英国石油公司

英國石油公司

Yīngguóshíyóugōngsī

popculture

Meanings

1 British Petroleum (BP)
2 the British multinational oil and gas company

Characters

(short for Britain)

department, company

Examples

英国石油公司是世界最大的石油公司之一。

Yīngguóshíyóugōngsī shì shìjiè zuì dà de shíyóu gōngsī zhī yī.

BP is one of the largest oil companies in the world.

2010年英国石油公司在墨西哥湾发生重大漏油事故。

Èr líng yī líng nián Yīngguóshíyóugōngsī zài Mòxīgē Wān fāshēng zhòngdà lòuyóu shìgù.

In 2010, BP had a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tips

culture

Standard journalistic naming: 英国 'United Kingdom' + 石油 'petroleum' + 公司 'company'. Chinese media also use the abbreviation BP公司 or just BP. Compare with 中国石油 (Zhōngguó Shíyóu, PetroChina / CNPC), the Chinese counterpart.

history

Founded as Anglo-Persian Oil in 1908; renamed BP in 1954. Its 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill (墨西哥湾漏油 'Gulf of Mexico oil spill') is one of the largest environmental disasters in US history and is the most common context where Chinese readers see the name.

Stroke Order

英 yīng

国 guó

石 shí

油 yóu

公 gōng

司 sī