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Reported fleet size
—
No published figure available
Container capacity
—
Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
225,663
Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
BP p.l.c. is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors" and one of the world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits.
It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and extraction, refining, distribution and marketing, power generation, and trading.
BP's origins date back to the founding of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, established as a subsidiary of the 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.
BP acquired majority control of Standard Oil of Ohio in 1978. Formerly majority state-owned, the British government privatised the company in stages between 1979 and 1987. BP merged with Amoco in 1998, becoming BP Amoco p.l.c., and acquired ARCO, Burmah Castrol and Aral AG shortly thereafter. The company's name was shortened to BP p.l.c. in 2001.
As of 2024, BP had operations in 61 countries, produced around 2.4 million barrels per day (380,000 m3/d) of oil equivalent, and had total proven reserves of 6.25 billion barrels (994,000,000 m3) of oil equivalent.
Origin
BP was founded in 1909 by 2 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Founder
William Knox D'Arcy
1849–1917
oil entrepreneur magnate, one of the founders of British Oil (1849–1917)
Photo: Life magazine · Public domain · file
Founder
Charles Greenway, 1st Baron Greenway
1857–1934
British businessman (1857-1934)
People
Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.
Chief executive
Meg O'Neill
1970
American chief executive
Corporate profile
Reported financials
Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.
Revenue
195bn USD
Reported for 2024
Corporate structure
Services and products
Subsidiaries and units (10)
Fleet on record
Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to BP. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2020 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8765199 | Rig / offshore unit | — | 2007 | 190,000 | — | 110.1 m | Hanwha Ocean | |
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 3 vessels attributed to it here, BP is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which BP ranks 18th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.
Founded in 1909, BP is 117 years old. This directory holds 39 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q152057, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from BP on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
| 0 |
| — |
| 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 3 |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 3 |
| 9265768 |
| Rig / offshore unit |
| — |
| 2007 |
| 35,663 |
| — |
| 129.1 m |
| Hanwha Ocean |
| 5365352 | Oil tanker | — | 1959 | — | — | 246.9 m | Newport News Shipbuilding |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
