Tony Hayward was expected to resign Monday after a meeting in London to choose his fate. Instead, he’s being shuffled off to Russia, where he will direct BP’s role in TNK-BP, a joint venture considered one of BP’s plum projects . After running the careless business that began the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010, and then leading a bungling response to the disaster, Hayward may seem to be getting away. But some senators who think he had a hand in a BP-Libya oil deal that led to the release of a convicted terrorist want to grill him before he flies to Moscow.
Tony Hayward’s Russia assignment is ironic
Tony Hayward will step down as BPs CEO in October. The Associated Press reports that Robert Dudley is his likely replacement. Hayward was swapped out by Dudley as BP’s point man for the oil spill response. Hayward will serve on the board of BP’s Russian venture TNK-BP. Ironically, Dudley once headed TNK-BP and had to flee from Russia in 2008 after he ran afoul of authorities there.
Dudley’s TNK-BP run a lesson for Hayward?
If Tony Heyward’s new post leading BP’s partnership with Russian oil barons is indicative, his business nevertheless regards him highly, perhaps if most Americans and United States of America politicians don’t. The TNK-BP venture, as outlined by the Washington Post, is one BP’s most significant projects—with 25 percent of its total production. But it is a problematic one, as proven by Robert Dudley, Hayward’s likely successor as BP CEO. Dudley was forced to leave Russia after a fight with Russian shareholders.
Did Tony Hayward make the BP-Libya oil deal?
Americas Senators Bob Menendez and Kirsten Gillibrand want to haul Tony Hayward before Congress, perhaps though he is stepping down. The New York Observer reports that the senators can be holding a July 29 hearing into the release of the Lockerbie bomber and told the press they want to hear from Hayward. The senators are pushing British officials for weeks to conduct a full investigation of the links between a BP-Libya oil deal and also the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset al-Megrahi. Menendez said that during BP’s negotiations with Libya during the deal Hayward may have played a role.
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