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Macondo makes BP less appetising: CEO

BP'S $18.7 billion ($25.47 billion) settlement over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill makes it less likely to be taken over – not that the company's chiefs plan on putting the ‘for sale' sign up anyway, CEO Bob Dudley said.

Macondo makes BP less appetising: CEO

"As a result of the settlement in the US it is actually less likely that someone would want to acquire BP and it is certainly not our intention to put the company up for sale," Dudley told reporters upon...

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