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Annual report 2025

Strong performance – building for the future

Three bp specialists at Block 61 Khazzan Gas Field in Oman
"With your support we can and will become a stronger bp. One that is more sustainable in every way, especially in the creation of value for shareholders."


Albert Manifold, chair

"We’re focused, we’re in action, we’re determined to make bp the strongest it can be, and we look forward to welcoming Meg O’Neill as CEO in April 2026."


Carol Howle, interim CEO

2025 at a glance

Performance

Underlying replacement cost (RC) profit

$7.5bn

2024 $8.9bn

Barrels of oil equivalent - oil and gas production

2.3ma

2024 2.4m

Proved reserves replacement ratio

50%

2024 50%

Upstream unit production costs

$6.28/boe

2024 $6.17/boe

bp-operated upstream plant reliability

96.1%

2024 95.2%

bp-operated refining availability

96.3%

2024 94.3%

Safety and sustainability

Tier 1 and tier 2 process safety events

27

2024 38

GHG emissions - operation control

34.3MtCO2

2024 33.6MtCO2e

Our strategy

Our strategy helps bp compete and grow value as energy demand evolves and continues to grow, all in service of growing shareholder value and returns.  

Progress on our primary targets

We use four primary targets to measure our progress and how we are improving performance. These targets, alongside the guidance and financial frame, support our strategy. Taken together, we believe our primary targets will underpin growth in the value of bp. Our progress in 2025 is set out below: 

Primary targets

2025

2025 on a price adjusted basis

Targets

Adjusted free cash flow growth

25%b

(from 2024-25)

~+55%b

(from 2024-25)

>20%c

compound annual growth rate from 2024-27

Net debt

$22.2bnd

n/a

$14-18bn

by end 2027

Structural cost reduction

 

$2.8bne

(cumulative since 2023)

n/a

$5.5-6.5bnf

by end 2027

Return on average capital employed (ROACE)

13.9%g

~14%g

>16%c

in 2027

Our purpose

Delivering energy to the world, today and tomorrow.

Highlights from 2025

Growing upstream

In 2025 we advanced our upstream strategy and delivered seven major project start-ups, five of which were ahead of schedule. Start-ups included GTA, in Mauritania and Senegal, Cypre in Trinidad and Murlach in the UK North Sea. We also announced 12 discoveries, including Bumerangue in Brazil, our largest exploration discovery in 25 years, plus further finds in Brazil, Egypt, the Gulf of America, Libya and Trinidad, as well as discoveries in Namibia and Angola through Azule Energy, our 50-50 joint venture with Eni.


In upstream oil and gas production, we achieved our best wells reliability in years at 98% and a record full-year plant reliability at >96%. Our proved reserves replacement ratio was 90% – up from an average of around 50% in the prior two years.

 

In April we announced a Miocene oil discovery at the Far South prospect in Green Canyon Block 584, 120 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Drilled to 23,830 feet in 4,092 feet of water, the discovery signals potentially commercial volumes and helps to strengthen our upstream portfolio.


In August we announced the start-up of the Argos Southwest Extension project,  seven months ahead of schedule. From appraisal to first oil, the project was developed in about 25 months – a record for bp. Argos has a gross production capacity of up to 140,000 barrels of oil per day (boe/d).  


In December the development programme for the Karabagh field in the Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan, was approved by the management committee (joint venture) and subsequently by State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) as the State representative. Seismic acquisition commenced thereafter. 


We also completed the divestment of the Culzean gas field in the UK North Sea to NEO Next in December.

 

Argos Southwest Extension project, US
Focusing the downstream

2025 was also a strong year for the downstream, delivering a significant step up in performance. We achieved around $1.6  billion in cumulative structural cost reductions (2024-25) and sustained refinery availability above 96%, strengthening commercial performance across refining, trading, midstream and fuels. Customers reported its highest underlying RC profit before interest and tax since 2019, with growth across all businesses.


As we continue streamlining our portfolio, in 2025 we reached an agreement to sell a 65% stake in Castrol, completed the sale of the Netherlands mobility, convenience and bp pulse businesses, and announced plans to sell the Gelsenkirchen refinery and the Austria retail business. 


As part of our broader retail network high grading programme, in 2025 we exited around 5% of our company owned retail sites, supporting our plan to exit around 10% by 2027.  


In EV charging, we are focusing investment on four core markets and utilising our retail network to maximise returns.

Rotterdam refinery, Netherlands
Disciplined investment in transition

We focused our low carbon energy portfolio in 2025, prioritizing investment choices that deliver value for shareholders. 


We formed JERA Nex bp, a 50:50 offshore wind joint venture between JERA and bp. The new joint venture brings together each parties’ complementary expertise for a balanced mix of operating assets and development projects.


We sold our US onshore wind business to LS Power. And we continued to manage the pace of investment in biogas and refine and high-grade our hydrogen and carbon, capture and storage (CCS) portfolio. This included decisions not to progress H2Teesside and to end participation in projects in Oman, Australia and the US Gulf Coast. In 2025 we focused on delivering four sanctioned projects in 2024: Lingen green hydrogen project, Castellón green hydrogen project, the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), and Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT) – and the UCC project in Indonesia.

a On a combined basis of subsidiaries and equity-accounted entities.
b Adjusted free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow on a price adjusted basis are non-IFRS measures. The nearest IFRS equivalent measures to calculate adjusted free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow on a price adjusted basis CAGR are net cash provided by operating activities of $24.5 billion for 2025 and $27.3 billion for 2024 and total cash capital expenditure of $14.5 billion for 2025 and $16.2 billion for 2024. A reconciliation is provided on page 388 of bp’s Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025.  
c This is on a price adjusted basis that assumes a hypothetical price environment of $70/bbl Brent, $4/mmBtu Henry Hub, and $10.3/bbl refining indicator margin (all 2024 real) and assumptions about the impact of these marker prices on underlying replacement cost profit before tax. 
d Net debt is a non-IFRS measure. The nearest IFRS equivalent measure is finance debt at the end of 2025. See Note 27 for more information in bp’s Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025.
e Cumulative structural cost reduction since 2023, of which $2 billion in 2025 and $750 million in 2024. Structural cost reduction is decreases in underlying operating expenditure. A reconciliation is provided on page 387 of bp’s Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025.
f Following the outcome of the strategic review of Castrol, which resulted in the decision to divest a 65% shareholding, the $4-5 billion structural cost reduction target by end 2027, introduced at the February 2025 Capital Markets Update, has increased.
g Return on average capital employed (ROACE) and ROACE on a price adjusted are non-IFRS measures. The nearest IFRS measures of the numerator and denominator are profit or loss for the period attributable to bp shareholders for 2025 of $0.1 billion and total equity at the end of 2025 of $74.0 billion respectively. A reconciliation is provided on page 386 of bp’s Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025. 
The bp Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025 available for download on this webpage constitutes the Annual Report and Accounts in accordance with UK requirements and the Annual Report on Form 20-F in accordance with the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, for BP p.l.c. for the year ended 31 December 2025. A cross reference to Form 20-F requirements is included on page 390 of the bp Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025. 
 
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