The U.K.-based oil and gas company posted first-quarter underlying replacement cost profit, used as a proxy for net profit, of $800 million.
Analysts had expected first-quarter underlying replacement cost profit to come in at $987 million.
"A good quarter but, undoubtedly, a very brutal environment," BP CEO Bernard Looney told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Tuesday.
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