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BP announced that it has successfully started production from the third and fourth wells at the Thunder Horse field with production now in excess of 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), signalling the completion of commissioning and commencement of full operation.
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BP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) today agreed to establish the Clean Energy Commercialisation Centre (CECC) joint venture in Shanghai, jointly investing some RMB500 million ($73million) to commercialise Chinese clean energy technologies.
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BP is making good progress in its drive to improve performance, chief executive Tony Hayward said today as the company announced underlying profits for the third quarter of 2008 of $8.9 billion, excluding non-operating items and fair value accounting effects.
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Today the American Red
Cross reached the halfway mark in its efforts to raise $100 million through
its Campaign for Disaster Relief, which was launched in September to
replenish the organization's Disaster Relief Fund.
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Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP Exploration (Angola) Limited today announced the Dione oil discovery in ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola.
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In response to the devastating effects of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav on impacted communities in Texas and Louisiana, BP announced that the BP Foundation will donate $8 million to community organization
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FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and BP Solar announced today the completion and activation of a second project together-a solar system for a FedEx Freight distribution center in Fontana, Calif.
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An overhaul of the governance structure of Russia's third largest oil company, TNK-BP, has been agreed in principle by the two main owners, BP and Alfa Access-Renova (AAR).
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BP announced today that it was withdrawing 60 remaining technical specialists, formerly assigned to TNK-BP, from Russia.
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BP Alternative Energy today announced that it has acquired the Whiting Clean Energy facility, a 525 megawatt (MW) natural-gas fired combined-cycle cogeneration power plant located in Whiting, Indiana, USA.
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BP Products North America (BPPNA) has entered into an agreement with Petroterminal de Panama S.A.
(PTP) that will allow BP to ship crude oil to its US West Coast refineries through the Trans-Panama Pipeline (TPP).
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BP announced today that it intends to take a 50 per cent stake in Tropical BioEnergia SA, a joint venture established by Brazilian companies Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group, which is constructing a 435 million liter (115 million gallons) a year ethanol refinery in Edeia, Goias State, Brazil.
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Work to begin immediately on new joint pipeline effort to bring Alaska gas to market.
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BP America Inc. announced today an oil discovery at its Kodiak prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
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DuPont and BP have announced that their partnership to develop and commercialize biobutanol is targeting advanced metabolic pathways for 1-butanol as well as other higher octane biobutanol isomers.
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BP today announced an increase of 25 per cent in its quarterly dividend, taking it to a level 31 per cent higher than a year ago.
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Commenting on the discovery, Andy Inglis, chief executive of BP Exploration and Production said: "Portia strengthens our track record of exploration success in Block 31.
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BP announced today that it is moving into the Canadian oil sands by acquiring a half-share in the Sunrise field in Alberta operated by Husky Energy.
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BP's U.S. Convenience Retail unit announced today that it will sell all of its company-owned and company-operated convenience stores.
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Today, BP Products North America, Inc. agreed to pay a total criminal fine of more than $60 million for violations of federal environmental regulations in Texas and Alaska.
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