May 19, 2013
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Description
BP plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fifth-largest company in the world measured by 2012 revenues and is one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". It is vertically integrated and operates in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy activities in biofuels and wind power.
As of December 2012, BP had operations in over 80 countries, produced around 3.3 million barrels per day of oil equivalent, and had around 20,700 service stations. Its largest division is BP America, which is the second-largest producer of oil and gas in the United States. BP owns a 19.75% stake in the Russian oil major Rosneft, the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company by hydrocarbon reserves and production. As of December 2012, BP had total proven commercial reserves of 17 billion barrels of oil equivalent. BP has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of £85.2 billion as of April 2013, the fourth-largest of any company listed on the London Stock Exchange. It has secondary listings on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange.
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