Designed by Fitzsimmons Architects, the Oklahoma City regional office of
natural gas company BP Lower 48 uses lots of wood, stone, and natural colors, and textures to create an organic look.
Not exact matches
Any geologist who works for Exxon Mobil, Shell,
BP, Haliburton, Schlumberger, Gasprom, Saudi Aramco, Baker and Hughes, Petrobras, China's national oil
company or any of the thousands of mining or oil or
natural gas related
companies that make a living finding fossil fuels, will tell you these fossil fuels take millions of years to develop from the remains of large forests or marine creatures.
«Oil
companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how
companies like
BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using
natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.
BP's efforts to drill relief wells are generally viewed as the
company's best, and perhaps only, chance to plug the Macondo 252 well gushing thousands of barrels of oil and
natural gas into the Gulf of Mexico each day for the past month and a half.
A century long struggle to gain full control of its
natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil
company (later to be known as British Petroleum or
BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and
gas.
I've previously given
BP a lot of credit for environmental care, as in my 2009 article and Dot Earth post on the
company's remarkable efforts — far beyond those of nearly all competitors — to stanch the flow of methane, the main constituent of
natural gas and a potent greenhouse
gas, from its wells and pipes in New Mexico.
Purportedly set up to represent «small, independent oil and
natural gas producers,» instead «Energy in Depth» is funded by some of the largest oil
companies on the planet, such as Chevron,
BP, Shell and Occidental, along with the American Petroleum Institute and other trade associations.
Enron bought, on the cheap of course, the world's largest windmill
company (now GE Wind) and the world's second - largest solar panel interest (now
BP) to join Enron's
natural gas pipeline network, which was the second largest in the world....
Speaking at the industry - sponsored World
Gas Conference in Paris, companies including Shell, Total, BG Group, BP, and Chevron all stressed «the vital role of natural gas» in helping tackle climate change, write Kyla Mandel and Brendan Montag
Gas Conference in Paris,
companies including Shell, Total, BG Group,
BP, and Chevron all stressed «the vital role of
natural gas» in helping tackle climate change, write Kyla Mandel and Brendan Montag
gas» in helping tackle climate change, write Kyla Mandel and Brendan Montague.