Amid Oil Spill, BP Tries to Mop Up New PR Mess

(CBS/AP)  As if the failed attempts at containing the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico weren't enough, now BP is facing a public relations snag.

The oil company is now trying to mop up comments made Sunday by chief executive Tony Hayward, who said that "nobody wants this thing over more than I do. I'd like my life back."

Trying to save face on Facebook, Hayward posted an apology to the families of the 11 men who were killed in the April 20 rig explosion, CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reported on "The Early Show".

"Those words don't represent how I feel about this tragedy," Hayward wrote.

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Meanwhile, Hayward said the oil company wasn't completely prepared to deal with the disastrous oil leak, a newspaper reported Thursday.

The Financial Times quoted Tony Hayward as saying it was "an entirely fair criticism" that the company wasn't fully ready.

"What is undoubtedly true is that we did not have the tools you would want in your tool kit," Hayward was quoted as saying.

However, Hayward said BP had been successful so far in keeping most of the oil away from the southeastern U.S. coast.

"Considering how big this has been, very little has got away from us," Hayward was quoted as saying.

Hayward said the April 20 explosion on an oil rig that caused the leak was a "one in a million chance," but that risk needed to be cut to one in a billion or even one in a trillion.

BP's latest attempted to stop the leak stalled Wednesday when a diamond-tipped saw became stuck while trying to cut the pipe.

The company plans another attempt with giant shears, but said that even if that works it will be less satisfactory than if the saw had completed a clean cut.

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[Skruffy1]

Oh, that poor, poor, Tony Hayward. He just "wants his life back", does he? I'll just bet he's still making a fortune in salary and lives a pretty high lifestyle. Those who have justification for "just wanting their lives back" would be all those put out of work by his company's negligence and incompetence. And all the dead wildlife -- we don't see Tony saying anything about that, do we? Just that HE wants HIS life back. Tony, you cannot open your mouth without insulting those you have harmed, can you?

[Renewable216]

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership will convene a meeting at Louisiana State University,LSU,on Thursday, June 3, 2010 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ?

Those attending will include Dr. John W. Farrington, interim dean of the University of Massachusetts School of Marine Science and Technology and possibly scientist from WHOI, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, independent, not-for-profit corporation with experts on the Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts 2003 oil spill.

On Sunday, April 27, 2003, the Tank Barge Bouchard No. 120 struck rocks south of Westport, MA, when it passed on the wrong side of a navigational marker at the entrance of Buzzards Bay. The resulting 12-foot gash on the bottom of the hull released an estimated 98,000 Number 6 fuel oil in Buzzards Bay.

[mtcolquitt]

You want YOUR life back? So does everyone effected by YOUR ignorance, including all the wildlife etc. Stupid!