Need a surefire way to liven up boring party banter? Just introduce the phrase “Big Oil” into a dying conversation with practically anybody, and spirited discussion will closely...
High storage levels, steady drilling rates, and expected warmer-than-normal winter temperatures suggest there will be minimal upward pressure on natural gas prices during the ...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is scheduled to visit Moscow next month to meet with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zukhov and sign an intergovernmental agreement for the construction...
Russia’s Surgutneftegaz, entering discussions over the feasibility of the planned East Siberia Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, said it can ensure production of 3 million tonnes...
General Interest - Quick TakesVenezuela officials take issue with OPEC figuresVenezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez as well as other country officials have taken issue with the...
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has proposed revisions to financial forms, statements, and reports it requires interstate natural gas pipelines to submit.
With biofuels likely to become a global industry by 2012, companies that emerge as leaders will have to be nimble and develop flexible strategies to negotiate inherent market ...
A US Department of Interior internal investigation found that four auditors in the Minerals Management Service’s Minerals Revenue Management division did not follow departmental...
Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Algeria, and Russia will cut crude exports to the US by 2012, and the resulting gap between supplies and demand will intensify investments...
Our strategy is to automate BP’s business processes so that the organization can achieve its goals faster, smarter, and more efficiently than the competition.
Optical flowmeter provides accurate dataHere’s the Focus probe, an optical flowmeter that provides accurate data independently of gas composition or contamination of the sensing...
Spark spread trends and volatility show that opportunities for gas supply through LNG vary from market to market and require careful contracting and risk management to position...
The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM) describes organizational maturity as “continuous process improvement based on many, small ...
BP’s US Onshore Business Unit, built largely through mergers and acquisitions, had seven different production/operations data capture and storage systems.
