He rose to the top of the oil industry - ending up as treasurer of Enterprise Oil - and gave up a six-figure salary to train as a priest.
Mr Walmsley, the bishop's old boss at Enterprise Oil, describes that decision from his own perspective.
Mr McNaughton graduated in law from Aberdeen University before taking a year out to travel to Australia and New Zealand then returned to Scotland to complete an MSc in oil and gas enterprise management.
Well he was a relatively senior businessman in his earlier incarnation (that said, he self-deprecatingly and amusingly pointed out that he was the only innumerate treasurer of one of the UK's biggest companies, and his employer, Enterprise Oil, paid someone to check all his numbers).
It's the fatigue of battling the Moscow Oil Refinery, a public-private enterprise able to refine 73 million barrels a year.
If anyone were to ever doubt the creativity unleashed by the free enterprise system, look to the US oil and gas industry.
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Its enterprise multiple of 11 is a tad less than the oil-service segment's median of 12.
In the last 24 hours, the production of the Discover Enterprise over the wellhead produced 11, 000 barrels of oil.
In November, a pipeline deal was announced between Enbridge and Enterprise Products Partners, causing West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices to jump.
Rathlin Energy was awarded their exploratory licence in 2008 by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to explore the north coast for potential oil and gas reserves.
Unlike eastern Europe, all Arab countries (those with oil wealth and those without) have capitalist economies, in which prices and private enterprise play a big role.
Obviously weather has, over the past several days, complicated our efforts to introduce additional containment vessels -- the Helix is a device that was -- its date has been pushed back in terms of additional containment capacity, as the Enterprise and the Q4000 continue to average above 20, 000 barrels of oil a day accumulating in from the leaking well.
He also likes pipeline operators like Oneok, Enterprise Products and Buckeye, which are gobbling up superb assets that were often built by large oil companies and utilities.
Beijing evidently took advantage of low prices to stockpile, thereby pumping up imports, a tactic it employed in October when enterprise managers and central technocrats went on foreign shopping sprees for, among other items, crude oil and copper.
Pena Nieto's intention of opening the oil behemoth to more private and foreign investment has set off warnings among leftists about the privatization of an enterprise whose nationalization is seen by the left as a source of national pride.
In terms of containment right now, the top cap is drawing oil and gas to the surface to -- from the LMR -- the lower marine riser cap to the Enterprise.
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