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• BP chief Tony Hayward to step down in October?

  Tony Hayward, who became the face of BP's flailing efforts to contain the massive Gulf oil spill, will step down as chief executive in October and be offered a job with the company's joint venture in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not bee...

• BP chief likely to quit over oil spill

  BP’s board is expected on Monday to name an American, Robert Dudley, as its chief executive, replacing Tony Hayward, whose repeated stumbles during the company’s three-month oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico alienated federal and state officials as well as residents of the Gulf Coast. The planned appointment of an American to run ...

• BP's Hayward to leave as CEO; Russia job in works

  Tony Hayward, who became the face of BP's flailing efforts to contain the massive Gulf oil spill, will step down as chief executive in October and be offered a job with the company's joint venture in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.

• Under fire over oil spill, BP boss Tony Hayward likely to quit

  BP's Tony Hayward, whose gaffes added insult to oil-spill injury for the Gulf Coast, is on his way out as CEO, a US government official said Sunday. Many residents found small comfort in that as BP's biggest mistake under Hayward continued to foul their waters, their beaches and their way of life.A change in leadership will not change the mammoth t...

• Oil spill: BP head attends yacht race

  As social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook lit up with outrage, BP spokespeople rushed to defend Hayward.

• Oil spill: BP CEO Tony Hayward 'relieved'

  A day after he came under relentless attack at a Congressional hearing, BP chief executive Tony Hayward  was displaced as the man in charge of the company's response to the spill. "It is clear Tony has made remarks that have upset people," Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP's board of directors, told the British television network Sky Ne...

• Full text of BP chief Tony Hayward's speech

  Hayward's prepared remarks were released in advance of the hearing. Here they are in full:Chairman Stupak, Ranking Member Burgess, members of the Subcommittee. I am Tony Hayward, Chief Executive of BP plc.The explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon and the resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico never should have happened ─ and I am dee...

• Oil spill: Obama wants to know whose ass to kick

  US President Barack Obama says his talks with Gulf fishermen and oil spill experts are not an academic exercise. They're "so I know whose ass to kick."One target for the presidential foot: Tony Hayward, the embattled chief executive of BP.Obama was asked by Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today" about Hayward's past comments that "I want my life back," that t...

• BP chief won't quit over Gulf of Mexico spill

  BP PLC chief executive Tony Hayward said on Monday he won't step down over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and predicted his company will recover from the disaster.