Helping Seagull to soar
From the outset, the plan to access the Seagull field’s estimated 50 million barrels of oil and gas was ambitious: connect four new wells to the 25-year-old central processing facility (CPF) of the Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) hub located 140 miles east of Aberdeen. As an added challenge, the Seagull project team was tasked […]
Indonesia: bp ships first cargo from expanded Tangguh LNG facility
bp, on behalf of the Tangguh production sharing contract partners, announced on 18 October that the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced by the new third liquefaction train at the Tangguh LNG facility, in Papua Barat, Indonesia, had safely been loaded and sailed, to be delivered to Indonesia’s state-owned power generator PT PLN […]
Das at Christmas
I’m grateful to Steve Elms for his email regarding the November bps news. Steve writes: ‘The archive tales section – Das Island Christmas Show 1973 – was very interesting for me. While I was not present in 1973, I was in the audience in 1975, 76, 77 and 81. As we all used to say: […]
bp looks to leverage power of generative AI with Copilot for Microsoft 365
bp has announced that it will be expanding the use of generative AI to enhance its global employee experience through the use of Copilot for Microsoft 365. bp is the one of the first companies globally to act as a launch partner for the ‘intelligent AI assistant’. bp will be able to roll out access […]
The Das Island Christmas Show 1973
With Christmas fast approaching, it seemed a good opportunity to take up Edward (Ed) Shreeve’s offer of a trip down memory lane, 50 years in fact, to a show held on Christmas Eve on Das Island in 1973. Ed, along with his wife, performed in the show and kindly provided an outline of the programme, […]
United Kingdom: Largest public EV charging hub opened
bp pulse, The EV Network (EVN) and NEC Group have launched the UK’s largest public electric vehicle (EV) charging hub on the NEC Campus in Birmingham. This Gigahub™ was officially opened on 7 September 2023 by The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon JeremyHunt MP. The Chancellor stated: “This is the biggest private investment […]
New members: June, July, August 2023
In June, July and August we welcomed the following new members and invite them to make contact with their region.
Anniversaries
If you would like us to publish a significant wedding or civil partnership anniversary, please send us details, including your first, or known names, and the town where you live. We offer our congratulations to the following members: John and Pauline Belliss of Swansea, 60 years in JulyMargaret and Roy Cadle of Churchdown, 60 years […]
Remembering Aberfan
Following our story of how the Llandarcy Refinery provided support to the emergency services during the Aberfan disaster on 21 October 1966 in our August bps news, I’m grateful to Leslie (Les) Rees, ex BP Chemicals, Baglan Bay, South Wales, for pointing out that the Pantglas Junior School clock, which stopped at 09.13 on that terrible day, is now on display at The Welsh Heritage Museum at St Fagans, south Wales.
‘Anniversaries’ – are we inclusive?
Michael Peck raised an interesting point about whether we are inclusive when reporting significant wedding anniversaries. Michael emailed the following: ‘I’ve just received a copy of the August bps news and on page 22 it talks about significant wedding anniversaries of 50, 55 or 60 years. I feel this is discriminative against lesbian, gay and […]