After The Deepwater Horizon/Gulf of Mexico oil-tastrophe...

Is it time for BP to completely cut it's tie with it's post colonial British past
and forge ahead with a name/change rebrand?

[steveisfrowning]

How about something like FreshCorp or NatureHug?

[kayem]

How about changing it to 'Kick-A55* Oil'? That might curry favour in The White House...

I don't give a **** what they are called. However, if oil companies are going to drill for oil 6km down at the bottom of the sea I think someone needs to make damn sure they have proper plans in place to deal with any problems which arise when it all goes **** up. Last night on the news they were talking about reducing the flow of oil and having made serious inroads by the end of July, nigh on four months after it became a problem.

The White House themselves can go and get shagged as far as I'm concerned. If it was a US oil company making a ******** of someone else's coastline they wouldn't give a toss.

[divadiva]

Leave the name as BP. the damage has been done, forget re-branding.

Obama has a nerve to compare the spillage of oil to 9/11 as that was a delibarate terrorist act to kill as many people as possible were as this was an accident.

I agree that measures should be put in place to stop this happening again.

[bazza]

Name changes? Do they work? Did business suddenly pick up again for Townsend Thoreson when they became P&O?
If they do work, they really shouldn't. And considering the millions it apparently costs to change your name, no, I don't think they should.

keep it as BP...and Obama is a complete w**ker...

[Keithy]

Oh-dama Oil?

<gets coat>

[kayem]

Originally Posted by mikebrown

keep it as BP...and Obama is a complete w**ker...

Yes, that's a catchy name, I'll go with that.

C'mon! rebranding is a time-honoured tradition for hiding things
or whitewashing any big catastrophes.


Windscale => Sellafield
Royal Mail => Consignia (=> Royal Mail )





I think "Catastroil" could be a good one.

Logo? A swirly black vortex with a shrimp at it's centre.

[srb71]

Leave it as BP but change the tag line to:

"No well too deep, no coastline too wide"

[Joss]

I have a friend who works in BP. Interesting thing he said was that BP have said they will no longer be outsourceing any of their work. All pipe lines laid and rigs and endeavours will be in house from now on. The well that is leaking is BP's well. However they had leased the well to an American firm. They actually had nothing to do with the wells operation. However they are liable for it as they own it. So although BP are being made to pay for clean up I can assure you that the American company that was running the rig will probably be sued out of existence.

Thats what I have been told anyway.

[BIDET FITZAKAZI]

The could buy out Gulf Oil and use their name.

Originally Posted by BIDET FITZAKAZI

The could buy out Gulf Oil and use their name.

[Joss]

Or swap it to Oil Gulf

I was thinking they could have something along the lines of "Q8" (Kuwait)....



Inadeq8 ?

[guiliasuper]

Dear Pot.... £20 billion fund, same week as the Bhopal verdict... do different rules apply ?

Apparently BP has the best industry inhouse abilities to sort this nightmare. The rest of the oil giants have been privately saying " there but for the grace ..... "

[Jackus]

Originally Posted by divadiva

Obama has a nerve to compare the spillage of oil to 9/11 as that was a delibarate terrorist act to kill as many people as possible were as this was an accident.

No he didn't

He said:

In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.

The papers just twisted it to make it seem like he compared it directly to 9/11

[scsc]

Papers twist something? Surely not.


Actually, in my experience, journalists don't bother to read what was actually said. They just pick some words at random and try to make a sentence. They don't often succeed at the grammar, never mind the truth of the story.

W8888kers indeed.

Will america stop bloody winging and moaning about it! If they did anything the same or worse they wouldnt give a ****.

How about we moan over all the British soldiers they've killed?

Plus the rig was run by americans so its their fault, they properly ate too much and sat on a pipe, or built their BBQ on top of it.

That or they were re-modelling for a new on-site McDonald's.

[icetsunami]

When BP has been run into the ground and is heavily in debt the Americans will buy it and rebrand it themselves on their quest for global domination of every kind.

[philoldsmobile]

the name no longer implies british petroleum anyway, a few years ago they rebranded as beyond petroleum.

perhaps now it should be 'bloody polluted'

Seems the CEO is steering them on the right course:

As the oil spill continues, BP CEO Tony Hayward goes yachting – Larry King Live - CNN.com Blogs


Good to see public mood doesn't affect his decisions....

[Smaky]

Originally Posted by Joss

I have a friend who works in BP. Interesting thing he said was that BP have said they will no longer be outsourceing any of their work. All pipe lines laid and rigs and endeavours will be in house from now on. The well that is leaking is BP's well. However they had leased the well to an American firm. They actually had nothing to do with the wells operation. However they are liable for it as they own it. So although BP are being made to pay for clean up I can assure you that the American company that was running the rig will probably be sued out of existence.

Thats what I have been told anyway.

And is that company run by a certain G W Bush?

[Smaky]

Originally Posted by Nev

Seems the CEO is steering them on the right course:

As the oil spill continues, BP CEO Tony Hayward goes yachting – Larry King Live - CNN.com Blogs


Good to see public mood doesn't affect his decisions....

When everything is going wrong it sometimes does good to step back and relax, after all, do you think the CEO is the only person trying to cap the well? This has been blown out of proportion by the media.