Earnings season has brought oil companies back into public scrutiny as Shell, BP, Exxon, TotalEnergies, and Chevron all record bumper results while war rages in Ukraine, totaling almost $50 billion in profit. BP declared $8.2 billion in net profit for the 3 months ending September, up from $3.3 billion in the same period a year earlier. BP will currently pay $800 million in windfall taxes to the UK government as a result of its operations in the North Sea, but as with last quarter, fresh calls are being made asking if this is enough. Speaking at the ADIPEC conference in the UAE on Monday, BP’s CEO Bernard Looney said how it was the company’s job to pay taxes and to…