BP vs Yukos

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

BP is the older of the two, founded in 1909 — 84 years before Yukos.

Founded: 1909; 1993
Status: Active; Closed 2006
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom; Moscow, Russia
Industry: petroleum industry; petroleum industry
Founders: William Knox D'Arcy, Charles Greenway, 1st Baron Greenway; Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Employees: 70,100; Not recorded
Legal form: public limited company; joint-stock company
Listed on: New York Stock Exchange; Not recorded
Website: bp.com; Not recorded

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on BP and Yukos.