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British oil and gas multinational BP Plc (NYSE:BP) has announced plans to sell its onshore wind business in the U.S., saying the business is not aligned with its growth plans as it seeks to focus on its Lightsource BP solar partnership. The company says it will launch the sale process …

BP has signed a deal with US space agency NASA which could see its technology used on Mars or the moon in future. Under the agreement, BP America and NASA will share digital technologies and technical expertise from “decades of experience operating in harsh environments”. This includes digital models and …

BP will team up with the government of Iraq to rehabilitate and develop four oil and gas fields in the northern region of Kirkuk. The two sides signed a preliminary agreement to that effect this week. The deal follows another one, signed in 2013, for the development of the giant …

British Oil & Gas giant BP Plc has predicted that global oil demand will peak next year while wind and solar capacity will continue to grow rapidly. In its latest edition of its annual Energy Outlook, BP has published a study of the evolution of the global energy system to …

Azerbaijan will get a welcome earnings boost from BP’s announcement that it has launched production at a new $6-billion facility in Azerbaijan’s giant Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil field. The upgrade can boost the field’s output by as much as 25 percent. Dubbed Azeri-Central-East (ACE), the facility consists of a new production platform …

BP is expected to reverse a previous commitment to reduce oil and gas production by the end of the decade amid a broader pivot in the industry to continue providing the hydrocarbons the world needs, some of the biggest shareholders in the UK-based supermajor told the Financial Times. BP’s peer …

BP has cut over a tenth of its workforce in its EV charging business, BP Pulse, as the supermajor is downsizing the division and retreating from several countries to focus on just four key markets, Reuters reported on Monday, quoting sources at the company. BP has cut more than 100 …

A giant semi-submersible rig, which is considered to be one of the largest ones ever built, has gone back to the UK’s Kishorn Port (KPL), a 50/50 joint venture between Ferguson Transport (Spean Bridge) and Leiths (Scotland), to prepare for its return to the drilling campaign with Britain’s energy giant …

BP Plc plans to invest about $1.5 billion in Egypt during the next few years as it seeks to develop gas projects and drilling in the North African country. The spending, which will be net to BP, follows the London-based major’s announcement earlier this month it will form a gas-focused …

A 3.8-million-ton liquefaction train at BP’s Tangguh LNG plant in Indonesia has been shut down for a week now due to technical problems. This is according to Upstream, which cited local media as saying the liquefaction train at the 11.4-million-ton facility had been shut down for a week now. This …