From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

George Sherwood wrote:
> Guess we have a better idea how BP won the "Contract of the Century"
> here.

Not that far off SOP in the Oil business. What the seller wants the seller
gets. Heck you should ask your US oil comps wrt Angola.

> Also very interesting the part about MI-6 working with BP to
> hopefully put in governments more friendly to UK interests.
>

Again...what's new? National interests & oil/energy interests have
always been close (look at US actions in the ME in general).

Do you think that the US oil types who went to Libya in the run up to their
giving away the bit's of scrap they called a WMD program & then
subsequently were all intel free?

Adam

> George
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4
54442&in_page_id=1770
>
> BP executives working for Lord Browne spent millions of pounds on
> champagne-fuelled sex parties to help secure lucrative international oil
> contracts.
>
> The company also worked with MI6 to help bring about changes in foreign
> governments, according to an astonishing account of life inside the oil
> giant.
>
> Les Abrahams, who led BP's successful bid for a multi-million-pound deal
> with one of the former Soviet republics, today claims that Browne - who
> was forced to resign as chief executive last month after the collapse of
> legal proceedings against The Mail on Sunday - presided over an
> "anything goes" regime of sexual licence, spying and
financial sweeteners.

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