By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 26 -- BP PLC and Rice University, Houston, have agreed to form a consortium involving other universities to "advance technical learning and development in BP's global exploration and production business."
Rice will lead the group, which also includes Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies of Houston and Heriot-Watt University, Imperial College, and the University of Manchester of the UK.
A BP statement said the consortium "will support a worldwide program to promote knowledge transfer in the petrotechnical areas of subsurface geology, engineering, project management, and operations."
