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The heads of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Thursday told BP plc CEO Tony Hayward his company is not doing enough to disclose information about the company’s leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and its efforts to contain the disaster.

BP plc CEO Tony Hayward told employees Tuesday in an e-mail that the London energy giant has enough funds to cope with the costs related to the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Speaking with reporters Wednesday night in Houston, BP plc CEO Tony Hayward offered some candid comments about his company’s response to the unrelenting oil leak at the Macondo well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) (see Daily GPI, May 11).

BP plc CEO Tony Hayward told shareholders last Thursday that in the short term, the global downturn reduced energy demand, but as industrialization picks up this year, energy consumption is sure to follow.

BP plc CEO Tony Hayward told shareholders on Thursday that in the short term, the global downturn reduced energy demand, but as industrialization picks up, he thinks energy consumption will begin to grow this year.

BP plc CEO Tony Hayward told shareholders on Thursday that in the short term, the global downturn reduced energy demand, but as industrialization picks up, he thinks energy consumption will begin to grow this year.

BP plc CEO Tony Hayward said Tuesday natural gas needs to become a bigger part of the U.S. energy picture. Congress should find a better way to maintain jobs than by “preserving them in the coal industry,” he told an audience at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC.

BP plc CEO Tony Hayward said Tuesday natural gas needs to become a bigger part of the U.S. energy picture. Congress should find a better way to maintain jobs than by “preserving them in the coal industry,” he told an audience at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC.

BP plc’s quarterly profits fell by half from the same period a year ago, but the company is surpassing its cost-cutting targets and increasing output, CEO Tony Hayward told reporters Tuesday. The company, however, doesn’t think a global economic recovery — or energy demand growth — will happen this year.