BP posts Q2 loss as output, oil prices fall

Published July 31, 2012 1:08pm ET



LONDON (AP) — Oil company BP reported Tuesday a loss of $1.4 billion for the second quarter due to lower prices and production and as it wrote down the value of some assets, including shale gas in the U.S.

BP PLC said its net loss, which was bigger than the market consensus, compared with a net profit of $5.7 billion a year earlier. Revenue was down 9 percent at $95 billion. The company also made an additional provision of $847 million for the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster and cleanup, taking the total provision to just over $38 billion.

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