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    BP (redirect from British Petroleum)
    BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company...
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  • with Tesoro Corporation, and was formed to acquire the assets of British Petroleum as it exited operations in the Caribbean. (The government bought out...
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    BP Canada was a Canadian petroleum company and subsidiary of British Petroleum that existed between 1955 and 1992. The name refers to a group of companies...
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    The name petroleum covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil and petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Petroleum is primarily...
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  • Ralston Purina sold Purina Mills, the U.S. animal feed business, to British Petroleum in 1986, while retaining the pet food and international animal feed...
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    for the misuse of the term "British Petroleum" for the company – a name which has not been used since British Petroleum merged with the American company...
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  • The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), formerly known as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company that had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration...
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    British Petroleum!". UrbLife.com. July 4, 2010. Dove (July 4, 2010). "Jamie Hector Talks Acting to Activism; From Black Panthers to British Petroleum...
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    Anglo-Persian Oil Company (category Use British English from December 2023)
    Persia by its endonym Iran. In 1954, it was renamed again to The British Petroleum Company, one of the antecedents of the modern BP public limited company...
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  • United Energy Pakistan (UEP), formerly known as BP Pakistan, is a subsidiary of Chinese United Energy Group in Pakistan with a footprint in Sindh province...
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    Grangemouth Refinery (category Use British English from September 2019)
    was purchased by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a forerunner of the British Petroleum Company (later known as BP) The refinery operated from 1924 to 1939...
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    included Tydol, Flying A, and Veedol. The Veedol brand was owned by British Petroleum until 2011, when Veedol was sold by BP to Tidewater India. Now it...
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    The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation...
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    many centuries, the modern petroleum industry along with its outputs and modern applications are of a recent origin. Petroleum's status as a key component...
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  • was founded in 1960 by the government of Kenya with Shell and the British Petroleum Co. BP. As of June 2016, 100 percent of the shares are owned by the...
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    at the Wayback Machine "Statistical Review of World Energy 2008". British Petroleum. Archived from the original on 2008-07-27. EIA: International Energy...
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    (/ˈɡɛti/; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-born British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the...
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    Marathon Petroleum Corporation is an American petroleum refining, marketing, and transportation company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company was...
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    Petroleum politics have been an increasingly important aspect of diplomacy since the rise of the petroleum industry in the Middle East in the early 20th...
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  • Group, the Anglo-Persian Company (which would eventually become the British Petroleum Company, or BP), Compagnie Française des Pétroles (a predecessor of...
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    the crash site was on November 9, 1958, by a British oil exploration team working for British Petroleum (BP) in the northeast of Libya's Kufra District...
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    the British SIS (MI6) as Operation Boot. In 1954, the AIOC became British Petroleum. The return of the shah had not meant that British Petroleum was able...
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    field is located on Alaska's North Slope and lies between the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska to the west and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to...
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  • Andrew Hall (hedge fund manager) (category British hedge fund managers)
    MBA from INSEAD. Upon graduation from Oxford in 1973, Hall joined British Petroleum where he served in various posts, the last as Vice President of BP...
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    District Court for the Southern District of New York in Waldron v. British Petroleum Co., 231 F. Supp. 72 (S.D.N.Y. 1964), mentioned in passing that the...
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    equity from Advent in 2006 for European expansion, Fleetcor launched British Petroleum (BP) Mastercard, a North American major oil co-branded fleet card...
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    companies later became part of the Seven Sisters, which dominated global petroleum production in the 20th century, and became a majority of today's largest...
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    FTSE 100 Index (category Use British English from April 2017)
    rising or falling. In 1987, privatisations continued with British Airways and British Petroleum. The latter concluded on the same day as Black Monday, a...
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    state signed agreements with British Petroleum and Gulf and after its shares were progressively increased, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation was founded on 27...
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    In 1985, it changed its corporate name to Amoco. Amoco merged with British Petroleum in December 1998 to form BP Amoco, renamed BP in 2001. The firm's...
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