BP | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:05:05 1 History
00:05:14 1.1 1909 to 1954
00:13:32 1.2 1954 to 1979
00:19:04 1.3 1979 to 1997
00:23:31 1.4 1998 to 2009
00:28:33 1.5 2010 to present
00:34:46 2 Operations
00:35:23 2.1 Operations by location
00:35:33 2.1.1 United Kingdom
00:37:19 2.1.2 United States
00:42:29 2.1.3 Other locations
00:48:28 2.2 Exploration and production
00:50:17 2.3 Refining and marketing
00:54:20 2.4 Alternative and low carbon energy
00:58:26 3 Corporate affairs
00:58:53 3.1 Stock
01:02:37 3.2 Branding and public relations
01:07:10 3.3 LGBTQ recognition
01:09:05 4 Environmental record
01:09:15 4.1 Indigenous rights
01:09:36 4.2 Position on global warming
01:10:52 4.3 Hazardous substance dumping 1993–1995
01:12:26 4.4 Air pollution violations
01:15:01 4.5 Colombian farmland damages claim
01:16:48 4.6 Canadian oil sands
01:18:05 5 Violations and accidents
01:22:48 5.1 1965 Sea Gem offshore oil rig disaster
01:23:30 5.2 Texas City Refinery explosion and leaks
01:24:16 5.2.1 2005 explosion
01:27:38 5.2.2 2007 toxic substance release
01:28:38 5.2.3 2010 chemical leak
01:31:00 5.3 Prudhoe Bay
01:36:20 5.4 2008 Caspian Sea gas leak
01:37:43 5.5 California storage tanks
01:38:52 5.6 iDeepwater Horizon/i explosion and oil spill
01:41:06 5.6.1 Environmental impact
01:44:30 5.6.2 Effects on human health
01:47:30 5.6.3 Civil and criminal suits
01:49:53 5.6.4 Claims settlement
01:50:58 6 Political influence
01:51:08 6.1 Lobbying for Libyan prisoner transfer release
01:52:02 6.2 Political contributions and lobbying
01:53:47 7 Market manipulation investigations and sanctions
01:57:58 8 See also



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BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company plc and BP Amoco plc) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas "supermajors", whose performance in 2012 made it the world's sixth-largest oil and gas company, the sixth-largest energy company by market capitalization and the company with the world's 12th-largest revenue (turnover).  It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy interests in biofuels and wind power.
As of  31 December 2017, BP had operations in 70 countries worldwide, produced around 3.6 million barrels per day (570,000 m3/d) of oil equivalent, and had total proved reserves of 18.441 billion barrels (2.9319×109 m3) of oil equivalent. The company has around 18,300 service stations worldwide. Its largest division is BP America in the United States. In Russia, BP owns a 19.75% stake in Rosneft, the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company by hydrocarbon reserves and production. BP has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has secondary listings on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
BP's origins date back to the founding of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1908, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and in 1954 British Petroleum. In 1959, the company expanded beyond the Middle East to Alaska and it was one of the first companies to strike oil in the North Sea. British Petroleum acquired majority control of Standard Oil of Ohio in 1978. Formerly majority state-owned, the British government privatised the company in stages between 1979 and 1987. British Petroleum merged with Amoco in 1998, becoming BP Amoco plc, and acquired ARCO and Burmah Castrol in 2000, becoming BP plc in 2001. From 2003 to 2013, BP was a partner in the TNK-BP joint venture in Russ ...