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September 16, 2010

Hayward Defends BP Safety Measures
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The news comes as BP CEO Tony Hayward faced questioning on the spill
Wednesday before a British parliamentary panel. Hayward defended BP’s
safety record in the Gulf.

Tony Hayward: "We had an obligation to clean up the oil, which we have
to a large extent done. And we had an obligation to remediate any
environmental damage, which we will do. And we had an obligation to
compensate those who have been effected. But the report was not designed
to apportion blame. The report was designed to identify what exactly
happened, allow us to learn from it and ensure that those learnings
could be rapidly applied across the rest of BP’s drilling operations
and, I would assert, many other drilling operations around the world."



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