Chief executive says North Sea oil best served by Scotland remaining in UK
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BP, one of the North Sea’s biggest investors, has urged Scotland to vote against independence next week, arguing that oil wealth would best be protected by remaining inside the UK.

Bob Dudley, the chief executive, spoke out after another key local oil industrialist, Sir Ian Wood, accused the Scottish Nationalist party of exaggerating the amount of oil and gas available for extraction.

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