May 2014- The Shale Gas Innovation Contest Finals was held at the Hilton Garden Inn, in Southpointe, PA. The event was hosted by the Shale Gas Innovation & Commercialization Center. The Innovation Panel featured CEO of ADI Analytics, Uday Turaga along with Kemal Anbarci, Vice President & Managing Executive for Chevron Technology Ventures and Richard Hall, Global […]
Corporate social responsibility in the oil and gas industry
Two interesting articles that appeared last week highlighted for me a project that ADI Analytics recently completed on benchmarking corporate social responsibility (CSR) in oil and gas companies. The first was in the Economist and talked about how CSR is now more constructive and better ingrained with core business operations and goals. The second is a […]
ConocoPhillips: An unfair rap?
So ConocoPhillips has not done well on the stock market in recent times. It also did not help when Warren Buffett described his super-investment in the company as a “dumb” mistake. Conventional analysis has held ConocoPhillips’ $35.6-billion acquisition of Burlington Resources responsible for its recent woes. We are not convinced. For example, ExxonMobil’s $41-billion acquisition […]