BP's Robert Dudley on the Gulf Oil Spill's Legal Aftermath

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Barrett, Paul M. [2013], “BP's Robert Dudley on the Gulf Oil Spill's Legal Aftermath”, Business Week, New York, 8 de agosto, http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-08-08/bps-robert-dudley-on-the...

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Business Week
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Jueves, Agosto 8, 2013
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In an interview, Robert Dudley, CEO, BP, talked about the company's legal mess. It was a terrible accident. And from that time on, they said they would want to step up and make good. They are still committed to make sure that legitimate claimants and people who were true victims of the spill are paid. Quite frankly, the results have been really strange. The claims going through a claims facility have resulted in absurd results, and millions of dollars are going out to pay people who suffered, in many cases, no losses from the spill. And this is just not right. Other than mining, oil and gas is the longest-wavelength business in the world. So they are pretty long-term in their thinking. And he has also observed it's hard to find politicians whose horizons are more than 15 to 18 months. So as an industry, they've got to work with their eye on the horizon.