Third largest oil company in the world, by sales (behind Exxon Mobile and Royal Dutch Shell; in 2009, these were $246.1 billion.
BP is the largest oil and gas producer in the US.
Lessor of Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. On 20 April 2010, a fire and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon killed eleven crew members and was followed by a blowout, during which perhaps four million barrels of crude oil were poured into the ecologically sensitive area.
Company was founded in 1909 by William Knox D'Arcy as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), and used its ties with the hapless Qejar Dynasty ruling Iran.
In 1925, Reza Khan (formerly an employee of APOC) had himself proclaimed Shah; his ascendancy from commoner to emperor was stimulated by Iran popular anger at the way APOC was pumping billions of pounds from Iran's land to the Exchequer of the UK, while a ridiculously small amount went to Iran itself. Shah Reza promised to revise the agreement with APOC, but after 7 years of negotiating with the company, got nothing more than a name change (to Anglo-Iranian).
In 1951, Prime Minister Muhammad Mussadegh nationalize the company's assets in Iran. On behalf of AIOC, MI-5 and the CIA staged a coup d'etat that ousted the democratically elected Prime Minister in favor of absolute dictatorship by the Shah (1953).
BP, p.l.c. chief executive Tony Hayward took a day off Saturday to see his 52-foot yacht "Bob" compete in a glitzy race off England's shore, a leisure trip that further infuriated residents of the oil-stained Gulf Coast.
{AP Newswire, 19 June 2010}
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an event where male friends gather together and worship the female form . . . a.k.a. BACHELOR PARTY
We'd better have that BP for Tom before he gets hitched.
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bp stands for bushy pussy
1st guy- dood did u eat that chick out
2nd guy- nooo dood shes got a bp
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To get double fucked in both holes due to the BP oil disaster
Fisherman Tom - Wow BP oil has killed all my fish....and thier boat just hit my dock! I just recieved a BP DP!!!
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The BP Special is a soft serving combined with premature ejaculation; Named after the man who made it famous.
- How did it go?
- I served her up another BP Special.
to take a huge dump and not flush;
I hate having Geoffrey as my roomate, he always BPs in the bathroom.
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A very recent term I picked up straight from the mouths of the local residents of the US Gulf Coast States, especially from Louisiana, which refers to, and defines coughing so hard due to the respiratory illnesses caused by the poisonous fumes, flames and soot of crude oil following the BP oil spill and drill last year.
Some Gulf Residents in their outrage against BP also attached Skin Rashes to the BP Cough illness. Without a shadow of a doubt , the atmospheric pollution and contamination caused by the poisonous fumes, flames and soot of crude oil might lead to many other illnesses which the local people are still unaware of but the BP COUGH here , for the sake of clarity, only defines a disease that hits the lungs.
Diagnosis : BP COUGH
Prescription Drug. BE PATIENT.
AS an example, I take my pledge , analogy and definition to Edgar Alan Poe who, in his only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) once picked up the strange voices the natives of the Island of Nantucket produce; and to his surprise, he found out that those voices are similar to the voices of the big white birds. Nature was the teacher back then. “Art is an Imitation” as Aristotle defined it. The story is not the same today regretfully. The Zillionaire Companies and the Billionaire villains are screwing nature up for the sake of fat pockets. They don’t care. Today, they are leaving nothing for the Artist to imitate or pick up from Nature. We live in a world of flux, constant change. Nothing is taken for granted and nothing is ever the same. Therefore, I have no option but to define the disastrous consequences of destroying Nature and Man. It is the “BP Cough as the locals” of Louisiana call it. (Gulf Residents at BP meeting: We were treated like criminals”) , World Bog, NBC News, 4-14, 2011.