However, it is also a question of opportunity.Executives at the majors argue that selling declining assets frees scarce managers to concentrate on the biggest and most productive projects, which will make the most difference to the company's fortunes.
Drawing on research from our Ecosystem Marketplace initiative and elsewhere, CI recounts in clear language how governments signaled green-minded entrepreneurs that they'd be rewarded for taking action on climate change by saving endangered forest, but how these same governments are now leaving some of the most productive projects in limbo.
Reuters reported the same month that Rosneft has been secretly negotiating over vast swaths of Venezuela's energy assets in exchange for cash and loans needed to keep Venezuela struggling economy afloat, including interests in up to nine of Venezuela's most productive petroleum projects.
We believe that it is most productive to advance this project using an open source collaborative approach, both for development and to minimise the cost of deployment, and we have therefore licensed our current code under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (Additional files 2 and 3).
Given the existing literature on the topic, access to the expertise and unique resources within the research team, and our personal judgment about which approach would be the most productive for the SDM community, this project will be guided by a theory analysis approach to theory building [ 44].
This is such a good idea that it should be emulated throughout the federal government so only the most productive, cost efficient government agencies get funded for each project.
He joked that the great tragedy of 2009 is that it's only the second most productive year in human civilization and that years before we had projected that it would be a record setter.
"Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs," he said.
Together with the State Water Project that ran alongside it, this made California's agriculture into one of the most productive in the world, the backbone of the state's economy.
Since these distractions won't be there to bother you, you can work on picking just one project at a time and sticking to it, so your nighttime hours are the most productive.
The Daya Bay project, which is being co-led by China and the United States, "is one of the most productive experiments in particle physics [being] carried out by an international collaboration," he says.
