MOSCOW, September 4, 2008 (AFP) - British and Russian shareholders on Thursday announced an end to a months-long feud for control of joint oil venture TNK-BP, in a move hailed by the Kremlin as a positive signal to foreign investors.

MOSCOW, September 4, 2008 (AFP) - British and Russian shareholders signed a deal Thursday ending a long-running feud for control of joint oil venture TNK-BP that had unnerved investors, statements from the two sides said.

MOSCOW, September 4, 2008 (AFP) - British and Russian shareholders fighting for control of their joint venture TNK-BP could end their feud as soon as Thursday, Russian newspaper Vedomosti and the London-based Financial Times reported.

NEW YORK, August 28, 2008 (AFP) - British oil group BP and US rivals ConocoPhillips and Shell on Thursday evacuated workers from their energy installations in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed.

'We're completing the evacuation of non-essential personnel from offshore platforms,' BP said in an automated phone message. 'Production is not impacted by the storm.'

ANKARA, August 25, 2008 (AFP) - A major fire-damaged oil pipeline carrying crude from Azerbaijan to Turkey was up and running again on Monday after repairs, industry sources told AFP.

'Tests were completed over the weekend. The pipeline is back in service,' said an Istanbul-based member of the British energy giant BP, which operates the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan line (BTC).

British energy giant BP said Wednesday that tests were underway on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil ...

Oil exports of 50,000-70,000 barrels a day from Azerbaijan, headed for the West via Georgia, have ...

British energy giant BP said on Thursday that it had resumed pumping gas into the South Caucasus ...

British energy giant BP said on Thursday that it had resumed pumping gas into the South Caucasus ...

British energy giant BP announced Tuesday it had closed an oil pipeline because of fighting in ...

British energy giant BP said Tuesday that oil supplies from the Caspian Sea were being transported ...

British energy giant BP said Tuesday that it has closed the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline and the South ...

British energy giant BP said Tuesday that it was not aware of any Russian attack on a key ...

British oil giant BP said on Saturday it was unaware of Russian bombing near a major international oil pipeline in Georgia that it operates

MOSCOW, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - The chief financial officer of British-Russian oil company TNK-BP resigned on Monday, saying he could no longer carry out his duties because of a row between BP and its Russian partners, the company said.

MOSCOW, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - A Russian prosecutor on Friday said he did not plan to pursue British-Russian oil firm TNK-BP, in an apparent easing of pressure on the troubled company, Russian news agencies reported.

MOSCOW, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - A Russian court declared illegal on Thursday the election of directors for the parent company of embattled oil firm TNK-BP, in an apparent setback for Britain's BP, Russian news agencies reported.

LONDON, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - British energy giant BP said Tuesday its net profit rallied by 28 percent to 9.47 billion dollars (6.02 billion euros) in the second quarter, when oil prices surged to record highs.

LONDON, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - British energy giant BP said Tuesday it would defend itself 'vigorously' in an ongoing spat with Moscow over the future of its Anglo-Russian joint venture TNK-BP.

LONDON, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - British energy giant BP said on Tuesday that its net profit rallied by 28 percent to 9.47 billion dollars (6.02 billion euros) in the second quarter as oil prices surged to record highs.

LONDON, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - British energy giant BP said on Tuesday that its net profit jumped by 28 percent to 9.465 billion dollars (6.016 billion euros) in the second quarter as oil prices surged to record highs.

LONDON, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - British energy giant BP said on Tuesday that its net profit jumped by 28 percent to 9.465 billion dollars (6.016 billion euros) in the second quarter compared with a year earlier as oil prices surged to record highs.

MOSCOW, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - Kremlin adviser Arkady Dvorkovich rejected on Monday charges of political interference in the activities of Russian-British oil firm TNK-BP and said the company's activities were not in danger.

LONDON, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - British energy giant BP said Tuesday it had recalled all 148 staff sent to Russia to work for its TNK-BP venture amid ongoing Russian attempts to end foreign control of major energy assets.

'BP announced today (Tuesday) that it was withdrawing 60 remaining technical specialists, formerly assigned to TNK-BP, from Russia,' the company said in a statement.

LONDON, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - British energy firm BP said on Tuesday it had recalled all 148 staff sent to Russia to work for its venture TNK-BP amid ongoing Russian attempts to remove foreign control over major energy assets.

'BP announced today that it was withdrawing 60 remaining technical specialists, formerly assigned to TNK-BP, from Russia,' the company said in a statement.

MOSCOW, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - The head of embattled Russian-British oil firm TNK-BP can work in Russia until his temporary visa runs out but only if his employer allows him, a federal migration service spokesman told AFP on Monday.

MOSCOW, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - The head of British oil giant BP's embattled Russian venture TNK-BP no longer has the right to work in Russia, a spokeswoman for the federal migration service told AFP on Monday.

LONDON, July 20, 2008 (AFP) - British oil giant BP has blocked a mammoth dividend payment due to Russian shareholders of a strife-torn joint venture, an English newspaper reported Sunday.

The move is seen as leverage amid a bitter row over investment plans which has left the chief executive of joint venture TNK-BP, Robert Dudley, facing expulsion from Russia at the end of the month.

MOSCOW, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Russian authorities on Friday renewed until a visa until July 29 for the head of embattled British-Russian oil firm TNK-BP, a day before he would have been forced to leave Russia, an immigration official said.

MOSCOW, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Russian authorities on Friday renewed until July 29 a visa for the head of embattled British-Russian oil firm TNK-BP, a day before he would have been forced to leave Russia, an immigration official said.

MOSCOW, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Russian authorities on Friday renewed until July 29 a visa for the head of embattled British-Russian oil firm TNK-BP, a day before he would have been forced to leave Russia, an immigration official said.

'We have extended his visa... for 10 days' until July 29, said a spokeswoman for Russia's federal migration service in Moscow.

MOSCOW, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - A dispute over British-Russian oil company TNK-BP has entered a 'new phase' and the feuding sides are 'poles apart,' the company's chief executive was quoted as saying Thursday.

MOSCOW, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Russian shareholders seeking to oust the British chief executive of joint oil venture TNK-BP failed to get enough votes for his dismissal at a board meeting on Monday but vowed to continue fighting.

MOSCOW, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Russian shareholders seeking to oust the British chief executive of joint oil venture TNK-BP failed to garner enough votes for his dismissal at a board meeting on Monday, they said.

MOSCOW, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Russian shareholders seeking to oust the British chief executive of joint oil venture TNK-BP failed to garner enough votes for his dismissal at a board meeting on Monday, they said.