BP's chief executive Bob Dudley said the hostage incident was a "distressing and horrific time".
When announcing that proposal, Bob Dudley, BP's boss, trumpeted his knowledge of Russian politics.
"These results represent a strong start to 2013 across all of our businesses, " said BP chief executive Bob Dudley.
Officially, Bob Dudley does not become CEO of BP until Friday, October 1st.
However, chief executive Bob Dudley said the figures showed "strong progress" at BP, which is raising the quarterly dividend by 12.5%.
Of the BP employees, 14 are safe, and four BP employees are still missing in Algeria, BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley said.
The BP Group chief executive, Bob Dudley, said the company was "unable to confirm the location or situation" of four employees at the plant.
Chief executive Tony Hayward, the man who wanted his life back, is gone, replaced by Bob Dudley, an American raised in the Gulf state of Mississippi.
U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, called for the oil spill commission to get full subpoena power, and for BP CEO Bob Dudley to agree to testify before Congress.
The Russian investors, unhappy at the way the company has been run by Bob Dudley, an American appointed by BP, blocked the renewal of work permits for many foreign staff.
Hayward said last July that he would step down as chief executive on Oct. 1 to make way for Bob Dudley, the former chief executive of BP's Russian joint venture, TNK-BP.
To bring in a fresh face (and an American accent), BP appointed Bob Dudley, a former head of its troubled Russian joint venture, to lead the campaign to tackle the spill.
Even more illustrative of the stand-off between BP and the billionaires: After a 2008 police raid on the offices belonging to BP and TNK-BP, BP CEO Bob Dudley was denied a new visa.
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TNK-BP's chief executive, Bob Dudley, a former employee of BP, has since tried to rein in employees close to AAR, but has not been able to because of the divisions at the top.
Tuesday's report also confirmed that board director Bob Dudley , who has been leading the company's response in the Gulf, will be replacing Tony Hayward as the company's president and CEO, effective Oct. 1.
"From the beginning, BP stepped up to meet our obligations to the communities in the Gulf Coast region, and we've worked hard to deliver on that commitment for nearly two years, " BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley said.
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"All of us at BP deeply regret the tragic loss of life caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident as well as the impact of the spill on the Gulf coast region, " said Bob Dudley, BP's chief executive.
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While serving as head of TNK-BP, Bob Dudley - now the head of BP as a whole - had his office bugged and raided by the police and met with onerous back-tax demands, legal action and visa problems.
"This transaction is in line with BP's strategy to focus on a smaller number of higher-value assets with long-term growth potential and to continue the simplification of our portfolio with a further reduction of operated infrastructure and wells, " said BP chief executive Bob Dudley.
For example, he said staff of BP's new Safety and Operational Risk organisation, set up by Mr Hayward's successor Bob Dudley in 2011, now had the authority to order that an operation be stopped, when the previous safety body had more of an advisory role.
At a press conference Bob Dudley, BP's new boss, said that it had been impossible for BP to talk to AAR in advance of the Rosneft deal because of the market sensitivity of the share swap involved, and that BP and its partners would be headed for arbitration on the matter regardless of the court verdict.
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