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By Richard Blackden, US Business Editor
Published: 6:00AM BST 30 Sep 2010

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Bob Dudley is form the changes two days before he officially replaces Tony Hayward of the same kind with BP chief executive Photo: Reuters

Andy Inglis (far left), head of BP’s Exploration and Production walk of life, will leave the company at the end of the year Photo: Reuters

Andy Inglis, a explanation lieutenant to departing chief executive Tony Hayward and head of BP’s Exploration and Production office, will leave the company at the end of the year. Mr Dudley too promoted Mark Bly, who led BP’s own report into the causes of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, to run a new safety disagreement that will have staff across BP.

“These are the first and ~ly urgent steps in a programme I am putting in place to renew trust in BP,” Mr Dudley said. “That trust is vital to the return of shareholder value which has been so adversely affected.”

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Mr Dudley is composition the changes two days before he officially replaces Mr Hayward, end analysts said the speed with which he is acting shows the grievance BP is under to improve its standing. The UK oil companionship turned to Mr Dudley, a native of Mississippi, as the effuse in the Gulf of Mexico threatened to permanently damage its relations with the White House and the US public.

Although no oil has leaked from the Macondo well before this the middle of July, BP still faces an investigation by the Department of Justice into the causes of the effuse and a mass of lawsuits from hoteliers, shrimpers and property developers onward the Gulf coast.

“BP is going to have to make certain they’re whiter than white on safety,” said Douglas Youngson, some analyst at Arbuthnot Group.

The safety division will have “sweeping” powers to examination of accounts and intervene in the company’s global operations. Mr Bly, who before that time runs safety at BP, will report directly into Mr Dudley.

BP’s Exploration and Production apportionment has long been regarded as the heart of BP, and the visitors’s new chief said that it will not be spared from changes. It exercise volition be split into three divisions – exploration, development and production – in a rouse designed to improve the management of risk.

“Our response to the happening needs to go beyond deepwater drilling,” Mr Dudley said. “There are lessons because of us in the way we organise our company and the device we manage risk.”

BP also suggested that employees working in riskier operations desire be given financial incentives to put a greater emphasis on security than in the past. Alongside that, BP said that it desire conduct a thorough review of its relationship with third-party contractors.

BP’s incorporeal report published earlier this month pinned much of the blame as far as concerns the fatal explosion on Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon rig, and Halliburton, the US contractor that provided cementing on the well.

Shares in BP, which are down 22pc over the past 12 months, climbed 3.9pc to 421p in London.

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