BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion

Re:BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion by iamthemonster on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:58PM (#30494787)

It's fascinating to me how well Obama's rhetoric following Deepwater Horizon worked - he very deliberately called the company "British Petroleum" where it's name was actually changed to literally the letters "BP" nine years prior (NB the lower case bp was for logo/branding purposes only)

Now whenever you see Americans mention the oil/gas industry they don't seem to mention ExxonMobil, they don't seem to mention Transocean, the operators of the drilling rig, they only mention BP.

The propaganda worked.

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Re:BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion by Johnny555 on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:26AM (#30496971)

You don't think that being responsible for the biggest oil spill ever is what leads to BP's name recognition? It took 87 days to shut down the well (and the cleanup continued for months afterwards), so it was in the news for a long time. (even though they were paying Transocean and Halliburton to run the rig, BP was found mostly responsible)

Though I'm old enough that when I think of bad oil spills, the first thing that comes to mind is the Exxon Valdez spill.

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Re:BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion by iamthemonster on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:58PM (#30507004)

True; I think in reality all the supermajors get some degree of negative coverage fairly equally, I was probably full of shit when I said Obama's finger-pointing had really worked.

And yes, I'm of a similar age where "Exxon Valdez" is synonymous with large oil spills.

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Re:BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion by cuteboy19 on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:41AM (#30501863)

I think Exxon is mentioned even more than BP. This is a baseless conspiracy theory.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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Re:BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion by iamthemonster on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:52PM (#30506947)

Your search term was British Petroleum, which hasn't been the name of the company for 21 years, but when I searched for BP it actually supported your point more strongly.

Thank you - I do believe that, on reflection, I was full of shit.

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