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4 hrs ago | Business Wire

Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing

LONDON-- --Dresser Wayne , a global innovator of retail fuel dispensers and technologies, and BP, PLC , one of the world's largest energy companies, have - STAMFORD, Conn.-- --A group of investors, led by Ben Carpenter, Ron Kripalani, and Jay Levine, recently purchased a controlling interest in CRT Capital Group.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, US Energy Systems, Energy, Banking, JP Morgan Chase , CIT Group, Financial Services

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Tech Confidential Blog

BP's convenience-store story

Should oil giants run convenience stores? Some say no. Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips Co.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Blogging Stocks

Royal Dutch Shell crowned world's largest corporation

Filed under: Wal-Mart , Exxon Mobil , Toyota Motor Corp. , Chevron Corp , ConocoPhillips , BP p.l.c. ADS , Oil Who said big oil was a dying business? Fortune has released its Global 500, their "annual ranking of the world's largest corporations," and topping the charts is Royal Dutch Shell , which, much like a Mariah Carey song, bumped up into the ...

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Exxon Mobil, Energy, Oil & Gas, Toyota Motor, Automakers, ConocoPhillips

PR-inside.com

Dresser Wayne and BP Enter New Three-Year Fuel Dispenser Deal

The agreement names Dresser Wayne as the primary supplier of fuel dispensers to BPa s retail fuel locations in Europe and North America.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Austin Metro, Austin, TX

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Fool.com

Big Oil Likely to Return to Iraq

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Iraq, World News, Middle East, Exxon Mobil, Energy

Mon Jul 06, 2009

M2.com

First Cargo From Indonesia's Tangguh LNG Project

BP, as operator on behalf of the Tangguh project partners, announced that the first cargo of liquefied natural gas has today been lifted from the Tangguh LNG project in Papua Barat, Indonesia.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia, Oil & Gas,

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Beyond `Beyond Petroleum' at BP

BP is continuing with the deflowering of its green machine. The company, which once purported to be the greenest of the major oil companies, has shut down its alternative energy headquarters in London, and the head of that unit has resigned, according to the Guardian newspaper.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Fool.com

There's a Shell in Russia's Bed Again

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Exxon Mobil, Energy, Vladimir Putin, Total Sa

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Tech Confidential Blog

I-banks, law firms hire in response to oil M&A

Strategics in the oil sector feeling an economic upturn is in sight have been running to the deal table as valuations are still a bit depressed.

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Related Topix: Encore Acquisition, Energy, Oil & Gas, PetroChina Company, Financial Services, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services, Banking, Citigroup

Wed Jul 01, 2009

The Daily Record

Business News: BP'S two-year hunt

Sutherland's departure was expected last year but was delayed by the decision not to proceed with the appointment of the initial favourite.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Times Online

David Wighton

We may at last have a chance of winning Wimbledon but it is a bit of a blow to the national self-esteem that we can't find a Brit to chair BP.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Opinion

Mon Jun 29, 2009

The Motley Fool

BP Is Back in Shape and Ready to Go

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Exxon Mobil, Energy, Explosion, Galveston Metro, Texas City, TX, Chesapeake Energy

Seattle's WB

BP names Ericsson CEO as new chairman in surprise appointment

Oil major BP Group PLC surprised the industry by revealing Thursday it has selected current L.M. Ericsson chief executive Carl-Henric Svanberg as its new chairman, ending a two-year hunt to fill the position.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Financial Times

Outgoing head's key role in expansion

When Peter Sutherland became chairman at BP 12 years ago, it was still what was sometimes described as a a oetwo pipeline companya , heavily dependent on its fields in the North Sea and Alaska.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

BusinessWeek

NEWSMAKER: The BP chairman who...

Peter Sutherland failed in his aim to keep a low profile as chairman of BP, a role he relinquishes at the end of 2009, but in arousing media interest he won plaudits for taking on a powerful chief executive.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas

The Peninsula

Steep learning curve faces BP's surprise new chairman

'I'm on a steep learning curve,' says Carl-Henric Svanberg . Fresh off the flight from Sweden on Thursday morning, the newly appointed chairman of BP was understandably reluctant to discuss a company and an industry he knows only sketchily.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Business News

Fri Jun 26, 2009

BusinessWeek

Muted Response on Svanberg's BP Post

BP has finally appointed a new chairman, surprising the City by announcing yesterday that it had poached Carl-Henric Svanberg, chief executive of Ericsson , to replace Peter Sutherland when he steps down in December.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Ericsson names new CEO as Svanberg goes to BP

In an Oct. 23, 2007 file photo Ericsson's Chief Executive Carl-Henric Svanberg and Chief Financial Officer Hans Vestberg present the 3rd quarter results during a press conference at the companys headquarters in Kista, north of Stockholm, Sweden, L.M. Ericsson on Thursday, June 26, 2009 said its financial chief Hans Vestberg will take over as chief ...

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Sweden, World News

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Houston Business Journal

Ericsson CEO appointed chairman of BP

Oil giant BP plc has appointed Carl-Henric Svanberg, currently the chief executive officer of Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson , to replace Peter Sutherland as chairman.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Energy

Market Wire

Hans Vestberg Appointed President and CEO of Ericsson as of January 1, 2010

Ericsson's Board of Directors has appointed Hans Vestberg President and CEO of Ericsson as of January 1, 2010.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Sweden, World News, Auto Dealers, Retail, Americas CarMart,

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