a. Moving oil and gas
b. Selling fuels and products
c. Extracting oil and gas
d. Working responsibly
e. Oil and gas exploration
f. Generating low carbon energy
Listen to Tony Hayward again and decide if the following statements are true or false.
1) Over the past 180 years, oil companies and prospectors have drilled more than two million wells around the world. 2) BP company uses sophisticated technologies and tried-and-true techniques to find oil and gas under the earth’s surface. 3) After they put drill to soil they use typographical maps, aerial photography, sound waves, and other tools to help them form an educated guess about the size, shape and consistency of the oil or natural gas that lies under neath. 4) Planning and building a production facility they take environmental, social and logistical factors into account. 5) Scientific techniques help them reach deeper and deeper into reservoirs, helping them to extract more of the resources within it. 6) They transport crude oil only in pipelines. 7) The company provides fuel for all kinds of transport. 8) Power plants produce much more carbon dioxide as all the world’s transport put together. 9) The company has a long-term commitment to the communities they work within. 10) They all time try to improve their own organization.
SPEAKING
Imagine you are working for Lukoil. Introduce yourself and tell a few words about this company with the help of the words and phrases given in the box.
| the biggest private oil company; exploration; production; petroleum products; petrochemicals; marketing smth outputs; main resource base; Western Siberia; refineries; gas processing and petrochemical plants; Eastern Europe; Ukhta, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Perm; state-owned oil concern; be establish in 1991; around 1.3% of global oil reserves; 2.3% of global oil production; dominate the Russian energy sector; branches; 19 countries; the marketing network of the company; 200 tank farm facilities; 5,793 filling stations (including franchises); quickly “moving forward”; to become the leading oil company in Europe. |
Read what five people talk about their companies and match the descriptions with the names of the companies. Discuss with your partner what company you would prefer to work for. Give your arguments.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC)
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco)
Murphy Oil Corporation
Surgutnefetegaz
Fossil Oil and Gas Management, LLC
1. We are an independent oil and gas company with management and consultants having over 100 years experience serving Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast, and South and East Texas. We have an experienced team of management and geological consultants including its participation with other highly successful industry partners specializing in the drilling of direct hydrocarbon indicators the pre-drilling identification of oil and natural gas utilizing the latest 3D seismic data to generate high quality drilling prospects for Fossil Oil.
2. We are an international oil and gas company that conducts business through various operating subsidiaries. The Company produces oil and natural gas in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Malaysia and conducts exploration activities worldwide. Our Company owns refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. We operate retail gasoline stations under the Murphy USA® brand across 20 states in the U.S. These are high-volume, low-cost retail gasoline stations, primarily in the parking areas of Wal-Mart Supercenters. The company also operates a network of 12 Company-owned terminals. These terminals, along with numerous third-party terminals, provide fuel supply to retail and branded wholesale stations throughout 23 states.
3. We are a large oil company. Our main activities include prospecting, gas and oil filed constriction and development, production and marketing of oil, gas and petrochemical products. The territory stretching along the middle section of the river Ob and surrounding Surgut, is one of the first territories where in the middle sixties oil and gas production started in Western Siberia.
We have over 50 divisions of the company operating on the market. The recoverable oil and gas reserves amount to 2.5 billion tons of oil equivalent. The company possesses 300 filling stations, 32 tank farms and 24 oil-storage tanks. Theheadquarter of the company is located in the city of Surgut, the Tyumen Region.
4. We are a state-owned company, the king of oil. It is the world's #1 oil producer, supplying more than 10% of the world's oil demand. In 2008 the company reported proved oil reserves of about 260 billion barrels; it also owns 263 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas reserves (the fourth largest in the world). It produces 8.5 million barrels a day, operates refineries, markets oil internationally, and distributes it domestically. We own a fleet of oil tankers and invest in refineries, marketing, and distribution ventures in other countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, and the US.
5. When it comes to oil and gas, our company does it all. The state-owned conglomerate is one of the world's largest integrated oil concerns, and has subsidiaries active in all aspects of the oil and gas industry, including onshore and offshore exploration and production, and refining, marketing, and retailing. It also has petrochemical production and marine transportation businesses. In 2008 the company reported estimated proved oil and gas reserves of 104 billion barrels of oil and 1.8 trillion cu. meters of natural gas. Our company markets 301,000 barrels per day of pertroleun products in Western Europe.