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The China oil spill is now 165 square miles, but still just a fraction of the size of the BP oil spill in Gulf.

He took over BP in 2007, after his predecessor, John Browne, resigned over a scandal involving allegations about his private life.

The British oil company BP shut down one of three Georgian pipelines, saying it was a precaution.

At BP the female touch would not have saved the day either, but it might have ensured it was not lost quite so disastrously.

It is going to take time to see whether this new assertiveness recaptures lost value, since BP is about to become a very different company.

BP officials and legal analysts say the company is trying to be careful to avoid letting the findings devolve into more mud-slinging.

True, BP is in better financial and operational shape now than it was a year ago, which explains the sideways move in its shares on Monday.

Yet just because BP has the deepest pockets does not make it a piggybank to be raided.

A process diagram is a graphical representation of a BP flow, consisting of activities and the connections between them.

The poor coordination with BP contractors, he says, 'was just a common occurrence. '

The new numbers for the oil leak could play a crucial role in determining how much BP is fined under the Clean Water Act.

And BP, which did not respond to a request for comment, is still feeling financial pangs from the disaster.

The attack on BP seems to have paid off for the administration, in that the firm has caved in to most of its demands.

Heading to the US BP says a mile-long tube is funneling crude oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico into a tanker on the surface.

A spokesman for BP said the company had six personnel on board the rig at the time of the incident, and all were safe.

BP has been working with an array of government agencies and private companies, but has been unable to stop the flow of oil from the well.

Vladimir Buyanov, BP's first secretary in Russia, said the court's decision "had no legal basis" and that BP would vigorously contest it.

The $20 billion escrow account should cover most clean-up costs as well as the potential economic damages BP might have to pay.

One of those people familiar with the matter said BP has no imminent plans for an equity or bond deal.

He said there was no doubt BP would pay for the clean-up.

BP will also pay no dividend, as some American politicians have been demanding, for at least the next three quarters.

AAR argues that TNK-BP is meant to enjoy an exclusive right to develop any further deals in Russia to which BP might be a party.

The agreement is a price that must be paid to protect BP's US interests and to try to repair some of the extreme damage to its reputation.

Of those, eight inspection records on seven different rigs suggested that the necessary training had not taken place at all.

The committee has unearthed several instances in which BP managers seem to have chosen cheaper, rather than safer, options.

BP would be (a bit) better off had it had more American directors to throw at America's media wolves.

President Barack Obama yesterday promised that BP would be held accountable if it had broken US laws.

You've got people trying to put kids through university on BP share options.

However, BP warned that there was more work to be done to confirm the size of the field.

Analysts say BP may not be able to cover such costs, and pay its dividend, out of cashflow alone, forcing additional borrowing.

But BP again warned that the total cost of the spill is likely to be much higher.

An AAR representative said: "We regret that this raid happened as it was disruptive and unnecessary for a company of BP's stature. "

The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages.

BP retorts that the management is perfectly neutral, and that AAR is the one trying to exert undue influence.

Speaking in Moscow, Jeremy Huck, president of BP Russia, said the company believed the actions were "without merit" .

The next day, Adm. Allen said the administration was ordering BP to pay for all 40 miles authorized.

BP is trying to install a dome over the leaking well withhopes of funneling a substantial portion of the oil onto a tanker above.

Earlier a spokesman for BP admitted that efforts to reduce the flow of oil had not been working as effectively as before.

"Let me be clear, " he said, "BP [the oil firm] is responsible for this leak; BP will be paying the bill. "

Cnooc spokesman said he was not familiar with the matter. Exxon and BP declined to comment.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

It remains unclear how much of the blame will be shouldered by BP in the report, which will be released Wednesday.

BP has several options for asset sales, said bankers familiar with the matter.

This was one of the several giant oilfields discovered by BP in Iran.

Consider the case of BP (BP), which thought its partnership with a group of Russian billionaires, TNK-BP, was a textbook joint venture.

A BP PLC spokesman said Monday the company was committed to returning to Libya 'as soon as conditions allow, ' though it had no time frame.

Investors seem to be worried that the wrath of American officialdom will ruin BP.

A person familiar with the matter said BP has received no takeover approaches in the wake of the spill.

Politicians in the U. S. say BP should be using all its resources to stop the spill and clean up the Gulf, not rewarding shareholders.

(A year after the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, let's hope we've learned how to do that, at least. ) Tow the platforms back to shore.

However, it would only have been able to avoid these obligations if it proved BP had been grossly negligent.

Outraged as they may be with BP, rivals so far have done little to unwind the business partnerships that bind the industry.

The company was in "intensive care" , he said, but he stressed that its underlying business was sound.

Plastic comes from oil, but despite launching a charm offensive against BP, he never did make it out to an oil rig.

The British oil company BP's Gulf of Mexico spill has given President Obama one of the biggest problems of his presidency.

And BP is facing civil and criminal probes and a wave of litigation that could tie it up in the courts for years.

Major oil companies, with BP prominent among them, have spent twenty years trying to demonstrate their social responsibility.

The reaction of many staff has been "pretty much a mirror" of that of the outside world, according to a senior company official.

"BP is desperate to get its hands on the field, but it has some serious competition, " said a banker close to one of the three oil majors.

A person familiar with BP PLC said the company wasn't currently doing any new trading deals in Libya.

BP's share price, which had already taken a battering, dived to its lowest level in 13 years.

BP says it hopes to get the dome in place in the next few days.

There just seems to be something about BP America, something about the combination of BP's attitude to risk and the US attitude to risk.

And the British company BP will have to meet the cost of dealing with it.

Lower oil prices in the global downturn have led to second-quarter profits at BP more than halving from a year ago.

The blood pressure reduction trials can be shown in two slopes in which the X is the baseline BP and the Y is the BP reduction.

Although responsibility for the accident plainly lies with BP, a slick of recrimination now laps around the White House too.

An alternative approach is to assume BP carries on spending at its recent rate of about $40m a day for, say, a year.

The veteran BP manager in charge of the rig said he was on shore for training with his phone off.

BP procured them but did not use them, its well team suspecting, wrongly, that they were the wrong sort.

Asked for comment for this story, BP and Transocean each said it had acted prudently and pointed fingers at the other company.

BP's announcement that it would sell some of its assets raised concerns in several countries, including Russia, in which BP operates.

These findings could, therefore, partly explain why a woman cannot be more like a man when it comes to BP control.

IT'S been a rough summer so far for the Baltimore Orioles, Miley Cyrus and (it goes without saying) BP.

After the president's speech, BP said in a statement that it shared Mr. Obama's goal of cleaning up the spill and helping those affected.

Then things did get worse: the next day, one of BP's Moscow offices was raided by bailiffs.

BP bled to bankruptcy would not be good for the American government either, scaring off other firms in capital-intensive industries.

BP's own inquiries into the cause of the disaster see the cement as one of the key points where failure needs to be investigated.

The American government reopened the last maritime area off the Gulf coast that had been closed to fishing because of the BP oil spill.

BP must surely have its qualms about this; but all the parties' interests are at least aligned on one thing.

The well then could be temporarily abandoned until BP was ready to tap its oil and gas.

After weeks of failed solutions, BP PLC crews on Sunday hooked up a mile-long tube to funnel the crude from a blown well into a tanker ship.

He took over as chairman of BP in 1997 when his predecessor, Lord Simon, unexpectedly joined the newly elected Labour government.

BP surprised investors with the appointment yesterday of Mr Svanberg, who has no previous experience in the oil and gas industry.

The British energy company BP has again been blocked from proceeding with a proposed joint venture with the Russian company Rosneft.

It is a practical, urgent need to deal with the problem that what I am sure BP is trying to do.

The 'precautionary measure' would help BP manage stock levels at the oil terminal near Baku that supplies BTC, she said.

Evidence is also mounting, they say, that BP cut corners on Deepwater Horizon, suggesting that the accident was an aberration.

The stability of object types is one bottleneck in BP, leading to its robustness less than naive Bayesian network.

BP declined to comment on the memo's specifics but said it showed the company 'continually evaluating the safety of its operations. '

BP declined to comment on the memo's specifics but said it showed the company 'continually evaluating the safety of its operations. '

The recent BP oil spill also occurred at the start of an overnight shift, though the cause is still under investigation.

BP: The look on David's face often seems to indicate that he does not misbehave intentionally.

He said BP expects to complete two relief wells in August to stop the leak from a damaged well.

Next, consider BP and the plans of the New York state pension fund and others to sue the company over the share price plunge.

BP's rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is only unusual for being so near the United States, writes John Vidal.

Last week, BP acceded to White House demands to set up a $20 billion escrow account for compensating victims of the oil disaster.

Rosneft wants to transform itself into a respectable global oil firm, using its relationship with BP as a stepping-stone.

Medulla can maintain normal BP, and is called basal center of cardiovascular activity integration.

A common theme, the report found, was a failure to follow BP's own procedures and an unwillingness to stop work when something was wrong.

After the meeting, BP apologized and announced it would suspend dividend payments for the rest of the year.

By the same token, he says, none of BP's partners in the Alaskan pipeline complained that it was spending too little on maintenance.

BP has the right to nominate three directors to the board of TNK-BP and Mr Hayward would be able to live in Britain while serving on it.

BP has ruled out issuing new shares, so the stake purchase would not give the company fresh capital.

So far at least 300 federal law suits have been filed against BP and the other main companies.

One reason for this downgrade was that the balance of costs that BP faces is skewed to the near term.

BP said late Thursday it had temporarily halted the pumping of heavy drilling fluid, or 'mud, ' into the well.

BP oil company has begun pumping heavy mud into a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to seal it off permanently.

later, there was widespread speculation that the British government had agreed to free Megrahi to secure BP's access to Libyan oil.

Its stake in PAE is one of the company's most prized Latin American assets.

Are ocean currents likely to carry oil from the BP spill out of the Gulf of Mexico and into the Atlantic?

The improved BP is fast and stable in convergence, and easy to pick out partial minimum.

BP's Deepwater Horizon well had been leaking up to 60, 000 barrels per day 5, 000 feet below the surface.

A process element is an artifact asset that defines a segment of a process which is designed and managed to be reusable within BP models.

But US officials were quick to point out that it was up to them, not BP, whether the cap could stay in place.

At least part of the proceeds will go toward a $20 billion fund that BP agreed to last month under pressure from the Obama administration.

No one thought the Gulf of Mexico would be fouled to the horrible extent that it was by the BP oil spill.

No matter what, make it happen that your cell phone (or BP phone) would be ringing at the end of the dinner time.

He said his government intended to honor all its obligations toward foreign companies, including its $900 million contract with BP PLC.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney. com) -- BP has spent $2 billion cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Monday.

The company cited security reasons for the decision though neither pipeline suffered damage from the regional military conflict.

Thus, these percentages are higher than they would be if BP had been measured over time (regression toward the mean).

The latest drop was prompted by the news on May 29th that BP's attempt to plug the leak with a "top kill" had failed.

According to a BP report, also from 1999, TNK was pressuring BP to reach some sort of compromise over the Chernogorneft matter.

With income down, many are applying for compensation from BP, or signing on to help clean up the oil spill.

I see no point in selling the fund now, with BP shares already so beaten down that the company is being discussed as a takeover candidate .

BP might be reluctant to countenance Mr. Vekselberg in the role of TNK-BP chief executive, even on an interim basis.

The BP case may be just the sort of disaster that tort law exists to address.

Then things did get worse: the next day, one of BP'sMoscowoffices was raided by bailiffs.

She said BP would have to 'significantly' cut the amount it was using while it and the EPA looked for a better approach.

The BP algorithm is improved to quicken the speed of convergence, and is applied to the fault diagnosis study of bridge.

This week, in Houston, Mr Salazar said that the administration would push BP out of the way if necessary. But that may be an empty threat.

BP has consistently said it would be able to rebut the charge of gross negligence.

BP does not need to dilute investors' holdings by raising new equity, and has no need of protection.

Tony Hayward, BP's chief executive, said the industry was "adjusting from a $100 oil world to a $50 world" .

BP, the British energy company, has won the right to redevelop Rumaila, Iraq's biggest oilfield, in partnership with CNPC of China.

For much of his visit, he was treated less like a British prime minister than like a super-spokesman for BP.

Adm. Allen said the government wanted BP to pay for community representatives in states affected by the oil-well blowout.

That area is only a tiny fraction of the slick that has resulted from the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Lawyers at the White House and for BP have been negotiating for days about an escrow account.

First, each pixel is classified as signal or noisy point by the BP-net. Next, the image is filtered by an improved median filter.

BP has also been trying to thin the oil spill by using underwater chemical dispersants.

'I wanted to do another test, ' he said, according to the notes of BP's internal investigation seen by the Journal.

As it is, TNK-BP accounts for a fifth of BP's production, but only a tenth of its profits.

The result is compared with the result from BP, which shows that this method can efficiently resolve the problem of sub-pixel mapping.

BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said even if it worked it would only halt a majority of the spill.

Some lawmakers are calling for BP to put as much as $20 billion into a special compensation fund.

BP network provides a mechanism for adaptive pattern classification and may be used to do fault diagnosis on the air compressor.

Early Sunday, BP senior vice president Kent Wells said he was pleased with the progress.

BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley said he is 'rock steady' in his commitment to joint venture TNK-BP Ltd.

Granted, Reuters added an interesting new angle; that BP, who employed one of the arrested men, was pushing for his release.

BP reports third-quarter results Tuesday, kicking off a week of results from the world's biggest integrated oil companies.

BP has said it is willing and able to pay them; but investors appear terrified that the list of claimants could extend far beyond that.

The decision came a week after Lord Browne stepped down earlier than planned as chief executive of BP.

BP is also attempting to put in place an additional containment system, using the pipes from the failed "top kill" attempt to plug the well.

BP said the notes are only investigators' interpretation of Mr. Kaluza's comments.

Next week Lord Browne, a former head of BP, will produce a report on university funding.

Last month, BP acceded to White House demands to set aside $20 billion in a special fund to compensate victims.

Clinton insisted that BP is "trying to do the right thing" and should be given more time to plug the leak.

In the House of Commons, Cameron underlined that BP must remain viable and that it is in a very real sense a multi-national concern.

And, in FNN weight training, improved PSO in the convergence rate and the ability to jump out to local optimum algorithm is better than BP.

BP, for its part, is searching for a truce with the American government that will involve it paying billions of dollars in compensation.

For some time after his resignation, he writes, "I looked at my career with BP with distaste and dissatisfaction. "

The British government has brought in a business delegation, including representatives from BP and Shell.

BP said it wouldn't comment on this or any other internal communications, and declined to make Mr. Morrison available.

BP underestimated the power of Mikhail Fridman, one of its oligarch partners.

As you may have noticed, the president has been roundly criticised in the US for being too soft on BP.

BP news, oil drilling platforms from the explosion to the final result of the oil spill, are full of the entire network.

His replacement will be another BP veteran, Robert Dudley, an American who grew up in Mississippi.

In an echo of its predicament in Russia, it will also be working alongside difficult partners.

Politically, the evolving dynamic holds both promise and peril for the White House, not to mention for BP.

Frequently, overzealous administration of fluids in the attempt to restore BP leads to circulatory overload and pulmonary edema.

BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said the decision was by mutual agreement.

At least one of the government scientists thinks that in cutting the riser, BP actually made the leak far worse.

The BP-5L battery should produce a browsing time of up to 3. 5 hours (standby 13 days).

It has accumulated an impressive roster of enemies as it battles the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, but it is not dead yet.

Place a small sheet of transparent paper large enough to cover the BP and dart over the required dart position.

They have not paid up so far: Anadarko insists that BP was grossly negligent in its operation of the well, and thus it alone is liable.

BP crews had arrived prior to the president's arrival and worked feverishly to tidy up the beaches. They left after he flew out.

He said BP's options are constrained because issuing debt has become expensive and selling off assets takes time.

The company's rivals have been given permission to resume drilling on existing operations.

BP network is a feedforward neural network practiced by back propagation algorithm, is one of neural network modes applied widely.

They peg the total cleanup and legal costs to BP at around $33 billion, though these might not fully materialize for a decade.

He lavished more than $200m on rebranding BP as "Beyond Petroleum" but failed to reorganise the company's sprawling bureaucracy.

BP shares fell in Frankfurt and its American Deposit Receipts also fell on Monday, when London markets were closed for a public holiday.

On this basis, BP ANN model is optimized using real-coded genetic algorithm (GA), and a GA-BP model is constructing in this paper.

Lord Brown-the CEO of BP-asked me to manage the BP research & engineering company to make it more commercial.

Women have lower blood pressure (BP) and a lower incidence of hypertension than aged-matched men through much of their lives.

absence of these vasodilators due to renal parenchymal disease or bilateral nephrectomy would permit BP to rise.

BP, once the pride of corporate UK, one of the country's few global champions, is now a wounded giant.

It is still too early to evaluate the long-term harm from the president's use of excessive authority against BP.

Noises coming out of Moscow suggested that the plan was dead and that Rosneft was seeking a replacement for BP.

In other emerging markets, BP's equity ties have made it easier to resolve some of the inevitable sticking points.

BP stopped manufacturing its own solar cells in the U. S. this year, saying it could lower costs better by using panels made by partners.

Judging by Mr Dudley's previous troubles in Russia, Mr Fridman and the Kremlin have plenty of means at their disposal to put pressure on BP.

Despite the uncertainty about the long-term impacts of the BP spill, Washington is moving aggressively to return to business as usual.

The BP is used to control the brake demand of the locomotive and of the train.

And despite the outcry against BP's safety practices in deep water, the company is pushing onward with more offshore projects.

America has a well-developed system for getting companies to pay for the damage they do; and BP long ago accepted that it would pay in full.

The only place in the world I can get free data on oil and gas is BP because the International Energy Agency sells their data.

A novel adaptive mutation technique and a scheme to shift the training of the network from the GA to the BP algorithm are proposed.

L-M algorithm with higher prediction accuracy is proved to be the optimal training algorithm for the ANN model compared with BP algorithm.

An oil-splattered BP engineer's boiler suit has become one of the most successful Halloween costumes in the United States.

"We want to restore our reputation, " Dudley said on CNBC-TV. BP plans to reinstate its dividend "at some point, " he said.

A sign at a BP petrol station is reflected in raindrops in London .

She commented further: "These guidelines help pediatric healthcare providers to understand the use of ABPM in monitoring children's BP. "

A potential candidate for that role is Viktor Vekselberg, who heads TNK-BP's natural-gas business and owns the Renova industrial group.

That reflects uncertainty over the leaking well and, among UK shareholders, a degree of frustration with drift at the top.

The U. S. House committee on natural resources has agreed measures that would prevent BP from new offshore drilling for seven years.

BP operates in one of the most regulated industries on earth with some of the most perverse rules, subsidies and incentives.

The calculation for the equilibrium moisture content of food materials with a high moisture content by the BP ANN technique is presented.

BP is facing colossal long-term problems as a result of the Macondo incident, including almost certainly further management changes.

If he sees any impropriety in politicians ordering executives about, upstaging the courts and threatening confiscation, he has not said so.

The storm was strong enough to force BP to halt its relief well operations, with the drilling rigs pulling out late Thursday night.

Some test data of shift control are used to train the improved BP algorithm and a simulation is finally performed.

But the accident served as a reminder that Asia is not invulnerable to an environmental disaster on the scale of the BP spill.

Like some other companies, BP issues annual sustainability reports attesting to its compliance efforts in these fields.

Scientists and federal officials expect the BP oil leak to be a matter of concern and study for generations.

Mr Hayward was not prepared because he had kept such a low profile since taking over from John Browne as BP chief executive in 2007.

The first few BP efforts failed, but that did not stop people plotting the movie's next scene.

BP is not the only company affected by the shutdown.

Captain Mike Ellis said in an interview posted on You Tube that the boats are conducting controlled burns to get rid of the oil.

The oil company BP is working on two relief wells that are considered to be the best solution to the problem.

They could do worse than to require American companies, in this respect at least, to copy the reviled BP.

Tens of billions of dollars have been spent or committed by BP on cleaning up the devastation and compensating victims.

Under both Tony Hayward, Mr Dudley's immediate predecessor, and Lord Browne, BP became one of the biggest payers of dividends in the UK.

The report also states that while Halliburton did pass on some of the test results to BP, it may have kept other data to itself.

Transocean and Halliburton have both defended their work and said BP, as the well's owner, made most of the decisions.

That should give the oil group a greater measure of clarity on its exposure for the next three to four years.

As long as he respects Rosneft's interests, anything else Mr Fridman does to get payback from BP will be fine by the Kremlin.

BP, meanwhile, insists it has done nothing wrong, and that any unbiased court will find in its favour.

BP's bill so far has been more than $3. 1bn - and it has agreed to set up a $20bn fund to deal with compensation claims and clean-up costs.

BP's offer was the only one accepted by the Iraqis.

Mark Salt, a spokesman for BP in London, declined to comment on the report.

An external BP adviser defends Mr Hayward's approach, even as he says the chief executive is probably doomed to the sack.

Halliburton said in a statement that it 'noticed a number of substantial omissions and inaccuracies' in BP's report. '

This summer, such systems helped seal a BP well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

On May 24, the EPA's Ms. Jackson said the agency wouldn't stop BP from using Corexit, after all, given the lack of alternatives.

On Tuesday the company reaffirmed its intention to review future dividends next February.

The public certainly has a right to be upset with BP, but all the government did was needlessly stoke that flame of anger.

Previously unseen emails revealed that BP tried to control independent research into the consequences of the Gulf oil spill.

The president noted that America's shores along the Gulf of Mexico recently suffered another tragedy - the BP oil spill.

Mr. Hayward took the helm in May 2007, saying he would focus 'like a laser' on safety and simultaneously improve BP's operations.

A BP spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

Clearly, losses to British pension funds and other British shareholders of BP should be of concern to the British government.

The U. S. government wants BP to start paying up for the Gulf oil spill.

The math also delayed me long enough to notice that I was nearly running on empty, so I pulled into the BP and filled up.

On Wednesday, BP officials came to the White House for what many people expected would be a twenty minute meeting.

BP's Macondo oil well off the gulf coast was officially declared to be "dead" , or sealed by cement.

The company got close to top-of-the-market prices from BP (BP, news, msgs), for example, for some of its gas shale assets.