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1. Britain’s Got Talent, BP Doesn’t

2. British
Petroleum, was the
biggest integrated
oil company in
Europe

4. BP has already paid
out $27.2 billion in
cash since the
incident.

6. Market Capitalization : $133bn
Revenue for fiscal year 2012 (FY12) : $375.580bn
Revenue CAGR* (FY07-FY12) : 5.72%
Earnings (FY12) : $11.582bn
Earnings CAGR (FY07-FY12) : -11.1%
Operating margin (FY12) : 2.12%

8. INTEGRATED OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
MARKET CAPITALIZATION: $2.6TR
REVENUES FOR LAST FISCAL YEAR: $4.00TR
REVENUE GROWTH (YEAR OVER YEAR [YOY] : 7.23%