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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 [...]

BP's horizontal, openhole gravel pack in Marlin field development Well A-4 in the Gulf of Mexico was successfully completed with fluids specifically designed and tested to optimize drill-in and well [...]

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 [...]

Engineers at British Petroleum Company PLC developed and tested the coating and insulation system used in the 11-mi, 26-in onshore St Fergus-to-Boddam Pipeline in Scotland. It was decided to insulate the pipeline to avoid liquid dropout and heat loss despite past problems with insulating buried pipelines. The three-year insulation project resulted in a fusion-bonded epoxy powder coating with sprayed and poured polyurethane coatings. Balmoral Webco in Ellon, Scotland, was awarded the contract for the project.

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 accelerating diversification and expansion of the worldwide liquefied natural gas business is creating opportunities for entirely new supply and marketing strategies. Fred Thackeray examines the path-breaking commercial strategies of [...]

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 [...]

Prospects are not good for Empresa de Colombiana Petroleos SA's joint exploration venture with British Petroleum Company PLC and Triton Energy Corp in the Cuisiana oilfield in Colombia. The joint venture partners are facing stiff opposition from several key Colombian government officials who have been critical of the exploration activities in Cuisiana. In addition, the increasing cost of drilling has also hindered the operations of the three companies. Moreover, operations in Cuisiana have also been marred by continuing insurgency attacks and the ongoing royalty disputes with the former owners of the area., The status of Colombia as a favoured South American exploration spot is starting to crumble. Maria Kielmas ponders Cusiana and other tales of magical realism ONE OF the many rumours [...]

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 [...]

In these organizations, business intelligence is a way of life THE FIRST RULE for any intelligent enterprise is to continually shape and reshape business processes and performance based on the […]

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 [...]