One of the many jobs that Lee Edwards took on during his 25-year career at BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, was leading the energy giant's effort to re-brand itself. Today as the CEO of Virent Energy Systems, a seven-year-old biofuel startup in Madison, Wis., he is truly trying to move beyond petroleum. With a proprietary process it calls "BioForming," Virent says it can turn plant sugars from corn, switchgrass, and other crops into gasoline that has a higher energy density than ethanol.
Oil prices fell back below $80 a barrel Tuesday as the Bush administration's unprecedented plan to inject $250 billion into the nation's banking system failed to allay fears of a decline in demand due to recession.
Oil firms Royal Dutch Shell and BP have made better-than-expected first-quarter profits thanks to the rising price of oil, which is close to $120 a barrel
Shares in BP PLC fell Tuesday after a newspaper reported that the oil company's chief executive had warned staff of poor third-quarter results.
BP Plc posted a 1 percent drop in quarterly post-tax profit to $6.087 billion as production fell and refinery outages prevented the oil giant from taking full advantage of near-record refining margins.
British oil major BP Plc, Associated British Foods Plc and U.S. chemical company DuPont plan to build a new plant to make transport fuel from wheat in Hull, north-east England.
BP Plc said on Friday its Russian joint venture TNK-BP had agreed to sell Gazprom its 62.9 per cent stake in Rusia Petroleum, the company which holds the licence for the Kovykta gas field in East Siberia.
John Browne was once said to be one of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's favorite businessmen and held one of the highest-profile positions in British industry.
Oil producer BP PLC said Tuesday it had appointed Tony Hayward as its new chief executive, effective immediately, following the decision by John Browne to resign.
Americans may drink French wines, drive German cars, and wear Italian suits, but when it comes to buying shares, they prefer to stay close to home. Which is too bad for those who want to keep buyin...
One of the many jobs that Lee Edwards took on during his 25-year career at BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, was leading the energy giant's effort to re-brand itself. Today as the CEO of Virent Energy Systems, a seven-year-old biofuel startup in Madison, Wis., he is truly trying to move beyond petroleum. With a proprietary process it calls "BioForming," Virent says it can turn plant sugars from corn, switchgrass, and other crops into gasoline that has a higher energy density than ethanol.
Oil prices fell back below $80 a barrel Tuesday as the Bush administration's unprecedented plan to inject $250 billion into the nation's banking system failed to allay fears of a decline in demand due to recession.
Oil firms Royal Dutch Shell and BP have made better-than-expected first-quarter profits thanks to the rising price of oil, which is close to $120 a barrel
Shares in BP PLC fell Tuesday after a newspaper reported that the oil company's chief executive had warned staff of poor third-quarter results.
BP Plc posted a 1 percent drop in quarterly post-tax profit to $6.087 billion as production fell and refinery outages prevented the oil giant from taking full advantage of near-record refining margins.
British oil major BP Plc, Associated British Foods Plc and U.S. chemical company DuPont plan to build a new plant to make transport fuel from wheat in Hull, north-east England.
BP Plc said on Friday its Russian joint venture TNK-BP had agreed to sell Gazprom its 62.9 per cent stake in Rusia Petroleum, the company which holds the licence for the Kovykta gas field in East Siberia.
John Browne was once said to be one of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's favorite businessmen and held one of the highest-profile positions in British industry.
Oil producer BP PLC said Tuesday it had appointed Tony Hayward as its new chief executive, effective immediately, following the decision by John Browne to resign.
Americans may drink French wines, drive German cars, and wear Italian suits, but when it comes to buying shares, they prefer to stay close to home. Which is too bad for those who want to keep buyin...
Europe's economies may be growing slowly, but its markets are heading for a fourth year of double-digit increases. We found six promising stocks. By Nelson D. Schwartz, Fortune senior writer
"This is where it all started," says BP Prudhoe Bay field manager Kemp Copeland, pointing to a rust-colored steel pipe snaking its way across the bleak Alaska tundra 250 miles north of the Arctic C...
How could BP, a company that has made being green a core part of its identity, even rebranding itself as "Beyond Petroleum," suffer within one year both the worst oil spill in the history of the North Slope and the worst U.S. refinery accident in more than a decade?
Oil giant BP says it has requested permission from the Department of Transportation to restart operations for the eastern part of the BP Prudhoe Bay pipeline in Alaska, the part that was shut down this summer upon the discovery of severe pipeline corrosion.
New BP America president Bob Malone spoke with FORTUNE's Abrahm Lustgarten about Prudhoe Bay and the company's string of problems.
BP's top U.S. executives told lawmakers Thursday that the company stumbled by failing to prevent a major Alaskan pipeline from becoming crippled by corrosion.
Oil prices fell back near $67 a barrel Thursday after oil giant BP said its Prudhoe Bay facility in Alaska could reach full capacity by next month.
In his first interview since early in BP's Prudhoe Bay pipeline crisis, new BP America president and chairman Robert Malone took time out with Fortune's Abrahm Lustgarten to talk about what went wrong in Alaska and whether BP's string of problems mean the world's second largest oil company has widespread operational difficulties in North America.
The western half of Alaska's giant Prudhoe Bay oil field can stay in production while corroded pipes in the eastern half are replaced, BP America announced late Friday -- cutting in half the potential impact on U.S. oil supplies.
BP America may know by this weekend whether it can keep the western half of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field in production while it replaces corroded pipes in the eastern half.
A BP executive, under fire over the Alaska pipeline closure, defended the company's response to a two-year-old memo sent to BP's board detailing widespread corrosion, safety issues and other problems at the company's Prudhoe Bay oil field.
BP's Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska could be back up to full production early in 2007, the U.S. government said on Tuesday as global oil prices continued to climb.
In a blow to drivers already struggling with high gasoline prices, BP was forced to shut about 8 percent of the nation's domestic oil production for what seems to be a period of weeks after discovering "unexpectedly severe corrosion" in its pipelines in Alaska.
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Investors in London warmed to Anglo American's restructuring plan on Wednesday, with BP's downturn from its third-quarter results short-lived after a Merrill Lynch upgrade.
BP PLC will pay a fine of $21.3 million to settle government claims of more than 300 safety violations after a March explosion and fire at its huge Texas City, Texas refinery that killed 15 and injured more than 170.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Innovene Inc., the petrochemical unit of U.K. oil giant BP PLC (BP), filed an initial public offering Monday to sell up to $1 billion in common stock, according to a Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
BP Plc, the world's second-largest oil company by market capitalization, reported surging second-quarter profits thanks to high oil prices, but a massive charge for injuries at its Texas City refinery blast dashed expectations of a record result.
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One more body was found Thursday by searchers combing the ruins of part of a Texas refinery after an explosion at the site Wednesday, refinery officials said.
At least 14 people died and more than 70 others were injured in an explosion that ripped through a BP oil refinery in southeastern Texas on Wednesday, a company spokesman said.
In an industry peopled with Texans who drop their "g's" and seem fresh from the set of Rawhide, BP's John Browne is decidedly different. Lord Browne of Madingley, as he is formally known, is as con...
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