BP Net Profit Improves, but Shares Fall
Typically when a company sees its net profit improve, it will see its shares rise as well. However, this is not the case for BP. Just recently, the ...
by Lynnette Adamson July 27th, 2011
BP Steps Up to Defend Russian Oil Deal
The chief executive of BP, Bob Dudley, and minister Lord Howell just recently stepped up to defend a recent oil deal. The British government and leaders of BP came out fighting and completely dismissed criticism from the United States. Lord Howell, ...
by Emma Young January 26th, 2011
BP Sees Raising Hostility in America after Signing Deal with a Russian Oil Company
Everyone around the world knows the name BP. This is Britain's leading oil company. Currently it is facing hostility and suspicion from the United States over an alliance with the Russian state oil firm Rosneft. Apparently this new deal between ...
by Justin Becks January 18th, 2011
BP Finally Seals Gulf Coast Well For Good
Now tourism authorities on the Gulf Coast of America have a new task before them, and that task is getting people to change their perception of the region. This news comes in as BP, the British energy giant, announced that ...
by Beth Williams September 21st, 2010
BP Efforts to Permanently Stop Oil Flow May Be Delayed by Tropical Storm
Although people are ready for this oil spill problem to be done with for good, it seems that efforts to finally stop it permanently could be delayed. This is due to the fact that the Gulf of Mexico, where the ...
by Samantha Donovan July 26th, 2010
BP Finally able to Plug the Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak
Reports are now showing that, after 87 days, BP has at least temporarily contained the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, which had threatened to bring the company down. Although this news is unlikely to bring a whole lot ...
by Lynnette Adamson July 19th, 2010
BP Now Looks to Raise $9 Billion From Selling South American Assets
According to new reports, BP is now looking to raise some extra money by selling some of its South American assets to China. China will be bailing out BP by buying up at least $9 billion worth of energy assets ...
by Lynnette Adamson July 7th, 2010
BP Gas Stations in the United States Attract Negative Reaction From Consumers
It now appears that Americans are not quite ready to forget about the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Unfortunately for staff working at BP petrol stations around the United States, it would seem that American consumers are taking it out on them and anything that is bearing the BP logo. The
by Jason Drew July 5th, 2010
BP Reports Energy Consumption Fell During the Global Downturn
According to energy company BP, the recent global recession led to a decline in overall energy consumption. The company pointed out, in its 2010 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, that the amount of energy used in 2009 was lower ...
by Samantha Donovan June 14th, 2010
Oil Industry to See Insurance Costs Rise Thanks to BP Disaster
Many people all over the world have already heard about BP, which is a British energy company, and its huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Just after this, the oil industry was hit by a sharp rise in ...
by Beth Williams June 7th, 2010
BP Says Dash For Gas Is UK Best Energy Hope
The chief executive of BP, Tony Hayward, says that wind power ambitions may not be able to meet the UK's energy need. He goes on to say that these green energy programs need to be scaled down. BP, the UK's largest oil company, warned just earlier this week that Britain's offshore
by Tessa Clarke February 5th, 2010
