of the export earnings come from the oil revenue. Since last reported in 2014 there has been widespread shortages with consumer goods, and there are issues with the central bank of…

article written by The Economist on November 26, 2014, OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is suffering a split in opinion over how to respond to falling oil prices. Responsible for 40% of global oil output, a decision made by the group to cut production could send low prices back to their previous levels. Reaching a decision, however, will be no easy task for the oil cartel. While the wealthier nations represented in OPEC, such as Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates…

Oil prices economics is the economics deals with the price of oil. Likewise the prices of other goods the price of oil experiences wide range of price oscillation in terms of shortage or oversupply. Considering to the shift in demand and OPEC and Non OPEC supply as well as the geopolitical events the, oil prices cycle expanded over years. Two Primary Factors determine the price of oil. They are: Supply & Demand and Market Sentiment. Supply and demand indicates the relationship between the…

World Bank: How Do They Differ? (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2016, from https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/exrp/differ/differ.htm OPEC: Our Mission. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/23.htm OPEC: Brief History. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/24.htm OPEC: Member Countries. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2016, from…

OPEC, or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is a group of 12 countries that produce oil. These groups get together and decide on the prices of crude oil (DiLallo, 2016). OPEC is struggling because now, more countries are focusing on using their own crude oil as well as finding alternatives to gasoline. This creates a problem for OPEC so they lower their prices not because they want too, but because if they don’t…