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...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...
...(50-70 bp pa, FY20-24E)....
...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 April he was cleared of fraud claims relating to a $19bn purchase of a chemicals company....
...Carlyle Group has beaten rival private equity groups to reach a $3.2bn deal with Total for the French company’s Atotech chemicals business....
...A 36-year Shell veteran who joined the company direct from a chemical engineering degree at Birmingham university, Mr Abbott took charge of downstream operations when his predecessor, Ben van Beurden, became...
...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...
...There must have been some hollow laughs at BP this week when its old rival Royal Dutch Shell chose Ben van Beurden – a downstream guy more familiar with chemicals and liquefied natural gas than oil exploration...
...Browne, chief executive of BP during the energy company’s golden age from 1995 to 2007, blends science and engineering with history and personal reminiscence in this lucid guide to seven ubiquitous chemical...
...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...
...Wendell V. Graham, Washington DC, USA TF: In total about 24 UK stocks can be bought in the US....
...Joined Alcan in 1989 after eight years as petroleum geologist in oil exploration for Amoco. She is a non-executive director of BP, Anglo Platinum and De Beers....
...The company needed more skilled engineering and energy technology personnel to help it take waste and low-rank coal and gasify it to create chemical products: “SES needed solid process engineers and technologists...
...– which saw the opportunity for BP to pounce on Amoco, owner of Texas City; his quest for higher production; his ability to wring savings out of the combined group....
...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....
...For BP, the situation was magnified by the acquisitions of Amoco in 1998 and Arco in 1999, which led to further cost cutting....
...At the tail end of the 1990s, BP took over US oil companies Amoco and Arco, followed by the purchase of Burmah Castrol in 2000....
...BP has accepted responsibility for the explosion, yet it has not admitted a company-wide problem with its safety culture. “We continue to co-operate with the CSB,” said Ronnie Chappell, BP spokesman....
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