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HP Impact: HPImpact: The roller coaster shows no signs of slowing down
Oil prices have been on a roller coaster since West Texas Intermediate hit a peak of $147 in the summer of 2008 and then plunged to as low as $37 earlier this year. While oil prices have recovered sin..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Successful strategies in the current market conditions
The global recession was abrupt and has hit very deep. By the end of 2009, the world will have seen two consecutive years of oil demand decline, the first time it has happened since the 1980s. Within ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Small technologies can deliver big punches
Charles Cameron, the head of research and technology in refining and marketing for BP in London, is a firm believer in small technologies that can deliver big punches. "I am here today as the lead che..
HP Construction: North America
  BP recently announced that construction, equipment purchases and engineering related to an expansion of its refinery in Whiting, Indiana, is about one-third complete. Construction began in May ..
HP Construction: Central America
  CB&I has a contract in excess of $100 million with Petroterminal de Panama, S.A. (PTP) to engineer, procure and construct the Phase 2 expansion of the Trans-Panama pipeline facilities. The work..
HP Construction: Europe
  CB&I has a contract valued in excess of $60 million by Royal Dutch Shell for the engineering, procurement and construction of a diesel hydrotreater at the Pernis refinery in Rotterdam, The Neth..
HP Construction: Middle East
  Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a contract with Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. (Borouge) to develop front-end engineering and design (FEED) for a section of the "Borouge 3" project, a grassroots poly..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
  Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals (GSFC) has given Burckhardt Compression an order for a compressor that will be used for oxygen compression in its methanol plant in Baroda, Gujarat, India...
HP Construction: Construction
  In the section of the October issue detailing HPI Construction Boxscore updates (page 29), the engineering company for Staatsolie's refinery expansion project in Suriname was incorrectly identi..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
The potential for natural gas The president of BP shared his outlook on the role of gas in the future of energy during a speech at the World Gas Co..
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