Strategy of British Petroleum Company Overview British Petroleum Plc, sometimes called BP, is one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. The petroleum company has operations that include the exploration and production of natural gas and crude oil such as refining and manufacturing the petroleum products. Part of the operations are the construction or expansion of the facilities that can support the production, mining, and then, transporting the produced crude oil. British Petroleum adopted
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Africa. It was a former British colony and achieved independence in 1960. It is a federal republic constituting of 36 states and 1 federal territory. It has a current population of 155,215,573. It is the most populated country in Africa and the 8th most populated country in the world. The current President of Nigeria is GoodLuck Jonathan. Its capital city is Abuja. Nigeria is the 12th largest producer of petroleum in the world and the 8th largest exporter of petroleum. It also has the 10th largest
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order to clean the oil excess, they used powerful chemicals, which they don’t know the effects of on the environment. It was from 1.6km down to the bottom. After this cause, the British Petroleum (BP) went into investigation, negotiating with more than 50 expertise from within BP and industry. Not only was it the British Petroleum, but also the Green peace and U.S fish wildlife service was involved in this case. After eight days, the government had announced that oil is leaking five times faster than
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Force 4: Rivalry among Existing Firms 12 Force 5: The Threat of Entry 13 Force 6: Relative Power of Other Stakeholders 13 IV. Competitive Position of Major Companies and Competitor Analysis 14 Royal Dutch Shell 15 ExxonMobil 17 British Petroleum 19 Chevron 20 Total 22 ConocoPhillips 24 V. Key Success Factors 26 Oil Demand 26 Prices 26 Technological Advancements 27 Maintaining Partnerships 27 Industry Matrix 28 VI. Industry Prospects and Overall Attractiveness
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focus of their duty to the environment, the public, and its shareholders. 1) SWOT analysis Strengths-they have alot of money that can be reinvested in enhancing/repairing their image and focusing on the environment, their connections (with the British government and Navy), alternative energy (wind, solar, biofuels), infrastructure, carbon footprint toolkit, they were the first energy company to acknowledge global warming/environmental awareness Weaknesses-image, oil spills, poor ethics (price
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option that Marathon could take to reduce the time involved in the production process would be to create new petroleum refineries in different regions allowing operators to shift process and production responsibilities in the event of a natural disaster or scheduled outage. There may be one feasible alternative as to why Marathon would want to reduce the time in the production of the petroleum products. In order to produce gasoline, the crude oil must go through the refinery and transportation processes
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oil and lubricants • Route & journey planner • Gas and petrol station locator • BP Target Neutral 2) For home : • Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) 3) Business : • Air BP • Asphalt and bitumen • BP Crudes • BP Franchising • BP Shipping • Gas and fuel cards • Gas and power energy • Industrial lubricants • Liquified Natural Gas • Liquified Petroleum Gas • Marine fuels and Lubricants • Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) • Petrochemicals V. Turnover :
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http://thetruthaboutbusiness.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/fall-of-british-petroleums-ethics.html Down Hill Slide In 2005, an independent research and rating company named Management & Excellence S.A. (S&E) was founded in Madrid in 2000. S&E released the 2005 results of their ethical study that covered ethics within some of the top oil companies in the world. The S&E ethical study was titled, “Ethics in the Oil Industry 2005” and upon it was BP at number three on the list. The only two oil companies
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GDP every year. Further, Nigeria is one of the world’s largest producers of oil in the world and is part of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (hereafter “OPEC”). RDS, a British and Dutch multinational gas and petroleum company headquartered in Holland, has many subsidiaries such as the Shell Oil Company (American Subsidiary) and Shell Petroleum Development Company (Nigerian Subsidiary hereafter referred to as “SPDC”). SPDC has been the biggest fossil fuel company in the Nigeria
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categoryId=98&contentId=7067682 http://www.uow.edu.au/~sharonb/bp.html http://www.bp.com/sectionbodycopy.do?categoryId=41&contentId=7067505 http://thetruthaboutbusiness.blogspot.com/2010/05/fall-of-british-petroleums-ethics.html http://www.ethicalcorp.com/communications-reporting/beyond-petroleum-why-csr-community-collaborated-creating-bp-oil-disaster Unethical BP operation in Colombia – BP paid state forces to protect its operation against local gorillas who have declared war against oil companies
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