The LUKOIL Connection
ConocoPhillips gets ?uent in Russian
ENERGY SECURITY?
THE ANSWER JUST MIGHT BE
CLOSER THAN YOU THINK.
Canada holds
the world’s
second-largest
oil reserves
Americans know Canada as a good neighbor. WhSharing Insights
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Russian rewards Despite enormous challenges, the joint venture between ConocoPhillips
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The LUKOIL Connection
ConocoPhillips gets ?uent in Russian
ENERGY SECURITY? THE ANSWER JUST MIGHT BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK. Canada holds the world’s second-largest oil reserves Americans know Canada as a good neighbor. Wh
Sharing Insights
At ConocoPhillips, the Project Development and Procurement
(PD&P) organization is
spirit Magazine Fourth Quarter 2008
4
Russian rewards Despite enormous challenges, the joint venture between ConocoPhillips
and LUKOIL
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Project Development and
Procurement A growing project portfolio means expanding
and developing people resources
through the capture and transfer of valuable knowledge.
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Let’s do
something,
together
by Jim Spanos. Photography by Garth Hannum.
A driling rig sits on
Wel Pad 2 at Yuzhno
Khylchuyu. As more
subsurface inf
There is a stereotype of the oil man: Tough, cold, ruthless
and opportunistic, he pursues a scorched-earth policy of bilking
unaware poor people out of their land in order to drain the b
LUKOIL Above right: LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov (right) and ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO Jim Mulva Below: A LUKOIL board mee
“Russia’s rich culture, history and language, and the Russian people and their approach to life, make living and working here very rewarding.” – Stuart Snow transportati
LUKOIL Much like the once buffalo-dependent Native Americans of the North American plains, the Tundra Nenets have made reindeer the center of their life and culture.
“I went out to one of the camps, and there was this large stack, I thought, of logs. I said to somebody, ‘What are all those logs over there?’ And they responded, ‘Those aren’t logs, those are reinde
Franz Josef Land SWEDEN ARCTIC OCEAN ulf of Bothnia FINLAND Barents Sea Novaya Zemlya Kola L. Ladoga
LUKOIL In the case of Naryanmarneftegaz, ConocoPhillips and LUKOIL have embraced a strong and innovative business plan that looks ahead to the opportunities of the coming century.
LUKOIL For some ConocoPhillips employees, there is less a language barrier than a persistent, challenging invitation to explore the ancient and varied Russian culture.
IT’S ALL PART OF THE PLAN The YK ?eld came on line in 28 months instead of the 40 months many experts predicted would be necessary and, by the ?rst half of 2009, will be producing
LUKOIL Above: Bill Buchan, NMNG pre-commis- sioning manager Right: Abdi Shirazi, director, Reserves and Field Develop- ment, Conoco-
desire is to become an international oil company. We like our partnership and are working together to ?nd international opportunities where we have complimentary skills and we can leverage off of eac
As part of the Summit
Program’s summer
training session, Sum-
mit engineers observed
company operations,
including upstream
operations in Bossier
trend i
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND PROCUREMENT development: When Chairman and CEO Jim Mulva announced an enhanced focus on people, he described four pillars that would reinforce the company’s commit
Right: The Project Development
and Procurement
College hosted a
team-building event
with a philanthropic
twist for Summit
engineers. Partici-
pants competed in
t
Project Development and Procurement “The Summit training I received this summer allows me to work with a much higher level of con?dence.” – Kevin Morris “The Summit Program training co
Project Development and Procurement “Our goal for the college is to create a world-class learning organization that supports project excellence and promotes personal development.” – Luc Mess
Managed by PD&P’s Project Services depart- ment, Project Development and Procurement College supports the learning needs of the capital projects and procurement communities through training
OIL SANDS
A Canadian oil sands
by Charlie Rowton. Photography by Garth Hannum and Byron Chu.
I
t will take several more decades of development of the bountiful
Athabasca o
conversation Poised to become the leading in-situ producer of those oil sands is ConocoPhillips Canada, which has the most proli?c land position among industry players there with holdings o
Oil Sands Above: Fort McMur- ray Conversation on Energy moderator Ross Jacobs (far left) welcomed local residents to the sessi
“Talking with people, you get a good feel for what’s important. This is about listening, and there my be ideas we hear that will help us adapt how we do things.” – Kevin Meyers phase one, shoul
Oil Sands Above: This well pair at Surmont is repre- sentative of the 18 to be located at Well Pad 101 when it is fully developed. The ma
ConocoPhillips Lease Holdings ConocoPhillips Operations Kilometres 0 10 20 30 40 50 100 Saleski Fort McMurray L Thornbury Anzac SASKATC
A day in the life of a London oil trader
Text and photography by Bram Druckman
As Katy Lunn bicycles from her home in Wimbledon to the ConocoPhillips trading of?ces at Portman House in
LONDON OIL TRADER WHAT IS TRADING? Inis sbiumypinlegtaenrmd se, ltlrinadginengefrogryCconmomcoPdhiitlileipsson regulated markets. All re?neries need crude oil and feed
Common London Oil Trader A219 Wimbledon Above: Traders access a variety of sources for infor- mation throughout the course o
Bayswater Paddington A3217 Fulham A308 West Brompton A3220 Chelsea A3207 Battersea paying less than the average for a purchase deal or sellin
GLOBAL REACH
by Jacqueline Davis
Like shipbuilders and sailors preparing a tanker for its maiden voyage,
a handful of individuals, scattered across the company and
Research Technician Robert Humble and Research Engineer Rena Armstrong in the Ponca City Research and Development laboratory One mission, Thregimstepretcuhse:maiDcaelcs.u1b,s2t0a0n8c,edsefoardlRi
Global Reach Above right: Associate Research Technician Karen Holmes Right: Team mem- bers in London, (from le
“REACH is, without a doubt, the single largest piece of chemical regulation in the world today. No other chemical regulation comes close to its scope or depth of coverage.” – Mike Thomas
Global Reach Phil Grif?th, direc- tor, Technical, Base Oils and Specialty Products international markets like the EU. F
even asked if they needed to start looking for alternate suppliers!” Grif?th received positive customer feedback at the annual meeting of the Independent Lubricants Manufacturers Association (C
GETAWAYS
Yellowstone Falls as
seen through the lens
of ConocoPhillips
America’s first national park is picture perfect by John McLemore spirit Magazine 39
Getaways Photographs by Tom Murphy courtesy of the Yellowstone Park Foundation MONTANA Billings WYOMING IDAHO Yellowstone National Park Y
recycling program and creating a biodegradable two-cycle engine oil for the snowmobiles used in the park. More recently, the company was a leading fundraiser for the new visitor education center at t
Faces of ConocoPhillips
Marine Transportation
Chief Mate
Janet DeCastro Steady as she goes Text and photography by Patrick Currey Faces of ConocoPhillips By her own admission, Janet DeCastro, a licensed master with ConocoPhillips Marin
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Janet DeCastro (continued from Page 43) Faces of ConocoPhillips by 86.29 feet (25.3 m) deep. The ?rst of their kind built for the Alaskan trade in compliance with the Federal Oil Pollution
Faces of ConocoPhillips
Ryan Northcott Dancing his way to the top by Jillian Lesser Faces of ConocoPhillips Who would have guessed that the bottom half of his mother’s ’70s ski suit would help make Ryan Northcott
In the News
ConocoPhillips Energy Prize competition rewards innovators
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In the News continued from previous page Storm troopers on Ike’s front line Left: Sweeny re?nery employees Bobby Jeffries, mechanic, and J.J. (Jimbo) Polka, garage specialist, provide service with
continued S difference in their community. The United Way has provided support to those in need for many generations and always has stood at the front line in recovery efforts. All employee contrib
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China awarded for charity “ThreiscipsietontcoefrtihfyeyVoaunrgcuoamrdpafonryCahsinese People’s Livelihood 2008 award by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation for your great effort in improv
The Big Picture Quart-sized bottles of Philips 66® TropArtic® synthetic blend motor oil proceed through the ?l line at a rate of 303 bottles per minute at the Hartford, Il., lubricants
P.O. Box 2197 Houston, TX 77252-2197 On Assignment Jacqueline Davis (Global REACH, Page 32) joined ConocoPhillips in 2006 after
Tomorrow begins today. We’re defined by what we pass on to the next generation. That’s why ConocoPhillips is working to provide clean, efficient technology to turn coal into clean-bu
ALL DAY. ALL NIGHT. ALL CONOCOPHILLIPS. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, ConocoPhillips Lubricants has the product to meet your needs. Whether the application be for oil extraction, re?ning, gas ga
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