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geoethics of fracking and oil

We recently read about geoethics of fracking and oil in IAPG – International Association for Promoting Geoethics (http://www.geoethics.org) Stephen Crittenden, the author of the paper, brilliantly explains “bad practices” in geoethics of fracking and oil. These strike stunning similarities with ethical issues in mining, a topic we are very familiar with. Indeed we have written over 20 papers in the last 10 years on that subject. We will discuss here geoethics of fracking and oil, bad practices and their similarities with…

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Ethics in mining, oil and other natural resources fields

Ethics in mining, oil and other natural resources fields We participated in a debate on ethics in mining at CIM 2015 (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum). It was stated that more than any other industry, mining requires holistic approaches because impacts are indeed holistic. Interesting to note that when discussing about ethics everyone seems to accept the idea of holistic impacts, yet nobody objects to common practice risk assessments that most of the time censor and bias impacts…

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Riskope 5 day course on Risk and Crisis Management for top managers and key personnel.

Riskope 5 day course on Risk and Crisis Management for top managers and key personnel. The Answer to specific requests. Riskope were indeed recently asked to provide a comprehensive five day course addressing Risk and Crisis Management, Risk Based Decision Making, Project Evaluation for top managers and key personnel at Investment Banks, Oil & Gas, Energy and Transportation. Riskope 5 day course on Risk and Crisis Management for top managers and key personnel. Although companies willing to commit the resources…

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A “political risk” approach to oil pricing and “failures” to produce

Based on data to be found in the CIA world factbook  it is easy to find how oil production is shared world-wide among single oil-producing countries. Those are for example members of OPEC. At the end of this post we have added a short summary table with a selection of North African and Middle East producing countries. We present a “political risk” approach to oil pricing and “failures” to produce in this blogpost. Numerous articles have recently shown up in…

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