The Guardian | BP to buy BHP's US shale oil and gas assets for $10.5bn The Guardian BP has agreed to buy US shale oil and gasfields from the Anglo-Australian miner BHP for $10.5bn (£8bn), in the UK firm's biggest acquisition in nearly two decades. Bob Dudley, BP's chief executive, lauded the deal as transformational and industry ... BHP signs deals to sell US onshore oil, gas assets BHP sells US onshore oil and gas assets for heavy loss BP acquisition pumps $10.5B into Texas oil plays |