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...He got a green light from US president Joe Biden to allow countries to supply Kyiv with F-16 fighter jets....
...Enter BP Amoco, now the largest gasoline retailer in the world with some 29,000 stations, which is making the boldest attempt yet by an oil company to try to steer the focus of the traditional filling station...
...Only last year the four companies spent a combined $55m on lobbying....
...“Betting on small mining companies is often a bit of a punt but in this case it really is a full-on punt.”...
...The 69-year-old, who helped trigger a wave of megamergers across the oil industry after BP bought Amoco for $50bn two decades ago, now heads the energy business of LetterOne, the investment fund founded...
...The 62-year-old American joined the company as part of its $50bn merger with Amoco in 1998, a deal which, for a time, made BP the second-biggest non-state-owned oil producer by market capitalisation after...
...In Akhmetshin’s telling, he may be a mercenary but he knows his limits. “I will never f**k with Russian state,” he says in idiosyncratic English spoken with a light Russian accent....
...Mexico 19 Quentin Goodwin head of commercial, SABMiller 20 Cory Valente R&D leader, strategic recruiting, Dow Chemical Company 21 Ali Hannon communications manager, American Express 22 Stuart Barette...
...Japan's monetary policy meeting and third-quarter earnings at Shell and BP....
...The fall in crude after the 1997 Asian financial crisis ushered in today’s oil and gas supermajors after a flurry of megamergers that included BP’s tie-up with Amoco, Exxon with Mobil and Texaco with Chevron...
...1 Aritha Wickramasinghe Associate, K&L Gates “By being visible, LGBT leaders send the message to LGBT youth that being themselves is not a detriment to their careers.” 2 Mark McBride-Wright Safety Engineer...
...Latest from fastFT: London-listed specialty chemicals group Alent is set to be bought by Platform Specialty of the US in a deal that values it at GBP1.35bn....
...It means a lot when a company says they value your demographic.” 5 Claudia Brind-Wood VP & MD Intellectual Property Licensing, IBM 6 Paul Reed CEO, Integrated Supply & Trading, BP “I don’t want people...
...Venture capitalists and specialist investors back early-stage innovative companies as they grow and flourish....
...world of le Carré revisited / From Mr Valerio Fiandra A beautiful piece on a great man / From Mr Erik F Nielsen A bucket of cold water for hot-headed pugilists / From Mr Stephen Hazell-Smith...
...Officially known as BP Amoco for less than two-and-a-half years, the company dropped the Amoco in 2001 and retired the brand from the US market....
...When BP merged with Amoco in 1998, Larry Fuller, the US company’s chairman, ran down a list of his top 200 people for Lord Browne, and picked out Mr Dudley as a rising star with an unusual combination of...
...rate running above 25% - UK solar industry review to ban ‘hot money’ - Hilary Devey replaces James Caan on Dragons’ Den - Bank of England attempting inflation ‘confidence trick’ - BP...
...In Berlin, chemical company Bayer rose 4.2 per cent to €48.51 after test results for one of its new products were positive. West LB raised the stock from “neutral” to “add”....
...Rabobank’s indices, Rabo Fastracks Asia Pacific Top 20 and Global ex-Asia Top 20, include companies such as K&S, Lindsay Corp, Nufarm and China Yurun Food group....
...Showing an aptitude for maths and engineering, he followed his father to Texas A&M, and was going to be a chemical engineer....
...Mitchell, who had a degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M, worked for oil group Amoco for a year and a half before serving in the US Army Corps of Engineers....
...A message that should echo beyond Big Oil So long after the event, it is easy to assume there is nothing new in the US Chemical Safety and Hazards Board’s report on the BP refinery accident – 335 pages...
...Ms Carroll, currently chief executive of Alcan Primary Metal, a unit of the Canadian aluminium producer, is the first non-South African and first external candidate to head the company, and the first woman...
...Many of the problems at the 70-year-old plant had, no doubt, been inherited by BP when it acquired the refinery in 1998 as part of its purchase of Amoco....
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