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BP boss Tony Hayward admits job is on the line over Deepwater oil spill
Loading ...Tony Hayward, the under-fire chief executive of BP, has admitted for the first time that his job is on the line because of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
In an interview with the Guardian at BP’s crisis centre in Houston, Hayward also insisted that the leaked oil and the estimated 400,000 gallons of dispersant which BP has pumped into the sea to try to disperse the slick were relatively “tiny” amounts.
“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume,” he said.
Hayward promised that BP would “fix” the disaster, which is on course to eclipse the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill as the worst US oil spill in history. “We will fix it. I guarantee it. The only question is we do not know when.”
Hayward stressed that BP’s efforts to contain the spill had succeeded in dispersing the oil and preventing large amounts reaching the shoreline around the Gulf. But environmentalists are concerned about the unseen damage being done to marine life by the oil which is sinking to the seabed.
via guardian.co.uk.
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