$3m paper loss on Svanberg's BP shares

BP’s chairman is nursing a paper loss of almost £2m ($3.1m) after the spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April.

Carl-Henric Svanberg, who joined the UK oil group in January, owns 925,000 shares which he bought in two separate lots.

He bought 750,000 shares on February 3 at £5.75 a share.

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