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Petroleum product scarcity: a review of the supply and distribution of petroleum products in Nigeria

OPEC Review, 2006
Nigeria ranks high among the comity of oil producers both at the world level and among the OPEC eleven. It is, therefore, paradoxical that the supply of all petroleum products is erratic and has declined sharply in the recent past. This paper thus reviews the petroleum product supply and distribution systems in the country to ascertain the extent to ...
Dele Badejo, Osi S. Akpoghomeh
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Oxido‐inflammatory responses and histological alterations in rat lungs exposed to petroleum product fumes

Environmental Toxicology, 2020
Petroleum products—petrol, kerosene, and diesel—composed of volatile organic constituents contribute to air pollution. Exposure of gas station attendants (GSAs) to petroleum products fumes (PPFs) may account for occupation‐related predisposition to ...
S. Owumi, Tobiloba Christiana Elebiyo, B. N. Oladimeji   +2 more
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Optimization of the Petroleum Product Supply Chain under Uncertainty: A Case Study in Northern Brazil

, 2012
This Article addresses the problem of optimizing the investment planning process of a logistics infrastructure for the distribution of petroleum products under uncertainty. For this purpose, a two-stage stochastic model was developed.
Fabricio Oliveira, S. Hamacher
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Biochemical Studies on the Amelioration of Petroleum Product Intoxication with Indigenous Plants

, 2012
The effect of Gongronema latifolium and Ocimum gratissimum supplemented diet on diesel petroleum induced liver damage in rats was investigated. Rats were acclimatized for two weeks and divided into three groups.
C. Ujowundu, F. Kalu, Chidi Uzoma Igwe, N. Agha, Igwe Kalu Okereke   +4 more
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Microbial Corrosion in Petroleum Product Transporting Pipelines

, 2011
Petroleum product pipelines in India contain large numbers of various types of microorganisms that either directly or indirectly enhance corrosion.
S. Maruthamuthu, B. D. Kumar, S. Ramachandran, B. Anandkumar, S. Palanichamy, M. Chandrasekaran, P. Subramanian, N. Palaniswamy   +7 more
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Global Warming and Petroleum Production

SPE Western Regional/AAPG Pacific Section Joint Meeting, 2003
Abstract The writers show that recent global warming of the Earth’s atmosphere is not due to increase in the man-induced carbon dioxide emission but rather to the long term global factors (such as increased solar activity). Rising global temperature drives very large volumes of CO2 from the ocean water to the atmosphere.
Leonid F. Khilyuk, M.R. Al-Hamdan, George V. Chilingar   +2 more
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Oil and Petroleum Product Armington Elasticities: A New-Geography-of-Trade Approach to Estimation

Energy Journal, 2009
Exploiting the structural developments suggested by the geography-of-trade literature, we estimate the elasticity of substitution across regional varieties for six crude grades and seven refined products using fixed-effects gravity regressions.
Edward J. Balistreri, Ayed Al-Qahtani, C. Dahl   +2 more
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Modification of Bacillus cereus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from a petroleum refining effluent for increased petroleum product degradation

, 2010
Bacillus cereus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from Kaduna refining and petrochemical company (KRPC) were subjected to ultra-violet (UV)-irradiation for 30 min followed by nitrous acid treatment and re-irradiated with UV light for 30 min using ...
O. E. Idise, J. Ameh, S. Yakubu, C. A. Okuofu   +3 more
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Rockets and Feathers : Asymmetric Petroleum Product Pricing in Developing Countries

, 2010
This paper aims to provide those working in developing countries with a review of the issues that can help address the four questions: 1) are petroleum product margins excessively high at certain times?; 2) Does asymmetry of price responses to cost ...
R. Bacon, Masami Kojima
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