Aug.05 — Bernard Looney, chief executive officer at BP Plc, discusses the company’s clean energy transition, the natural gas business and the trading business. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”
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Bernard Looney FREng is an Irish businessman and CEO of BP.
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BP plc (formerly The British Petroleum Company plc and BP Amoco plc) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world’s seven oil and gas “supermajors”.
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BP’s origins date back to the founding of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1908, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and in 1954, adopted the name British Petroleum.