Petroleum & Oil Industries Books

New and Published Books

1. Petroleum Taxation

   Sharing the Oil Wealth: A Study of Petroleum Taxation Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

   By Carole Nakhle

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Oil and Gas in the Disputed Kurdish Territories

   Jurisprudence, Regional Minorities and Natural Resources in a Federal System

   By Rex J. Zedalis

   This book examines the historical and contextual background to the oil and gas resources in the Kurdish territories, placing particular emphasis on the reserves situated in the disputed provinces. The volume is singularly unique in focusing on an examination of the rules reflected in both the...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Building Big Business in Russia

   The Impact of Informal Corporate Governance Practices

   By Yuko Adachi

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book examines the development of big business in Russia since the onset of market oriented reform in the early 1990s. It explains how privatized post-Soviet enterprises, many of which made little sense as business units, were transformed into functional firms able to operate in the environment...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

   Lessons from Cuba

   By Julia Wright

   When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and – up till now – only systematic and empirical study to come...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Handbook of Oil Politics

   Edited by Robert Looney

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   These days, one would have a difficult time picking up a newspaper, or watching a newscast that did not have a lead story dealing with some aspect of oil. From instability in the Middle East, to stock market crashes and concerns over the health of the world economy, to wars that seem to break out...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Singapore, the Energy Economy

   From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960-2010

   By Weng Hoong Ng

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   Singapore might not have survived the 1960s and prospered thereafter had it not built its economy on the foundations of oil refining, trading and support for oil and gas exploration and production. Cheap oil, sound policies and strong government combined to produce the Singapore economic miracle in...

   Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. China, Oil and Global Politics

   By Philip Andrews-Speed, Roland Dannreuther

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic energy needs. This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour....

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. Nigeria at Fifty

   The Nation in Narration

   Edited by Ebenezer Obadare, Wale Adebanwi

   Nigeria, Africa’s most populous and biggest democracy, celebrates her fiftieth year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the cliché states, ‘As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa’. This book frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions of the...

   Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals: Principles, Problems and Practice

   Edited by Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Charles McPherson

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high—and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel—as in the management of natural resource wealth. Rich endowments of oil, gas and minerals have set some countries on courses of sustained and robust...

   Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Political Economy of Oil and Gas in Africa

    The case of Nigeria

    By Soala Ariweriokuma

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    The evolution of the Nigerian oil and gas industry spanned about a century during which several challenges were encountered and surmounted by major International Oil Companies (IOCs). This book provides a thoroughly researched guide to the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The author...

    Published October 21st 2008 by Routledge