ConocoPhillips is still shut out of its global headquarters nearly two weeks after Tropical Storm Harvey slammed into Houston, so Chief Executive Ryan Lance and thousands of employees are running the world’s largest independent oil and natural gas producer remotely. Lance, whose own Houston home was flooded by Harvey, has 2,800 employees in the region working at home or at smaller offices in Dallas or Bartlesville, Oklahoma, overseeing natural gas trading along with operations in the Texas Eagle Ford shale region and the Gulf of Mexico. Many were moved out of Harvey’s path before the storm. “You can run virtually for a long time if you’ve got the right systems and personnel,” Lance told Reuters on Wednesday. Conoco’s headquarters in west Houston sustained minor flooding damage, but roads to the campus are still submerged under several feet of water. Another nearby ConocoPhillips office was flooded. “Like […]