It was a rare day of good news for Britain’s beleaguered oil giant. On August 5th BP not only announced a quarterly profit of $2.4bn on its preferred measure, a third higher than analysts had expected. It also unveiled an enormous oil discovery, dubbed Bumerangue, some 400km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. It is the company’s largest find in 25 years.
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