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- Probabilistic Forecasting Solution Helps BP Manage Oil Field Costs and Risks
- Founded more than 100 years ago, BP is both a pioneer of the oil industry and one of its leading innovators. Oil and energy markets have been going through dramatic changes in recent years. Crude supplies are becoming harder to find outside areas controlled by national oil companies, forcing private-sector...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., British Petroleum Co Plc, Forecasting, Supply, Sales Force Management, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- BP Ease (zip)
- BP Ease lowered my blood pressure by 50 points, easily. Device Guided Brething DGB is a clinically proven way to reduce your blood pressure without drugs or their harmful side effects. OutOfNoWare's BP Ease is now available as a free trial. You don't need to spend $300 on a dedicated...
- Tags: Blood Pressure, British Petroleum Co Plc, OutOfNoWare, Device Guided Brething, Healthcare
- Software downloads 2008-02-05
- Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: British Petroleum
- For BP, time was of the essence in ensuring the safety of its facilities and 1,500 employees in its Gulf of Mexico Strategic Performance Unit. It is responsible for a complex mix of assets that includes eight deep-water oil production and drilling platforms that feed thousands of miles of pipelines...
- Tags: British Petroleum Co Plc, Microsoft Corp., Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2007-11-14
- Good news for green tech investors as oil industry sets three records in a single day!!!
- Wow, what a day for the petroleum people. BP which used to be British Petroleum has fessed up on three American investigations and will pay a huge fine. Their total fine will be over $370 million, that's a lot of money even with the strong pound and the...
- Tags: Green Technology, Industry, British Petroleum Co Plc, Investor, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- No Mercy (exe)
- No mercy is a program which effectively limits the time spent in front of computer. The program is dedicated to parents whose children spend too much time with computer and in front of the screen. No mercy is the program which can control and limit access to the computer in...
- Tags: Program, British Petroleum Co Plc, Computer, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-10-03
- Noted at GoingGreen
- Count the ironies. GoingGreen is talking Amwerican energy independence on 9-11. And this very day crude oil prices set a record high. The previous record had been set back in July. It's starting to look like oil prices and global temperatures are rising in tandem? ...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, British Petroleum Co Plc, GoingGreen, Lehigh, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Thinking like the enemy
- It never hurts to know your rivals' weak spots. In that vein, biofuel start-up Cilion has tapped a former British Petroleum executive as its new CEO.Mark Noetzel logged a 26-year career with BP and Amoco, and most recently was in charge of BP's retail operations and fuel transports and wholesaling...
- Tags: British Petroleum Co Plc, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Study: BP, Toyota top green energy, auto brands
- Study: BP, Toyota top green energy, auto brandsGreen as not having a clue?Toyota as number one manufacturer of cars causing the biggest use of fuels. Their hybrid cars are fraction of population of cars and they are expensive so no promotion.Have they used any clean process in car production? BMW...
- Tags: Branding, Marketing research, British Petroleum Co plc, Toyota Motor Corp., brand
- Discussion threads 2006-07-07
- SLA Design From a Business Perspective
- A method is proposed whereby optimal values for Service Level Objectives SLOs of an SLA can be chosen through a business perspective. Business considerations are brought into the model by including the business losses sustained when IT components fail or performance is degraded. This is done through an impact model,...
- Tags: Method, SLA, British Petroleum Co Plc, Infrastructure, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-04-01
- BP's Carson Unit Refines Contractor Management With WorkTech's Contractor Cost Tracking System (CCTS)
- BP is a leading oil, gas, and energy business with operations in 100 countries around the world. The goals of the company were alignment of processes across all business areas, improve management of contractor relationships, reduce error rates, frustration, and labor costs and gain timely, detailed information or decision-making and...
- Tags: British Petroleum Co Plc, Contractor Cost Tracking System, Tools & Techniques, Construction, Management
- Case studies
- Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: BP
- BP in Turkey has a system called "Tasitmatik". Companies that have fleets subscribe to this program. They don't pay at the station, they get a bill periodically. Not all stations have this facility. Therefore, clients need to know which stations provides this service. LBS was the perfect solution. Figensoft is...
- Tags: Station, Mobile, British Petroleum Co Plc, Service, Mobile Marketing, Figensoft, User, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies
- Synthetic Motor Oil Education Program Teaches Extended Enterprise the Value and Benefits of Synthetic Motor Oil
- BP Lubricants Americas markets premium lubricants and business-building programs directly to independent lube operators, service providers, new car dealers and automotive retailers. To educate automotive service professionals, traditionally comprised of lube technicians, store managers and wholesale distributors, about synthetic motor oil and its benefits in order to help them better...
- Tags: British Petroleum Co Plc, SkillSoft, Benefits, Retail, Business Services, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Cisco Partner Align Communications Deploys Converged Data Network and Wireless IP Telephony System for New Innovene Headquarters
- As the petrochemical company Innovene was preparing to be spun off from its parent company British Petroleum BP, company officials faced many decisions, not least of which was deploying a network and a telephony solution. Innovene had separated several offices from BP, but was faced with the challenge of relocating...
- Tags: Data Network, Partnership, Telephony, Network, IP Telephony, British Petroleum Co Plc, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
- After Major Merger, BP Chooses Windows 2000 as Common Operating Environment
- British Petroleum, Amoco Corporation, Atlantic Richfield ARCO and Burmah Castrol combined between 1998 and 2000 to form BP. This new company has a market value of approximately $200 billion and a 100,000 member staff in more than 100 countries. BP has deployed the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform to integrate four...
- Tags: Merger, Environment, Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, British Petroleum Co Plc, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance
- Case studies
- SAP Case Study: BP Oil/Mobil
- The European subsidiaries of BP Oil/Mobil have successfully deployed their Customer Management System CMS for planning and managing their customer and prospect relationships. To realise this innovative solution, BP Oil/Mobil tapped the expertise of SAP Labs Mannheim, which assumed responsibility for analysing, developing, and coordinating the implementation of the system.
- Tags: British Petroleum Co Plc, SAP AG
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- 10 hard drive disasters
- Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...
- Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-07-22
- More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.
- Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain. The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...
- Tags: Phone, Mr., Data Communications Bill, Internet, Storage, Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?
- Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- More nucs is good nucs? British PM thinks so
- More nucs is good nucs? British PM thinks soYou need to add a question entryWhen environmentalists are finally ignored in lieu of real solutions that actually work.And, of course you found an "expert" who claims nuclear is not viable. I can find an "expert" who will tell you UFOs really...
- Tags: nuc, British PM
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
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