BP gives green fuel research 500 mln dlrs
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British oil giant BP announced an award of 500 million dollars for &quot;Big Science&quot; research into green energy.
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By Ian Hoffman; Janis Mara  BERKELEY -- Energy giant BP LLC and the governors of California and Illinois on Thursday launched the world's first concerted effort here to use biology for producing fuels and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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British energy giant BP has ended one of its most difficult years on a high after announcing Tuesday that it has begun production at the deepwater Atlantis oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico.
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British oil giant BP said its average daily production for 2004 was expected to be around 3.995 million barrels of oil equivalent, an increase of more than 10 percent compared with a year earlier.
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International Business Machines Corp. says it is providing free access to the information in 500 company patents to individuals and groups working on open source software.
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Business & money: Site to make 420m litres of ethanol a year from 2009  but crops may cause harm to environment.
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BP Plc, Europe&#39;s largest oil company, said it evacuated 500 non-essential workers from offshore rigs near Trinidad and Tobago as Hurricane Ivan approached the Caribbean country.
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Delays to the restart of a crude unit at BP Plc's  Texas City, Texas, refinery will cause it to miss its goal of raising crude oil processing rates at the refinery to 400,000 barrels per day by the end of 2007, a source familiar with refinery operations said Monday.
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BP Plc, the world's second largest oil  company, beat analysts' expectations to report bumper third  quarter earnings on Tuesday on the back of high oil prices and  strong refining and chemicals margins.
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LCG, October 14, 2004--Sempra Energy LNG, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, and BP announced that they have signed a 20-year agreement to deliver 500 MMcf/day of liquified natural gas (LNG) to Sempra&#39;s planned Energia Costa Azul terminal, located near
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DuPont and BP have announced they will invest $58 million in biofuel production assets at two facilities in the U.K. The two plan to construct a biobutanol demonstration facility, what the companies call the ... via Inside Greentech
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BP America, the US arm of British energy giant BP, is to spend more than 550 million dollars (432 million euros) over the next two years on improvements to its Alaskan oil fields, including pipeline repairs, the group has said in a statement.
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Oil giant BP says it is buying the Dutch manufacturing business of its US-based rival, Chevron, for $900m.
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British oil exploration firm Cairn Energy, which has announced a series of oil discoveries in India, said that oil in place in the Mangala field was estimated to reach one billion barrels, with recoverable reserves of 100-320 million barrels.
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Federal investigators are examining  whether BP Plc  manipulated crude oil and unleaded  gasoline markets, according to a report in The Wall Street  Journal on Tuesday that cited lawyers and traders close to the  case.
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OPEC said it will increase production by 500,000 barrels a day, but oil futures nonetheless surged to a record close.
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Oil hit a fresh five-month low on Friday   after U.S. fuel supplies rose and BP said it might fully   restore the largest U.S. oilfield sooner than expected.