Thursday June 17, 2010
The rise and fall of BP
Andrew Simms
The Guardian
In its 100-year history, BP has been dogged by appalling accidents and an absence of diplomacy. Can it ever reinvent itself?
As names go, the First Exploitation Company sounds like an inspired slight dreamed up by an angry anti-oil campaigner. In fact, it was the original title, coined in 1903, of the troubled company we now know as BP. But then, public relations have never been its strong point.
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