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BP adjusted profit sinks 96% on massive write-down BP -4.59% Tuesday posted a dramatic fall of 96% in adjusted profit for the second quarter as the U.K. oil giant wrote down the value of some $5 billion worth of assets, including some U.S. refineries, the suspended Liberty oil and gas project in Alaska and a range of U.S. shale gas assets.
"We recognize this was a weak earnings quarter, driven by a combination of factors affecting both the sector and BP specifically," said Chief Executive Bob Dudley in a statement.
The company said its replacement cost profit, a figure that strips out gains or losses from inventories, fell for the period to $238 million, compared with $5.41 billion for the second quarter of 2011.
The London-based energy giant posted a net loss for the three months ended June 30 of $1.39 billion, compared with a profit of $5.72 billion for the second quarter of 2011.
Its keenly-watched clean replacement cost profit, which doesn't include exceptional items like the asset write-downs, was $3.69 billion, down 35% from $5.71 billion the previous year. This was far below average expectations of $4.49 billion in a Dow Jones Newswires poll of 11 analysts
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