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BP plans $30bn sales to meet spill costs
Oil major plans to sell assets worth $30bn to meet the costs of its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and confirms the departure of Tony Hayward, chief executive, as it reports a $17bn loss in its second quarter
Dudley reiterates BP safety mantra
With its dividend payments suspended for the rest of 2010, and possibly not resumed at former levels for several years to come, BP is being forced to rethink what it offers shareholders
Hayward to be offered BP Russia job
Precursor to Bob Dudley, American and Asian head, taking over the helm of the oil group
Opinion: Era of global oil giants is over
A new model is emerging in which smaller national and larger international oil companies must work in new partnerships, writes Nick Butler
Lex: BP’s second-quarter results
Investors are about to find out how different the new oil company is from the old one as it sheds assets
‘Golden parachute’ less inflated than US peers’
Pales in comparison with those negotiated by industry peers on both sides of the Atlantic
BP breaks the mould to shape brighter future
Making Bob Dudley chief executive of BP will help to assuage the US
Dudley a veteran of shareholder conflicts
When Bob Dudley ran TNK-BP, BP’s Russian oil venture, he regularly faced down some of the toughest operators in Russian business
Lombard live: Repainting reputation
On his pay-off, this is the moment for some British self-deprecation
Ghana’s Owo oil find lifts Tullow
UK-listed Tullow Oil announces an oil discovery in Ghana potentially as valuable as the Jubilee field that helped catapult the explorer into the FTSE 100 index