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BP Holdings Blog and Press Release BP is to be the lead sponsor of a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition which will bring masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to Britain for a unique show at one of this country's finest historic houses, Houghton in Norfolk, opening on 17 May 2013. The magnificent art collection, which originally hung at Houghton, was brought together by Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole (1676-1745), and following his death was sold in 1779 to Catherine the Great of Russia and was later housed at the State Hermitage Museum. Peter Charow, BP's Vice President for Russia said: "We are pleased to bring the exhibition to its original home. BP is a major supporter of culture in both the UK and Russia." Over 70 paintings from the collection, including masterpieces by Van Dyck, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez and Murillo are being reassembled for the first time in over 200 years and shown in their original settings at Houghton. The exhibition includes works on loan from the Hermitage and other Russian museums as well as loans from the National Gallery, Washington and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. The exhibition will reproduce the original hang of the Grand Rooms at Houghton, bringing them back to their original splendor. In its scale and ambition, the exhibition will be a fitting celebration both of 250th anniversary of Catherine the Great's accession to the throne, and the long and distinguished history of Anglo-Russian cultural relations. For over a decade BP's support for Russian culture includes the Mariinsky Theatre and the Valery Gergiev Foundation. In 2011-2012 BP extended its support and has partnered with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the State Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko musical theatre and annual Dyagilev musical festival in St Petersburg further demonstrating BP's commitment to Russian cultural life. In the UK, BP is a major supporter of the arts w

BP Holdings Blog and Press Release BP is to be the lead sponsor of a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition which will bring masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to Britain for a unique show at one of this country's finest historic houses, Houghton in Norfolk, opening on 17 May 2013. The magnificent art collection, which originally hung at Houghton, was brought together by Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole (1676-1745), and following his death was sold in 1779 to Catherine the Great of Russia and was later housed at the State Hermitage Museum. Peter Charow, BP's Vice President for Russia said: "We are pleased to bring the exhibition to its original home. BP is a major supporter of culture in both the UK and Russia." Over 70 paintings from the collection, including masterpieces by Van Dyck, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez and Murillo are being reassembled for the first time in over 200 years and shown in their original settings at Houghton. The exhibition includes works on loan from the Hermitage and other Russian museums as well as loans from the National Gallery, Washington and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. The exhibition will reproduce the original hang of the Grand Rooms at Houghton, bringing them back to their original splendor. In its scale and ambition, the exhibition will be a fitting celebration both of 250th anniversary of Catherine the Great's accession to the throne, and the long and distinguished history of Anglo-Russian cultural relations. For over a decade BP's support for Russian culture includes the Mariinsky Theatre and the Valery Gergiev Foundation. In 2011-2012 BP extended its support and has partnered with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the State Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko musical theatre and annual Dyagilev musical festival in St Petersburg further demonstrating BP's commitment to Russian cultural life. In the UK, BP is a major supporter of the arts w

BP Holdings Madrid Dual-øya nasjonen Trinidad og Tobago slag godt over sin vekt i den globale økonomien, takket være sin rikelig hydrokarbon forbeholder seg. Det samme er sant i BP, med operasjoner i Trinidad og Tobago regnskap for rundt 12% av selskapets totale globale olje- og gass produksjon. Det er et langt og fruktbart forhold som BP håper vil fortsette å blomstre, og vokse i årene som kommer. Fem århundrer siden, når oppdagere var seiling verden i et forsøk på å oppdage nye land, mange passerte gjennom Caribbean vann på vei til Amerika. Blant dem var den britiske oppdageren, Sir Walter Raleigh, som - det er sa-kom over en 'innsjø' av asfalt på det sørvestlige hjørnet av Trinidad i 1590. Pitch Lake, er som det er kjent i dag, en av verdens største naturlige forekomster av denne klissete, svart stoffet-opprettet av dype forekomster av olje som er tvunget til å overflaten, der lettere elementer av hydrokarbon fordampe for å forlate bak tunge asfalt. Eventyrere som Raleigh brukt stoffet til å forsegle sine skip skrog, før du fortsetter en reise. Disse dager, leting i regionen er ikke om finding nye territorium merke på en atlas, men identifisere ytterligere hydrokarbon innskudd antydet av de disse tidlige navigatører first kom over. Expanse av mørk tyktflytende materiale som siver opp gjennom bakken på Pitch Lake gir visuelle confirmation av den rike naturressurser som ligger under disse øyene overflaten og på sine kystlinjer. Trinidad og Tobago nøt sin first olje-boom etter 1910, selv om den rikelig naturgassen i sin reservoarer var bare fullt verdsatt flere tiår senere. Fra 1970-tallet begynte gass å dominere landets energimarkedet, som det gjør i dag. Dual-øya nasjon produsert mer enn 700.000 fat oljeekvivalenter i naturgass på daglig basis i 2011, som BP'S Trinidad og Tobago business-BPTT-bidratt rundt 55%. Selskapet opererer 13 plattformer til havs, onshore olje og gass behandling terminaler og er den største aksjonær

People just dont understand that it's not all about *free speech*; it usually comes with responsibility, you know.