WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward is leading the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill despite the emergence of Managing Director Robert Dudley, BP says.
Hayward received a thumping last week from U.S. lawmakers frustrated over the response to the April sinking of the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Hayward sidestepped most of the questioning, deferring to an investigation still under way for the April disaster.