In May 2016, Total announced a $1.1 billion purchase of battery maker, Saft. This is the largest investment into energy storage by an oil and gas company to date. Total is not alone in investing in energy storage technology to help support efforts to provide more renewable energy. Several other oil and gas companies have […]
Cost-Cutting Measures to Improve Offshore Projects
The cost of extracting a barrel of crude oil quadrupled from 1996 to 2014. There are many reasons for this although at least three that have played a major role. First, higher safety standards, excessive documentation, internal processes (we have previously written about how BP was able to cut $10 million by standardizing specifications), and […]