When John Browne talks, big oil listens

With a double-whammy of huge deals - a $57 billion agreement last August to buy Amoco and a $27 billion agreement last April to buy Atlantic Richfield - CEO John Browne has taken BP into the big leagues: It is now the second-biggest publicly traded oil producer. That is a remarkable turnaround. Seve...

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