Tony Hayward is out — at least in his role as BP’s Gulf oil spill frontman.
BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said in an interview with Sky News that the embattled BP CEO, who’s come under fire for saying all sorts of insensitive-sounding things over the last two months, is handing over daily operations in the Gulf to BP Managing Director Bob Dudley. Hayward will go back to the UK.
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