FDC, for its part, has built a production platform that offers credit-card services.
To extract Malampaya's gas, Shell will put down nine undersea wells - five in 2002 and four in 2009 - plus a production platform being built in Singapore and Subic.
Once the wells are completed, they are connected by flexible hoses to a floating production platform on the surface.
While drilling in that depth of water was prohibitively expensive a decade ago, it's now easy for a company Triton's size to rent a drillship to find the oil and set up a floating production platform to process it.
The Toledo prospect, as it is known, was thought to hold as much as 200 million barrels of oil before it was drilled, and ChevronTexaco hoped to pair it with nearby discoveries by Shell and Unocal and build a shared production platform.
The Toledo prospect, as it is known, was thought to hold as much as 200 million barrels of oil before it was drilled, and ChevronTexaco hoped to pair it with nearby discoveries by Shell and Unocal, of California, to build a shared production platform.
And then that's anticipated to be replaced by a larger production capacity platform in several weeks.
Equipped with a turntable mechanism at its bow, the floating production platform can swivel a full 360 degrees in treacherous winds while pumping more than 100, 000 barrels of oil a day.
The new versions of the Punto and Palio in a few years will share chassis as well as engines and gearboxes, enabling production of some 2m vehicles from a single platform, and yielding the sort of economies of scale these days enjoyed only by the likes of Toyota, with its Corolla world car.
This idea evolved into Crowdery, a platform that allows brands to make production decisions based on crowdsourced votes on product designs.
Even more recently, traditional production houses have turned to Netflix as a distribution platform for shows like House of Cards and Arrested Development.
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Don't hold your breath for an extra-lovable Lumia anytime soon: there's no mention of any near-term production plans, and any adoption would require a platform switch just to get started.
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It is a well-established cloud management platform, already widely in production use by many organizations.
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The Platform will do so through the production of assessment reports on a regular basis, which will also include recommended policy responses.
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Most of the investments are in production facilities, RNCOS notes, adding that Brazil is likely to evolve into a production hub, becoming tough competition for China and India, and providing a platform for multinationals to develop and sell branded and generic versions of their off-patent medicines into other Latin American markets, if not further afield.
If successful, at its utmost the business could change not just the way companies sell products and services, but also their creation and production, and servicing in effect, a new type of enterprise software platform.
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When we thought of the doddle platform, initially what we tried to accomplish is, number one, to make a mobile production guide to have a Yelp-like experience that would really exist on a mobile device.
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You can rest assured that hundreds -- if not trillions -- of new laptops will be rolling off of production lines this quarter with Intel's Sandy Bridge platform inside, and those looking for a little love over in Japan won't have to wait much longer.
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