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In recent decades, awareness of sustainability issues and the impact that business has on the natural environment and communities has been of growing concern to consumers. Customers are expecting that [...]

BP is one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world and has one of the best exploration records in the industry. While industry average for exploration discoveries [...]

What do you say about a year in which your operating profit is down 20%, net profit is down 40%, and you have a major restructuring charge in which your [...]

The oil and gas pipeline industry is increasingly encumbered by regulations with respect to the integrity and care of engineered assets. Constraints, directives and regulations from the Pipeline and Hazardous [...]

The American Chemistry Council tackles challenges exacerbated by the BP oil spill The BP oil spill in the US Gulf has caused a crisis of trust that is far-reaching in [...]

The American Chemistry Council tackles challenges exacerbated by the BP oil spill '[Regulation] will drive jobs out of the US' Cal Dooley, CEO, American Chemistry Council The BP oil spill [...]

'Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about [the Gulf of Mexico oil spill] they are not telling you the [...]

Energy companies tout their green credentials - but are they just greenwashing the truth? WHEN BRITISH oil giant BP attempted to reinvent itself with the 'Beyond Petroleum' rebranding back in [...]

Energy companies tout their environmental credentials - but are they just massaging the truth? 'What we would like to see is that the actions match the rhetoric' Mahi Sideridou, managing [...]

October 17-24 1. naphtha drags Asian petchems down SINGAPORE - Asian petrochemical players are bracing themselves for even more drastic price falls, as naphtha marked a fourth consecutive week of [...]

The British oil firm is in trouble. But its rivals face many of the same problems NO ONE calls upon James Baker, an American elder statesman, to solve a trivial [...]

BP is training its expatriate managers working in emerging markets such as Vietnam to coach local workers to give them more autonomy and improve competitiveness. The company believes coaching can [...]

Solvay and BP have completed a deal under which Solvay will acquire BP's engineering polymers business, BP will acquire Solvay's polypropylene (PP) business, and the two companies will combine their [...]

OVERCAPACITY, COMBINED with falling prices in North America, has prompted BP to idle a 450-million-pound polypropylene unit at its Chocolate Bayou, Tex., facility. The company will continue to operate its [...]

It has been approximately a year since BP announced it was bringing its two polyolefin licensing businesses together--combining BP's PE gas phase technology with Amoco's gas phase PP process in [...]

Not surprisingly, three of the world's supermajors--BP, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch/ Shell--believe that their sizes proffer advantages in mounting successful exploration programs. Ian Vann, BP technology president, says [...]

Can the chemical industry truly operate in harmony with the environment? What progress have chemical companies made? Cynthia Challener reports. Can the chemical industry operate in harmony with the environment [...]

BP may withdraw its support for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline that it promised to build beginning later this year. Sources within the BTC Sponsor Group formed to implement the project report [...]

BP has unveiled the gas station convenience store of the future in Indianapolis. BP Connect has a Wild Bean Cafe--a foodservice operation featuring gourmet coffee, herbal teas, store-baked breads and [...]

DOW CHEMICAL, ExxonMobil Chemical, Univation Technologies, and BP have set out their polyethylene (PE) licensing strategies following the merger of Dow and Union Carbide that required the divestment of certain [...]

BP's Central North Sea Kessog discovery is the latest offered to 'the market' under the UK's Satellite Accelerator Initiative. Kessog, with a suspected 100 million boe of oil and gas [...]

Gather your technical personnel! The majors are coming. The majors may begin targeting independent oils in the next few years, primarily for the technical personnel of those that are better [...]

Plant utilities are often treated as the 'stepchild' operation. HPI operating companies never make profits from steam generation and water purification. However, malfunctions in steam distribution, plant water (cooling, process [...]

BP plans to cut its North Sea platform operating costs by switching to power direct from the UK mainland. Most UKC installations currently rely for their power on a mix [...]

Iran UK-based BP says it is making good progress in talks with Tehran over oil and gas projects, while keeping the US State Department informed every step of the way [...]

Last April, Los Angeles lost one of its most distinguished corporate citizens: The Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) -- which employed hundreds of Angelenos and provided leadership, volunteerism and funding to [...]