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BP, meanwhile, needs to significantly replenish its reserves book left battered as it sells assets to raise cash for the clean up of the Gulf of Mexico spill, estimated at $40 billion.

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Since 2003 around one quarter of BP annual production has come out of its Russian joint venture TNK BP half owned by a quartet of Russia connected billionaires.

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