12 May 2017 – A delegation from BP Angola today visited the Greater Plutonio agribusiness project in Benguela province to reaffirm its commitment to the important economic development program for local stakeholders. The third phase of the project, implemented by a local NGO ADRA, focuses on improving the productivity and commercialization capability of the cooperatives […]
10 May 2017 – BP today announced that it has started gas production from the first two fields, Taurus and Libra, of the West Nile Delta development in Egypt. The project was delivered eight months ahead of start-up schedule and under budget. First gas was exported to Egypt’s national grid on 24 March 2017 and […]
Yakaar-1 exploration well result confirms potential scale of the petroleum system offshore Mauritania and Senegal LONDON – 8 May 2017 – BP along with joint venture partner Kosmos Energy announced today a major gas discovery offshore Senegal. The Yakaar-1 exploration well was drilled to a total depth of approximately 4,700 meters in nearly 2,550 metres […]
27 April 2017 – BP today announced that it has agreed to sell its 50% stake in the Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Company Limited (SECCO) to Gaoqiao Petrochemical Co Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), BP’s joint venture partner, for a total consideration of $1.68 billion. “This decision aligns our petrochemicals […]
Using new technique, BP finds significant additional resources in the Gulf of Mexico HOUSTON – 27 April 2017 – BP today announced a major breakthrough in seismic imaging that has identified more than 200 million barrels of additional resources at BP’s Atlantis field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. As a result of this early […]
25 April 2017 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – TomTom Telematics and BP have joined forces to offer businesses an innovative fuel and driver management solution. BP FleetMove combines fuel transaction information from BP fuel cards with driver behavior data from the TomTom Telematics Service Platform in one, easy-to-use interface. This new collaboration uses the ‘plug […]
13 April 2017 – BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC (bpTT) today announced the start-up of the Trinidad onshore compression (TROC) project – one of seven major upstream projects BP expects to bring online in 2017. Full start-up will take place over the next few months. When fully onstream, the onshore compression facility will have the […]
3 April 2017 – Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between BP and DuPont, combining expertise in fuels with industrial biotechnology, today announced the acquisition of Nesika Energy, LLC and its state-of-the-art ethanol facility in Scandia, Kansas. Butamax will now start the detailed engineering work to add bio-isobutanol capacity to the facility, while […]
3 April 2017 – BP today announced it has agreed to sell its Forties Pipeline System (FPS) business, with assets including the main Forties offshore and onshore pipelines and other associated pipeline interests and facilities, to INEOS. Subject to partner, regulatory and other third party approvals, operatorship of the FPS assets and business will transfer […]