BP Oil spent $165 million on research and engineering in 1992.

His district was heavily affected by the 2010 BP oil spill crisis.

In the past BP Oil had what top managers called an 'investment culture'.

During the year, BP Oil achieved a $200-million reduction in its planned level of costs.

They concluded that BP Oil could no longer rely on the business environment to improve the company's results.

BP Oil has about 5,000 workers in the United States, not including the employees of service stations.

Underlying all this is a fundamental shift in the way BP Oil intends to run its business.

Their brief was to look at what BP Oil had been doing and recommend ways of doing it better.

BP Oil is introducing 'upward feedback' worldwide as part of the two-way communication between managers and their staff.

So too was the BP oil spill.