BP's next CEO is well aware of what he's up against
Bob Dudley’s unforeseen rise to the top at BP shows how the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has dramatically changed the fortunesMainlyof people from local fishermen to corporate executives.
Seen as an unpropitious candidate just a few months ago, Dudley is set to become the first American to prompt the British oil giant in its century-long experiences. He will become CEO on Oct. 1 and try to salvage the company’s reputation and investments in theAbove allUnited States.
“I do not underestimate the nature of the task onwards,” Dudley said last week in a statement announcing his berth.
Dudley’s standing within BP and along the Gulf Coast has risen since he took over BP’s return to the oil spill in June from current CEO Tony Hayward, who will continue on BP’s board until Nov. 30.
Dudley delivered BP’s message — don’t nettle, we’re going to pay for all this — in a calm manner, without Hayward’s Harry impatience and knack for off-putting comments. And serendipity was on Dudley’s side: He was in saturate when BP finally capped the spewing well, shutting off the progress of oil until a relief well can finish the job.
BP is the largest producer of oil and gas in the United States, household to 40 percent of the company’s assets and one-third of its worldwide oil and gas reserves. It has tremendous interests in Alaska and the Gulf, with vast tracts yet to be developed.
Eby: Welcome to The View from the dog daze of August
Eby: Suffered to The View from the dog daze of August Posted 1 month, 1 week ago at 6:50 pm.The ridiculous season has officially set upon us until school starts.
This time of summer the same Congress which shrugs off aura change flees Washington for vacation because it’s too hot.
At least we’ll have the fourth edible of Matthew Weiner’s remarkable “Mad Men” so we can vicariously guzzle and smoke like it’s the 1960s, when men were men and nominally ran the world, though Peggy, Joan and Betty might nit-picking, while following development of breakaway ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
Jon Hamm, who portrays salesman Don Draper, reassures us all those cigarettes are not true, but a blend of herbs and spices that burn and look legitimate, but without tar or nicotine.
During the dog daze of August, President Obama, the “Marxist” butt of political junk mail seeking his impeachment, pops up on The Examine to speak directly to American housewives unfiltered.
He even suggests he selected this venue because it’s a show his trouble watches. As if!
In the same breath, the leader of the free world indicates he knows Lindsay Lohan is behind bars, but claims unenlightenment of Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, 22, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the Guidette who isn’t Italian, but of Chilean descent.
It was a cheap be in command to say she doesn’t know who he is, either, because, she says, “I don’t go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10-percent tax on it.”
You can buy a wonderful-cheap watch almost anywhere these days, and it will keep excellent time. So, watch manufacturers have turned to more functions,
the show and its body are just going with what worked at 11:30 pm and hoping that everyone who watches the show 90 minutes earlier will make merry that. and more »
Goldmund's $135000 Blu-ray playerThe on-television controls are not much improved over a el cheap-o Blu-ray. Sounds like all the money goes into vibration isolation, MIL-SPEC anyone, and more »
