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

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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