Breaking: BP chairman handing off gulf operations

handing off to ________________?

According to Sky News, BP's Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has said BP CEO Tony Hayward has been relieved of command of day to day operations in the Gulf.
This comes just hours after Hayward had to stand trial before the U.S. House of Representatives for his firm's errors in the build up to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.

to who?

Oh no! But without a job how will he afford golf on private courses and that 5th home in France?

TO BOB DUDLEY!!

Nah, he's probably "getting his life back" after taking the bullett for the company the other day...

Mr. Moe, Larry and Curly's Oil Clean-Up Service

grill was too hot

Haliburton.

Svanberg said: "He is now handing over the operation to Bob Dudley."

Mr Dudley is the managing director of the oil giant.

Mr Svanberg also told Randall that comments by Mr Hayward have had detrimental effects as the company seeks to control the fallout from the disaster.

"It is clear Tony has made remarks that have upset people," Mr Svanberg said.
[link to news.sky.com]

Last Edited by Dread Pirate Roberts on 06/18/2010 01:04 PM

With someone else (read US gov't) in charge, the information flow should take a new turn, possibly open up the channels a little more of what's really going on down there.

Will be interesting to watch it unfold from here.

Thats who I would expect.

Gotta cover up the crime scene.

Again.

I suspect he's not being fired. Just being relieved of command of the GOM disaster.

They'll just keep taking turns. They are the entertainers in this circus.

No, there was an agreement to pass it off to Bob Dudley CNN just said. It's been on the table for weeks now with the deadline at day 60.

What about BP's Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, when will he step down for his comments about "the small people"?

He did not stand trial. He answered questions or tried too.

what happened to the coast guard only giving BP 48 hrs to speed things up "or else" a few days ago? Did they do anything cuz it certainly doesn't seem like either side did anything.

he'll 'suicide' himself in a few weeks, the media will try to make it look sad and try to get emotions out of us.

just wait.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL... and not for the vengeful reasons people are bringing up...

Once again, the GOV'T and OBAMA has taken over a private company's business....

They should legally require redress but have NO RIGHT to pull another GM/Chrysler stunt!

Translation:

It is officially a hopelessly lost cause. BP will now restructure to avoid further penalties.

Guys,

This is a set up to make "us" think something is being done about this.

This guy gets to be "relieved" of responsibility and they are spinning this as see we got rid of the guy you hate.

Inverted martyrdom......

WHO THE FUCK do they think they are kidding?

LMAO.... I expect a even tighter lockdown by the feds

The dude is probably on the verge of a nervous breakdown and asked to be let down...I wouldn`t want to be in his shoes no doubt...put someone else in there and break them down

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Now wait a minute ... Tony has nothing to hand over.

Per the Clean Water Act and Obama's own words,
Obama has been in charge since Day 1.

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This may be so that he is "out of the country" when the Grand Jury returns the criminal indictments including for manslaughter, which are coming, ... so they can't just arrest him and make him do the "Perp Walk".

If he is back home in Britain he can fight extradition back to the US.

Nobody believed me last year when I posted on this board that Obama would go after the oil companies next.

The only thing that happened is that BP gave $20 billion. And you are right, nothing, nothing, nothing has improved.

dudley works for bp not obama