To: Ish who wrote (111757 ) 8/16/2003 7:47:00 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to Ish, BP is not exactly a British company, though it's headquartered there. It is also an American company, having bought Sohio and owning lots of Alaskan oil and other oil interests in the USA. Shell is not simply a Dutch company. It's international, with major USA assets. Shell is British too. Britain and the USA were in it together in Iraq. Of course John Browne [BP boss] wanted a piece of the action. bp.com Following a series of mergers and acquisitions with Amoco, ARCO, Burmah Castrol and Vastar, by 2001 BP had become the largest oil and gas producer and one of the largest gasoline retailers in the United States. At the end of 2001, we had nearly $40 billion of fixed assets in the U.S., with operations in almost every state and 42,000 U.S.-based employees. > and, good news for BP, they now have Iraq's oil in the pipeline.
