London, 4 June 2010

Last Wednesday, five weeks into the worst oil spill in US history, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward locked himself in a room on the third floor of the British oil giant’s U.S. headquarters in Houston. For the next five hours, Hayward, BP executives, senior engineers and the US Energy Secretary and Nobel Physicist Steven Chu, grappled with the latest plan to stem the thousands of barrels of oil a day gushing from a broken well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

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