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Evening Standard
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Holly Williams

BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years

BP has hailed its biggest oil and gas discovery in over a quarter of a century as the oil giant renews its focus on fossil fuels.

The FTSE 100 group revealed the find after drilling a well off the coast of Brazil, in the Bumerangue oil field, just over 400 kilometres offshore from Rio de Janeiro, spanning more than 300 square kilometres.

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