Illinois

bp’s downtown Chicago offices serve as a major hub for its trading and shipping business (T&S) – one of the world’s leading energy trading houses – and bp’s largest team in the state of Illinois. bp’s marketers and traders work with counterparties to buy, sell and move energy, integrating our products and services to provide energy solutions for more than 5,000 North American customers annually. These include retail energy providers, power generators, producers, municipalities, private equity firms, renewable energy developers and natural gas consumers.

In late 2023, our EV charging bp pulse established its US headquarters in Chicago. We plan to deploy more than 3,000 fast and reliable charging points in the US by 2025.

Beyond bp’s investments in renewable energy, T&S has been developing several other offerings to help customers meet their sustainability needs. For example, bp has a robust carbon offset portfolio in North America. Chicago is also home to the US headquarters of Air bp, one of the world’s leading suppliers of aviation fuel products and services, serving customers from commercial carriers and private aircraft to the US military. In November2023, Air bp helped make history by supplying sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for the world’s first 100% SAF powered transatlantic flight on a commercial airline.

About 17 miles southeast of downtown Chicago, in northwest Indiana, bp’s Whiting refinery is the largest in the Midwest and bp’s largest anywhere in the world, with capacity to process around 440,000 barrels of crude oil everyday. Whiting also produces a wide range of transportation fuels, along with 7% of all asphalt in the US.

bp has donated more than $6.5 million since 2017 to a wide range of institutions and initiatives that help strengthen Chicago communities. Specifically, in STEM education initiatives, bp is working with community and educational partners like the National Energy Education Development Project’s Energizing Student Potential program, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and the Museum of Science and Industry to help close the STEM skills gap.

bp’s partnership with the Chicago Urban League, home to the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and the bp Innovation Lab, develops Chicago’s next generation of African American entrepreneurs and business owners.

bp is also building the capacity of local, diverse suppliers through bp’s Diversity Growth Initiative and supporting Chicago United’s Five Forward program which is working to grow and scale the number of minority business enterprises.

Since 2015, bp has contributed more than $2.25 million to the Student Conservation Association for programs that have improved conditions at the Calumet Watershed and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, enabled local youths to gain valuable skills and experience, and empowered women in conservation. Our partnership has helped plant and maintain over 4,000 trees in the region.