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IT Upstream: An industry unleashed by technology. Tony Wood. Petroleum Review December 2002 P. 22-25
Tony Wood reports on how aligning information technology and data management strategies with business needs is now more critical than ever.
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Tony Wood, Global Marketing Manager for IBM Chemicals and Petroleum Industries examines that current pressure on refinery operations and possible alternative strategies.
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Stagnating motor fuel demand, intensive competition between rival fuel suppliers and increasing costs of regulatory compliance means that achieving a satisfactory level of profitability from fuel retailing in Western Europe has become a key challenge for companies involved in the sector, reports Ste...
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The article is divided into three sections: John Wood-Collins sees value growth in gas and power, Adam Sieminski and J. J. Traynor see a continuing future for mergers, and Sudi Sudarsanam finds that mergers are not determined by size alone.
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Alastair Nichol describes a new biomass-to-steam installation in Northern Ireland, a place where energy prices have always encouraged innovation in energy efficiency. The project shows what can be achieved in a private sector seeking to reduce costs.
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The focus of large-scale corporate transaction activity in the European downstream oil sector during 2001 was Germany, where four of the current six principle domestic refiners/marketers - Shell, RWE-DEA, BP and Veba Oel - are merging into two larger rival groups. Stephen Brooks, Principle Consultan...
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Continuous probabilistic techniques involving simulation can help managers predict the likelihood of time and cost overruns in all types and sizes of oil and gas projects. By deriving time and cost forecasts from a series of trials, simulation offers insight into project risks and quantifies the cha...
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The high and rising oil price in 2004 presented major challenges to fuel retailers across Europe as they sought to pass on ever higher fuel purchase costs through raising their own forecourt pump prices in a way that did not compromise their competitiveness. Stephen Brooks, Downstream Consultant at ...
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The main results of a study on the cost of abatement of CO2 emissions are summarized. Using a linear programming model for Brazil's energy sector, three scenarios for energy production and use and three possible futures are discussed for activity of the Brazilian economy to --- 2010 and 2025. It is ...
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Britain's first and only community experiment in zero-carbon living raises, in spote of some successes, serious questions about Mr Brown's ambition that all new homes should be carbon-free. BedZed, a development of 99 flats in London, was supposed to be zero-carbon and entirely sustainable. After 4 ...
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