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| February 4, 2013 |
| 05:59 EDT |  | BP | An improving BP still faces battle with U.S. over Gulf disaster, WSJ reports
Tomorrow, BP (BP) reports its performance in the last quarter of 2012, and it appears that the oil giant has much to be pleased about after two and a half tough years, reports the Wall Street Journal. But the company still faces a potentially costly battle with the U.S. government over civil penalties for the pollution in the Deepwater Horizon disaster that resulted in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Reference Link |
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| May 20, 2013 |
| 08:08 EDT | | BP | EU to review fracking concerns, Reuters reports
Environmental concerns over the practice of hydraulic fracturing to get at shale gas will be on the EU's agenda this year, EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told the German newspaper Die Welt, reports Reuters. Reference Link |
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| 05:40 EDT | | BP | U.S. oil futures rally as many commodities decline, WSJ reports
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| May 17, 2013 |
| 16:21 EDT |  | BP | On The Fly: Closing Wrap
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| 13:09 EDT |  | BP | Tesoro receives FTC clearance for purchase of BP refining, marketing business
Tesoro (TSO) announced that the Federal Trade Commission has cleared the company's planned acquisition of BP's (BP) fully integrated Southern California Refining and Marketing business and that Tesoro intends to close the acquisition during Q2. The clearance from the FTC came without any impacts to the assets or operations in the transaction as announced in August of last year. The purchase price of BP's assets is $1.075B, plus the market value of inventory, currently estimated at $1.3B. This amount includes a $100M purchase price reduction for the clearance with regulatory authorities. |
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| May 16, 2013 |
| 14:46 EDT | | BP | Tesoro may take over BP California assets as soon as June 1, Reuters says
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| 14:32 EDT | | BP | Tesoro may take ownership of BP Carson refinery, other assets as soon as June 1
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| 07:11 EDT | | BP | BP wants PM Cameron to discuss Gulf compensation with U.S., Reuters reports
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| 06:08 EDT | | BP | On the Fly: Periodicals Wrap-Up
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| May 15, 2013 |
| 08:38 EDT | | BP | WTI crude falls for a fith consecutive day, Bloomberg reports
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| 05:55 EDT | | BP | EU inspects firms in oil investigation, WSJ reports
EU antitrust authorities carried out unannounced inspections of energy giants BP (BP), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A) and Statoil (STO), escalating an investigation of alleged oil-price manipulation amid scrutiny of how prices are set in global financial markets, reports the Wall Street Journal. EU officials are investigating whether the three companies manipulated prices in the $2.5T physical-oil market by giving false data to an oil index publisher, the Platts unit of McGraw Hill Financial (MHFI). Platts's offices were also inspected.Reference Link |
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| May 14, 2013 |
| 11:08 EDT | | BP | BP says involved in EC probe, cooperating with investigation, Bloomberg reports
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| 07:10 EDT | | BP | IEA says North American oil will dominate world supply growth, WSJ reports
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