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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) is one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, with approximately 2.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) of proved reserves and production of 206 million BOE as of December 31, 2008. Anadarko employs a worldwide workforce of about 4,000.[3] The company is headquartered in The Woodlands, SPD Montgomery County, Texas.


Anadarko[5] [6], historically a subsidiary of Panhandle Eastern Corporation (which existed from 1928 to 1993; Panhandle Eastern has since been acquired by Southern Union Company), was formed in 1959 after the discovery of large amounts of natural gas in the Anadarko Basin (the basin comprises the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, and southwest Kansas), thus the company's name. Anadarko spun off from Panhandle Eastern as an independent corporation in 1986 and now has activities in more than a dozen countries. The United States, deepwater Gulf of Mexico and Algeria represent the majority of the company's proved reserves and production; U.S. onshore accounts for about 60%.)


The main important sociocultural as well as trends in the behavior and cultures of the people focuses on the emergence of climate change. Primarily, the US and European countries are the one that is pushing different international laws and regulations which pertains on the said issue. As a result, more and more Singaporean are becoming aware of the said issue.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reported that by 2050, Asia will contribute up to 37 billion tons of emissions or a total of 43% of the global emissions. This shows twice that of OECD countries.
As a result, people, as well as government are focusing on the efforts of local government and non-governmental organizations in Asia to reduce the different greenhouse emissions at the same time meeting the energy demands of the growing economies in the world (Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore 2008).

As a result, more and more nations and companies are diversifying away from the fossil fuels to a renewable source such as hydro-electric and wind power and nuclear power. However, the nuclear power brings with the spectre of nuclear arms proliferation (Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore 2008).


The government focuses on different programs and plans that focuses on research and development process for the energy industry. The Singaporean government has committed its S$350 million or equivalent to US$228 million in order to develop the country as the global clean energy hub over the next years, including S$170 million or US$111 million from the National Research Foundation or NRF. The main focus of the project is the solar power, but the industry development will also extend to the fuel cells, wind power, tidal power, energy efficiency as well as different carbon services.

In connection to that, the Clean Energy Programme Office or CEPO stated their initiative to grow the clean energy development as well as internationalization. This can be done by cluster development where in the country focuses on attracting major international companies, groom local companies in order to become world-class players. The said action is supported by the technology development where in some of the initiatives consist of competitive funding that will help to improve the R&D capabilities, as well as building.

Aside from that CEPO and Singaporean government complements all the efforts with the clean energy investments in different areas like solar, fuel cells as well as wind. It includes establishment of a world-class R&D centre for wind energy with the help of Vestas, SolarWorld, Rolls-Royce (Singaporean Economic Development Board 2008).
 
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