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Amnesia10
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10434908This might not go down well with the Americans.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Who cares? As far as I understand, Deepwater Horizon was owned and under the control of Transocean, an American oil company! 
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lumbthelesser
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Location: Manchester
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big_D
What's a life?
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And Halliburton, both of which are part-owned by Dick Cheney... Anyone want to guess why they got the insurance money paid out without question and have never been grilled over why it all went pear-shaped?  Me? Sour? What makes you think that? Just because I inherited a bucket load of BP shares, just after the price collapsed... 
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Amnesia10
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Very handy for inheritance tax purposes. Though as you say the day to day running of this was down to American companies. For BP the CEO is not generally involved in day to day operations of an overseas operation. That will be down to managers closer to the business. They might have more problems to resolve in day to day matters. Though this is nothing like the Fred Goodwin debacle. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
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So how does that work? He earned £450k a year wages, not he gets £600k for doing nothing. Am I missing something?
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jonlumb
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I'm guessing that there were substantial bonuses on top of the £450k. It may also have been to persuade him to jump rather than having to push.
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