Jeff Henley was appointed by the US Secretary of Energy to the National Petroleum Council. He succeeds Charles Phillips who was appointed in 2008. Oracle is still the first and only enterprise software company to be on the council. This appointment highlights Oracle’s commitment to the Oil & Gas sector.

One of Oracle’s first customers for Exalytics is an oil & gas services company.

This article shows how Santos has achieved through implementing the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, including 'application performance improvements up to 62 times faster than previously possible on the M5000 clusters'.

Oracle hosted the winners of its inaugural Oil & Gas Industry Excellence Awards. The CIOs of Chesapeake Energy, Key Energy Services, Enbridge and BP were there to receive the award.