It stands for British Petroleum.
BP stood for British Petroleum, the company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
British Petroleum
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil announced that BP would be temporarily banned from new contracts with the US.
BP was the company who owned the oil that caused the oil spill.
BP has had 2 major oil spills: The BP Alaskan oil spill of 2006, and the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil spill of 2010.
Which states were affected by the bp oil spill?
BP = British Petroleum, an oil company
BP was the large energy company who was in charge of final operations at the site of the BP oil spill.
I'll have to make a few assumptions here: A. BP is British Petroleum; B. BP drills for oil in Country ABC; and C. BP sells oil to Country XYZ. In this scenario the oil BP sells in ABC is listed as an export product. If specific to oil and not oil products or gas, then it's Oil under exports.
BP is the registered name and trademark of BP oil.
Partially British and partly American, I think the shares stand at 40% British, 39% American. The CEO is British but the chairman is a Swede, BP have ditched the name British Petroleum after the merge with American oil company AMOCO.
The BP oil spill began on April 22, 2010.