Plane flies across the Atlantic on sustainable aviation fuel
From the dawn of flight, almost all planes have been powered by fossil fuels. A landmark flight has shown how that could change. On 28 November 2023, a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off from London’s Heathrow Airport to JFK Airport in New York. In almost every way it was similar to the tens […]
United Kingdom: Production begins from North Sea Seagull field
Clever engineering has helped bp to access new resources under the sea and breathe new life into an existing oil and gas facility. In November bp successfully started production from the Seagull oil and gas field in the UK North Sea, boosting energy supplies, supporting the supply chain and underpinning continued production from an offshore […]
US: bp boosts EV charging network in US
In October bp announced a deal in which bp pulse, bp’s EV charging business, will acquire ultra-fast charging hardware units from Tesla for $100 million. The investment will facilitate the expansion of the bp pulse public network across the US, while also enabling support for EV fleet customers by deploying chargers at their private depots. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Canada: bp’s third long-term LNG offtake contract with Woodfibre, BC
In September bp entered its third long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) offtake contract from the Woodfibre LNG facility based in British Columbia (BC), Canada. With the additional contract to offtake 0.45 million tonnes of LNG per year (mtpa) for 15 years on a free on board basis, all of the LNG production from the Woodfibre […]
India: Production begins from third deepwater field in KG D6 block
In June, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and bp confirmed the commencement of production from the MJ field, following testing and commissioning activities. The MJ field represents the last of three major new deepwater developments the RIL-bp consortium have brought into production in block KG D6 off the east coast of India. The start of gas […]
The Netherlands: bp and OMV sign a 10-year LNG supply agreement
bp and OMV announced the signing in July of a long-term sale and purchase agreement (SPA) covering the supply of up to 1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year for 10 years from 2026. Under the terms of the agreement, bp will provide OMV with LNG from its diverse and global portfolio […]