LONDON — BP’s incoming chief executive fired the executive responsible for deep-water wells like the one that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico and announced a new unit to police safety practices throughout the company.
Bob Dudley said Andy Inglis, BP’s chief executive for exploration and production, would be standing down and his divisions would be broken up into three parts. Inglis, who this month was dropped from the board of BP’s Russian joint venture, will leave the main board “by mutual agreement,” BP said.
The new safety unit will be headed by Mark Bly, who led the team that produced BP’s report on the causes of the disastrous blowout of the Macondo well in the gulf. The blowout, which killed 11 workers, led to widespread criticism of BP’s safety practices, but Bly’s report this month laid much of the blame on two contractors: Transocean, which operated the Deepwater Horizon rig, and Halliburton, which was in charge of cementing the well. The Associated Press
