BP plc (Formerly
British Petroleum
plc) is the third largest global energy
company and the 4th largest company in the
world.
As
a multinational oil
company ("oil major") BP is the UK's
largest corporation, with its headquarters in St James's
, City of Westminster
, London
. The
company is among the largest
private
sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six
"
supermajors" (
vertically integrated private sector oil
exploration,
natural gas, and
petroleum product marketing companies).
The Company is listed on the
London Stock Exchange and is a
constituent of the
FTSE 100
Index.
History
Activity in 1909–1979
In May 1901,
William Knox D'Arcy
was granted a concession by the
Shah of
Iran to search for oil which he discovered in May 1908. This
was the first commercially significant find in the
Middle East. On 14 April 1909, the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC)
was incorporated to exploit this.In 1923, the company secretly gave
£5,000 -- the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money -- to
future Prime Minister
Winston
Churchill to lobby the British government to allow them to
monopolise Persian oil resources. In 1935, it became the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
(AIOC).
After
World War II, AIOC and the Iranian
government initially resisted nationalist pressure to revise AIOC's
concession terms still further in Iran
's
favour. But in March 1951, the pro-western Prime Minister
Ali Razmara was assassinated. The
Majlis of Iran (parliament) elected a
nationalist,
Mohammed Mossadeq, as
prime minister. In April, the Majlis
nationalized the oil industry by unanimous
vote. The
National Iranian
Oil Company was formed as a result, displacing the AIOC. The
AIOC withdrew its management from Iran, and organized an effective
boycott of Iranian oil.
The British government - which owned the AIOC
- contested the nationalization at the International
Court of Justice
at The
Hague
, but its complaint was dismissed.
By spring of 1953, incoming U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) to organize a coup against the Mossadeq government. On 19
August 1953, Mossadeq was forced from office by the CIA conspiracy,
involving the Shah and the Iranian military, and known by its
codename,
Operation Ajax.
Mossadeq was replaced by pro-Western general
Fazlollah Zahedi, and the Shah, who had
left the country briefly to await the outcome of the coup, returned
to Iran. He abolished the democratic Constitution and assumed
autocratic powers.
After the coup, the
NIOC became an international
consortium, and AIOC resumed operations in Iran as a member of it.
The consortium agreed to share profits on a 50–50 basis with Iran,
"but not to open its books to Iranian auditors or to allow Iranians
onto its board of directors." AIOC, as a part of the Anglo-American
coup d'état deal, was not allowed to monopolize Iranian oil as
before. It was limited to a 40% share in a new international
consortium. For the rest, 40% went to the five major American
companies and 20% went to
Royal Dutch
Shell and Compagnie Française des Pétroles, now
Total S.A..
The AIOC became the British Petroleum Company in 1954. BP continued
to operate in Iran until the
Islamic Revolution in
1979. The new regime of
Ayatollah
Khomeini confiscated all of BP's assets in Iran without
compensation, finally closing BP's 70-year presence in Iran.
In 1959
the company expanded beyond the Middle East to Alaska
and in 1965
it was the first company to strike oil in the North Sea
.
In 1978 BP acquired a controlling interest in
Standard Oil of Ohio or Sohio, a
breakoff of the former Standard Oil that had been broken up after
anti-trust litigation.
1980s and 1990s
Sir Peter Walters was BP's chairman from 1981 to 1990. This was the
era of the
Thatcher government's
privatisation strategy. The British government
sold its entire holding in BP in several tranches between 1979 and
1987.
The
sale process was marked by a bad attempt by the Kuwait Investment Office, the
investment arm of the Kuwait
government,
to acquire control of BP. This was ultimately blocked by the
strong opposition of the British government. In 1987, British
Petroleum negotiated the acquisition of
Britoil and the remaining publicly traded shares of
Standard Oil of Ohio.
Walters was replaced by
Robert Horton
in 1989. Horton carried out a major corporate downsizing exercise
removing various tiers of management within the BP Head
Office.
Lord Browne of
Madingley, who had been on the board as managing director since
1991, was appointed group chief executive in 1995. Browne was
responsible for three major acquisitions; Amoco, ARCO and
Burmah-Castrol (see below).
Recent years
British Petroleum merged with Amoco (formerly Standard Oil of
Indiana) in December 1998, becoming BPAmoco until 2000 when it was
renamed BP and adopted the tagline "Beyond Petroleum," which
remains in use today. It states that BP was never meant to be an
abbreviation of its tagline. Most Amoco
gas
stations in the United States have changed the look and name to
the BP brand. In many states, however, BP is selling Amoco branded
gasoline, as it was rated the #1 petroleum brand by consumers 16
years in a row (the name of the service station itself is still BP)
and Amoco has one of the highest brand loyalty for gasoline in the
US with only
Chevron and
Shell having such high rates as BP/Amoco.
In May 2008, however, the Amoco name was mostly phased out in favor
of "BP Gasoline with Invigorate", promoting BP's new additive. The
highest grade of BP gasoline available in the United States is
still called Amoco Ultimate, however. In 2000, British Petroleum
acquired
Arco and Burmah Castrol plc.
In April 2004, BP decided to move most of its petrochemical
businesses into a separate entity called
Innovene within the
BP Group.
Their intention was to sell the new company
possibly via an Initial Public
Offering (IPO) in the US, and in fact they filed their IPO
plans for Innovene with the New York Stock Exchange
on 12 September 2005. However, on 7 October
2005, BP announced that they had agreed to sell Innovene to
INEOS, a privately held UK chemical company
for the sum of $9 billion, thereby scrapping their plans for the
IPO.
On 23
March 2005, an explosion occurred at BP's Texas City Refinery in
Texas
City
, Texas
. It
is the third largest refinery in the United States and one of the
largest in the world, processing of crude oil per day and
accounting for 3% of that nation's gasoline supply. Over 100 were
injured, and 15 were confirmed dead, including employees of the
Fluor Corporation as well as BP.
BP has since accepted that its mismanagement contributed to the
accident. Level indicators failed, leading to overfilling of a
heater, and light hydrocarbons spread throughout the area. An
unidentified ignition source set off the explosion.
In 2005,
BP announced it would be leaving the Colorado
market. Many locations were rebranded as
Conoco.
According to some private BP-branded gasoline center operators in
the Metro Atlanta area, BP plans to leave the Southern market in
the next few years. All corporate-owned BP stations, typically
known as "BP Connect" will be sold to local
jobbers.
In March 2006, a leak in one of BP's pipelines on the North Slope
of Alaska caused a spill of oil onto the tundra, leading BP to
commit to replace over of federally regulated Oil Transit Lines
(OTLs). As of the end of 2007, one half of the pipeline had been
replaced and all of pipeline are now tested regularly.
BP has recently looked to grow its oil exploration activities in
frontier areas like the former Soviet Union for its future
reserves.
In Russia
, BP owns 50%
of TNK-BP with the other half owned by three
Russian billionaires. TNK-BP accounts for a fifth of BP's
global reserves, a quarter of BP's production, and nearly a tenth
of its global profits.
On July 19, 2006, BP announced that it would close the last 12 out
of 57 oil wells in Alaska, mostly in Prudhoe Bay, that had been
leaking. The wells were leaking insulating agent called Arctic
pack, consisting of
crude oil and
diesel fuel, between the wells and ice.
On 12 January 2007, it was announced that Lord Browne would retire
at the end of July 2007. The new Chief Executive will be the
current head of exploration and production, Tony Hayward. It had
been expected that Lord Browne would retire in February 2008 when
he reached the age of 60, the standard retirement age at BP. Browne
resigned abruptly from BP on 1 May 2007, following the lifting of a
legal injunction preventing
Associated Newspapers from publishing
details about his private life. Hayward succeeded Browne with
immediate effect.
Governance
The Board Members are:
- Peter Sutherland, KCMG – Chairman of BP, board of Goldman Sachs
- Sir Ian Prosser – Non-executive
director
- Byron Grote – Chief Financial
Officer
- Andy Inglis – Chief executive,
Exploration and Production
- Antony
Burgmans – Non-executive director, board of Mauritshuis
, AEGON, Unilever
- Cynthia Carroll – Non-executive
director, CEO of Anglo American,
also board of De Beers
- Sir William Castell –
Non-executive director chairman of The Prince’s Trust
- George David – Non-executive
director
- Tony Hayward – CEO/MD BP
Worldwide
- Ian Conn
- George David vice-chairman of the
Peterson
Institute for International Economics
- Erroll Davis, board of General Motors and Union Pacific.
- Douglas J Flint, CBE director
HSBC
- Dr
DeAnne Julius, director of Chatham House

Financial data
Financial data in millions of
US$
| Year |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
| Sales |
180,186 |
236,045 |
294,849 |
249,465 |
265,906 |
| EBITDA |
22,941 |
28,200 |
37,825 |
41,453 |
44,835 |
| Net Results |
6,845 |
10,267 |
15,961 |
22,341 |
22,000 |
| Net Debt |
20,273 |
20,193 |
21,607 |
16,202 |
16,202 |
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Corporate controversies
August 2006 Prudhoe Bay Shutdown
In
August, 2006, BP shut down oil operations in Prudhoe Bay
, Alaska, due to corrosion in pipelines leading up
to the Alaska
Pipeline
. BP
had spilled over one million litres of oil in Alaska's North Slope.
This corrosion is caused by sediment collecting in the bottom of
the pipe, protecting corrosive bacteria from chemicals sent through
the pipeline to fight this bacteria. There are estimates that about
of oil were released from the pipeline. To date of liquids, about
of soiled snow and of soiled gravel have been recovered. After
approval from the DOT, only the eastern portion of the field was
shut down, resulting in a reduction of until work began to bring
the eastern field to full production on October 2, 2006.In May
2007, the company announced another partial field shutdown owing to
leaks of water at a separation plant. Their action was interpreted
as another example of fallout from a decision to cut maintenance of
the pipeline and associated facilities.
October 2007 Prudhoe Bay spill
On 16 October 2007 Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
officials reported a toxic spill of
methanol at the Prudhoe Bay oil field managed by BP
PLC. Nearly 2,000 gallons of mostly methanol, mixed with some crude
oil and water, spilled onto a frozen tundra pond as well as a
gravel pad from a pipeline. Methanol, which is poisonous to plants
and animals, is used to clear ice from the insides of the
Arctic-based pipelines.
November 2008 BP Supports USA over UK
BP has dumped its plans to build out wind farms and other renewable
projects in Britain for projects in the United States. The US
government incentives for clean energy projects provide convenient
tax shelter for oil and gas revenues, something BP is looking for
with an estimated $8 billion earmarked for the initiative. Lower
economies of scale made the UK wind sector far less attractive than
that of the US.
Canadian oil sands
BP are one of numerous firms who are extracting oil from Canadian
oil sands, a process that produces four
times as much CO2 as conventional drilling, as well as having a
devastating effect on the local environment and communities. The
Cree aboriginal group describe BP as being complicit in 'the
biggest environmental crime on the planet' .
Environmental record
In 2005 BP was considering testing
carbon sequestration in one of its
North Sea oil fields, by pumping
carbon dioxide into them (and thereby
also increasing yields). In 2004, BP began marketing low-
sulfur diesel fuel for
industrial use.
BP intends to create a network of hydrogen fueling stations in the state of California
. BP Solar is a
leading producer of solar panels since its purchase of
Lucas Energy Systems in 1980 and
Solarex (as part of its acquisition of
Amoco) in 2000. BP Solar had a 20% world market share in
photovoltaic panels in 2004 when it had a capacity to produce 90
MW/year of panels.
It has over 30 years experience operating in
over 160 countries with manufacturing facilities in the U.S.
, Spain
, India
and Australia and has more than 2000 employees
worldwide. The BP Alternative Energy division has made major
investments in solar, wind and hydrogen power. Through a series of
acquisitions in the solar power industry BP Solar became the third
largest producer of solar panels in the world. It was recently
announced that BP has obtained a contract for a pilot project to
provide on-site solar power to Wal-mart stores. In the 2006 annual
report Lord Browne noted that BP now has a total wind generation
capacity of nearly 15,000 mega-watts. Based on calculations of
consumption rates by the average American household, 15,000
mega-watts would be sufficient to provide power to 2.5 billion
households. Note that households relative to industry is a small
measure of electric consumption and therefore 15,000 mega-watts is
only a small portion of the world’s electricity needs. However,
this does represent a real commitment to wind power generation and
actually makes BP one of the largest generators of wind power in
the world.
BP was named by Mother Jones Magazine as one of the "ten worst
corporations" in both 2001 and 2005 based on its environmental and
human rights records. In 1991 BP was cited as the most polluting
company in the US based on EPA toxic release data. Since branding
itself an environmentally sound corporation in 1997, BP has been
charged with burning polluted gases at its Ohio refinery (for which
it was fined $1.7 million), and in July 2000 BP paid a $10 million
fine to the EPA for its management of its US refineries. According
to PIRG research, between January 1997 and March 1998, BP was
responsible for 104 oil spills. BP patented the
Dracone Barge to aid in oil spill clean-ups
across the world.

A Gulf gasoline station in Louisville,
KY using the previous BP prototype.
BP purchased all Gulf stations in the southeastern United
States in the 1980's after Chevron, Inc. was forced to divest the
stations by the United States Justice Department.
BP/Amoco was a member of the
Global Climate Coalition an
industry organization established to promote
global warming skepticism but
withdrew in 1997, saying "the time to consider the policy
dimensions of climate change is not when the link between
greenhouse gases and climate change is conclusively proven, but
when the possibility cannot be discounted and is taken seriously by
the society of which we are part. We in BP have reached that
point.".
In March 2002 Lord Browne of Madingley declared in a speech that
global warming was real and that
urgent action was needed, saying that "Companies composed of highly
skilled and trained people can't live in denial of mounting
evidence gathered by hundreds of the most reputable scientists in
the world."
British Petroleum changed its name to BP in 2000, and introduced a
new corporate slogan: “Beyond Petroleum.” It replaced its “Green
Shield” logo with the
helios symbol, a green
and yellow sunflower pattern similar to the emblem of the
Green Party of Canada. These changes
were intended to highlight the company’s interest in alternative
and environmentally friendly fuels. When, in July 2006, BP
admitted, only after journalists became aware of the spill, that it
was facing criminal charges for allowing 270,000 gallons of crude
oil to spread into the Alaskan tundra, critics pointed to the
relative lack of press coverage about the spill as evidence that BP
had successfully "greenwashed" its image while maintaining
environmentally unsound practices.
BP was one nominee for the 2009 Greenwash Awards, on companies
trying to look green and failing.
Texas City Refinery disaster
One of BP's largest refineries in the USA exploded in 2005 causing
15 deaths. The fall-out from the accident continues to cloud BP's
corporate image because of the mismanagement at the plant. There
have been several investigations of the disaster, the most recent
being that from the
U.S.
Chemical
Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. It was preceded by the
Baker report and BP's own internal investigation.
A large column filled with hydrocarbon overflowed to form a vapor
cloud, which ignited. The explosion caused all the casualties and
substantial damage to the rest of the plant. The incident came as
the culmination of a series of less serious accidents at the
refinery, and the engineering problems were not addressed by the
management. Maintenance and safety at the plant had been cut as a
cost-saving measure, the responsibility ultimately resting with
executives in London.
On October 30, 2009 the US
Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) imposed an $87 million
fine on the company for failing to correct safety hazards revealed
in the 2005 explosion. The fine was the largest in OSHA's
history.
Corporate Challenges
BP's image has been tarnished somewhat by its involvement with the
controversial
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline,
criticized for
human rights
abuses, environmental and safety concerns.
BP has also been criticized for the increase in fuel prices in the
UK. On 25 April 2005 Lord Browne stated in an interview with the
BBC that he fully expected petrol prices to stay above £1 per
litre.
In July
2006, a group of Colombian
farmers won a multi million pound settlement from
BP after the British oil and gas company was accused of benefiting
from a regime of terror carried out by
Colombian government paramilitaries
to protect a pipeline.

BP "Helios" fueling station in Los
Angeles
As of 11 February 2007 BP announced that they would spend $8
billion over ten years to research alternative methods of fuel,
including natural gas, hydrogen, solar, and wind.
A $500 million grant
to the University of California,
Berkeley
, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
, and the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
, to create an "Energy Biosciences Institute" has
recently come under attack, over concerns about the global impacts
of the research and privatization of public
universities.
In March
2007, BP unveiled its Helios fuel station on Olympic
Boulevard in Los
Angeles
. The station has radical architecture for a
fuel station, and is a "living lab" for green technologies.
However, although there are solar panels on the roof, as of July
2007 they are not yet operational.
There have been some calls for BP to halt its "Mist Mountain"
Coalbed Methane Project in the Southern Rocky Mountains of British
Columbia. The proposed 500 km² project is directly adjacent to
the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
Contributions to political campaigns
According to the
Center
for Responsive Politics, BP is the United States' hundredth
largest donor to political campaigns, having contributed more than
US$5 million since 1990, 72% and 28% of which went to
Republican and
Democratic recipients,
respectively. BP has lobbied to gain exemptions from U.S. corporate
law reforms.
Additionally, BP paid the Podesta Group, a Washington, D.C.
-based lobbying firm, $160,000 in the first half of
2007 to manage its congressional and government
relations.
In February 2002 BP's
chief
executive,
Lord Browne of
Madingley, renounced the practice of corporate
campaign contributions, noting:
"That's why we've decided, as a global policy, that from now on we
will make no political contributions from corporate funds anywhere
in the world."
BP retail brands
BP
BP is one of the world's shortest and most valuable brands. The
Helios Logo (
Helios was the name of the Greek
sun god), represents energy in its many forms. The value of the
brand is enhanced by the fact that the company ownsthe two letter
internet domain bp.com. The company management was ahead of the
internet age registering the domain in 1989 (Nov 10 1989), years
before internet became popular.Only very few large corporations are
in the VB.com Internet Hall of Fame and own their
acronym as two letter domain name.
ampm
ampm is a convenience store chain with branches located in several
U.S. states including Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon,
Washington, recently in Illinois, Indiana, Georgia and Florida, and
in several countries worldwide such as Japan. In the western US,
the stores are usually attached to an ARCO gas station; elsewhere,
the stores are attached to BP gas stations. BP Connect stations in
the US are transitioning to the ampm brand.
ARCO
ARCO is BP's retail brand on the US West Coast in the seven Western
States of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona,
and Utah. BP acquired ARCO (formerly the AtlanticRichfieldCompany)
in 2000. ARCO is a popular "cash only" retailer, selling products
refined from Alaska North Slope crude at plants at Cherry Point
(WA), Los Angeles (CA) and at other contract locations on the West
Coast.
BP Travel Centre
BP Travel Centers are large scale destination sites located in
Australia which on top of offering the same features of a BP
Connect site with fuel and a Wild Bean Cafe, also feature major
food-retail tenants such as
McDonalds,
KFC,
Nando's and recently
Krispy Kreme, with a large seating
capacity foodcourt. There are also facilities for long-haul truck
drivers including lounge, showers and washing machines all in the
same building. There are 4 travel centers located in South East
Queensland, Australia. Two on the Pacific Highway (Coomera and
Stapylton) and two on the Bruce Highway (Caboolture). A fifth
travel center was opened in 2007 at Chinderah in northern New South
Wales.
BP Connect
BP Connect is BP's flagship retail brand
name with BP Connect Service stations being operated around the UK,
Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and other parts of the world. BP Connect sites feature
the Wild Bean Cafe which offers cafe style coffee made by the staff
and a selection of hot food as well as freshly baked muffins and
sandwiches. The food offered in Wild Bean Cafe varies from each
site. BP Connect sites usually offer table and chair seating and
often an
Internet kiosk. In the US,
the BP Connect concept is gradually being transitioned to the
ampm brand and concept. Some BP Connect sites
around the UK ran in partnership with Marks & Spencer with the
on-site shop being an M&S Simply Food instead of a BP
Shop.
BP Express
BP Express was the flagship BP brand
prior to the introduction of BP Connect in 2000. There are still
some BP Express sites operating around the world but most have been
either upgraded to Connect or changed to an alternative brand. BP
Express offers a bakery service but doesn't have the selection of
food offered in the Wild Bean Cafe and usually coffee is only
available through a self service machine.
BP Shop
BP Shop is commonly used on smaller sites mainly independently
owned sites. Products vary in each BP Shop but usually a selection
of convenience store style food and automotive products.
BP 2go
BP 2go is a franchise brand used for independently operated sites
in New Zealand and is currently being rolled out throughout
Australia (Although not all BP 2go stores are franchises in
Australia). BP 2go sites mainly operate in towns and outer suburbs
in New Zealand. BP 2go offers similar bakery food to BP Connect but
in a pre-packaged form. Some BP Express sites around New Zealand
and Australia that were considered too small to be upgraded to BP
Connect were given the option to change to BP 2go others were
downgraded to BP Shop. Staff at some BP 2go sites wear a different
style of uniform to the rest of the BP branded sites, however in
company owned and operated 2go sites in Australia the same uniform
is worn across all sites.
Castrol
Castrol is a brand of motor oil and other
lubricants which is entirely a
BP brand but tends
to retain its separate identity.
Air BP and BP Shipping
Air BP is the
aviation fuel arm, BP Marine the marine fuels
and lubricants arm and BP Shipping is the Shipping arm within the
BP group
Advertisement
The recent BP advertising campaign has been criticized by many as a
superficial and stereotypical representation of the common man.
Often the ads showcase a series of "man-on-the-street" type
questionnaires in which obviously paid actors answer certain
questions pertaining to BP. However, the music composed by BP for
the purpose of the ads has been praised and lauded.
BP was also recently awarded a satirical prize, the "Emerald
Paintbrush" award, by
Greenpeace UK. The
"Emerald Paintbrush" award was given to BP in order to highlight
its alleged
greenwashing campaign.
Critics point out that while BP advertises its relatively minimal
investment in alternative energy sources, the majority of its
investments continue to go into
fossil
fuels.
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BP is a sponsor of the Scripps Institution CO2 program to measure
carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
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- The history of the British Petroleum Company
- Vol. I:R.W.Ferrier, The Developing Years 1901-1932,
Cambridge University Press, 1982
- Vol. II: James H. Bamberg, The Anglo-Iranian Years,
1928-1954, Cambridge University Press, 1994
- Vol. III: James H. Bamberg, British Petroleum and Global
Oil, 1951-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism, Cambridge
University Press, 2000
For the early history of BP in Iran and Iraq see
Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Kingmakers: the Invention of
the Modern Middle East. W.W. Norton (2008)ISBN
978-0-393-06199-4
See also
Notes
- " Contact BP in the United Kingdom." BP.
Retrieved on 18 August 2009.
- " Maps." City of Westminster. Retrieved on 28 August
2009.
- It's about time oil started defending
itself
- Australian Dictionary of Biography
-
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/the-greatest-20th-century-beneficiary-of-popular-mythology-has-been-the-cad-churchill-1876680.html
- Yousof Mazandi, United Press, and Edwin Muller, Government by
Assassination (Reader's Digest September 1951)
- [1]
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http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/The-British-Petroleum-Company-plc-Company-History.html
- [2]
- New York Times article, 1953
- Kinzer, All the Shah's Men, (2003), p.195–6
- Background to Confrontation
- Natural Gas and Alaska's Future: The Facts page
22
- BP dossier
- Sohio timeline
- TNK appoints Sir Peter Walters
- Privitisation
- Kuwait has 10% of BP
- Britain drops a barrier to BP bid
- Organising for performance: how BP did it
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- BP and Amoco in oil mega-merger
- BP strikes it rich in America
- BP Amoco to buy Burmah Castrol
- BP sells chemical unit for £5bn
- Errors led to BP refinery blast
- BP puts 100 gas stations up for sale in
Colorado.(British Petroleum Company PLC)
- Gas station signs of change
- BP to Sell Most Company-Owned, Company-Operated
Convenience Stores to Franchisees
- Oil Gushes into Arctic Ocean from BP
Pipeline
- "BP Set to Leave Russia Gas Project" by Guy Chazan and Gregory
White, Wall Street Journal, 2007-06-22 p. A3.
- BP CEO set to retire
- BP's Browne quits over lie
- BP: The Board
- Alaska Oil Spill Fuels Concerns Over Arctic
Wildlife, Future Drilling
- BP accused of 'draconian' cost cuts prior to
Alaskan pipeline spill
- Methanol and crude spill from Prudhoe Bay
pipeline
- BP (LON:BP) report - Concentrating on operational
efficiencies and production
- The tactics of these rogue climate elements must
not succeed
- Cree aboriginal group to join London climate camp
protest over tar sands
- Seabed supplies a cure for global warming
crisis
- Ten Worst Corporations of 2000
- The 10 Worst Corporations of 2005
- bp: Beyond Petroleum?
- SaveTheArctic.com
- How green is BP?
- George Monbiot: Behind the spin, the oil giants are
more dangerous than ever | Comment is free | The Guardian
- Edinburgh Evening News
- [3]
- Baker Panel Report
- Associated Press, "BP fined record $87 million for safety
breaches", October 31, 2009.
- The Baku Ceyhan Pipeline: BP's Time Bomb
- UK petrol could top £1 a litre
- BP pays out millions to Colombian farmers
- Energy Biosciences Institute - Main Home
- Stop
BP-Berkeley
- About the station | The greencurve
- 'Green' BP Station Still Pumps Gas : NPR
- BP unveils green gas station : Business News :
Redding Record Searchlight
- Citizens concerned about project
- BP stops paying political parties
- VB.com
Internet Hall of Fame - List of large corporations that own a Two
Letter .com Domain
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