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Welcome back. It seems that death, taxes, and a crisis at BP, the UK oil major, are the constants of life.

Recently, it seemed that BP had sort of put that behind it. After

years marked by deep internal struggles about the future of fossil fuels, the company

elected Albert Manifold as chair. The idea was that the $110 billion company could

just get on with the business of extracting oil. But his sudden

ejection after just eight months has thrown the company into a fresh scandal. And it comes as CEO

Meg O'Neill, the fifth boss since 2007, tries to write the ship that is in a particularly chaotic sea amid the crisis in Iran.

Why this keeps happening and what this means for the oil industry more generally is the focus

of this week's viewsroom. I'm Amy Donlon. And I'm Jonathan Guilford. And this is the

Viewroom, your weekly dive into the biggest topics in politics, economics,

and finance.

And Amy, it's hard, like you say, not to instinctively associate BP with some kind of disaster.

I'm sure you and I were about the same age, kind of a formative memory for us back in 2010.

The BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, which was this colossal scandal.

It cost one CEO, his job, one of the many we've had over the last two decades.

Tony, Tony Haywards, what was it his favorite famous quote?

I just want to get my life back.

Yes, yes, indeed.

And unfortunately, for BP CEO's regular life is not particularly on the menu.

And it's just like in recent years, it's funny because there have been all of these

particularly spectacular catastrophes that have befallen BP as a company.

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