BP to pursue potential sale of TNK-BP stake

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London—BP is to pursue a potential sale of its stake in Russia’s third-biggest oil producer TNK-BP, nine years after forging the lucrative but troubled joint venture in an unprecedented entry into Russia’s oil and gas sector. BP said June 1 it had received unsolicited interest from a number of potential buyers, with the head of Russia’s largest oil producer, state-controlled Rosneft, saying it would consider a bid.