Petroleum Company British Petroleum Company (BP) is a British multinational oil and gas company. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world. It is vertically integrated and operates in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy activities in biofuels and wind power. BP has operations in over 80 countries, produces around
BP Amoco British Petrochemical Corporation registered on April 14, 1909, as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd. It was named the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Ltd., in 1935 and changed its name to the British Petroleum Company Limited in 1954. The current name was adopted in 1982. The company’s headquarters are in London. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was formed in 1909 to take over and finance an oil-field concession granted in 1901 by the Iranian government to an English investor, William Knox
BP/Amoco Merger Case Group 1 Keshavaraja Alive Stephen Felkins Therese Jackson Andrea Marrical Eric Weiss Executive Summary Prior to the merger between BP and Amoco in 1998, both companies had very similar operating characteristics and performance. Both companies engaged primarily in the same three businesses and experienced close to the same percentages of revenue and percentages of operating income for each of those businesses. A key difference however waswere that
| BP Amoco/Arco Merger | Merger and Acquisitions Term Paper | | | 12/10/2012 | | Contents Time Line of Events 3 Introduction 4 Industry Analysis 5 Overview of ARCO 's Business 7 Overview of BP Amoco’s Business 7 Value Creation from the Merger: 8 Competitors Analysis 9 Antitrust Issues 11 FTC Arguments 12 What Happened? 14 Divestitures 14 Phillips Acquires ARCO Alaska 15 FTC dissent 16 Performance and key Financials 17 Annual Shareholder’s meeting:
business day, but limited to only twice a month. In 1998, Amoco DC plan assets were valued at $5.1 billion. 55.5% of the assets were invested in company stock. The rest of the assets were invested in equity index funds and the money market fund. The plan had 27,290 participants with an average of $186,000 per participant, and contributions of about $4,182 per year from each one of them. The company matched contributions up to 7% of pay. BP America had a different defined contribution plan. The company
The Harmonized Savings Plan at BP Amoco Brief description of case background On August 11, 1998, United States Amoco Corporation (Amoco) and The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. (BPC) announced the BPC merger with Amoco. With a combined number of participants of 40,000 and $7 billion investment assets under management, the merged pension and savings plan of the new company is viewed by both management and employees as a bellwether of the success of the merger. Therefore, the new investment team
one as exchange rate 0.6. Amoco rejected. Finally, after they thoughtful discussion they offered 0.66 exchange rate or price 52.965 as their final offer, which for us is lower than our walk-away price 65.94. Therefore, we accepted this offer and we both reach our goals to reach the deal and build a good relationship with the other management team. The previous 959.6m Amoco shares will convert into 633.336m shares of BP ADS equivalent, with the previous 965.6m ADS shares, BP shareholders will take part
company is successful. We decided to focus on BP. British Petroleum (BP) is the UK’s largest corporation and is one of the largest private-sector energy corporations in the world. It is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. It is one of the seven gas super majors. It operates in over 80 countries, and in 2010 their production was approximately 3.4 million barrels of oil each day. The company is headquartered in London. BP is active in the fields of exploration,
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"A report on BP (Oil and Chemical company) and its E-commerce Arm" ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________ Introduction to BP Several questions arise if we are given the possibility that an oil exploring company wants to use e-commerce for its B2B and B2C operations. These open-ended questions are well replied to by BP’s ‘digital business program’ which has been globally recognized for its present and future initiatives. Before we critically