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BP（英国石油公司）前高级雇员莱斯·亚伯拉罕斯近日撰文，披露公司在上世纪90年代为争夺国外油田开采合同，用大把美钞、香槟酒会和“性派对”讨好当地官员，甚至借助英国军情六处插手，以牟取经济利益。

　　英国《每日邮报》13日报道说，英国现任内政大臣约翰·里德曾参与这类事。

　　近亿美元“公关”

　　亚伯拉罕斯说，ＢＰ首席执行官布朗勋爵曾拨款４５００万英镑（约合８９１０万美元），作为“公关费”，争夺中亚地区一个大油田的开采权。

　　亚伯拉罕斯说：“布朗的助手传话说，‘他们（当地官员）要什么，就给他们什么’。”布朗曾下令用公司的飞机空运香槟酒和鱼子酱到中亚，雇佣妓女，为当地官员召开“性派对”。他说，公司会租下高级宾馆的整整一层楼，并提供妓女，供当地官员享受。

　　军情六处暗助

　　《每日邮报》报道说，除了ＢＰ公司本身公关活动，英国政府和军情六处也涉及其中，帮助公司牟利。

　　亚伯拉罕斯说，在中亚一些国家高级官员访问伦敦时，ＢＰ公司不惜成本，大献殷勤，政府也提供最大方便。他回忆说，他有一个“外交部热线号码”，只要一个电话，这些访问的官员“马上就能得到签证”，而平常情况下办理签证需要几个星期。

　　这些官员到了伦敦后，亚伯拉罕斯说，一般先举行一个宴会，吃完饭，则进入高档夜总会，看无上装表演，那里一杯饮料要２５０英镑（约合４９０美元）。最后，那些官员还要将夜总会里的女人带回酒店，费用自然还是记在ＢＰ账上。

　　亚伯拉罕斯还提及，ＢＰ和英国情报机构合作，暗中支持一些国家的政变，“石油合同谈判在政变成功后获得迅速进展”。

　　影子大臣被拘

　　在文章中，亚伯拉罕斯披露了一些ＢＰ职员和政府官员的丑闻。比如，１９９３年，当时身为工党影子内阁国防部长的里德应ＢＰ邀请，抵达巴库访问，在晚饭时“喝了很多酒”。当地晚上实行宵禁，但里德走出酒店后四出乱逛，大声嚷嚷，结果招来全副武装的警察。

　　亚伯拉罕斯透露，里德当时不听自己的劝说，满口粗话，对警察大声说“我是英国政客”，如果不把“该死的冲锋枪从我脸上移开”，“我就打爆你的头”。结果里德和亚伯拉罕斯双双被拘捕，费了好大周折才被释放。

　　对于亚伯拉罕斯的说法，ＢＰ一位发言人说：“他所说的有一些是事实，但大部分没有根据。”里德的一位女发言人对此拒绝评论。


http://news.xmnext.com/world/shehui/2007/05/14/569391.html

BP's newest big problems
Posted May 29th 2007 4:17PM by Weld Royal
Filed under: Bad news, Management, Consumer experience, BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Valero Energy (VLO), Commodities, Oil

As Americans emptied their wallets to pay for gas over the weekend, BP p.l.c. ADS (NYSE: BP), London, hurried to fix a problem in Alaska that is contributing to the consumer price spike.

BP officials at America's largest oil field -- Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope -- cut oil production by a quarter last week after they found a hole about the diameter of a pencil in a water pipe. On Sunday, after several days of round-the-clock repair work and tests to the damaged area, they restored full production. BP is in the process of replacing 16-miles of pipe after corrosion caused the North Slope's largest oil spill in August of 2006.

A detailed report in the Chicago Tribune traces problems at BP to cutbacks during the days of cheap oil in the late 1990s. Tribune chief business correspondent David Greising says that the scrimping of a decade ago has left the oil industry ill-prepared to deal with even small problems, such as pencil sized holes in pipes in the wilds of Alaska. He writes that the company's inability to handle technological challenges has forced it to delay pumping from one of its best prospects for the future -- the Thunder Horse platform on the Gulf of Mexico."A nearly three-year delay in the startup of the world's largest floating oil platform, which covers an area the size of three football fields, is setting back the arrival of enough oil to boost total U.S. production by nearly 5 percent," according to Greising. But the project is delayed by a relatively minor hurdle--a 6-inch length of pipe was incorrectly plumbed. Greising says that's costing BP $3 billion in lost revenue. The article goes on to cover corporate culture change. Greising writes that Robert Malone, BP's top North American executive, is introducing corporate policies and procedures he hopes will bring safety and good stewardship to the risky business of Big Oil.

"To compete in the new era of high prices, climate-change activism and cutthroat competition for oil resources, BP and others in the industry are quickly finding there is no room for error," he says. Disappointingly, the article points to few specifics of corporate culture reform other than a rally the troops visit by Malone to Prudhoe Bay in March. Meanwhile, the company faces a shortage of skilled oil workers and concerns by union officials about too much overtime on the North Slope. In its haste to repair its 16-miles of pipeline put out of service last summer, BP found that federal officials were rejecting about 8% of its welds on new pipes. Truth is, BP shouldn't be singled out. Other oil industry companies are grappling with their own safety and technical problems. A little more than a week ago, Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO), in San Antonio, Texas, was forced to shutter a unit of its McKee refinery because of mechanical difficulties.



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