BP's board chief Carl-Henric Svanberg has announced that BP CEO Tony Hayward make crisis management in the Gulf of Mexico. Hayward is left to the crisis management of the BP manager Robert Dudley. In connection with the oil spill was Hayward summoned by Congress and admitted there a failure.

A day after his extremely critical hearing in the U.S. Congress, the controversial chief Tony Hayward, BP's Crisis Management from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been deducted. The task was to take over BP manager Robert Dudley, the chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said on Friday the television station Sky News. Hayward was "directly after the explosion went there and since then has given our response," said Svanberg. "I think everyone believed that we would be able to cope quickly and then he could come back," added the supervisory board chief.

Hayward will hand over the daily management of the oil spill on Dudley and "be more at home," Svanberg said the British television station. The BP chief had been in a hearing before the U.S. Congress on Thursday addressed very sharp and had serious shortcomings acknowledged in the context of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. There was on 20 April, an oil rig exploded and BP fell two days later. Since then pour millions of liters of oil into the sea, unique ecosystem on the coast by several U.S. states and the rich fishing industry contributed them serious harm.

Hayward had previously come under criticism because he had downplayed the impact of the disaster, and complained that he wanted "his old life back again." When the oil rig explosion eleven workers were killed, their relatives reacted angrily to those comments. Barack Obama had said last week that he had Hayward "fired long ago."