BP: Timeline of Major Controversies

The following is a Timeline of Major Controversies involving the global oil company BP

2005

 * Explosion at oil refinery in Texas City, Texas.

2006

 * March: Oil spill from corroded pipeline in Alaska
 * Wall Street Journal reports that BP is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission for its trading of crude oil. The US Justice Department is also investigating the company over petrol pricing.

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 * Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline
 * BP's campaign to exploit protected areas
 * BP in Colombia
 * BP's targetneutral
 * Greenwashing