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BP, per the article, has not decided what they will do exactly - “[…] without saying how it plans to extricate itself.”

They just don’t want to be involved anymore.

Realistically if they keep their shares, they’ll get hounded by everyone to do said influencing or whatever, which would be really irritating for them I imagine. But maybe they will put them in a drawer somewhere in the basement and tell everyone to screw off. Who knows. They say they don’t know right now.