BP sees 年次の 利益（をあげる）s more than 二塁打
BP has seen 利益（をあげる）s more than 二塁打 to 12.7 billion US dollars (£9.7 billion) for 2018, after 元気づける a year of “transformative” 取引，協定s.
株 in the oil 巨大（な） rose 4% after the result （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 期待s, with underlying 交替／補充 cost 利益（をあげる）s ? BP’s preferred income?手段 ? 殺到するing from 6.2?billion US dollars (£4.8 billion) in 2017.
Its fourth ４半期/4分の1 underlying 収入s also jumped 67% higher to 3.5 billion US dollars (£2.7 billion) as its 最近の 引き継ぎ／買収 of US shale oil and gas 資産s from BHP Billiton 相殺する a 減少（する） in oil prices at the end of last year.
BP 完全にするd the 10.5 billion US dollar (£8.1 billion) BHP shale 取引，協定 at the end of October.
（頭が）ひょいと動く Dudley, group 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of BP, said: “We now have a powerful 跡をつける 記録，記録的な／記録する of 安全な and reliable 業績／成果, efficient 死刑執行 and 資本／首都 discipline.
“And we’re doing this while growing the 商売／仕事 ? bringing more high-質 事業／計画（する）s online, 拡大するing marketing in the 石油精製 and doing transformative 取引，協定s such as BHP.”
BP´s fourth ４半期/4分の1 underlying 収入s also jumped higher (Nick Ansell/PA)
He 追加するd: “Our 戦略 is 明確に working and will serve the company and our 株主s 井戸／弁護士席 through the energy 移行.”
The FTSE 100 stalwart has been riding the wave of a 回復する in the cost of 天然のまま in 最近の years, as has 競争相手 王室の Dutch 爆撃する, which last week 報告（する）／憶測d its best 年次の 利益（をあげる）s 運ぶ／漁獲高 for four years.
But BP has also been 乗る，着手するing on a number of new 事業／計画（する）s, which have been 上げるing 生産／産物 and are helping 反対する the 最近の 緩和 off of the oil price 決起大会／結集させる.
The price of Brent 天然のまま has fallen はっきりと from four-year highs of nearly 87 US dollars a バーレル／樽 in the autumn to about 63 US dollars?予定 to 関心s of a 減産／沈滞 in 需要・要求する as 全世界の growth 緩和するs, 連合させるd with rising 在庫s.
BP bosses have recently said they believe oil prices will now remain 安定した at between 50 and 65 US dollars a バーレル／樽.
On a 報告（する）／憶測d basis, BP’s 十分な-year 利益（をあげる） rose to 10 billion US dollars (£7.7 billion) while fourth-４半期/4分の1 results showed it swinging to a 2.7 billion US dollar (£2.1 billion) 利益（をあげる） from a 583 million US dollar (£447 million) loss a year earlier.
The group made another?3.2 billion US dollars (£2.5 billion) of 支払い（額）s in 2018 for?the 2010 Deepwater Horizon 悲劇, which killed 11 労働者s and 誘発するd?one of the biggest 環境の 災害s in 法人組織の／企業の history.
BP ‘s total 法案 for the 湾 of Mexico oil 流出／こぼす has reached 67 billion US dollars (£51 billion) ? but the group recently 発表するd 計画（する）s to pump 100,000 more バーレル／樽s of oil a day in the 地域.
十分な-year results also showed it made divestments of 3.5 billion US dollars (£2.7 billion) of 資産s and the group 発表するd 計画（する）s to 完全にする more than 10 billion US dollars (£7.7 billion) over the next two years.
BP said it 推定する／予想するd 最近の major 事業／計画（する）s to ramp up 生産／産物 in 2019 as its pipeline of new 事業／計画（する）s around the world 耐える fruit.
It 確認するd fourth-４半期/4分の1 株主 （株主への）配当 支払い（額）s of 10.25 cents (7.85p) a 株, up 2.5% on a year earlier.
Nicholas Hyett, an 公正，普通株主権 分析家 at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: “What stands out about BP at the moment is its pipeline of new 事業／計画（する）s around the world ? the 利益s of which we have seen in 2018.
“That is showing little 調印する of slowing, and with the group also dabbling in renewable and green 科学（工学）技術s, BP’s got its 注目する，もくろむs 始める，決める 堅固に on the 未来.”
