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BP chief Tony Hayward, recently withdrawn from day-to-day handling of the Gulf oil spill due to PR problems, was seen yachting in the U.K. over the weekend. Reaction was pretty swift in the media: he ...

WASHINGTON — Top BP oil company officials, including chief executive Tony Hayward, have arrived at the White House for a meeting Wednesday with President Barack Obama. Obama told the nation Tuesday ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. BP CEO Tony Hayward, who endured a ferocious daylong grilling this week on Capitol Hill, was replaced Friday as the point man for ...

'An Easy Target,' writes Daily Finance's Sam Gustin. "This is the executive who infamously said he would 'like his life back' and predicted that the 'environmental impact of this disaster is likely to ...

LONDON (AP) -- American Robert Dudley will become BP PLC's first ever non-British chief executive, the company said Tuesday as it reported a record quarterly loss and set aside $32.2 billion to cover ...

CEO Tony Hayward’s contrition isn’t likely to soften his landing on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are sharpening their knives — preparing to channel constituent anger over the worst ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Obama administration officials demanded "immediate public clarification" from BP Plc about paying for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a letter released on Saturday, as the ...

Former BP CEO Tony Hayward, the villified face of the BP oil disaster whose mouth often contained a foot or two, spoke to BBC News this week and offered some insight into his time handling the company ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican U.S. representative apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward on Thursday, saying BP was victim of a White House "shakedown" by having to set up a $20 billion (13.5 billion ...

LONDON — 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 ...