Survive, Revive, Thrive: Chapter 3: Getting Oriented

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (12) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Tom Blasingame
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Other ◽  
True Believer ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Wrong Direction ◽  
Workforce Reductions

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President Getting Oriented - The Only Wrong Direction Is Backwards I begin this column by saying that after attending several recent SPE events filled with students and professionals, all virtual of course, that I have seen the very best of us as members of SPE. To a person, you all have been nothing short of inspiring. Our members know that there is a better tomorrow on the horizon and diligently prepare for the days when our industry begins to thrive again. On the other hand, the industry consolidations and workforce reductions continue, and frankly, I don’t know of anyone whose life and career has not been touched by this pandemic-induced crisis. It’s an axiom of life that if you cannot control it, then you must control how you deal with it. I believe operating under this axiom will serve us well collectively and individually as we push through the pandemic. I want to repeat a passage from my remarks at the President’s Session on Member Monday at ATCE in late October. “As an industry, we are as relevant as ever, even more so now. And further, our industry continues to provide economic growth, as well as access to cleaner water, better food, and affordable transportation. I am a believer, a true believer, I believe in what we do, in who we are, and how important our contributions are to society … I want to thank each of you for your time and effort in support of SPE. We are who we are because of what you have done, and we are who we will become because of your commitment to serve this industry and our global society. The world needs what we do - now, more than ever.” I want you to know that I believe in our mission and our future. As we “Get Oriented,” I want to assure you that as a discipline, we will become stronger, and as an organization, SPE will become more focused on content generation and delivery than at any time in its history. Most importantly, I want to assure you that SPE will continue to serve its members and its global community as the preeminent technical organization in upstream oil and gas. It is imperative that you “Get Oriented” with what you can do and will do in the future as SPE continues to evolve.

Survive, Revive, Thrive: Chapter 10—Anchors Aweigh

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (07) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Tom Blasingame
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Professional Society ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Societal Benefit ◽  
Conducting Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Advance Notice ◽  
Control And Eradication

It Is Time To Leave Port Education is not a way to escape poverty; it is a way of fighting it.—Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian president, 1922–1999 As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides in most parts of the world, and as a global society we commit ourselves to its control and eradication everywhere, it is time for our “ship” to leave port. As we pull up our anchor (“anchors aweigh” means the anchor is off bottom and the ship is free to move), we must accept that there are risks out there, but we must get back to the task of exploration and production of oil and gas as never before. As I predicted in this column many months ago, we are definitely leaner (fewer people, with even more work to do) and now we need to be much meaner (better skilled, better motivated, and better focused). All the old adages apply: “life isn’t fair,” “there are no guarantees,” etc.—but a commitment to “duty, honor, and service” (an unofficial motto of my employer, Texas A&M University) stands firm in my mind for our industry. As we leave port, we must have the confidence and purpose that has defined our industry since its inception—improving lives, mitigating poverty, and providing the energy to enable a modern global society. Reasons We Must Change as an Industry Life’s a bit like mountaineering—never look down.— Edmund Hillary, New Zealand explorer, 1919–2008 I was in a panel session a few weeks back and, as SPE President, I am certain they saved the toughest question for me: “What are the reasons we must change as an industry?” I confess that this question was particularly hard because it requires a sketch of our future strategies as an industry and as a professional society, which in many ways remains undefined. Fortunately, I had some advance notice and was able to put some thought into my answer. Paraphrasing Darwin, “we must adapt or die.” It is that simple. Our industry provides enormous societal benefit, and just as the future of renewables lies in metals for batteries, conducting materials, circuitry, etc., the present and future of manufacturing lies in oil and gas. There simply are no viable substitutes.

The outlook for long-run economic growth

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-221
Author(s):  
Jesper Rangvid
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Growth

The chapter discusses theory and empirics regarding long-run economic growth. After reviewing the historical facts, the chapter discusses likely scenarios for long-run growth. The chapter also presents the arguments in a heated discussion where one side argues that growth will be tremendously high going forward, but the other argues future growth will be low. The chapter concludes that it does not seem likely that growth will be superhigh going forward. Will it be very low, then? In Advanced Economies, growth will probably be lower than the historical average, but in other parts of the world, growth will most likely be just fine.

scholarly journals Communication, Translation and the Global Community of Persons

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dries Deweer
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Human Capacity

Paul Ricœur shared Emmanuel Mounier’s personalist and communitarian ideal of a universal community, which ensures that every human being has access to the conditions for self-development as a person. Whereas Mounier talks about communication as the structure of personhood that summons us towards the gradual enlargement of the community, Ricœur’s reflections on translation provide a missing link by referring, not just to the human capacity to communicate, but more specifically, to our capacity to translate and the implied ethics of linguistic hospitality. This allowed him to show that what enables us to enlarge the circle of brotherhood is the capacity to gradually settle in the world of the other and to welcome the other into one’s own world.

scholarly journals Institutions as the Main Determinant in Economic Growth

ETIKONOMI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari Nugroho ◽  
N. Haidy Ahmad Pasay ◽  
Arie Damayanti ◽  
Maddaremmeng Andi Panennungi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
The Other ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
The World ◽  
Endogenous Growth Model

The studies on human capital and technological progress have given incredible insights on how countries in the world differ from one another. Yet there are more than those two reasons to account for differences among countries. There is a third reason why a country would differ in terms of its economic development progress, namely institutional factors. Hence developing institutional indices would give a deeper explanation than a mere theory. On the other hand, we can corroborate the institutional index with the general theory that low-quality institutions will impact an economy negatively. This study seeks to broaden the understanding of causes of economic growth by incorporating institutional index into a semi-endogenous growth model and finds a relationship between that index with human capital and technological progress

Towards Remote Sensing Datasets Collection and Processing

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Badreddine Boudriki Semlali ◽  
El Amrani Chaker
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Health ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Polar Orbit ◽  
Industrial Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The world is witnessing important increases in industrial, transport and agriculture activities. This leads to economic growth, but, on the other hand, causes substantial damage in urban air, due to emissions of harmful gases, mainly CO, SO2, NO2 and the Particular Matter (PM). The World Health Organization (WHO) confirms that daily exposure to pollutants causes approximately three million deaths. It is therefore necessary to assess continuously the air quality. In this context, a Java-based application was developed to acquire data from EUMETSAT geostationary and Polar Orbit satellites, through the Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory (MDEO) terrestrial station. This application filters, subsets, processes and visualizes products covering Morocco zone. Significant correlations were found between emissions and industrial activities related to power thermal plants, factories, transportation and ports.

The Effects of Intergenerational Poverty and Unemployment on South African Township Youth

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ndwakhulu Stephen Tshishonga
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Young People ◽  
South African ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
South African Township

Young people throughout the world are an afterthought of policy and program interventions. In Africa, and particularly in third world nations, the irony of sloganizing youth as the cream or the future of the nation exists alongside tendencies and behaviors that impede their development towards being responsible and full citizens which rather aggravates youth underdevelopment and marginalization. It is an undisputed fact that young people have been the vanguard of liberatory struggles that resulted in dismantling colonialism and apartheid. On one hand, the chapter examines strategies adopted to overcome intergenerational poverty by using narratives (daily experiences of youth) of post-apartheid South Africa. On the other hand, the chapter highlights the uncertainties and frustrations of living in a democratic South Africa, with its failure to open up opportunities for their socio-economic growth, the apartheid discriminatory system, and survival.

The Russian Economy in the Context of the World Energy Markets Development

2006 ◽  
pp. 119-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Mironov ◽  
S. Pukhov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Energy Markets ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Demand Growth ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
World Energy ◽  
The World ◽  
Oil Sector

The tendencies and prospects of the Russian economy development as an energy net-exporter country are considered in the context of perspective supply-demand dynamics in the world energy markets. Medium- and long-term prospects of oil and gas prices dynamics as one of the key factors of economic growth in Russia in the post-crisis period are analyzed. It is shown that due to predicted slowing of the world energy demand growth rates and strengthening in this connection of the competition in the traditional Russian markets the dual Russian economy character (it is not only a producer, but also a rather intensive consumer of energy) makes the problem of internal economy diversification very urgent. A conclusion is made that it is necessary to carry out preventive measures aimed at accelerated transformation of the Russian gas sector (or in addition to the oil sector) into a major factor of economic growth.

scholarly journals Noch immer „Modell Deutschland“?

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (166) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Röttger
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
German Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Economic Stabilization ◽  
Political Decision Making

The regulation of the economic crisis within German capitalism since 2008 seems to follow thebasic structures of the so-called „Modell Deutschland”: in industrial relations a corporatistarrangement between capital, state and labour tried to absorb the consequences of the crisis,and the traditional export industry supported the new economic growth since summer 2009.The article analyses the internal and external dynamics of its transition between structuralchange of the world economy and conditions of political decision-making since its proclamationin 1976. In conclusion today the German „Exportmodell” is no longer based on classcompromises in German society on the one hand and on European balances between interestsof economic stabilization and modernization on the other hand, but a force that is able toundermine alternative paths of economic development in Europe.

scholarly journals Faults of the International Trade System: the Notion of Multilateralism in the Retreat

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Daniel Nagel ◽  
Sorin Burnete
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
The Other ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
International Production ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Integration Project

Abstract The indisputable success of the European integration project also prompted other regions of the world to follow suit. On the other side of coin, these regional blocs cultivated free trade within but remained protectionist vis-àvis the outside, thereby impeding the progress of the multilateral trade system. But also the soaring number of WTO member states accompanied by their incompatible interests, its ambitious agenda spanning over 20 diverse issues and, in particular, the single undertaking approach emerged as the Doha’s Round “stumbling blocks”. The utter dismay over the Doha’s Round deadlock has provoked countries to opt for alternative for a outside the WTO in their endeavor to expedite far-reaching trade liberalization. Besides the vast economic growth in Asia and the rise of international production networks, this urge for deeper integration represents one of the central root causes for the most recent wave of PTAs which has been gathering force over the course of the 21st century and increasingly puts the WTO’s raison d’être under critical scrutiny.

Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Business Strategic Planning in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

2018 ◽  
pp. 153-167
Author(s):  
Mauricio Quintero-Angel ◽  
Claudia C Peña-Montoya ◽  
Carlos Hernán Fajardo-Toro ◽  
Andres Aguilera-Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Weak Sustainability ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
The World ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Approximately 90% of companies are Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Their importance in the economy lies in the fact that they account for almost 60% of the jobs in the world, number which could be greater in developing countries. All these companies have an environmental impact that is almost imperceptible when observed individually, but if observed and analyzed as a whole, this impact is actually relevant. It is therefore important for these companies to include the concept of sustainability within their processes, which is difficult given the informal way they have managed their activities and processes. On the other hand, there are two paradigms that rule the concept of sustainability, weak sustainability and strong sustainability. As it will be presented in this chapter, both concepts are opposed and companies are normally oriented towards weak sustainability, because they are more interested in economic growth than in caring for the environment.

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