BP's major subsidiary in the United States is BP America, Inc. based in Houston, Texas,which is the parent company for the BP's operations in the country. BP Exploration & Production Inc., a 1996 established Houston-based subsidiary, is dealing with oil
exploration and production, including Gulf of Mexico activities.Business support teams workin every part of our organization to ensure we never compromise on our values or ethics,and that safety is always our number one priority.
Commercial and external affairs enables us to make sound business decisions. Compliance and ethics ensures we do the right thing for all our stakeholders. Finance improves our business performance and maintains robust financial controls. HR teams act as strategic and operational business partners. Group audit provides assurance on risk management. Legal teams are involved in everything from employment law to dispute resolution. Our tax function ensures compliance with tax legislation and optimizes our tax position. And our treasury team acts as our internal bank.Find out where your business knowledge could be best put to use across BP or Castrol.
BP has been directly involved in several major environmental and safety incidents. Among them were the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion, which caused the death of 15 workers and resulted in a record-setting OSHA fine; Britain's largest oil spill, the wreck of Torrey Canyon; and the 2006 Prudhoe Bay oil spill, the largest oil spill on Alaska's North Slope, which resulted in a US$25 million civil penalty, the largest per-barrel penalty at that time for an oil spill.
The United States operations comprise nearly one-third of BP's worldwide business interests, and the United States is the country with the greatest concentration of its employees and investments. BP employs approximately 16,000 people in the United States. In 2015, the BP's production in the United States was 323,000 barrels per day (51,400 m3/d) of oil and 1.528 billion cubic feet per day (43.3 million cubic metres per day) of natural gas.
BP's major subsidiary in the United States is BP America, Inc. based in Houston, Texas,
which is the parent company for the BP's operations in the country. BP Exploration &
Production Inc., a 1996 established Houston-based subsidiary, is dealing with oil
exploration and production, including Gulf of Mexico activities. BP Corporation North
America, Inc., provides petroleum refining services as also transportation fuel, heat and light energy, and petrochemical products. BP Products North America, Inc., a 1954 established Houston-based subsidiary, is engaged in the exploration, development,
production, refining, and marketing of oil and natural gas. BP America Production Company, a New Mexico-based subsidiary, engages in oil and gas exploration and development.BP Energy Company, aHouston-based subsidiary, is a provider of natural gas, power, and risk management services to the industrial and utility sectors and a retail electric provider in Texas.
BP's upstream activities are divided into three business areas which are deepwater Gulf of Mexico, the Lower 48 states, and Alaska. BP is a leading acreage holder and producer of oiland natural gas in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.The company produces nearly 10% of its global output in the region, over 249,000 barrels per day (39,600 m3/d) of oil equivalent, as of 2015. BP's production is from more than ten fields, including Atlantis, Mad Dog, Na Kika, and Thunder Horse fields operated by the company itself.
As of 2015, the company operated nine North Slope oilfields in the Greater Prudhoe Bay
area, producing 107,000 barrels per day (17,000 m3/d) and accounting for about 60% of
all Alaska North Slope production. In 2015, 107,000 barrels per day (17,000 m3/d) were
produced in Alaska. BP is the largest partner with just under 50% ownership stake in the
800-mile (1,300 km) long Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
In 2014, BP moved its onshore unit in the United States to a new business called U.S.
Lower 48 Onshore to compete in the burgeoning shale gas industry dominated by smaller
companies. It has a 7.5 billion barrels (1.19 billion cubic metres) material resource base on
5.7 million acres (23,000 km2). It has shale positions in the Woodford,
Oklahoma, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Haynesville, Texas, and Eagle Ford, Texas shales. It
has unconventional gas (shale gas or tight gas) stakes also in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming, primarily in the San Juan Basin.
BP operates Whiting Refinery in Indiana and Cherry Point Refinery in Washington, and has
a stake in the Husky Energy-operated Toledo Refinery in Ohio. Since the early 2000s, the
company has been focusing its refining business on processing crude from oil
sands and tight oil from shales. On the US West Coast, BP primarily operates service
stations under the ARCO brand.
The company owns two petrochemical plants in the U.S. Its petrochemical plant in Texas
City, located on the same site as the formerly owned Texas City Refinery, produces
industrial chemicals including propylene and styrene.BP's Cooper River, South
Carolinapetrochemical plant produces PTA, which is used in the production of synthetic
fibre for clothing, pack.
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