p52 BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley in front of the company's logo at the BP North Sea Headquarters in Aberdeen. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday October 13, 2011. BP said the story of North Sea oil still has a "long way to run" after the company today received the go-ahead for a major £4.5 billion project. The second phase of the giant Clair field, west of the Shetland Islands, forms part of £10 billion being spent on four projects by BP and its partners from Shell, ConocoPhillips and Chevron over the next five years. At £4 billion, BP's involvement represents the highest level of annual investment the company has made in the UK North Sea. See PA story CITY BP. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire
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9 May 2013
To Norfolk’s Houghton Hall, where Robert Walpole’s Old Masters have returned for this summer after more than 200 years at St Petersburg Hermitage. Among the guests feasting on fruits de mer and guinea fowl last night, ahead of the opening of the Houghton Revisited exhibition, were culture minister Ed Vaizey and a clutch of Russian princesses.
Bob Dudley, head of sponsor BP, gave a well received speech but the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, who presides over Houghton Hall, didn’t seem to like BP’s nation-neutral rebrand, referring to it as British Petroleum.
This morning headaches were reported by the guests. The blame was placed not on the generous helpings of vodka but on the Sobranie cocktail cigarettes that were being handed round.
