BP to create safety division after Gulf spill disaster

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    HOUSTON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP said Wednesday it will create a new safety division with sweeping（彻底的） powers to oversee¹ and audit² the company's operations around the world.
    In a news release issued Wednesday, incoming BP CEO Robert Dudley also vowed³ to make other changes to the way the company operates to rebuild the battered（磨损的） image of BP, the operator of the Deepwater Horizion drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf⁴ of Mexico and unleashed⁵ the worst spill in U.S. history.
    As part of the changes, Andy Ingilis, BP's head of global exploration and production will leave the company at the end of the year. The move is the first management change since BP chief executive Tony Hayward announced in July that he would step down effective Oct. 1.
    The new safety division, to be led by BP's head of safety and operation Mark Bly, will be "powerful" and "designed to strengthen（加强） safety and risk management across the BP group." It will be responsible for ensuring that all operations are carried out to common standards, and for auditing⁶ compliance⁷ with those standards, " the company said.
    Dudley also disclosed that BP is to re-structure its Upstream（逆流而上的） segment from a single business into three functional⁸ divisions -- Exploration, Development and Production -- and to carry out a detailed⁹ and wide-ranging review of how it manages third-party contractors¹⁰.
    "There are the first and most urgent steps in a program I am putting in place to rebuild trust in BP -- the trust of our customers, of governments, of our employees and of the world at large. That trust is vital to the restoration of shareholder¹¹ value which has been so adversely¹² affected¹³ by recent events," said Dudley.
    "The changes are in areas where I believe we most clearly need to act, with safety and risk management our most urgent priority," he said.
    Latest figures given by U.S. researchers indict¹⁴ that 4.4 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank in April.
    BP said its costs to clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had amounted to about 9.5 billion U.S. dollars.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)