Excellent financial analysis and planning expertise to manage so many complex projects concurrently and still get the majority of exploration and refining developments done on time.

Weaknesses

From the very beginning, showed signs of being very engineering-centric without a focus on staying true to their stakeholder requirements.

Lost track of its ethical foundation decades previous to 2005 yet the accumulated series of bad decisions started to come out in that year. Their CSR initiatives began to look hollow and meaningless as ethical lapse after lapse occurred., the violation of the Clean Air Act in the Gulf of Mexico region of $50M was just the beginning of a very long and costly series of problems. August, 2006 saw the company encounter a 200,000 gallon spill and $40M in damages. Worse yet, the company also violated the Commodity Exchange Act...

Taken together these areas are generating $1.4B today in revenues.
With the capacity to generate 500 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity and 432 MW at their operations in Cedar Creek, Colorado, in addition to the Solar Panels testing at Walmart stores throughout California, BP has the potential to become a very formidable industry leader in these alterative fuel areas.

BP continues to invest in the Solar