Experience on oil development project in Iraq

Research on strategic ignorance tends to focus on the deliberate manufacture of non-knowledge as a tool of governance. In contrast, this article highlights the ‘banal’ workings of wilful blindness, how it can become a normalised part of corporate routine. It examines the diverse dynamics of wilful blindness that became visible in the planning and implementation of a mega oil development project in Timor-Leste, including spatial distancing, denial of moral implications, and the production of effervescent moments of collective solidarity. It concludes that affective states are key in the normalisation of wilful blindness, which operates at the unstable boundary between intention and affect. An emphasis on wilful blindness helps us to bridge the gap between political economy approaches that emphasise the disruptive impact of resource abundance, on the one hand, and anthropological approaches that highlight the social logics and ethical evaluations of main actors involved, on the other.

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Smart Completion Design with Internal Gas Lifting Proven Economical for an Oil Development Project in Brunei Shell

10.2118/92891-ms ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Liang Jin ◽

Gerald Sommerauer ◽

Sakamrin Hj. Abdul Rahman ◽

Yin-Chong Yong

Keyword(s):

Development Project ◽

Oil Development

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Hibernia development project — development of the construction site

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering ◽

10.1139/l93-067 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 528-535 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

H. Roger Woodhead

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Development Project ◽

Oil Field ◽

Construction Site ◽

Grand Banks ◽

Oil Development ◽

Site Development ◽

Dry Dock ◽

Development Engineering ◽

Base Structure

The Hibernia oil field, 315 km southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, was discovered in 1979. It is located on the Grand Banks in 80 m of water and is estimated to contain about 525 million barrels of recoverable oil. A concrete gravity base structure is being built to develop the reservoir. This paper discusses the method of constructing a gravity base structure and the development of the construction site at Bull Arm in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. In particular, the organization of Site Development Engineering is outlined. Then the construction of the dry dock berm, the main marine quays, and the accommodation camp is discussed. Key words: construction site, oil development, megaproject, dry dock, camp, marine.

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The Tyumen Oil Development Project and Japanese Foreign Policy Decision-Making

The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan ◽

10.1525/9780520314672-008 ◽

1977 ◽

pp. 147-174

Author(s):

Gerald L. Curtis

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Policy Decision ◽

Development Project ◽

Oil Development ◽

Japanese Foreign Policy ◽

Policy Decision Making

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Writing Funding Proposals for Speech-Language Staff Development Projects

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1303.163 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 163-171

Author(s):

Carol A. Esterreicher ◽

Ralph J. Haws

Keyword(s):

Staff Development ◽

Development Project ◽

Project Manager ◽

State Funding ◽

Service Needs ◽

School Environments ◽

Speech Language Pathologists ◽

Service Programs ◽

Speech Language Pathologist ◽

Special Programs

Speech-language pathologists providing services to handicapped children have pointed out that special education in-service programs in their public school environments frequently do not satisfy the need for updating specific diagnostic and therapy skills. It is the purpose of this article to alert speech-language pathologists to PL 94-142 regulations providing for personnel development, and to inform them of ways to seek state funding for projects to meet their specialized in-service needs. Although a brief project summary is included, primarily the article outlines a procedure whereby the project manager (a speech-language pathologist) and the project director (an administrator in charge of special programs in a Utah school district) collaborated successfully to propose a staff development project which was funded.

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