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Battered BP spends £1.75bn on Gulf spill

Mon, 28th Jun 2010 07:03

The massive clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico continues and has now cost BP $2.65bn (£1.75bn) and the oil giant is stopping almost 23,000 barrels of oil from leaking into the sea.BP, which said last Friday that its bill for the disaster had risen to $2.35bn (£1.57bn) from $2bn (£1.4bn) on the Monday, has so far spent $128m settling 41,000 of 80,000 claims.Two systems are collecting oil and gas flowing from the Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out preventer (BOP) and transporting it to vessels on the surface. The lower marine riser package (LMRP) containment cap, installed on 3 June, collected 14,730 barrels of oil on Saturday, while the second system flared an additional 8,020 barrels of oil. That takes the total collected since the explosion in April to about 435,600 barrels on top of the 652,000 barrels of oily liquid skimmed from the surface of the sea, although millions of gallons are still leaking and washing up along America's Gulf coast.An additional containment system, expected to be ready by the end of this month or early July, should be able to catch an extra 20,000-25,000 barrels a day, increasing total oil containment capacity to 40,000-50,000 barrels.At the start of the crisis, BP said just a few thousand barrles were escaping from the broken well. That soon rose to 5,000 before a recent internal memo put the maximum theoretical flow rate at 60,000 barrels of oil a day, although the author accepts it "could be as high as 100,000 barrels". Shares in the stricken firm sunk close to 300p a share for the first time in 14 years Friday as clean-up costs continue to spiral and on fears about legal action, storms in the Gulf of Mexico, a possible fundraising and trouble in Alaska.
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BP profit slides by 40% as refinery outage offsets higher output

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7 May 2024 12:00

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Stocks buoyed by local data, strong US equities

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LONDON MARKET OPEN: Stocks track global equities rise while BP falls

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TOP NEWS: BP keeps up pace of share buybacks despite profit decline

(Alliance News) - BP PLC on Tuesday launched a fresh share buyback, despite a drop in first-quarter profit due to lower oil and gas prices and weaker fuels margins.

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BP in $1.75bn buyback as Q1 profits fall on weaker prices, margins

(Sharecast News) - BP reported a worse-than-expected fall in first-quarter profit on the back of lower oil and gas prices, an outage at a US refinery and "significantly weaker" fuels margins as it also started a $1.75bn share buyback.

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Shell to exit South Africa's downstream businesses

CAPE TOWN, May 6 (Reuters) - Oil major Shell will divest its majority shareholding from a local South African downstream unit after a comprehensive review of its businesses across all regions, it said on Monday.

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3 May 2024 13:47

British regulator awards more North Sea oil and gas licences

NSTA awards 31 new licences aimed at boosting output

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2 May 2024 12:02

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: FTSE 100 shines but "mixed feelings" after Fed

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Next PLCTrading Statement
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First Tin PLCTrading Statement
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Melrose Industries PLCTrading Statement
NAHL Group PLCFull Year Results
Reach PLCTrading Statement
Shell PLCQ1 Results
Smiths News PLCHalf Year Results
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Spectris PLCTrading Statement
Standard Chartered PLCQ1 Results
TI Fluid Systems PLCQ1 Results
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BP PLCQ1 Results
Ebiquity PLCFull Year Results
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Kosmos Energy LtdQ1 Results
MaxCyte IncQ1 Results
Trident Royalties PLCTrading Statement
Vaalco Energy IncQ1 Results
  
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Norway's wealth fund falls short on climate ambitions, NGO says

OSLO, April 29 (Reuters) - Norway's $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, is falling short on its climate ambitions by failing to back multiple shareholder proposals pushing oil companies to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, a non-governmental organization said in a report said on Monday.

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