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BP (BP · LSE / NYSE)

Supermajor — HQ United Kingdom. Oil & gas valuation, proved reserves, production, break-even, net-asset-value and jurisdiction-risk screen.
Category SupermajorRegion EuropeCEO Murray Auchincloss (2024)Jurisdiction risk Med (53)

Overview

Integrated supermajor: upstream anchored by bpx Permian (US shale oil), Gulf of Mexico deepwater (Thunder Horse, Mad Dog, Argos), Azerbaijan ACG oil and Shah Deniz gas, Trinidad gas, a large global LNG portfolio and Iraq/Middle East positions; plus downstream refining/marketing (Castrol, retail) and a low-carbon arm being trimmed. The ~19.75% Rosneft stake was written off in 2022 (~$24bn) on exit from Russia.

BP carries higher net debt/gearing than Exxon, Chevron or Shell, constraining buyback pace; the Feb-2025 strategy reset under CEO Murray Auchincloss reverses the 2020 Beyond Petroleum plan — raising oil & gas investment, cutting renewables spend and targeting ~$20bn of divestments — accelerated by Elliott's activist stake.

Valuation snapshot (FY2025)

Market cap
$113bn
Enterprise value
$174bn
EV / EBITDA
6.2x
P / E
15.1x
FCF yield
8.8%
Dividend yield
4.5%
ROACE
9%
Debt / equity
100%
Net debt / EBITDA
0.8x
EV / reserves
$28.14/boe
EV / flowing
$75k/boe/d
Free cash flow
$10.0bn

Its EV/EBITDA of 6.2x is above the 5.9x median across the 142-company universe, the free-cash-flow yield of 8.8% is higher than the 6.5% median, and at $28.14/boe of proved reserves it is richer than the $13.51/boe median.

On a balanced screen across the universe, BP scores 38/100, strongest on valuation (48/100). Sub-scores: value 48, quality 27, growth 30, risk 61 (higher = riskier).

Reserves & production

BP holds approximately 6.19 billion boe of proved (1P) reserves with FY2025 production of about 2,312 thousand boe/d (58% liquids), a reserve life of roughly 7.3 years. Break-even: ~$40/bbl (cash balance point (Brent)) — Brent price at which post-dividend operating cash flow covers organic capex; among lower supermajor breakevens but reliant on divestment proceeds to hold gearing.

Net asset value (public-source floor)

Using BP's SEC-disclosed after-tax standardized measure of proved reserves ($70.0bn) less net debt ($22.2bn) gives an equity-NAV floor of about $47.8bn — the current market capitalisation sits +136% versus that floor. Disclosed pre-tax PV-10: —. This is a floor: proved reserves only, excluding undeveloped inventory, downstream and other business lines. Proved-only NAV floor: omits downstream (Customers & products refining/retail/Castrol), midstream/trading, LNG marketing value and all low-carbon/renewables.

Jurisdiction risk · production-weighted country risk

53 /100
Medium jurisdiction risk
Production-weighted average of the country scores below (0 = safest, 100 = riskiest).
Country / regionProd. shareCountry riskKey jurisdiction risk
United States30%23Stable, deep; federal-lands leasing and permitting policy swings.
Other17%50diversified/unspecified exposure — universe-average proxy
Azerbaijan12%64Autocratic; pipeline geopolitics, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict overhang.
Middle East (Iraq/Oman/UAE)12%96Security, payment arrears, tough TSC terms, political instability.
Trinidad & Tobago8%44Mature gas, declining reserves, cross-border Venezuela deals.
Egypt6%84FX shortages, arrears to IOCs, gas payment delays.
Asia (India/Indonesia)6%56Regulatory complexity, pricing controls, import dependence.
Angola5%76High debt, FX/repatriation risk, mature declining fields.
Mauritania/Senegal4%76Frontier gas (GTA); institutional capacity, cross-border split.
How this is scored. Each country's risk (0–100) is anchored to two named public indices — the OECD Country Risk Classification (0–7 official export-credit country risk) and the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (Political Stability & Absence of Violence percentile) — blended 55/45 and rescaled to 0–100. A company's jurisdiction risk is the production-weighted average across the countries where it operates. This is a pure country measure, kept separate from company & financial risk (leverage, governance). Source: OECD Country Risk Classification (CRC) as of 24 July 2025, sourced via the German Federal Export Credit Guarantees (exportkreditgarantien.de) which applies the OECD consensus country risk category directly (values 0-7; 0 = lowest risk). High-income OECD members are not individually rated by the OECD and are set to crc=0 per the model spec (US, UK, Norway, Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ, and most of Europe incl. OECD members Israel, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Lithuania, Ireland). 'ps' = World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 'Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism' percentile rank, latest available (2023 vintage), 0-100 with higher = more stable; ps values are best sourced estimates rounded to the WGI percentile scale. Yemen not on OECD list ('./.') so crc estimated at 7. Iraq-Kurdistan and Falklands are non-standard model rows using judgment, not official OECD entries..

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Key assets & projects

AssetLocationTypeNotes
bpx Permian (Delaware/Midland)United StatesOnshore oil/gasCore growth engine; low-cost shale oil
Gulf of Mexico (Thunder Horse, Argos, Kaskida)United StatesDeepwater oilHigh-margin barrels; Kaskida FID (2024) opens Paleogene play
ACG (Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli)AzerbaijanOffshore oilLong-life cornerstone; ACE platform extends plateau
Shah DenizAzerbaijanOffshore gasFeeds Southern Gas Corridor to Europe/Turkey
Tangguh LNGIndonesiaGas/LNGTrain 3 expansion; core Asia-Pacific LNG supply
Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA)Mauritania/SenegalOffshore gas/LNGPhase 1 online; new cross-border LNG hub
RumailaIraqOnshore oilVery large low-cost technical-service field
Trinidad gas (Cypre, Ginger)Trinidad & TobagoOffshore gasBackfills Atlantic LNG and Caribbean supply

Five-year trend (FY2021–FY2025)

Metric20212022202320242025
Production (mboe/d)22002320232023602312
Proved reserves (bnboe)7.006.906.806.806.19
Revenue ($bn)164.0248.0213.0195.0192.5
EBITDA ($bn)30.049.041.038.028.2
Net income ($bn)7.6-2.515.20.47.5
Free cash flow ($bn)12.020.016.09.010.0

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Sources

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