Oil giants BP Amoco and Shell also fell sharply, carving 19 points from the FTSE 100 as a dip in crude prices sparked a bout of profit-taking.

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How Sir John Browne turned BP Amoco into the hottest prospect in the oil patch.

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The name BP Amoco Arco Burmah Castrol shows the extent of one oil giant's merger activity, before it wisely chose to rename itself BP.

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In exchange, the Chinese oil firm signed a letter of intent with BP Amoco calling for the establishment of a gas-marketing joint venture in eastern China.

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The RSPB says this incident is "far worse than the Amoco Cadiz spill" of 1978, which involved more than 230, 000 tonnes of oil off north Brittany.

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The company was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 500 miles from the Andes to Colombia's coast.

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It was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 800 kilometers from the Andes to the coast of Colombia.

FORBES: One Tamed Wildcat

Amoco Eurasia is a leading member of the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) consortium developing Azerbaijan's oil reserves.

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Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1912 resulted in no less than 38 separate companies, including such energy industry giants as Amoco, Chevron and Exxon.

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