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This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

	BP was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Text and/or other creative content from Deepwater Horizon oil spill was copied or moved into BP with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

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Ownership

I notice the article does not mention when the company ceased to be a subsidiary of Burmah Oil or when the British Government became the majority shareholder. If anyone knows these dates could they add them to the history. Penrithguy (talk) 03:51, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Poor grammar, leading to an incorrect interpretation.

In the first section of the history, we read "Immediately after establishing the company, the British government asked Percy Cox...". This implies that the British government established the company. The Real Walrus (talk) 19:03, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Continuity error and possibly incorrect value

In the introduction, it reads, “On 2 July 2015, BP and five states announced an $18.7 billion settlement”, however in the article depicting the oil spill, it states that “BP agreed to pay $20.8 billion in fine which is the largest corporate settlement…”. The sources were different, and the oil spill article's was updated in 2017, yet this one was in 2015 and has 'roughly' before the amount. go on then (talk) 21:16, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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