据World Oil News网站7月28日伦敦报道,在支付了98亿美元税前费用与美国当局在2010年墨西哥湾原油泄漏问题上达成和解以后,英国石油公司(BP)28日公布了第二季度13亿美元的利润。
BP仍维持其每股10美分的股息。
BP第二季度潜在重置成本收益,即BP净收入的定义为13亿美元,低于分析人士的16.4亿美元的预测。
本月,BP与美国政府和5个州达成了一项187亿美元的和解协议来解决大部分对5年前致命的墨西哥湾石油泄漏的索赔,这是美国历史上最大的企业结算。
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原文如下:
BP misses second-quarter profit forecast on spill charge
World Oil News
July 28,2012
LONDON BP (BP.L) reported a second-quarter profit of $1.3 billion on Tuesday, missing analysts' expectations, after taking a $9.8 billion pretax charge related to a settlement with U.S. authorities over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.
BP maintained its dividend at 10 cents per ordinary share.
BP's underlying replacement cost profit, the company's definition of net income, was $1.3 billion, lower than analysts expectations of $1.64 billion.
This month, BP reached an $18.7 billion settlement with the U.S. government and five states to resolve most claims from the deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill five years ago in the largest corporate settlement in U.S. history.