By Damian Reece, City Editor
Last Updated: 12:40am BST 25/07/2007
If Tony Hayward is nervous about the task ahead he betrayed no sign of it at yesterday’s second-quarter results meeting. He is more relaxed than his predecessor at BP, Lord Browne, and his tone was as light as it could or should be while presenting awful results.
He should enjoy the honeymoon because BP faces serious challenges. After an extended period in which managers were encouraged to deliver financial performance, even if that meant cutting corners, Hayward must alter that culture. Although he won’t emulate Lee Raymond, his counterpart at Exxon Mobil, by personally checking the performance of every oil rig daily, BP is obviously moving to more central control. It’s not without risk but it’s the right model.
Apart from culture change, Hayward sensibly didn’t unveil any big change of strategy. Look for more joint ventures like that being discussed with Gazprom where BP’s access to western markets and expertise can be traded for what it desperately needs, more reserves.
That apart, BP’s new boss knows restoring the company’s fortunes is about getting the basics right, delivering new production safely and on time and running its refineries at capacity.
Good sailor that he is, he also knows he needs to knock off the barnacles that accumulate on a big ship like BP. Full steam ahead, cap’n.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
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