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BP plc
Major integrated oil company; operates Whiting IN (435,000 bpd, largest US Midwest refinery); significant fuel-grade petcoke producer from coking units processing heavy Canadian oil sands crude.
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BP Whiting Refinery →
USWhiting, Indiana · petroleum refining
Largest US Midwest refinery (435,000 bpd); processes heavy Canadian oil sands crude; coking units produce fuel-grade petcoke; Lake Michigan location requires rail/barge to Gulf Coast terminals for export.
BP Zhuhai Chemical -- Zhuhai, Guangdong, China (PTA) →
CNZhuhai, Guangdong Province, China · chemical_plant
BP's primary active PTA production facility; joint venture with Chinese partners. Uses BP's proprietary Amoco PTA process (the industry-standard MC Catalyst oxidation process developed by Amoco and acquired by BP in 1998 merger). ~8% of global PTA from BP's combined Zhuhai and remaining portfolio. BP invented the modern PTA process that virtually all global producers license.
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Oil & Gas Upstream
35%Refining & Fuels
30%Chemicals (Aromatics & Acetyls)
10%Renewables & Low Carbon
15%Trading & Shipping
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Did you know2024
BP's most commercially successful chemical engineering legacy is not an oil field or a refinery -- it is the Amoco PTA process (MC Catalyst oxidation), originally developed by Amoco and acquired when BP merged with Amoco in 1998 for $48 billion. This process, using manganese-cobalt-bromine catalysts to oxidize paraxylene to PTA, became the industry standard that virtually all global PTA producers license. BP collects technology royalties from >60 million MT/year of PTA production globally that runs on its process. Every PET bottle worldwide contains plastic made using BP's Amoco-derived chemistry.
BP plc ↗Origin2023
BP traces its origins to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), founded in 1909 following the discovery of oil in Persia — the first major oil discovery in the Middle East. Renamed British Petroleum in 1954, BP's 1998 merger with Amoco transformed it into a chemicals company as well as an oil company, acquiring Amoco's major aromatics/PTA business and US Midwest refining (Whiting, Indiana). BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico — the largest marine oil spill in US history — resulted in approximately $65 billion in costs and settlements, fundamentally altering the company's risk posture and accelerating its renewables pivot. BP now bills itself as an 'integrated energy company' rather than an 'oil company.'
BP p.l.c. ↗