BP plc

BP plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas supermajors. It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, power generation and trading.

It also has renewable energy interests in biofuels, wind power, smart grid and solar technology. BP has been working in the Middle East for more than 100 years, going back to the foundation of the Company in 1909. With our upstream activities in Abu Dhabi and our downstream business managed from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates is an important hub for BP’s operations across the Middle East.

Our relationship with the United Arab Emirates goes back to the early 1930s, when Air BP established a refuelling depot in Sharjah to serve the first airplanes en route from the UK to India.

Further along the coast to the north, Dubai is the regional hub for our refining and marketing businesses known as BP Middle East LLC. BP markets oil products, including aviation and marine fuels and lubricants, and provides technical support and other related services across the region – from Egypt in the west to Sri Lanka in the east. The regional office of BP’s trading division is also based in Dubai and is actively involved in regional markets for crude and refined products, linking into BP's refining and marketing networks as well as international petroleum markets.