Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
Anyway, despite being a British registered multi-national, if ian 2411 is to be believed, it has more American shareholders than British ones, and, as ian also suggests, BP is more likely to want to pursue American interests rather than British ones.
Actually appears as if the numbers are equal!

Ownership statistics


Beneficial owners as at 31 December 2009a b
Percentage of shares in issue
Range of holdings Institutions Individuals Total
By principal area
UK 33 7 40
US 25 14 39
Rest of Europe 10 - 10
Rest of World 7 - 7
Miscellaneousc 4 - 4
79 21 100