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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Holly Williams

BP accelerates overhaul with higher asset sale target as profits beat forecasts

BP has said it is ramping up overhaul efforts with aims to sell off more parts of the business and strip out further costs as it posted a smaller-than-feared drop in quarterly profits.

The oil giant reported underlying replacement cost profits, the group’s preferred earnings measure, of 2.21 billion US dollars (£1.68 billion) for the three months to September 30.

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