
BP
BP p.l.c. is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors" and one of the world's largest... Wikipedia
- Type: Public limited company
- Traded as: LSE: [ ], FWB, NYSE: BP, FTSE 100 component (BP.)
- ISIN: [ GB0007980591]
- Industry: Oil and gas
- Predecessors: Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Castrol, Standard Oil, Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of Indiana, ARCO, Amoco
- Founded: April 14, 1909 (as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company), January 10, 1870 (as Standard Oil, which partially broke up into Standard Oil of Ohio, ARCO, and Amoco which all merged into BP), December 16, 1954 (as British Petroleum)
- Founders: William Knox D'Arcy, Charles Greenway
- Area served: Worldwide
- Key people: Helge Lund (chairman), Bernard Looney (chief executive)
- Products: Petroleum, Natural gas, Motor fuels, Aviation fuels
- Brands: Amoco, Aral, ARCO, BP, BP Connect, Castrol
- Production output: 3.7 Moilbbl/d of BOE (2018)
- Services: Service stations
- Revenue: US$241.39 billion (2022)
- Operating income: US$18.04 billion (2022)
- Total assets: US$288.12 billion (2022)
- Total equity: US$82.99 billion (2022)
- Number of employees: 70,000 (2023)
- Data source: DuckDuckGo