BP reports annual loss after Gulf spill
London - Oil giant BP has suffered an annual loss due to oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico 2010, said Tuesday.
There was a loss of $ 4.9 million, but that includes 40.9 billion U.S. dollars set aside pre-tax charges related to the tide.
Also begin to pay dividends to shareholders again, he said. They will receive 7 cents per share for the fourth quarter of 2010.
Dividends were suspended in June 2010 in the midst of bad publicity torrent submarine enthusiast.
In addition, BP is on the roof in London on Tuesday in an agreement with Rosneft, state-controlled Russia for oil exploration in the Russian Arctic. BP's Russian partner TNK-BP seeks to block the deal.
The independent report, ordered that the loss of president Barack Obama has said that the Gulf of Mexico has been a disaster so predictable and avoidable. Industry did not manage the risk associated with dangerous operation, "one of the commissioners last month.
"More than 14 million Americans living along the Gulf of Mexico. They have paid a painful price for this disaster. Thousands of people lost their jobs. Many have lost their homes.
"2010 will be properly remembered as a tragic accident and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and it is clear that, as a result, BP is a company in transition," said CEO Bob Dudley, who took over after the loss.
He said the company would "come out of this episode as one that is safer, stronger, more durable, more reliable and useful."
The company also announced it would sell the U.S. oil refineries, Carson, Texas City, who was present at the incident in 2005.
Fifteen people died and 170 were injured in an explosion in Texas City, Texas, refinery in March of that year.
BP agreed last year to pay $ 15 million in penalties to resolve Clean Air Act violations related to two fires and floods linked to the refinery explosion in 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Ministry of Justice said in September.
It was the largest fine ever collected for violations of the Clean Air Act, the EPA said.
The sale of two refineries are part of a plan to sell the assets of 30 billion dollars this year, when about to give up about 22 billion U.S. dollars in 2010 money.