时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2010


英语课

It became clear both for the board and for Tony, that in going forward, in rebuilding the company’s strength and in rebuilding its reputation, we needed a fresh leadership and that's what we are announcing today. Why do you need fresh leadership if he's done such a good job?

I think it is, in view of the Macondo well and everything that have happened and I think it became clear that you needed in this case, a new face, a new man to lead this. And of course, especially America is our biggest market. That is also important. So I think it became difficult for him to take on that toss. I mean clearly the board was reluctant to ditch Tony Hayward. It seems that you've crumbled 2 to American political pressure, at what point did you crumble 1? Well, that is not true at all, because we have been absolutely focused on stopping the flow of oil into the Gulf 3 of Mexico. That was the absolutely first and most important thing. Now that we are not spreading any more oil since almost 2 weeks was the first and right moment to start things forward about how we rebuild the company and that was addressed. The leadership of the company was never discussed when I was in the White House and through any of those negotiations 4.

You are shrinking the company in a fact, selling 30 billion dollars of assets. You don't need to do that. It seems a bit panicky.

No, it's not panicky. I think any company of our kind, remember that we have a portfolio 5 of 250 billion dollars of assets, any company of that kind would have, there would always be assets that you are in an aging portfolio, things that you would like to had, places where you would like to get stronger. Other, other places or assets that you have that fit much better into somebody else's portfolio. So this is a crisis that nobody would have liked to happen of course. But it also creates a moment that we can reset 6 our position and by selling assets we proceeds some 25 to 30 billion of value. That is of course a way of demonstrating that there should be no worry about our ability to meet the financial obligations. And still we talk about temperature and our total portfolio. It doesn't fundamentally change BP.

That 30 billion, 32 billion you've set aside to cover all the costs I guess, including fines. Do you expect to spend all of that?

Well, it’s the costs that we believe today with that we will need to meet. And they are also based on our belief that we are not growth like that. That doesn't mean that, that is exactly that the amount that couldn't be any other costs developing. Those are the costs that we know of today and some of it is estimates.



1 crumble
vi.碎裂,崩溃;vt.弄碎,摧毁
  • Opposition more or less crumbled away.反对势力差不多都瓦解了。
  • Even if the seas go dry and rocks crumble,my will will remain firm.纵然海枯石烂,意志永不动摇。
2 crumbled
(把…)弄碎, (使)碎成细屑( crumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 衰落; 坍塌; 损坏
  • He crumbled the bread in his fingers. 他用手指把面包捻碎。
  • Our hopes crumbled when the business went bankrupt. 商行破产了,我们的希望也破灭了。
3 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
4 negotiations
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
5 portfolio
n.公事包;文件夹;大臣及部长职位
  • He remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio.他因为她带着一个大公文包而记住了她。
  • He resigned his portfolio.他辞去了大臣职务。
6 reset
v.重新安排,复位;n.重新放置;重放之物
  • As soon as you arrive at your destination,step out of the aircraft and reset your wristwatch.你一到达目的地,就走出飞机并重新设置手表时间。
  • He is recovering from an operation to reset his arm.他做了一个手臂复位手术,正在恢复。
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a'cockbill
A.F.C
active sleep
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X-ray Luminosity of cluster of galaxies