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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as part of the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, May 23, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Gulf spill will "forever" change drilling: BP exec

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BOSTON | Thu May 6, 2010 1:52pm EDT

BOSTON (Reuters) - The explosion and sinking of a BP Plc oil rig and subsequent massive oil spill will "forever" change the offshore drilling industry, a top executive with the London-based oil giant said on Thursday.

"There is no doubt that this event will change the offshore industry forever, around the globe," said Robert Dudley, executive vice president for the Americas and Asia at BP.

After the current leak -- which is one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history -- BP will "consider the trade-offs" of new offshore exploration, Dudley told the Boston College Chief Executives Club.

The leak, still weeks or months away from being stopped, threatens Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and could eclipse the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, the worst U.S. oil spill.

(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
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mckibbinusa wrote:
Regretfully, BP executives are only now acknowledging the “trade-offs” of off-shore drilling. While these executives ponder these lofty questions, the US should help itself to BP’s revenues, profits, properties, holdings, pension plans, vacation homes, and everything and anything else it can to ensure that BP pays for the cleanup to come, in full…

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