![]() ![]() Among them were the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion, which caused the death of 15 workers and which resulted in a record-setting OSHA fine Britain's largest oil spill, the wreck of Torrey Canyon in 1967 and the 2006 Prudhoe Bay oil spill, the largest oil spill on Alaska's North Slope, which resulted in a US$25 million civil penalty, the largest per-barrel penalty at that time for an oil spill. BP has been directly involved in several major environmental and safety incidents. The company trades on the London Stock Exchange (where it is a member of the FTSE 100 Index), the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and the New York Stock Exchange.įrom 1988 to 2015, BP was responsible for 1.53% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions. BP had a market capitalisation of US$98.36 billion as of 15 September 2022, placing it 122nd in the world, and its Fortune Global 500 rank was 35th in 2022 with revenues of US$164.2 billion. BP is the fourth-largest investor-owned oil company in the world by 2021 revenues (after ExxonMobil, Shell, and TotalEnergies). Its largest division is BP America in the United States. The company has around 18,700 service stations worldwide, which it operates under the BP brand (worldwide) and under the Amoco brand (in the United States) and the Aral brand (in Germany). Īs of 31 December 2018, BP had operations in nearly 80 countries, produced around 3.7 million barrels per day (590,000 m 3/d) of oil equivalent, and had total proven reserves of 19.945 billion barrels (3.1710 ×10 9 m 3) of oil equivalent. From 2003 to 2013, BP was a partner in the TNK-BP joint venture in Russia, and from 2013 until Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, held a nearly 20% stake in Rosneft. The company's name was shortened to BP p.l.c. ![]() British Petroleum merged with Amoco in 1998, becoming BP Amoco plc, and acquired ARCO and Burmah Castrol in 2000 and Aral AG in 2002. Formerly majority state-owned, the British government privatised the company in stages between 19. British Petroleum acquired majority control of Standard Oil of Ohio in 1978. In 1959, the company expanded beyond the Middle East to Alaska. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and in 1954, adopted the name British Petroleum. It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and extraction, refining, distribution and marketing, power generation, and trading.īP's origins date back to the founding of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. It is one of the oil and gas " supermajors" and one of the world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits. (formerly The British Petroleum Company plc and BP Amoco plc) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. ![]()
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