by | Oct 18, 2010 | Towing
As it continues to raise funds to deal with the fallout from the Gulf oil spill, oil giant BP (BP) is set to sell a total of $1.8 billion in assets in Venezuela and Vietnam to TNK-BP.
TNK-BP, a joint venture between BP and a group of Russian billionaires, will make a $1 billion deposit by Oct. 29 and pay the rest in the first half of 2011, Bloomberg News reported.
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BP to Sell Venezuela, Vietnam Assets for $1.8 Billion originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:28:00.
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by | Oct 1, 2010 | Towing
BP (BP) named the U.S. oil assets that will help finance its $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil disaster.
Revenue from oil fields including Thunder Horse, Atlantis and Mad Dog will be tied to compensation payments, the oil giant said in a statement.
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“The pledging of these assets underscores our commitments to the Trust which we set up to pay all legitimate…
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BP Names Assets as Collateral For Compensation Fund originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:04:00.
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by | Sep 29, 2010 | Towing
Incoming BP (BP) CEO Bob Dudley fired the executive at the center of the Gulf oil disaster and created a new division to improve safety.
Andy Inglis, the head of the company’s upstream business, will leave the company at the end of the year, BP said in a statement.
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The company also set up a safety and operational risk unit to monitor and enforce safety standards across BP. Mark Bly…
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BP Creates Safety Unit, Fires Executive originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:15:00.
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by | Sep 21, 2010 | Towing
BP (BP) will join an oil spill response group formed by fellow oil giants Exxon Mobil (XOM), ConocoPhillips (COP), Chevron (CVX) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A).
BP will make its underwater well containment equipment and personnel available to the group, called the Marine Well Containment Co., The Washington Post said.
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The other four oil companies said they would spend $1 billion on…
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BP Will Join Other Oil Giants in Spill Response Group originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:49:00.
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by | Sep 17, 2010 | Towing
BP’s (BP) relief well reached intercepted the Macondo well, putting engineers in a position to permanently plug the well that spewed out millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The relief well intercepted the Macond…
