Collaboration is a theme running throughout this issue of Frontiers. In today's energy sector, collaboration between partner organisations has become highly sophisticated as businesses and academic institutions pool their expertise to focus on finding solutions to a host of new challenges.

Along with a feature article explaining BP's successful approach to establishing and managing a range of diverse collaborations, we showcase BP's collaborative partnerships at work: in reducing atmospheric emissions from diesel vehicles through low sulphur fuels and lubricants; in developing better bitumen to make road building safer and more cost effective; in understanding the fundamental physics of reservoir sand, to help prevent it from entering production wells; and in the development and deployment of sonar-based flow meters to provide a more comprehensive picture of the volume and nature of hydrocarbons flowing from multiple wells in oil and gas fields.

BP has wide experience in the full spectrum of collaboration, knowing how and when to work with others to achieve scientific and technological breakthroughs, ultimately leading to commercial rewards - as these stories demonstrate. We hope you enjoy this issue of Frontiers.

Terry Knott
Managing Editor, Frontiers

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