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Brian Gilvary, who has worked at BP plc for 25 years, has been named CFO effective Jan. 1 and will join the board of directors. Current CFO Byron Grote, 63, will become executive vice president, corporate business activities. Gilvary, 49, has been deputy group CFO and head of finance for BP for nearly two years. He previously was CEO of BP’s commodity trading arm, Integrated Supply and Trading (IST). He also has been a board member of TNK-BP since December, having previously also served on the board from 2003 to 2005. Grote, 63, has been CFO since 2002. In his new role he will have responsibility for BP’s IST, alternative energy and shipping businesses as well as the company’s technology and remediation management activities.

October 26, 2011

Dorgan: Energy Bill Has Better Shot than Climate Change This Year

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who plans to retire from the Senate at the end of the year, Tuesday gave climate change legislation low odds of clearing the chamber in 2010 and said instead he believes the focus will be on the broad energy bill.

January 20, 2010

Senators to Offer Amendment Giving U.S. Producers Access to Cuban Waters

Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Larry Craig (R-ID) plan to offer an amendment to the broad energy bill (HR 6) being debated in the Senate that would permit domestic producers to drill for oil and natural gas in U.S. and Cuban waters located as close as 45 miles from Florida.

June 13, 2007

Senate Bill Seeks to Give U.S. Producers Access to Cuban Waters

Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Larry Craig (R-ID) introduced bipartisan energy security legislation last Wednesday that, among other things, would permit domestic producers to explore for oil and natural gas in U.S. and Cuban waters located as close as 45 miles from Florida.

March 19, 2007

Senate Bill Seeks to Give U.S. Producers Access to Cuban Waters

Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Larry Craig (R-ID) plan to introduce bipartisan energy security legislation Wednesday that, among other things, would permit U.S. producers to explore for oil and natural gas in Cuban waters located as close as 45 miles from Florida.

March 14, 2007

Senators Introduce Bill to Move OCS Leasing Closer to Florida Coast

U.S. Sens. Pete Domenici (R-NM), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Jim Talent (R-MO) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have launched a counterattack on the issue of drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, introducing legislation Tuesday instructing the Secretary of the Interior to develop an oil and gas leasing program for Lease Area 181 that can extend up to a line 100 miles off the Florida Coast and west of the Military Mission Line.

February 8, 2006

More Senate Democrats Push for Windfall Profits Tax

Sens. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Chris Dodd of Connecticut have added their names to the expanding list of Democrats calling for Congress to impose a windfall profits tax on major oil companies.

November 2, 2005

Dorgan to Justice: Where Are the ‘Handcuffs’ for Enron Execs?

Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, who chaired the Commerce Committee hearings that delved into Enron accounting irregularities, wants to know what’s taking the Department of Justice so long to bring charges against Enron executives.

August 19, 2002