LONDON (AP) — BP is jettisoning CEO Tony Hayward, whose verbal blunders made the oil giant's image even worse as it struggled to contain the Gulf oil spill, and will assign him to a key job in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.
A day after he was grilled by Congress, BP chief executive Tony Hayward is being demoted. According to Britain's Sky News, BP Managing Director Bob Dudley will take over day-to-day oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill while BP's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg will assume major PR duties. Hayward in mid-May said he believed the environmental impact of the spill is likely to be “very, very modest" and we all know that was far from the truth. Now if they could just fix the leak!
A day after he was grilled by Congress, BP chief executive Tony Hayward is being demoted. According to Britain's Sky News, BP Managing Director Bob Dudley will take over day-to-day oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill while BP's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg will assume major PR duties. Hayward in mid-May said he believed the environmental impact of the spill is likely to be “very, very modest" and we all know that was far from the truth. Now if they could just fix the leak!
