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oil and gas trading operation

English translation: selling and buying of oil and gas

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English term or phrase:oil and gas trading operation
Selected answer:selling and buying of oil and gas
Entered by: Yasutomo Kanazawa

16:18 Jul 8, 2016
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Petroleum Eng/Sci
English term or phrase: oil and gas trading operation
Hello everyone,

Let’s examine how Vivienne Cox acquired her vision. Her prior role had been to run BP’s oil and gas trading operation according to clear-cut, BP-specified performance indicators and planning pro-cesses. In her new role, she had to decide what to do about all the bits and pieces of alternative-energy business that had sprouted around the edges of the organization and see if they might fit together.

Does "oil and gas trading operation" mean a branch/arm (of BP) dealing only with selling (not extraction) of oil and gas?

Thank you.
Mikhail Korolev
Local time: 13:01
selling and buying of oil and gas
Explanation:
As there is no reference to drilling of oil and gas wells in the context you provided, you could say that her job was to run BP's oil and gas trading operation limited to selling and buying of these two resources.
Selected response from:

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 19:01
Grading comment
Many thanks to everyone.

Thank you, Yasutomo-san.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +2selling and buying of oil and gas
Yasutomo Kanazawa
4 +2oil and gas trading business
David Hollywood


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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
selling and buying of oil and gas


Explanation:
As there is no reference to drilling of oil and gas wells in the context you provided, you could say that her job was to run BP's oil and gas trading operation limited to selling and buying of these two resources.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 19:01
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Many thanks to everyone.

Thank you, Yasutomo-san.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  acetran
2 days 15 hrs
  -> Thank you very much!
agree  Jörgen Slet
3 days 13 hrs
  -> Thank you very much!
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
oil and gas trading business


Explanation:
is what it means

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Note added at 11 hrs (2016-07-09 03:48:17 GMT)
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operation just means business or activities

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Note added at 11 hrs (2016-07-09 03:50:35 GMT)
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and trading = buying and/or selling

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Note added at 11 hrs (2016-07-09 03:52:36 GMT)
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the normal word order in English is "buying and/or selling"

David Hollywood
Local time: 07:01
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  acetran
2 days 4 hrs
agree  Jörgen Slet
3 days 2 hrs
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