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BP Annual Review 2003
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Introduction
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Performance highlights
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Chairman's letter
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Group chief executive's review
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It starts here
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Financial performance
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Business performance
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Environmental and social performance
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Summary accounts
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Summary corporate governance
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Summary directors' remuneration report
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Board of directors
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Annual general meeting and information for shareholders
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Further information
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 Financial tables
External environment
  2003 2002
BP average liquids realizations ($/barrel) 27.25 22.69
Brent oil price ($/barrel) 28.83 25.03
BP average natural gas realizations    
($/thousand cubic feet) 3.39 2.46
Henry Hub gas price ($/mmBtu) 5.37 3.22
Global indicator refining margin ($/barrel) 3.88 2.11
Chemicals indicator margin ($/tonne) 113a 104
a  Provisional



Operating statistics
  2003 2002
Liquids production (thousand b/d) 2,121 2,018
Gas production (million cf/d) 8,613 8,707
Total production (thousand boe/d) 3,606 3,519
Gas sales (million cf/d) 26,269 21,621
Refinery throughputs (thousand b/d) 3,097 3,103
Marketing sales (thousand b/d) 4,032 4,180
Petrochemicals production (thousand tonnes) 27,943 26,988



Special items
    $ million
  2003 2002
Restructuring, integration and rationalization costs 389 774
Impairment charges and asset write-downs 357 985
Environmental charges 236 46
Insurance claim (184 )
Pipeline incident 62
Litigation 55
Other, including vacant space provisions 117 162
  1,099 1,900
Interest – bond redemption charges 15
Total special items before tax 1,099 1,915
Taxationa (655 ) (456 )
Minority shareholders' interest (16 )
Total special items after tax 444 1,443
a  2002 includes an adjustment to the North Sea deferred tax liability for the supplementary UK corporation tax as well as tax relief expected on impairments and related restructuring. 2003 includes tax restructuring benefits.



Capital investment
    $ million
  2003 2002
Exploration and Production 9,658 9,266
Gas, Power and Renewables 359 335
Refining and Marketing 3,006 2,682
Petrochemicals 775 810
Other businesses and corporate 251 228
Capital expenditure 14,049 13,321
Acquisitions 6,026 5,790
  20,075 19,111
Disposals (6,432 ) (6,782 )
Net investment 13,643 12,329




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arrow  Creditor payment policy and practice
Financial tables


 
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Year end operating results, broken down by segment
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