Hayward to be relieved of operational control in Gulf

[sabra]

Source: MSNBC

Mark Murray writes: Per NBC's foreign desk: BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg told Sky News in Britain that, at some time soon, CEO Tony Hayward will return to the U.K. and hand over day-to-day operational control for BP's salvage operation in the Gulf.

Svanberg told Sky News business correspondent Jeff Randall: "(Hayward) 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.

Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/18/4528826-hayward-to-be-relieved-of-operational-control-in-gulf

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Cwucify Wandall!

And thwow him woughwy to the fwoor!

Or under the bus, as Mr. Olbermann would say.

--d!

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. The clips I saw on the Daily Show

Indicated that he was clueless about his own company's operations. It sure made me wonder what the fuck he did for that giant paycheck.... read the instructions on the bathroom tissue all day?

[CountAllVotes]

3. We the Small People of the United States ...

find this to be rather interesting I suppose. :evilgrin:

CYA Tony! :hi:

:kick:

[chollybocker]

4. Why must he return to the UK?

Give Tony a pail of soapy water and a toothbrush and make him clean some critters.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Note Chairman "small people" Svanberg's plan to take bigger public role:

From the link:

Mr. Svanberg admitted that the disaster is turning from an industrial accident into a much broader concern and he will now expand his own involvement.

"This has now turned into a reputation matter, financial, and political and that is why you will now see more of me," Mr. Svanberg.

[Oregone]

9. You don't even have to read between the lines

"reputation matter" & "you will now see more of me"

You don't say? Hayward was a shit magnet. Now its time to shuffle him out of the picture and launch phase 2 of the PR operation. This is as expected. They now get to disassociate themselves with the evil asshole, and carry on with a new, squeakier clean guy.

[pinboy3niner]

22. After the "small people" gaffe, I wouldn't call Svanberg "squeakier clean."

He's supposed to have a PR background. Unfortunately, it doesn't show...

[JDPriestly]

19. Corporate Governance 102: Case Study the BP spill.

I propose a course based on the BP spill. My proposal is at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8588468

BP will never, never be held to account. The people of the Gulf, perhaps of the world are sunk. BP is moving into a totally new defensive phase of the war to get and keep as much money and power as possible.

Watch the magic as BP turns blood to gold.

[pinboy3niner]

21. Excellent OP!

Of course, any conservatives who wander into the class are likely to mistake the exercise for a how-to lesson in corporate ethics...

[hughee99]

6. Sounds like he didn't have a lot of actual "control" before, either. n/t

[havocmom]

7. This 'news' is a couple weeks old, being re-run for PR

and they are getting away with PR re-runs because too many are falling for PR


http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/04/deepwater-horizon-leak-bp-criticism

Everybody please note dateline

BP hives off 'toxic' Gulf spill operation to dilute anti-British feeling in US

Chief executive Tony Hayward hands responsibility for clean-up to American as new containment cap is placed on top of leak


* Terry Macalister
* guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 June 2010 18.15 BST*
* Article history

BP is to hive off its Gulf of Mexico oil spill operation to a separate in-house business to be run by an American in a bid to isolate the "toxic" side of the company and dilute some of the anti-British feeling aimed at chief executive Tony Hayward, the company said today.

The surprise announcement was made during a teleconference with City and Wall Street analysts in which Hayward attempted to shrug off the personal criticism saying words "could not break his bones".

...

* bold mine to focus on the date of this 'news'

[madmom]

8. So, he get to get his life back?

[inna]

13. I'm more interested to know if he got a bonus and/or severance pay.

[dipsydoodle]

10. lol

see reply 35 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8587274&mesg_id=8587494

[havocmom]

11. You called that one! LOL

but you did it in reply 25*

* I have problems with my fingers not typing what my brain tells them to type too. :hi:

Shall we alert on this LBN sccop or just see how many others fall for the PR ploy? :rofl:

[dipsydoodle]

17. Ta for the correction

Yes its just a PR ploy especially use of the word relieved. Made me think of Mafeking. :)

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

12. Old news. More BP PR.

NEXT!

:boring:

[nichomachus]

14. Very interesting that the DU censors have been very busy unrecommending this

The unrecommend feature has made DU more Stalinist than ever.

[CountAllVotes]

15. there you go

#5 I hope. :D

[havocmom]

20. More interesting that nobody has locked, moved, merged this. Not LBN at all

two weeks old. Amazing.

[Tx4obama]

16. Hayward's current role has NOT changed. BP clarified the statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/18/bp.hayward.gulf/

[dipsydoodle]

18. duplicate of above post

deleted.