{"id":4571,"date":"2010-06-13T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2010-06-14T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:25:31","slug":"oil-groups-distance-themselves-from-bp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/06\/13\/oil-groups-distance-themselves-from-bp\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil groups distance themselves from BP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7b340afa-7720-11df-ba79-00144feabdc0.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4573\" title=\"100614_bp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/100614_bp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>The chief executives of the world\u2019s biggest international oil companies will testify on Tuesday that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico \u201cwas preventable\u2019\u2019, publicly distancing themselves for the first time from the UK company, the Financial Times has learnt. Executives from ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips will say that by following current \u201cbest practices\u2019\u2019 companies can avoid such accidents, according to interviews with those who have seened the planned remarks. The majors want to use this opportunity \u2014 in front of a subcommittee of the House energy and commerce committee \u2014 to make the case for continued new drilling in the deepwater gulf. Drilling has been placed under a six-month moratorium since the oil leak began, with many in the industry fearing that the curbs might be extended. Image: brassedge.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7b340afa-7720-11df-ba79-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA |  Company \u2014 Ethical Quote    link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=11\" target=\"_blank\">BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips <\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7b340afa-7720-11df-ba79-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief executives of the world\u2019s biggest international oil companies will testify on Tuesday that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico \u201cwas preventable\u2019\u2019, publicly distancing themselves for the first time from the UK company, the Financial Times has learnt. Executives from ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips will say that by following current&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,7,445,47,48],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bp","tag-chevron","tag-conocophillips","tag-exxonmobil","tag-shell","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}