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BP Group

BP P.L.C.
Public limited company
Traded as
ISIN GB0007980591
Industry Oil and gas
Predecessors
Founded May 1908; 109 years ago (1908-05) (as Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
14 April 1954 (1954-04-14) (as The British Petroleum Company P.L.C)
31 December 1998 (1998-12-31) (as BP Amoco P.L.C.)
1 May 2001 (2001-05-01) (as BP P.L.C.)
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products Petrochemicals
Production output
3.3 Mbbl/d (520×10^3 m3/d) of oil equivalent (2016)
Services Service stations
Revenue DecreaseUS$183.0 billion (2016)
IncreaseUS$(2.89 billion) (2016)
Profit IncreaseUS$115 million (2016)
Total assets IncreaseUS$263.3 billion (2016)
Total equity IncreaseUS$96.84 billion (2016)
Number of employees
74,500 (2016)
Subsidiaries Amoco
Website www.bp.com
External video
Frontline: The Spill (54:25), Frontline on PBS

BP P.L.C., formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London. 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 twelfth-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 2016, BP had operations in 72 countries worldwide, produced around 3.3 million barrels per day (520,000 m3/d) of oil equivalent, and had total proved reserves of 17.81 billion barrels (2.832×109 m3) of oil equivalent. The company has around 18,000 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 and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has secondary listings on the and the .


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