BP's Letter to Gavin Hayman, Campaigns Director at Global Witness

Author:
Global Witness
Publisher:
Global Witness
Publication Date:
21 February 2012
Tags:
Angola, Petroleum

As oil industry lobbyists attempt to water down watershed transparency legislation in the United
States and the European Union, Global Witness shows that BP has agreed to make multi-million dollar
payments into obscure “social projects” controlled by the highly opaque state oil company of Angola
as part of a deal to win oil exploration rights. BP is making these payments despite well-documented
concerns of corruption in the oil rich but poor African country.

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