Deepwater Oil Spill – the BP CEO and Congress – and Open Thread 2
This thread is being closed. Please comment on http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6597.
There are many people who have questions for Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP. (For those behind the times, they changed their name from British Petroleum some 9 years ago.)...
Closing Bell: Low Volume and Little Movement (BP, AAPL)
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Oil, S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQVery little happened in the stock market today, and the very little happened on very little volume. With the 4th of July only two weeks off, the slack action could last ev...
Deepwater Oil Spill – the BP CEO and Congress – and Open Thread
This thread is being closed. Please comment on http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6620.
There are many people who have questions for Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP. (For those behind the times, they changed their name from British Petroleum some 9 years ago.)...
What are BP dividend swaps telling us?
When BP finally resummes dividend payments after the 2010 moratorium how much can cash are shareholders expect to receive? The answer, via the dividend swaps market, is a lot less...
BP Trades Lower as CEO Testifies Before Congress
Filed under: From the Boards, Law, Scandals, BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Politics, OilShares of BP plc (BP) closed today's trading slightly lower, as the company's CEO, Tony Hayward, appeared before Congress today to discuss the oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexi...
Live on Capitol Hill: Tony Hayward
BP’s chief executive is testifying before a Senate panel on Thursday:Click the picture to watch on C-Span. FT Energy Source is also live-blogging.
Brave Punt
Tip of the hat to Heidi Moore for this one. A contract just posted on Intrade:A very brave punt, that. Although if sir or madam is in a betting mood…
BP – a line in the sand?
There's been a mixed reaction from City analysts to BP's decision to halt dividend payments for the rest of the year and pay $20bn into a Gulf of Mexico claims fund, reports FT Alphaville....
BP’s dividend decision
Payments axed for the rest of the year.Other breaking news: independent claims fund to be administered by Ken Feinberg, head of the 9/11 compensation fund, BP to make initial payments...
As the execs turn themselves in, BP turns itself over…
To accompany President Obama ‘having words’ with BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and chief executive Tony Hayward, here are some more facts and figures on the oil firm:...
BP Deepwater Oil Spill – Energy and Commerce Committee’s Letter Outlining Risky Practices in Anticipation of Hayward’s Thursday Testimony
Because of interest in this subject, we are keeping this thread open, as well as the analysis of BP's new plans shown in thread http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6603.
Congress wrote a letter to Tony Hayward outlining its concerns that BP took shortcuts a...
‘If you drill, and you spill, we’re going to make you pay the bill’
That soundbite is from the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, who helped trigger Monday's 10 per cent slide in the BP share price with his call for a $20bn escrow account,...
