Correction — August 24, 2015 This article incorrectly describes BP as ‘British Petroleum’. In fact, such a company has not existed for many years as BP dropped this name when becoming a multinational company. The initials no longer stand for anything. Monday, February 28, 2005 Bucharest, Romania — The construction of the oil pipeline linking Constan?a,…
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