draft 2 test/Friday: Buh-bye, BP Tony Hayward- Hello …. Dudley ?

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Friday news dump-

Bp Tony falls on his sword-  will anyone be surprised ?  But to an American named, of all things…..  Dudley?

We won’t have bp Tony of Deepwotter Spinmeister to slosh around anymore. Damn.

Love the Brit slang:

BP hives off “toxic” Gulf Spill operation to dilute anti- British feeling in US   –  The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi…

Responsibility for the leaking well and the clean-up strategy will placed in the hands of Bob Dudley, one of the company’s most able directors.

Dudley, a US citizen, has been looking for a suitable role in the company since he was thrown out of Moscow in a battle with the Russian shareholders of the TNK-BP joint venture in the middle of 2008.

Hayward said the clean-up business would be run separately by Dudley with his own staff but the finances and budget would come from the main BP group. The BP chief executive said the purpose of the split was to allow Dudley to concentrate on the Gulf problem while he and other directors were not distracted from keeping the main business on track.

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New American Bp disaster handler Robert “Bob” Dudley was last involved in getting kicked out of Russia in this TNK – BP Oil company Russian – British deal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…

see also:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi…  Guardian, 9/5/2008

BP makes peace with Oligarchs by axing joint venture chief

The oil firm announced yesterday that embattled chief executive Robert Dudley will leave TNK-BP by the end of the year, as part of an agreement hammered out with the four Russian billionaires who also own the business. Dudley’s departure, along with a boardroom shake-up, is the price of ending one of the most vicious internal feuds in recent corporate history.

The deal appeared to have been closely coordinated with the Kremlin. It follows an unprecedented campaign by state agencies against TNK-BP that prompted Dudley to flee Russia, citing harassment. But BP and its Russian partner Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR), who will each continue to own half of the venture, said that the changes were being made for commercial reasons.

Should be fun for us.

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