British Petroleum Company Research Articles

The impact of employee experience management on employee engagement in British Petroleum Company

This paper attempt at investigating the Impact of Employee Experience Management on Employee Engagement in British Petroleum Company. The purpose of the study is to identifying the relationship between employee experience and employee engagement and how to develop employee engagement drivers of positive experience needed for employee engagement through employee experience management in British Petroleum Company. A survey was carried out using a questionnaire survey distributed to 171 employees in British Petroleum Company. After analyzing the collected data, it was found that positive experience factors “duration of experience, communication and relationship” have a positive impact and strong role in enhancing employee's engagement. Thus, the study recommends to use positive employee experience as an effective factor to enhance employee engagement, and that is done by involving employees in different work, projects, and events to get more experience at work, implement the open-door policy in the whole organization to make sure that the employees are communicating with their managers and evaluate the employee's satisfaction periodically.

Supramolecular self-assembly studies and spectroscopic analysis of oligomers used for the removal of pollutants from wastewaters

The oil spills in the oceans have caused severe damage, many of these are irreversible generating the loss of marine ecosystems, such is the case of the British Petroleum company in 2010. Therefore, there is a need to produce materials that contain or prevent the spread of the hydrocarbon in the ocean, in addition to being able to recover the crude oil quickly and effectively. Various materials have been designed focused on environmental remediation, specifically in the treatment of contaminated water. In this work, organogelling materials were synthesized from alkoxides such as Methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate, Propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate, Ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate and the alkyl halides 1-bromohexadecane and 1-bromotetradecane, all of them analyzed by FTIR spectroscopy. In addition, gelation tests were performed in protic, aprotic and fatty acid solvents. Organogels, have a solid appearance at the nanoscale and extends into a liquid phase. Consequently, if there is a close contact between the solvent and the nanogel structure, a highly effective surface is obtained, providing a kind of solid phase in contact with highly polluting liquids. The importance of this work lies in the feasibility of using oligomers as removers or sequestrants of unwanted contaminants in effluents.

CASE STUDY OF BRITISH PETROLEUM PRIVATIZATION

Market Failure is the exiting of the company or the business from the market. Inefficiency whether in the supply or the demand could lead to market failure. One of the actions that could be resulted because of market failure is privatization. Privatization happens when the government fail to manage the business and cope with the crisis that could happen in the market. This failure will lead to a debt increase, so the government expenditure will increase, and this will force the government to sell the company to private investor or investors (Privatization). British Petroleum Company was one of the firms that were completely privatized by the United Kingdom government in the year 1987 due to many reasons. The purpose of the paper is to present the process of privatization of British Petroleum and clarify the prerequisites for market stabilization. In addition, this paper will discuss the main recommendation and policies that can be implemented for this company to succeed to regain its market share. Also, the paper will explain the effect the market failure has on the sustainable development goal (SDGs).

A novel hybrid method based on Cuckoo optimization algorithm and artificial neural network to forecast world's carbon dioxide emission

This paper deals with the global energy consumption to forecast future projections based on primary energy, global oil, coal and natural gas consumption using a hybrid Cuckoo optimization algorithm and information of British Petroleum Company plc and BP Amoco plc. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has some significant disadvantages, such as training slowly, easiness to fall into local optimal point, and sensitivity of the initial weights and bias. To overcome the shortcomings, an improved ANN structure, that is optimized by the Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm (COA), is proposed in this paper (COANN). The performance of the COANN is evaluated with Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Correlation Coefficient (CC) between the output of the model and the actual dataset. Finally, CO2 emission in the world by 2050 is forecasted using COANN. The findings showed that COANN is a helpful and reliable tool for monitoring global warming. This proposed method will assist experts, policy planners and researchers who study greenhouse gases.•The method can be used as a potential tool for policymakers and governments to make policy on global warming monitoring and control.•The proposed method can play a key role in the global climate changes policies and can have a significant impact on the efficiency or inefficiency of government's intervention policies.

Advertising an Empire of Oil: The British Petroleum Company and the Persian Khan Exhibit of 1924–1925

This article explores the publicity and advertising campaigns undertaken by the British Petroleum Company (BP) during the 1920s, focusing specifically on the Persian Khan exhibit mounted at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924–1925. Despite their rich value as primary sources, the marketing campaigns of British oil companies—and in particular of BP—have been relatively overlooked by historians. Using an energy humanities approach, the article reconstructs the Khan exhibit and its galleries, revealing an imaginary world in which oil was framed as an exotic prize held captive beneath wild and inhospitable landscapes. As BP’s most elaborate and expensive advertising campaign of the 1920s, seen and visited by millions, the Persian Khan exhibit provides a valuable lens through which to view the broader development of British attitudes toward oil during the period.

Green entrepreneurship in the Algerian renewable energy sector : opportunities and challenges

As a result of the role of entrepreneurship in achieving economic and social development, and under the increasing importance of environmental protection and the emergence of sustainable development, the importance of Green entrepreneurship increased in achieving sustainable development since the 1990s. This study aims to highlight the role of this latter in achieving sustainable development in the energy sector, particularly in Algeria through its orientation to responsible investment in renewable energies which are available in large stocks. The descriptive/analytical method has been adopted in this study through the analysis of the status of green entrepreneurship in the energy sector in Algeria using data from OCDE, World Bank and British Petroleum Company. It was proved that Algeria attempts to escape its oil and gas dependent economy ; thus,it is striving to expand its smes; this latter have known a remarkable development during the last 15 years (2001-2015) both in terms of number and its contribution in employment. Finaly, despite the efforts made by Algeria to promote green entrepreneurship in the energy sector, its contribution remains weak compared to the available possibilities.

Post-merger and Acquisition Integration: A Case Review of Dial Henkel And BP Amoco

Post-merger and Acquisition (M&A) integration often deals with significant transformational changes of merging companies in terms of development, communication, implementation and harmonization of a new shared vision, strategic objective, corporate culture, and also combination of best companies’ value practices. The transformational change is accentuated on facilitating the role of developing and executing an effective post-M&A Integration to build change cohesively with the strategic management of M&A, and also in terms of removing barriers to the success of M&A transaction. The aims of this study are to give a clear and deep understanding on how to manage the soft factors issues that address in M&A process especially in the post-M&A integration process and also to elucidate the critical success factor of M&A process by instilling the best characteristics and the effectiveness level of leadership aspect in M&A. The methodology used in this research is descriptive qualitative research with a method or approach of a case study of Henkel’s Acquisition of The Dial Corporation in 2004. The acquisition of a USA company Dial by a German company Henkel evidenced that both companies were successful in M&A transaction and employed the effectiveness of multi-culture integration strategy. Another case study used in this research is British Petroleum (BP) and American Oil Company (Amoco) (also Atlantic Richield Company (ARCO) and Burmah Castrol) in 1998-2000. The case of BP Amoco showed that the monoculture integration strategy or cultural imposition can also lead to a value creation. Both case studies showed that successful integration requires leadership as a foundation to build a solid execution of post-M&A integration projects in how they planned, communicated and delivered the objectives of the projects.

Recovery Efficiency in Hydraulically Fractured Shale Gas Reservoirs

At the end of 2015 the U.S. held 5.6% or approximately 369 Tcf of worldwide conventional natural gas proved reserves (British Petroleum Company, 2016, “BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2016,” British Petroleum Co., London). If unconventional gas sources are considered, natural gas reserves rise steeply to 2276 Tcf. Shale gas alone accounts for approximately 750 Tcf of the technically recoverable gas reserves in the U.S. (U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2011, “Review of Emerging Resources: U.S. Shale Gas and Shale Oil plays,” U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC). However, this represents only a very small fraction of the gas associated with shale formations and is indicative of current technological limits. This manuscript addresses the question of recovery efficiency/recovery factor (RF) in fractured gas shales. Predictions of gas RF in fractured shale gas reservoirs are presented as a function of operating conditions, non-Darcy flow, gas slippage, proppant crushing, and proppant diagenesis. Recovery factors are simulated using a fully implicit, three-dimensional, two-phase, dual-porosity finite difference model that was developed specifically for this purpose. The results presented in this article provide clear insight into the range of recovery factors one can expect from a fractured shale gas formation, the impact that operation procedures and other phenomena have on these recovery factors, and the efficiency or inefficiency of contemporary shale gas production technology.

Application of Advanced Impact Analysis in Developing Iran's Gas Industry Scenarios

According to most of energy sector experts, at least in the next two decades, fossil energy plays important role in fulfilling required energy in the world. Based on these conditions, the investigation of the conditions of major countries providing natural gas in the world can be useful in analysis of future development of this clean fuel. According to the latest estimations of British Petroleum Company, Iran with 18.2% natural gas reservoirs has the first natural gas reservoirs in the world. The main purpose of this paper is developing scenarios of gas industry in Iran. To achieve the mentioned goals, besides investigation of existing methods of scenario design and existing production scenarios, natural gas export and consumption in Iran and the world in 2035, the most important scenarios of gas industry in Iran are formulated by critical uncertainty analysis approach using quantitative advanced time based impact analysis in 2035 horizon.

Tunneling Control of Optical Properties of a Quantum Well from Adjacent Quantum Well by Coherent Population Trapping Effect

Now the coherent population trapping (CPT) effect attracts a big researcher’s interest. The essence of this effect is the appearing of specific superposition of long-lived states in multilevel quantum system interacting with two-frequency coherent (usually laser) field. This superposition state (dark state) is not interacts with the field. The dark resonances were investigated theoretically [1, 2] as well as experimentally in semiconductor quantum wells in the basis of InGaAs/AlInAs and GaAs [3]. The dark resonances are of particular interest for the development of devices for recording and storing of quantum information and also for quantum logic elements. So the methods of recording and reading of qubits with a high degree of fidelity were realized on the basis of the EIT resonance in the atoms inside an optical lattice. In this work we investigate the CPT effect in the double tunnel-coupled quantum wells interacting with laser radiation 1,2,3  (Fig.1). The microwave field V closes the contour of excitation (-system). We found that it is possible to create the specific collapse of population (dark resonance), which takes place for the excited level of simple -system, for the ground level 3 of additional excitation canal. Moreover, destruction and restoration of CPT by variation of the total phase Ф (Fig.1) of exciting fields in the -system gives us the possibility to control population of the ground level 3 . We investigate the cases of constant and pulsed optical radiation. In the case of pulsed radiation we found that only edges of signal pulse are absorbed. Middle of the pulse does not interact with the quantum wells due to dark state of the level 3 . It can be useful for reducing of the pulse duration and generation of the higher harmonics. This work is supported by Russian President grant for young candidates of sciences (project МК-384.2013.2), non-profit foundation Dynasty, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 14-02-31422), Regional Public Science Support Foundation, British Petroleum company, State Assignment for universities 2014/184.

Taking stock [petroleum company

Summary form only given. British Petroleum Company's (or BP) investors were given their first detailed look at plans tor its post-Gulf of Mexico future as the UK oil and gas giant attempted in move on from the worst year in its history. It will take BP's years to draw a definitive line under the Deepwater Horizon spill. But after a 2010 of unremitting bad news, its shareholders needed to bear thai the group has more constructive plans for their investments than settling compensations claims. The paper discussed new territories for a leaner BP. It aims to emerge as a slimmed down operation more focused on exploration.

Popular Politics, the New State and the Birth of the Iranian Working Class: The 1929 Abadan Oil Refinery Strike

Popular Politics, the New State and the Birth of the Iranian Working Class: The 1929 Abadan Oil Refinery Strike

Transformation of the IT Function at British Petroleum

In 1989, the IT function of the exploration and production division of British Petroleum Company set out to transform itself in response to a severe economic environment and poor internal perceptions of IT performance. This case study traces and analyzes the changes made over six years. The authors derive a model of the transformed IT organization comprising seven components that they suggest can guide IT departments in general as they seek to reform themselves in the late 1990s.This model is seen to fit well with recent thinking on general management in that the seven components of change can be reclassified into the Bartlett and Ghoshal (1994) framework of purpose, process and people. Some suggestions are made on how to apply the model in other organizations.

5585316 Catalyst treatment: Nay Barry; Smith Mark R; Telford Clive D Woking, United Kingdom assigned to British Petroleum Company plc

5585316 Catalyst treatment: Nay Barry; Smith Mark R; Telford Clive D Woking, United Kingdom assigned to British Petroleum Company plc

BP's approach to Technology

Editor's Note: John Browne is the Managing Director of the British Petroleum Company and Chief Executive Officer of BP Exploration. The following is a keynote speech he delivered to the Society of Petroleum Engineers at the 1994 European Petroleum Conference, London, October 25, 1994. The speech was provided to the Journal by Ed Witterholt of BP's Technology Provision unit in Houston, TX.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANDEmilie Amt, The accession of Henry II in England: royal government restored, 1149‐1159William Hassall and Jacques Beauroy, eds., Lordship and landscape in Norfolk, 1250‐1350: the early records of HolkhamBarbara A. Hanawalt, Growing up in medieval London: the experience of childhood in historyEileen Spring, Law, land, and family: aristocratic inheritance in England, 1300‐1800Michael Zell, Industry in the countryside: Wealden society in the sixteenth centuryIlana Krausman Ben‐Amos, Adolescence and youth in early modern EnglandHelen M. Dingwall, Late seventeenth‐century Edinburgh: a demographic studyT. M. Devine, The transformation of rural Scotland: social change and the agrarian economy, 1660‐1815John Landers, Death and the metropolis: studies in the demographic history of London, 1670‐1870T. R. Gourvish and R. G. Wilson, The British brewing industry, 1830‐1980Donald E. Jordan, Jr., Land and popular politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the plantation to the land warAndrew Davies and Steven Fielding, eds., Workers’worlds: cultures and communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880‐1939Peter Razzell, Essays in English population historyPaul Johnson, ed., Twentieth‐century Britain: economic, social and cultural changeMichael Sanderson, The missing stratum: technical school education in England, 1900‐1990sJ. H. Bamberg, The history of the British Petroleum Company, 2 GENERAL Susan Pedersen, Family, dependence, and the origins of the welfare stateR. J. Overy, War and economy in the Third ReichOlivia Remie Constable, Trade and traders in Muslim Spain: the commercial realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900‐1500John Henderson, Piety and charity in late medieval FlorencePhilip T. Hoffman and Kathryn Norberg, eds., Fiscal crises, liberty, and representative government, 1450‐1789Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones, eds., Medicine and charity before the welfare statePaul R. Gregory, An economic history of Russia from emancipation to the first five‐year planClive J. Dewey, The settlement literature of the greater Punjab: a handbookR. Chandavarkar, The origins of industrial capitalism in India: business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900‐1940David Pong, Shen Pao‐chen and China's modernisation in the nineteenth centuryThomas Weiss and Donald Schaefer, eds., American economic development in historical perspectiveRichard H. K. Vietor, Contrived competition: regulation and deregulation in AmericaRondo Cameron, Financing industrializationCliff Pratten, The stock marketCatherine Geissler and Derek Oddy, eds., Food, diet and economic change past and presentGraeme D. Snooks, Economics without time: a science blind to the forces of historical changeGraeme D. Snooks, ed., Historical analysis in economicsBernard Semmel, The liberal ideal and the demons of empire: theories of imperialism from Adam Smith to LeninNathan Rosenberg, Exploring the black box: technology, economics, and history

The History of the British Petroleum Company.

Based on unrestricted access to papers and personnel at BP, as well as numerous other sources, this second volume of BP's history aims to be an honest and comprehensive examination of the company in the period 1928–1954. Such a history inevitably touches on many different historical interests ranging from international relations to social, economic, political and military topics, primarily in Britain and the Middle East. The 1994 book includes penetrating insights into the direction and management of the company, the achievements and shortcomings of successive chairmen, and the relationship between the company and its major shareholder, the British Government. It also deals in detail with matters which have retained an aura of controversy and mystique long after their occurrence, most notably the international petroleum cartel which sought to control world oil markets, and the major international crisis arising from Iran's oil nationalisation.

Book Review: The History of the British Petroleum Company Volume 2. The Anglo-Iranian Years, 1928–1954

Book Review: The History of the British Petroleum Company Volume 2. The Anglo-Iranian Years, 1928–1954

Method for manufacturing composite material: Melton, A.W.(The British Petroleum Company p.l.c., Moorlande, UK) US Pat 5 126 091 (30 June 1992)

Method for manufacturing composite material: Melton, A.W.(The British Petroleum Company p.l.c., Moorlande, UK) US Pat 5 126 091 (30 June 1992)

Book reviews

Introductory Chemistry for the Environmental Sciences, by Roy M. Harrison et al., University of Essex, Department of Chemistry, Colchester, U.K., 354 pages (including 87 figures, 51 tables, questions and references added to each chapter, and an index of seven pages), paper back, format 246 x 174 mm, ISBN 0–521–27639‐X, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series 4, Cambridge CB2 2RU, U.K. (1991), £16.95, US$ 29.95. Summary Report on the Evaluation of Short‐Term Tests for Carcinogens (Collaborative Study on In‐Vivo Tests), by 102 participants, based originally on two scientific publications (1985, 1988) of J. Ashby, I.C.I., Macclesfield, U.K., 96 pages (including four tables, summaries in English, French and Spanish, but unfortunately no index, also the list of references is very short), paper board, format 210 x 141 mm, ISBN 92–4–157109–8, WHO Environmental Health Criteria Series No. 109 (Geneva, 1990), SFr. 13.‐, US$ 10.40. Prediction of the Environmental Fate of Chemicals, by Yusaf Samiullah, Croydon, U.K., 285 pages (including 54 figures, 53 tables, 42 pages of references, and 15 pages with an index), hard cover, format 229 x 148 mm, ISBN 1–85166–450–5, The British Petroleum Company (London) and Elsevier Applied Science (London and New York) (1990), £45.00. The Environmental Record in Glaciers and Ice Sheets, edited by Hans Oeschger, University of CH‐3012 Berne and Chester C. Langway Jr., State University of New York, Buffalo/Amherst, N.Y. 14226, 401 pages (including 96 Figures, 26 Tables, references added to the contributions, an address list of the participants of five pages, and a subject index of 6 pages), hard cover, format 236 x 159 mm, ISBN 0–471–92185–8, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore (1989), £47.50. Transfer of Radionuclides in Natural and Semi‐Natural Environments, edited by G. Desmet, E.C., B‐1049 Brussels, P. Nassimbeni, I‐33050 Pozzuolo del Friuli, and M. Belli, ENEA‐DISP, 1–00144 Rome, 693 pages (including 187 Figures, 174 Tables, references added to each contribution, list of participants and contributors (with addresses) of 13 pages, but unfortunately no index), hard cover, format 249 x 170 mm, ISBN 1–85166–539–0, Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd., London and New York (1990), £95.00. Pesticide Transformation Products: Fate and Significance in the Environment, edited by L. Somasundaram and Joel R. Coats, Pesticide Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, 305 pages (including 50 Figures, 52 Tables, many formulas and schemes, references added to the contributions, and a good index of 15 pages), hard cover, format 235 x 157 mm, ISBN 0–8412–1994‐X, ACS Symposium Series 459, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 20036 (1991), US$ 64.95.