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    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
      Oil & Gas industry
      BP’s bumper earnings stoke new calls for windfall tax

      Oil major reports highest underlying quarterly profit in more than 10 years

    • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      BP to divest stake in Russian state-oil company Rosneft

      Move could hit oil major with $25bn of charges after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
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      Oil major’s Irish boss predicts ‘beautiful’ future after riding out blows and missteps early in the job

    • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
      BP PLC
      BP raises dividend and announces share buyback to win back investors

      Energy group takes advantage of oil price rally to return cash as it plots a greener future

    • Thursday, 27 May, 2021
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      Activists issue ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell with a wake-up call

    • Tuesday, 27 April, 2021
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      Chief executive says oil major hit its debt target a year early

    • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
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      BP cuts debt load ahead of schedule

      Oil company indicates it will restart share buybacks following ‘very strong’ first quarter

    • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
      BP PLC
      BP reports first annual loss in a decade

      Oil major posts 96% drop in fourth-quarter profit as industry continues to reel from pandemic

    • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
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      Rosneft’s massive Arctic oil push undermines BP’s green turn

      Russian group presses ahead with $134bn project as UK company stakes bet on producing less crude

    • Friday, 13 November, 2020
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      BP/Rosneft: a Russian pall Premium content

      Bernard Looney retains a nose for the sulphurous black stuff despite greener policies

    • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
      BP PLC
      BP and Orsted plan green hydrogen project

      UK oil major teams up with Danish offshore specialist as it pursues net-zero goal

    • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
      LombardCat Rutter Pooley
      BP has yet to prove it is performing or transforming

      Investors will need patience when delivering a verdict on Bernard Looney’s overhaul; St James’s Place under fire

    • Friday, 25 September, 2020
      BP PLC
      BP battles to calm investor jitters as shares sink to 25-year low

      Concerns over Covid outweigh any optimism on oil group’s grand plan for energy transition

    • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
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      Your latest energy news: Nord Stream 2’s future, service groups hit after oil’s price drop, latest monthly oil market assessments

    • Tuesday, 4 August, 2020
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      BP: the race to zero Premium content

      Slashing output by almost a quarter in the next five years seems risky

    • Thursday, 23 July, 2020
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      A split on how to measure carbon emissions Premium content

      Your latest energy news: BP’s Bernard Looney and Bob Dudley diverge, a leading climate-tech incubator goes to Houston, and your earnings round up

    • Monday, 29 June, 2020
      BP PLC
      BP agrees $5bn sale of petrochemicals business to Ineos

      Oil group moves to bolster finances as energy sector takes a financial hit from coronavirus

    • Monday, 15 June, 2020
      BP PLC
      BP to take up to $17.5bn hit on assets after cutting energy price outlook

      Oil major expects demand to stay lower for longer and the shift away from fossil fuels to accelerate

    • Monday, 8 June, 2020
      BP PLC
      BP to slash 10,000 jobs as pandemic bites

      UK group seeks 15% reduction in workforce and accelerates strategic shift

    • Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
      Moral Money
      Moral Money special edition: In depth with BP’s Bernard Looney

      ‘I can only see Covid adding to the challenges of oil in the years ahead’

    • Tuesday, 12 May, 2020
      Oil & Gas industry
      BP chief sees risk of oil demand passing peak as pandemic hits

      Sustained consumption crunch beyond coronavirus crisis cannot be ruled out, says Bernard Looney

    • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
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      UK energy major maintains its dividend despite ‘brutal’ environment

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