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BP is considering plans to outsource its UK fuel delivery operations, which could affect the jobs of up to 450 tanker drivers at depots including Grangemouth and Stanlow. 23-Sep-2009 BP is to close its oil storage depot at the Port of Sunderland, with the loss of seven jobs. 15-Sep-2009 BP is to close the headquarters of its alternative energy business in County Hall, London, with the relocation of about 80 jobs to its corporate head office in St James's Square. 18-Jun-2009 BP is to shed more than 5,000 of the 90,000 jobs in its global oil business this year. 04-Feb-2009 BP is considering plans to open up to 50 standalone Wild Bean Cafes by the end of next year, having just opened the first at Portsmouth's Continental Ferry Port. 15-Jul-2008 BP has announced plans to invest £280m in biofuels, including the development of two ethanol refineries in Brazil in partnership with Grupo Maeda and Santelisa Vale. 28-Apr-2008 BP has won approval to build a new £50m gas processing plant at the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland by summer 2010. 07-Apr-2008 BP Oil UK is planning to resume fuel distribution at Buncefield in Hemel Hempstead, having invested more than £10m in safety improvements since an explosion in 2005. 13-Mar-2008 BP is planning to shed 1,500 jobs in the UK, as part of a cost-cutting programme that will result in the loss of 5,000 jobs from its 97,000-strong global workforce. 06-Feb-2008 BP is to shed about 350 jobs in Aberdeen over the next six months, with office-based staff and contractors being hardest hit. 25-Oct-2007 BP has confirmed plans to start relocating 1,000 staff to its new offices in Aberdeen during the first quarter of 2008. 13-Aug-2007 BP is to relocate its BP Alternative Energy business to a 40,000 sq ft office at County Hall in London SE1. 23-Jul-2007 BP is to invest £56m in a joint venture with D1 Oils, in order to develop biodiesel crops such as jatropha. 02-Jul-2007 BP is linking up with Associated British Foods and DuPont to build a £200m biofuels plant at Saltend, Hull, by 2009, with the creation of up to 85 jobs. 27-Jun-2007 BP is to announce a £4m training investment that will involve sending hundreds of engineers on mid-career courses at the University of Manchester. 15-May-2007 BP is looking to sell its ethyl acetate and vinyl acetate monomer operations, including 40 staff at Saltend in Hull, and has also announced plans to restructure its acetic acid business with the transfer of 30 jobs from Middlesex to Saltend. 14-Mar-2007 BP is to sell its Coryton refinery in Essex, which employs 540 staff and about 500 contractors, to Petroplus Holdings of Switzerland for about £700m. 02-Feb-2007 BP is planning to develop a nationwide network of 150 franchised BP Connect and Wild Bean Cafe outlets by 2010, to add to the existing 170 company-owned sites. 15-Nov-2006 BP is in negotiations to set up three new offices in the Thames Valley, including 60,000 sq ft in Swindon, 73,000 sq ft in Stockley Park and 90,000 sq ft in Staines. 28-Aug-2006 BP is looking to sell its Coryton refinery in Essex, including the related distribution terminal and bitumen business, as part of a strategy to reduce the size of its European refining network. 28-Jun-2006 BP is looking to sell off 50 petrol station sites around the country to franchisees for about £50m. 12-Jun-2006 BP is looking to sell its Dutch oil exploration, production and infrastructure operations, which employ 120 staff, by the end of the year. 10-May-2006 BP is to close its property department with the loss of some of the 500 Sunbury-based jobs, in order to transfer the work to other departments. 13-Mar-2006 BP Retail is looking to open a further 20 franchised BP Connect convenience stores next year, following a trial in Wigan and Manchester. 05-Dec-2005 BP is to invest £4.6bn in wind, hydrogen and solar power over the next ten years, with the creation of about 500 jobs in a new division called BP Alternative Energy. 29-Nov-2005 Npower has bought Great Yarmouth power station from BP for £155m. 09-Nov-2005 BP is considering plans to shed up to 2,500 of the 28,000 jobs in its European downstream operations. 31-Oct-2005 BP is to sell its Innovene petrochemicals and refining business to Ineos for £5bn, having dropped plans for a partial flotation of the business. 10-Oct-2005 BP and Scottish & Southern Energy have announced plans to build a new kind of power plant in Peterhead at a cost of £335m, which will involve the conversion of natural gas into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. 04-Jul-2005 BP's Innovene division has announced plans to build a £1.1bn plastics plant in Saudi Arabia by 2008, in partnership with Delta International. 09-Jun-2005 Morrisons and BP are to terminate their convenience stores joint venture, with BP taking 31 of the sites and Morrisons 30. 11-Apr-2005 BP has announced plans to install a £13m sulphur recovery unit at its Grangemouth refinery by the end of the year. 20-Jan-2005 BP Solvay Polyethylene is to close its Rigidex 3 HDPE plant at Grangemouth early next year, with the redeployment of 75 staff. 24-Nov-2004 BP is looking to raise about £380m from the sale of its stake in the Ormen Lange Norwegian gas field. 20-Oct-2004 BP Japan has reached agreement with Petrolub International to merge their automotive lubricant operations, creating a new company called BP Castrol KK with annual sales of $180m. 05-Aug-2004 BP is planning to relocate its 1,100 Aberdeen-based office staff to a new £40m 172,000 sq ft scheme, and a preferred developer will be appointed following a design competition. 10-May-2004 BP Coryton is to close the lubricants manufacturing operation at its Coryton refinery in Essex, with the loss of about 200 jobs. 26-Apr-2004 BP Retail is planning to convert a further 70 of its 600 company-owned forecourt convenience stores to the Connect format this year. 20-Apr-2004 BP is to sell its global special products business, including production and distribution activities with net assets of £10m, to German speciality products company H&R Wasag. 05-Apr-2004 BP is looking to sell 60% of its chemicals division, including its olefins production business, having ring-fenced £3.3bn of petrochemical assets. 30-Mar-2004 BP is to sell its refining assets in Singapore to the Singapore Petroleum Company for £75m. 02-Mar-2004 BP Chemicals is to close its Isopropanol production plant at Baglan Bay in Port Talbot next month, with the loss of 55 jobs. 19-Feb-2004 BP is looking to sell 270 petrol stations in Malaysia and Singapore. 07-Jan-2004 BP has won approval to build 300 petrol stations in the Guangdong province of China, in partnership with PetroChina. 05-Nov-2003 BP and Sonatrach of Algeria have formed a joint venture to import the entire capacity of National Grid Transco's LNG terminal at the Isle of Grain in Kent, in order to prevent a fuel shortage in the UK. 27-Oct-2003 BP is to sell its specialist oil products business to H&R WASAG of Germany, including manufacturing plants in Chorley, Tipton, Germany and the Netherlands as well as marketing operations elsewhere in Europe. 10-Oct-2003 BP is to lease a 128,000 sq ft office at 20 Canada Square in London's Canary Wharf. 12-Sep-2003 BP has put the lease and operation of its Sullom Voe power station out to tender, and interested parties include Scottish & Southern Electric, Fortum O&M, Innogy and Dalkia Utilities. 19-Aug-2003 BP has acquired 25 service stations in central Scotland from Texaco, in exchange for 21 of its own sites in Wales and the south-west. 11-Jul-2003 BP is to raise £440m from the sale of half of its Algerian natural gas assets to Statoil of Norway. 24-Jun-2003 BP and the Iranian Oil Company are to invest about £350m in the development of the Rhum gas field in North Sea. 22-May-2003 BP is planning to shed a further 190 jobs at its petrochemicals site in Grangemouth over the next 12 months. 15-May-2003 BP is planning to build a £200m purified terephthalic acid production plant at its Geel site in Belgium by 2006, and design work will be carried out by Technip Italy. 28-Mar-2003 BP is said to be considering plans to set up a major new headquarters in Aberdeen, and may lodge a planning application by the summer to revamp its existing site in Dyce or build a new base nearby. 24-Feb-2003 BP is to sell its gas production interests in the southern basin of the North Sea to Perenco of France for £104m. 14-Feb-2003 BP is to invest £4bn in the acquisition of a 50% stake in the TNK oil company in Russia, and has also announced plans to invest in oil fields in Azerbaijan, the Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad and Angola. 12-Feb-2003 BP has announced a £250m deal to sell a 45% stake in the Bayernoil refinery, an 18% stake in the Trans Alpine Pipeline, 247 retail stations in Germany, 55 stations in Hungary and 11 in Slovakia to OMV Aktiengesellschaft of Austria. 11-Feb-2003 BP has agreed to sell the Fosroc Mining chemicals division of Burmah Castrol, including 13 manufacturing sites in seven countries, to a management buy-out backed by Close Brothers Private Equity for £32m. 31-Jan-2003 BP has announced plans to spend £26m on the restoration of a fluidised catalytic cracking unit at its Grangemouth plant near Falkirk by March 2004. 22-Jan-2003 BP is to shed 1,000 jobs in the US, including 150 exploration and production jobs in Houston and 500 retail marketing jobs in Atlanta. 22-Jan-2003 BP is to sell the Forties oilfield in the North Sea and 61 small Gulf of Mexico fields to Apache of the US in a £830m deal, and the proceeds will be invested in other assets in the Gulf of Mexico and Azerbaijan. 14-Jan-2003 BP is to sell Sericol, the speciality printing chemicals business with 1,200 staff worldwide and a factory in Broadstairs, to US investment firm Saratoga Partners for £75m. 08-Jan-2003 BP is to sell 494 German petrol stations to PKN Orlen of Poland for £90m, in order to gain regulatory approval for the acquisition of Veba Oil. 12-Dec-2002 BP has awarded a £250m contract to Bond Offshore Helicopters to transport offshore workers in the North Sea, casting doubt over the future of 100 jobs at existing supplier CHC Scotia. 11-Dec-2002 BP is planning to shed up to 5,000 jobs, in order to eliminate management duplication between former BP, Amoco and Arco staff. 04-Nov-2002 BP has warned 300 staff and 250 contractors that cost reductions are needed at the Sullom Voe oil and gas terminal in Shetland, which is expected to lead to job losses and a cut in processing capacity. 31-Oct-2002 BP is to sell its network of 70 service stations and other inland fuels businesses in Cyprus to Hellenic Petroleum of Greece for undisclosed terms. 17-Oct-2002 BP is forming a joint venture with Rosneft to explore for oil in the Sakhalin V zone in eastern Russia. 11-Jul-2002 BP is to build a £2bn 1,090-mile oil pipeline across Turkey in partnership with Eni, Statoil and Unocal. 06-Jun-2002 BP is planning to shed a further 800 jobs among its contractors as part of a restructuring of its North Sea operations, which will affect operations in Aberdeen, Shetland, Teesside and Norfolk. 03-Jun-2002 BP and BG Group have agreed a complex deal to swap assets in the North Sea, with BG increasing its stake in the Neptune and Atlantic gas fields and BP acquiring cash and minority stakes in a number of oil fields. 22-May-2002 BP is to increase its stake in Russian oil company Sidanco from 10 to 25% at a cost of £260m. 17-Apr-2002 BP Chemicals is to sell its Performance Films packaging business, including plants in Barnsley and Poland with more than 400 staff, to Parkside Flexibles of West Yorkshire for undisclosed terms. 05-Apr-2002 BP is planning to shed 500 jobs, including 200 in Aberdeen, in order to improve the profitability of its North Sea oil operation. 25-Mar-2002 BP is considering plans to launch a chain of standalone Connect convenience stores in urban areas, once the format has been developed on petrol station forecourts. 11-Feb-2002 BP and ChevronTexaco have announced plans to build a £16m 22MW wind farm at their Nerefco oil refinery near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. 17-Jan-2002 Amec has won a £40m contract from a BP-led consortium for the construction of a £1.9bn petrochemical plant near Shanghai in China. 11-Jan-2002 BP has announced plans to go ahead with the £53m development of the Maclure field north-east of Aberdeen, and production will start next year. 05-Dec-2001 BP is to shed 1,000 jobs at its Grangemouth refinery and petrochemical complex, following a review of its management and financial performance. 14-Nov-2001 BP is developing what is claimed to be the world's most environmentally friendly forecourt store at Hornchurch in Essex, using a combination of wind and solar power, and the concept could be extended to other sites. 12-Nov-2001 BP is to provide $10m of funding to the Chinese Academy of Sciences for a 10-year research programme into strategic and technical issues relating to the development of cleaner sources of energy. 06-Nov-2001 BP has announced plans to proceed with the £650m development of the Clair oil field west of Shetland, with construction starting early next year. 18-Oct-2001 BP is to set up a new global headquarters for 200 senior staff in London's West End early next year, having bought the freehold of No 1 St James's Square for about £110m. 08-Oct-2001 BP is planning to build a new £110m North Sea headquarters in Aberdeen to house 2,000 staff, and has also reaffirmed plans to invest $1bn a year on UK offshore development over the next four years. 21-Sep-2001 BP is in negotiations with three companies about the £200m sale of its Fosroc construction chemicals business. 10-Sep-2001 DCC has acquired BP's oil marketing and distribution business in Scotland and northern England, including 200 staff, nine storage depots, 90 road tankers and three call centres. 04-Sep-2001 BP is to close a low-density polyethylene plant at Wilton, but efforts will be made to re-deploy some of the 81 employees. 22-Aug-2001 BP is expected to start work on the £1.8bn In Salah gas development in Algeria soon, having agreed a key gas sales contract with Sonatrach. 13-Aug-2001 BP is investing £120m in the development of 80 eco-friendly BP Connect convenience store and filling station sites between Scotland's Central Belt and Aberdeen. 01-Aug-2001 BP is to sell two US refineries in North Dakota and Utah to Tesoro Petroleum, in a £480m deal that also includes pipelines, storage and 45 service stations. 18-Jul-2001 BP is to acquire Veba Oil and the Aral chain of service stations from Eon in exchange for its 25% stake in Ruhrgas, which will make BP the leading petrol retailer in Germany. 17-Jul-2001 BP is to sell two Burmah Castrol chemical businesses - Foseco in the West Midlands and Chem-Trend in the US - to Cinven for £240m. 13-Jul-2001 BP is looking to sell its 65.5% stake in Vysis, the US life sciences company that has 130 staff and was acquired with the 1998 purchase of Amoco. 12-Jul-2001 BP has acquired Cairns of Malaysia for £76m, in order to increase its stake in the Tangguh gas project in Indonesia to 50%. 09-Jul-2001 BP is to provide £10m of funding to the Scottish Forest Alliance, which has announced plans to plant five new forests in Scotland over the next 10 years. 22-Jun-2001 BP is expected to announce plans this summer for the £600m development of the Clair oilfield west of Shetland, and UK shipyards will have to compete with US companies for a £200m oil platform contract. 29-May-2001 BP, Shell, Exxon and Phillips Petroleum are to invest $15bn in the Core Venture One gas exploration and development project in Saudi Arabia. 21-May-2001 BP is to invest £208m on a new development west of Shetland, including five infill wells and a new two-well subsea scheme known as East Foinaven. 15-May-2001 BP, Shell and other companies have been approached by the government about the possibility of building a large photovoltaic cell manufacturing plant in the UK, in order to encourage the uptake of solar energy. 03-May-2001 BP Energy has won government permission to build a 70MW gas-fired combined heat and power station at the Jaguar car plant in Halewood, which will create 250 construction jobs. 06-Apr-2001 BP has been chosen as preferred bidder to build China's first liquefied natural gas plant, which could lead to an investment of £120m in a gas import terminal near Shenzhen and 300 km of pipeline. 21-Mar-2001 BP Amoco has shortlisted three companies to buy Burmah Castrol's speciality chemicals division, which could fetch up to £800m. 14-Feb-2001 BP is to sell its 9.5% stake in the Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan to TotalElfFina for £275m. 05-Feb-2001 BP Amoco is considering plans to shed about 3,000 of its 28,000 worldwide petrol stations over the next three years, and the remaining sites will be redeveloped to offer more goods and services. 22-Jan-2001 BP is linking up with the Gas Authority of India and Indian Oil to build a new plant to produce dimethyl ether, which is an alternative fuel for power stations. 16-Jan-2001 BP is looking to sell is plastic fabrications and fibres operations for an estimated £400m, as part of a strategy to focus its chemicals business on petrochemical intermediates. 12-Jan-2001 BP is to provide £2.5m for the foundation of a new academic discipline - low-energy building design - at Cambridge University. 20-Dec-2000 BP and Solvay of Belgium are planning to reorganise their plastics operations through an asset swap and new joint ventures, with BP gaining a polypropylene business in exchange for its engineering polymers business. 20-Dec-2000 BP is planning to build a £320m pipeline between Shetland and the Magnus field which will secure 1,000 jobs, and the company will also invest £210m in the Foinaven field. 18-Dec-2000 BP is opening its first internet-enabled Connect petrol station at Hammersmith in west London, the first of a nationwide chain of 80 outlets being planned for next year. 12-Dec-2000 BP is planning to sell three US oil refineries in order to raise up to $500m and increase the focus on its more profitable exploration and production activities. 17-Nov-2000 BP is developing a shortlist of companies interested in acquiring its Burmah Castrol chemicals business for about £800m, and frontrunners include venture capital groups Cinven and BC Partners. 23-Oct-2000 BP and RWE are considering plans to combine their petrol station and refining operations in Germany, as RWE is looking to focus on its electricity business. 20-Sep-2000 BP and Shell have confirmed plans to acquire a combined stake of 28% in Sinopec of China, with each investing £300m in the forthcoming sale of shares. 12-Sep-2000 BP has announced a £2.7bn investment package for the North Sea over the next four years, including the imminent award of drilling contracts for the Clair Field west of Shetland and the go-ahead for the £300m Magnus Field enhancement project. 11-Sep-2000 BP and Ford are discussing plans for an alliance to collaborate in the development of new fuel technologies, traffic management systems and environmental policy. 29-Aug-2000 BP is expected to announce plans within a month for a £300m Enhanced Oil Recovery project west of Shetland, which will involve laying a gas pipeline from the Schiehallion field to Sullom Voe. 16-Aug-2000 BP has announced plans to increase capital expenditure in the North Sea, investing £600m in the area in 2000 and even more in 2001. 10-Aug-2000 BP is to build two new gas pipelines in Holderness next year, as part of a project to scale down the gas terminal at Easington and move some of the operations to Dimlington. 07-Aug-2000 BP is selling a package of North Sea gas assets to Tullow Oil for £201m, including shares in a number of fields, pipelines and terminals. 01-Aug-2000 BP Amoco has launched a new global brand to bring the group together under a single identity, which will involve a new logo, dropping Amoco from its name and the conversion of 28,000 retail sites over the next four years. 24-Jul-2000 BP Amoco is selling its Alliance refinery in Louisiana to Tosco of the US for £437m, and a related pipeline complex is being sold to an undisclosed buyer. 14-Jul-2000 BP Amoco is to increase capital expenditure to £8.9bn a year, including a 30% rise in spending on oil and gas exploration and production, as part of a plan to focus more on organic growth following a period of rationalisation. 12-Jul-2000 BP Amoco is expected to invest up to £100m in improvements at its Grangemouth petrochemical plant, after it has conducted a full safety audit of the site. 23-Jun-2000 BP Amoco is to acquire a 2.2% stake in Sinopec in order to strengthen its position in the Chinese oil market, and further deals are expected to involve the import and distribution of natural gas. 22-Jun-2000 BP Amoco is to close its phthalic anhydride production unit in Hull, and its linear phthalates business will be sold to Lonza for undisclosed terms. 08-Jun-2000 BP Amoco is forming a joint venture with Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation on two gas projects in Egypt, which will include the development of a liquefied natural gas plant. 08-Jun-2000 BP Marine, the international marine supplies division of BP Amoco, is forming a marketing alliance with Unitor ASA of Norway to offer their combined range of products to ship operators on a global business. 07-Jun-2000 BP Amoco is forming an alliance with the Epower consortium to become Ireland's leading supplier of electricity and gas, which will include the development of the 400MW Powerstown power station. 02-Jun-2000 BP Amoco is planning to acquire Bayer's 50% stake in their Cologne-based ethylene joint venture, in a deal estimated at £338m. 30-May-2000 BP Amoco has announced a major natural gas discovery off the coast of Trinidad. 11-May-2000 BP has announced plans to restructure its operations in Northern Ireland, which will involve the sale of 20 forecourt sites over the next two years. 10-May-2000 BP Oil UK has appointed Tankfreight to handle its third-party fuel distribution, in a contract worth about £80m over five years. 26-Apr-2000 BP Amoco and Shell are linking up with 12 other companies to establish an e-procurement portal for the energy and petrochemicals industries. 12-Apr-2000 BP Amoco is acquiring a 3% stake in Altra Energy Technologies, the wholesale energy exchange, in order to increase its web trading of oil and gas. 29-Mar-2000 BP Amoco is planning to buy a £600m stake in PetroChina, and the two companies have also announced a natural gas and retail fuel marketing joint venture. 24-Mar-2000 BP Amoco is planning to revert to its former name of BP, as part of a rebranding exercise that will also result in the shield logo being dropped. 17-Mar-2000 BP Amoco is to acquire Burmah Castrol for £3bn in order to expand its lubricants business, but Burmah's chemicals business is expected to be sold off for about £800m. 15-Mar-2000 BP Amoco and Shell are to sell their Altura Energy joint venture in the US south-west to Occidental Petroleum for £2.3bn. 09-Mar-2000 BP Amoco is discussing plans to sell Atlantic Richfield's Alaskan oil properties for over £3bn, in order to secure approval for its acquisition of the US oil group. 06-Mar-2000 BP Amoco is to proceed with the £1.6bn development of the In Salah natural gas field in Algeria, in partnership with state energy group Sonatrach. 24-Feb-2000 BP Amoco has announced plans to accelerate the development of new projects in a $24bn investment programme, and will sanction about 1.5bn barrels of new oil reserves in Angola, Vietnam, Trinidad and Azerbaijan. 16-Feb-2000 BP Amoco's recently-appointed human resources contractor Exult is to set up a new business management centre in Glasgow with the creation of 150 jobs, in order to supply accountancy, training, cell centre, and IT services to the energy group. 10-Feb-2000 BP Amoco has awarded a contract to Bovis Lend Lease to manage the construction of fuel retail outlets worldwide over the next five years, which will involve the development of 1,300 new service stations in 15 countries. 26-Jan-2000 BP Amoco has launched an internet-based gas trading service that will enable industrial customers to make spot gas purchases at current prices. 29-Dec-1999 BP Amoco has awarded a £370m contract to Exult of California for the outsourcing of its human resources department, which will involve the transfer of 350 staff. 16-Dec-1999 BP Amoco has agreed to acquire ExxonMobil's stake in the fuels division of their European oil refining and marketing joint venture for £920m. 08-Dec-1999 BP Amoco is considering plans to cut back its operations in Russia, claiming that it was forced to sell its main oil investment in western Siberia to a local competitor. 27-Nov-1999 BP Amoco has opened the first solar-powered service station in France, as part of a plan to convert 200 service stations throughout the world by 2001. 18-Nov-1999 BP Amoco is taking control of Crescendo Resources, the US natural gas company, by acquiring the remaining 51% from Repsol-YPF for $500m. 12-Nov-1999 BP Amoco is outsourcing its accounts and back-office operations in the US to PwC in a $1.1bn deal, and about 1,200 employees will be transferred. 11-Nov-1999 BP Amoco is to conduct a feasibility study for a world-scale ethylene cracker in Shanghai, in partnership with China Petrochemical Corporation. 21-Oct-1999 BP Amoco is to sell Plaspack Kunststoff, the plastic webbing business, to A&H Jodl Besitz of Austria for undisclosed terms, as part of a strategic review of its petrochemicals portfolio. 13-Oct-1999 BP Amoco is seeking buyers for its Ketonex aliphatic polyketone technology, which is used to produce polymers with a unique range of characteristics. 13-Oct-1999 BP Amoco and BASF have commissioned a new acetonitrile purification unit at the BASF nylon intermediates facility at Seal Sands, which will be owned by BP Amoco and operated by BASF. 02-Oct-1999 BP Amoco is planning to buy out Mobil's stake in their European fuel distribution and refinery joint venture at a cost of £1bn, which will help Mobil win clearance for its merger with Exxon. 29-Sep-1999 BP Amoco has acquired APEX, the French solar electric company, and will combine the business with its BP Solarex division. 10-Sep-1999 BP Amoco is to sell a US fibres business to Monitor Clipper Partners for £62m, so that its Amoco Fabrics division can focus on polypropylene fabrics. 28-Aug-1999 BP Amoco, Air Products Kaemira and Hydro Agri have submitted plans to build a £10m chemicals pipeline under the River Humber between Saltend and Immingham, and work is expected to start next year. 26-Aug-1999 BP Amoco is facing the prospect of having to sell production and exploration assets in Alaska in order to receive clearance for the acquisition of Atlantic Richfield. 25-Aug-1999 BP Amoco is to link some of its petrol stations to the internet to enable customers to view weather and traffic information while using the pumps. 18-Aug-1999 BP Amoco is planning to cut a further 2,000 jobs by the end of the year, mostly in the US, as it continues to eliminate the duplication of functions between the former BP and Amoco companies. 11-Aug-1999 BP Amoco has sold a number of Canadian oilfields to Penn West Petroleum and Canadian Natural Resources for $1bn, as part of a strategy to sell off $10bn of assets over the next three years. 06-Aug-1999 BP Amoco is restructuring its European styrenics business, which will involve the closure of units at Baglan Bay in South Wales and at Wingles in Northern France. 05-Aug-1999 Cookson is acquiring Plaskon Electronic Materials, the supplier of plastics to the semiconductor industry, from BP Amoco for £78m. 16-Jul-1999 BP Amoco has announced plans for a $26bn investment programme and the disposal of assets worth $10bn, while it has also made a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico,. 16-Jul-1999 BP Amoco has announced a large gas discovery in Azerbaijan, which could lead to the construction of export pipelines to Turkey. 13-Jul-1999 BP Amoco is setting up a new £25m institute at Cambridge University in order to fund research into fluid flow in oil wells. 29-Jun-1999 Andersen Consulting is to add to its 350 staff in Aberdeen having won a contract to supply finance and administrative services to BP Amoco. 25-Jun-1999 BP Amoco and Elf Atochem are to combine their European polypropylene activities into a 50:50 joint venture, and they will also form a worldwide joint venture for polypropylene research and development. 16-Jun-1999 BP Amoco is planning to sell a large part of its Canadian oil properties, while the European Commission has announced plans to investigate its proposed merger with Atlantic Richfield. 11-Jun-1999 BP Amoco has sold its 20% stake in a petrochemical plant on Teesside to the Huntsman ICI joint venture for undisclosed terms. 02-Jun-1999 BP Amoco has announced the discovery of hydrocarbons at a test well in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. 28-May-1999 BP Amoco has awarded contracts to Wood Group Engineering and Amec Process & Energy to undertake engineering work worth about £56m per year on its UK offshore platforms. 06-May-1999 BP Amoco has announced a £30m programme to install solar power at 200 new petrol stations being built in 11 countries over the next two years. 14-Apr-1999 BP Amoco has announced a £1.5m regeneration package for Hull, in order to help 290 workers at its Saltend plant find alternative employment and to improve education and training in the area. 13-Apr-1999 BP Amoco and General Electric of the US have won government approval for a £300m gas-fired power station scheme at Baglan Bay near Swansea, which will be central to an energy park that could create up to 10,000 jobs. 07-Apr-1999 BP Amoco is to buy the remaining 50% of Solarex, the US solar power company, from Enron for $45m, and the business will be renamed BP Solarex. 06-Apr-1999 BP Amoco has confirmed plans to acquire Atlantic Richfield of the US in a $27bn deal, and will then seek to sell off $3bn of assets and cut 2,000 jobs including 200 at Arco's office in Guildford. 02-Apr-1999 BP Amoco is to cut an unspecified number of jobs on its Magnus oil platform in the North Sea in order to reduce operating costs. 24-Mar-1999 BP Amoco is to close an oil consortium working in Azerbaijan, having failed to find commercially viable reserves in its offshore contract area. 04-Mar-1999 BP is to invest £15m creating a network of 300 forecourt liquefied petroleum gas filling sites over the next five years. 18-Feb-1999 BP Amoco has announced plans to cut a further 3,000 jobs worldwide in order to reduce costs by £1.2bn within 12 months, and exploration will be concentrated on the Caspian Sea, Angola and the Gulf of Mexico. 18-Feb-1999 BP Amoco has announced a major gas find in the Caspian Sea, with estimated reserves of 300bn cubic metres. 11-Feb-1999 BP Chemicals is cutting 400 jobs at Grangemouth near Edinburgh and 250 jobs at Saltend near Hull, in order to cut costs. 11-Feb-1999 BP Amoco is to cut 1,500 of the 6,300 jobs in the Chicago area over the next 18 months, due to low oil prices and restructuring of the merged companies. 06-Feb-1999 BP Chemicals has agreed a new pay deal with the TGWU union for its polyethylene plant at Wilton, which will involve the number of jobs being cut by almost 25% and the launch of performance-based pay and multiskilled, self-managed teams. 21-Jan-1999 BP Amoco has announced 900 job cuts in the UK, including 200 redundancies in Aberdeen, 500 at Amoco's former London headquarters and others at BP offices in Sunbury and Uxbridge. 08-Jan-1999 BP and Amoco have won US regulatory approval for their merger, on the condition that they dispose of 134 petrol stations and reduce their influence in the wholesale petrol market. 31-Dec-1998 BP's Norwegian division is considering plans for the temporary closure of its 30,000 barrels-a-day Ula field in the North Sea, due to low oil prices. 30-Dec-1998 BP is to close its chemicals plant at Baglan Bay, near Port Talbot, with the loss of 250 jobs. 10-Nov-1998 BP is to spend £500m upgrading its UK petrochemical operations, and 225 jobs will be created at new plants in Grangemouth and Hull. 10-Nov-1998 BP is expected to sign new co-operation deals with Statoil of Norway for countries in which they have joint ventures, as they are said to want their relationship to continue after BP's proposed merger with Amoco. 29-Oct-1998 ASCo UK, the provider of logistics services to the oil and gas industry, has won a contract from BP Exploration to provide production, supply base and ad-hoc marine services from Immingham, which will create an unspecified number of new jobs. 09-Sep-1998 BP Amoco is to take a more cautious approach to investing in emerging markets, and its initial strategy will be to focus on the industrialised markets of member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 01-Sep-1998 BP is said to have made a major gas find in Ormen Lange South in the Norwegian Sea, and information on the tests has been passed to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. 28-Aug-1998 BASF is planning to build a £10m acetonitrile plant at Seal Sands in a joint venture with BP Chemicals. 25-Aug-1998 BP is outsourcing its computer services to EDS of the US in a £300m five-year contract. 21-Aug-1998 BP is to acquire Amoco of the US for £30bn in what has been described as the world's biggest industrial merger, and about 6,000 jobs could be lost as a result. 12-Aug-1998 BP has put forward proposals to try and save its planned energy park in Port Talbot from being scuppered by the government curb on new gas-fired power stations, saying it could invest £7m to extend the life of the existing oil-fired station. 17-Jul-1998 BP and Safeway have announced plans to set up a chain of 100 mini-supermarkets at petrol stations over the next four years, creating 2,000 jobs. 16-Jul-1998 BP is selling its refinery in Lima, Ohio, to Clark USA for £129m, but is retaining the adjacent chemical plant which is to benefit from a $100m expansion. 02-Jul-1998 BP is in discussions to develop a new offshore block in the Caspian Sea, in conjunction with the state oil company of Azerbaijan. 29-Jun-1998 BP may have to abandon plans to build a power station at Baglan Bay in South Wales, as part of a regeneration project that would have created 3,000 jobs, because of government proposals to block the construction of new gas-fired stations in order to protect the coal industry. 08-Jun-1998 BP is to help Newcastle United football club convert St James' Park into the UK's first solar-powered stadium. 16-May-1998 BP has said it is looking at the possibility of exploration and production projects in Iran, as well as investments in the petrochemical sector, but would first require a softening of US sanctions against the country. 06-May-1998 BP is planning to operate an initial 40 petrol stations in Venezuela, and will invest over $250m in an effort to gain a 20% share of the market within five years. 01-May-1998 BP is selling its upstream interests in Papua New Guinea to its local partner Oil Search for $400m, in order to focus on key areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, the Caspian Sea and Alaska. 29-Apr-1998 BP is to invest £19m in the creation of a BP Institute at Cambridge University to undertake environmental and industrial research, while Unilever is to set up a £13m "cyber centre" at the university to develop drugs for the treatment of "superbugs". 25-Apr-1998 BP has outlined plans to increase capital spending from $6bn a year to $8bn a year over the next five years, in order to raise annual profits by $2bn. 08-Apr-1998 BP is looking to buy the remaining 80% of ICI's petrochemical plant at Wilton, although ICI is also thought to be negotiating with other companies who may be interested in buying both the cracker and associated product plants. 23-Mar-1998 Monument Oil & Gas is to finance BP's share of an exploration programme in three North Sea blocks, and will get some of BP's equity in the blocks in return. 16-Mar-1998 ICI's planned sale of its remaining industrial chemicals operations is said to have attracted interest from BP and Huntsman Chemicals, with BP interested in petrochemical cracking and Huntsman interested in bulk chemicals. 09-Mar-1998 BP is said to be planning to take a 49% stake in a project to build a $1.37bn petrochemical complex in Oman. 02-Mar-1998 Shell is to sell two major stakes in onshore Colombian oil fields in order to focus on offshore opportunities, which follows a similar decision by BP and has prompted speculation that the two companies are concerned about security issues. 10-Feb-1998 BP has won government approval for a plan to decommission an oilfield installation in the Donan field in the North Sea, which will involve two sub-sea wellheads being brought ashore to be destroyed or recycled. 23-Jan-1998 BP and Shell are beginning to move back into Iran, as BP has reopened its Tehran office and Shell is said to have reached agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company for exploration in neighbouring Turkmenistan. 12-Jan-1998 BP, Shell and other major companies are increasing the pressure on the government to drop plans for North Sea oil tax increases, with warnings about potential damage to jobs and investment. 01-Jan-1998 BP Chemicals is acquiring Styrenix Kunststoffe, the styrene plastics business, from Veba of Germany for about £120m, which will give it extra production capacity to help it expand globally. 31-Dec-1997 BP has bought a 24.5% stake in Bluesky, the Chinese aircraft refuelling venture, from Vitol Holding for undisclosed terms. 16-Dec-1997 BP is linking up with Sidanco, the Russian oil group, in order to invest about $3bn in the Russian oil sector and possibly launch a joint bid for Rosneft, the next state-owned oil group to be privatised. 18-Nov-1997 BP and Mobil have announced the closure of their jointly-owned lubricants plant at Llandarcy near Swansea, with the loss of 400 jobs. 13-Nov-1997 BP has submitted plans for a £1.3bn liquefied natural gas project to the government of Papua New Guinea, which include the development of a gas field and the construction of a 4m tonnes a year plant. 12-Nov-1997 BP is to sell 48 service stations in Thailand to Caltex of the US for undisclosed terms. 12-Nov-1997 BP is planning to invest a further $300m in Poland over the next few years, with about 60% being spent on additional petrol outlets. 08-Nov-1997 BP is considering plans to re-start exploration in Russia, having pulled out of the country due to concerns about political stability. 05-Nov-1997 BP is moving to acquire the remaining minority shareholdings in its French and Spanish downstream oil operations. 04-Nov-1997 Croda International is close to agreeing the sale of its industrial paints division, and is also in discussions with BP about the sale of its bitumen business, with the two disposals expected to raise a combined £50m. 10-Oct-1997 BP has won a 10-year contract worth over £1bn to supply fuel to half of Granada's motorway service stations. 30-Sep-1997 BP is to take over the operation of the Ravenspur North gasfield in the North Sea from BHP of Australia. 02-Sep-1997 Enterprise Oil has won government approval to develop the Pierce field in the North Sea, and has acquired BP's 42.8% stake in the field in exchange for its 24% stake in Amethyst and its 13.5% stake in Ravenspurn North. 27-Aug-1997 Entergy has won government approval for its planned £300m 1200MW gas-fired power station at BP Chemicals' Saltend refinery near Hull, dashing the hopes of the coal industry which had hoped that the government would delay gas developments in favour of coal. 08-Aug-1997 Hays has won a £100m contract to supply shops on BP petrol station forecourts, creating up to 500 jobs at its Milton Keynes distribution operation. 07-Aug-1997 BP is planning to announce a share buy-back programme at next April's annual meeting so that investors can benefit from record profits. 06-Aug-1997 BP is forming a joint venture with Modelo Continente in Portugal to set up convenience stores at BP filling stations. 05-Aug-1997 BP is planning to set up a network of filling stations in Japan, adjacent to shopping malls and DIY stores being built by Iseya Kosan. 31-Jul-1997 Budgens plans to open a further 40 convenience stores on petrol-station forecourts by the end of 1998 in joint ventures with Kuwait Petroleum and BP. 08-Jul-1997 Blagden Industries has acquired Cellobond, the resins business, from BP Chemicals for £13m. 04-Jul-1997 BP Energy is to build and operate a £29m combined heat and power plant at Heinz's factory in North London, generating cost savings of up to £0.5m a year. 23-Jun-1997 BP is planning to increase its sales of solar energy equipment from $100m to $1bn over the next ten years, and will set up its first US factory at Fairfield, California, later this year. 17-May-1997 The Kuwait Investment Office in London has sold a 3% stake in BP, and Goldman Sachs is planning to sell most of the shares in the US where BP wants to expand its shareholder base. 15-May-1997 BP is swapping its 43% stake in the North Sea's Pierce Field in return for Enterprise Oil's 24% stake in the Amethyst gas field and a 13.5% stake in the Ravenspurn North gas field. 29-Apr-1997 GKN Westland Aerospace is acquiring the assets of BP Chemicals advanced materials business for £9m. 27-Mar-1997 BP is to set up packaged solar systems in villages across the Philippines, having agreed a $30m contract with the government. 26-Mar-1997 BP has been holding meetings with Greenpeace to try to avert any environmental action against the start of production at its new Foinaven oil field, west of the Shetland Islands. 15-Mar-1997 BP has confirmed that it has made two major discoveries recently - the Girassol oil field off Angola and the Perseus field off Australia. 13-Mar-1997 BP and Shell have made a "potentially commercial" oil discovery at Suilven to the west of the Shetland Islands. 04-Mar-1997 BP is planning to build a £300m 1,100MW combined cycle gas-fired power station at its Port Talbot plant. 27-Jan-1997 BP Chemicals is planning a joint venture with Salim to build a naphtha cracker in Indonesia at a cost of up to $1bn. 16-Jan-1997 British Gas has agreed to pay £250m to BP in exchange for the termination of some supply contracts, a deal which represents the partial resolution of British Gas' problem with "take-or-pay" contracts. 06-Dec-1996 BP Chemicals is planning a £528m petrochemical complex in Oman to produce 450,000 tonnes per year of ethylene and polyethylene, with start-up by 2000. 11-Nov-1996 BP has announced plans to focus further on the growth markets of Latin America and Asia in order to help it achieve its corporate growth target of 8% a year. 28-Oct-1996 BP Chemicals is to set up a joint venture with Shanghai Petrochemical to build a $2.5bn petrochemical complex in Shanghai, including a 650,000 tonnes per year ethylene cracker. 22-Oct-1996 BP and Mobil are planning to outsource many of their financial activities to Andersen Consulting and Price Waterhouse when they merge their European refining and marketing operations, and up to 730 staff could be transferred to the accounting companies. 21-Oct-1996 BP Chemicals is linking up with Neath Port Talbot Council and the Welsh Development Agency to launch a £230m redevelopment of Port Talbot, which will include an Energy Park that should create 2,800 jobs. 02-Oct-1996 Safeway is planning to open 100 small supermarkets on BP petrol station forecourts, in a £100m joint venture which will create up to 2,000 jobs. 07-Sep-1996 BP has sold its stakes in three North Sea fields to Talisman of Canada for undisclosed terms, a move likely to set a trend in the withdrawal of major oil groups from older fields. 21-Aug-1996 BP is linking up with Entergy of the US to seek planning approval for a 1,100MW gas-fired power station near Hull, which would be operated by Entergy with the gas provided by BP. 16-Aug-1996 BP wants to accelerate the $5bn plan to merge its European downstream operations with those of Mobil, in order to see how well the two companies can work together under pressure. 12-Aug-1996 Talisman of Canada is planning to acquire three mature North Sea fields from BP, including Clyde, Buchan and Beatrice. 10-Aug-1996 BP and Mobil have received European approval for the $5bn merger of their European refining and marketing businesses, despite the possible loss of up to 3,000 jobs. 08-Aug-1996 Shell and BP have reached agreement with the Shetland Islands council to ensure the continued operation of the Sullom Voe oil terminal past the year 2000. 07-Aug-1996 BP has set up a new company to market its North Sea Gas output, called BP Gas. 02-Aug-1996 Appryl, the Elf-BP joint venture, is planning a £100m 300,000 tonnes per year polypropylene plant in Grangemouth, creating up to 200 jobs. 11-Jun-1996 Huntsman of the US is still trying to buy BP's styrene and polystyrene business, which has plants in Wales and France. 07-May-1996 The Harland and Woolf shipyard in Belfast has won a £100m contract to build a floating production, storage and offloading vessel, for a BP-led consortium for use in the new oilfields west of the Shetlands. 04-Apr-1996 BP wants to sell stakes in four North Sea fields - Buchan, Clyde, Beatrice and Thistle. 15-Mar-1996 BP is aiming for 8% yearly earnings growth until 2000 with capital expenditure rising 4% a year, while the surplus will be used to cut debt and possibly fund a share buyback. 14-Mar-1996 BP and Mobil are merging their European downstream operations, creating a refining, motor oils and service station business with sales of over $20bn. 29-Feb-1996 BP is leading a consortium of seven companies planning a £1.6bn development of seven oil and gas fields 150 miles east of Aberdeen. 16-Jan-1996 BP is cutting its refinery capacity by 30% with plans to sell its refineries in Lima, Ohio, and Lavera, France, and to close the Pernis section of a complex in Rotterdam. 12-Jan-1996 BP has made a deal to develop gasfields in the Algerian desert in partnership with the state-owned oil and gas concern. 18-Dec-1995 Goal Petroleum has agreed to a takeover bid from Talisman, formerly BP Canada, worth £131m. 16-Dec-1995 Lasmo is selling a 1% stake in the Forties Field and a 15% stake in the Beatrice Field to BP. 10-Nov-1995 BP has sold its Marcus Hook refinery in the US to Tosco for $235m. 03-Nov-1995 BP Chemicals has bought Otto Aldag, the German trader of speciality chemicals. 28-Sep-1995
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