{"id":467123,"date":"2022-02-09T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T04:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=467123"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T05:53:41","slug":"bp-swings-into-profit-accelerates-carbon-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bp-swings-into-profit-accelerates-carbon-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"BP swings into profit, accelerates carbon reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BP returned to profit in 2021 as oil and gas prices surged, rebounding from a huge loss the prior year when the pandemic struck, the British energy giant revealed Tuesday as it also accelerated plans to cut carbon emissions. <\/p>\n<p>BP posted a net profit of $7.6 billion (6.7 billion euros) last year, compared with a loss after tax of $20.3 billion in 2020, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;2021 shows BP doing what we said we would &#8212; performing while transforming,&#8221; said BP chief executive Bernard Looney.<br \/>\nThe company announced plans to accelerate its target to reduce operational carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are accelerating the greening of BP,&#8221; Looney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP returned to profit in 2021 as oil and gas prices surged, rebounding from a huge loss the prior year when the pandemic struck, the British energy giant revealed Tuesday as it also accelerated plans to cut carbon emissions. BP posted a net profit of $7.6 billion (6.7 billion euros) last year, compared with a loss after tax of $20.3 billion in 2020, the company said in a statement. &#8220;2021 shows BP doing what we said we would &#8212; performing while transforming,&#8221; said BP chief executive Bernard Looney. The company announced plans to accelerate its target to reduce operational carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}