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Chris Philips
When considering M&As, don’t forget the people
Commentators predict a surge in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the oil and gas sector,...
12 March 2010
David Bamford
Finding successful technology companies
If a man……………make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods...
17 February 2010
Catriona Munro
Industry must lead UK Bribery Bill compliance
Bribery and corruption have always been part of business life, in the oil industry just as much - if...
27 January 2010
Uisdean Vass
Would-be Senior Accounting Officers Must Stop and Think
Directors in the oil industry will have noted with interest the introduction in this year's budget o...
15 December 2009
David Bamford
Exploration: who’s winning and where? (Updated 22 Nov 09)
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions. Sun-Tzu Chine...
30 October 2009
David Bamford
Tackling some tough problems in geophysics!
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,...
10 July 2009
David Bamford
Hysteria and Hysteresis - living at low oil prices!
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. Burt Bacharach U...
04 May 2009
David Bamford
Explorers - be good or be lucky!
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854 ...
08 March 2009
David Bamford
Surviving low oil prices - the 3rd OilVoice Forum
Roughly speaking oil prices are down by $100/barrel from their peak of mid-2008. Putting to one side...
08 March 2009
David Bamford
Integration – views from the second OilVoice Forum
In deciding on the theme Integration in Exploration and Exploitation for the second OilVoice Forum...
17 February 2009
David Bamford
Oil service companies - welcome to hard times!
“What goes around, comes around” A proverb, variously attributed to ancient Persia or 1970’s USA! ...
02 January 2009
David Bamford
Integration: the theme of the second OilVoice Forum
Elsewhere in my OilVoice articles, I have considered how the Digital Oil Field offers considerable p...
27 November 2008
David Bamford
"Total" Seismic – the view from the first OilVoice Forum
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot...
01 November 2008
David Bamford
Craters On the Oil Supply Road
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts...
22 September 2008
David Bamford
Blowin' in the Wind!
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind Bob Dylan Follo...
26 August 2008
David Bamford
Gas and UK Gas Storage
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, do...
24 July 2008
David Bamford
Introducing Carbon Capture and Storage.
This is an unusual article in a couple of ways. First of all, it is by some distance the longest th...
22 June 2008
David Bamford
Strategy re-thinks...or..."What on earth do we do next?"
If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of acc...
24 May 2008
David Bamford
Valuing Oilfield Service Companies
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it… Howard Newton ...
17 April 2008
David Bamford
House of Cards
The seismic business David Bamford bamford_windward@hotmail.com “There are no such things as app...
17 April 2008
David Bamford
Global Exploration "Hot Spots"
This article is some what unusual in that it consists mainly of the body of a talk that I gave at th...
10 March 2008
David Bamford
Heavy Oil in the North Sea
It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things tha...
25 February 2008
David Bamford
Deep in the Gulf of Mexico!
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moo...
14 February 2008
David Bamford
All the oil in the Falklands!
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. ...
08 January 2008
David Bamford
What’s happening in Ireland?
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, do...
13 December 2007
David Bamford
Introducing the Digital Oil Field
Water, water, everywhere Nor any drop to drink Samuel T Coleridge, “The Rhyme of the Ancient Marin...
14 November 2007
David Bamford
Oil & Gas Industry Resourcing
Oil is found in the minds of men Wallace E Pratt US geologist and explorer (1885 - 1981) &...
11 January 2007