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...Sedgley, an ancient but unremarkable town between Wolverhampton and Dudley in the West Midlands, was dull on the wintry day when I visited — with one exception....
...That said, Rosneft has been under US and EU sanctions since 2014 — when Russia annexed Crimea — measures that haven’t propelled Looney or Dudley to cut links....
...The theme of analysts’ questions in the Baker Hughes and Halliburton earnings calls this week was telling: how could oilfield services cope with such tumult?...
...Murphy, France Crossword 16,164: Robert Langston, Somerset; Allen Boxer, Berlin; Anthony G Santucci, Washington Polymath 1,021: R Goodfellow, Surrey Crossword 16,158: John Johnston, New York; Annie Baker...
...Some early results have been promising: BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley said last week that it had worked with a Silicon Valley start-up to develop an optimisation model, and had been able to raise production...
...Reports over the past seven days from the largest oilfield services groups, Schlumberger, Halliburton and Baker Hughes, suggested that activity drilling and completing new wells in North America is expected...
...Bob Dudley, BP chief executive, said: “This announcement shows that big deepwater projects can still be economic in a low-price environment in the US if they are designed in a smart and cost-effective way...
...“In the US, production continues to slowly decline and we anticipate a further drop in the third quarter,” Bob Dudley, BP chief executive, said on Tuesday....
...“Lower for longer is how you would describe our view,” Bob Dudley, BP chief executive, told the annual IHS CERAWeek conference....
...North — James Frith Warrington South — Nick Bent Weaver Vale — Julia Tickridge West Midlands Liberal Democrat Solihull — Lorely Burt MP Labour Cannock Chase — Janos Toth Worcester — Joy Squires Dudley...
...Gerry Nolting of Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis knows that story as well as anyone. He was one of the lawyers who led the long and ultimately frustrating campaign against Exxon....
...Robert Dudley celebrated a personal milestone this month when he turned 55....
...The independent report into the Texas City accident by James Baker, former US secretary of state, blamed BP’s “short-term focus, and its decentralised management system and entrepreneurial culture”....
...Telegraph, - City investors ridicule Irish finance minister Lenihan - Treasury ‘will lose hundreds of millions of pounds’ in tax - America’s recovery ‘wholly unsatisfactory’, says Fed’s Dudley...
...The Bull Ring was designed as a great civic space with tropical plants, ornamental fountains and an aluminium aviary with macaws, parakeets and cockatoos from Dudley Zoo....
...Humiliated, he returned to London, his place as the public face of BP in America taken by Dudley....
...The other likely candidate is Robert Dudley, chief executive of TNK-BP, the 50 per cent owned Russian joint venture that has been an outstanding success....
...But it is known that he came to the deal later than Ralph Alexander, then responsible for Russia, and Robert Dudley, now TNK-BP’s chief executive....
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