US: BP CEO change won't diminish Gulf response
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The top US official overseeing the response to BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico oil leak said on Tuesday he doesn't expect the company's commitment to cleaning up the spill to be diminished with its change in leadership.
"I don't see any diminishing of performance or priorities," retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said of BP's earlier announcement that Bob Dudley, who has been BP's top executive handling the spill response, will replace Chief Executive Tony Hayward on October 1. Allen also said BP remains on schedule to start permanently plugging the blown-out Macondo well with a "static kill" on Monday, followed by intercepting it at the bottom with a relief well five days later. (Reuters)
