BP
 BP  (Big Oil)            | |
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| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Leaders | • BP/CEO • BP/Board chair |
| Subgroups | Amoco |
| Staff | 74,500 |
| Member of | Business Roundtable, Council on Foreign Relations/Corporate Members |
| Subpage | •BP/Board •BP/CEO •BP/CFO •BP/Chair •BP/Deputy chair •BP/Managing director |
| Multinational oil company implicated in the 1953 Iran Coup. | |
BP (British Petroleum) is a multinational oil company.
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1953 Iran Coup
- Full article: Iran/1953 coup d'état
- Full article: Iran/1953 coup d'état
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1973 "Oil Crisis"
- Full article: Oil Crisis
- Full article: Oil Crisis
The 1973 Bilderberg was attended by the BP CEO, and many other CEOs of Big Oil, and they discussed a large rise in the price of oil. Later that year, this happened.
2003 Invasion of Iraq
Whereas BP was insisting in public that it had "no strategic interest" in Iraq, in private it told the Foreign Office that Iraq was "more important than anything we've seen for a long time".[1]
At a meeting in October 2002, the Foreign Office's Middle East director at the time, Edward Chaplin, noted: "Shell and BP could not afford not to have a stake in [Iraq] for the sake of their long-term future... We were determined to get a fair slice of the action for UK companies in a post-Saddam Iraq."[1]
Deepwater Horizon
- Full article: Deepwater Horizon
- Full article: Deepwater Horizon
The explosion of the BP platform, Deepwater Horizon, has presented a challenge to those who wish to portray it as a green company.
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Meeting the Gaze of the Ghost in the Rubble | Article | 28 February 2024 | George Gunn | Meanwhile the ghost still looks out from the rubble of Gaza. Her stare searches across the ocean of our conscience like the beam of a lighthouse. The ghost in the rubble asks of us all: why can we not stop this madness and feed the people? |
