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Volatile energy prices have handed a windfall to BP in an early boost to efforts by its new boss to restore confidence in the oil major.

BP has agreed to sell a majority stake in its $10bn (£7.4bn) lubricants business Castrol to the US investment company Stonepeak, as the new chair, Albert Manifold, rapidly reshapes the under-pressure oil and gas company.