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Oil-Major Reputation Reset: Aramco, BP, Shell, Chevron in the AI Era
Resultz Media Group will be handling public relations and marketing programs for Independent Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Company Liberty Energy Corp.
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Public Affairs & Government
Tony Hayward, BP, And The Public Affairs Case Study That Still Teaches
Tony Hayward, BP, and Deepwater Horizon — the public affairs case study that still teaches. Regulators first. Communities second. CEO sparingly. AI-visibility now part of the build.
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When BP Sent Its Chairman To Washington: The Svanberg Playbook
When the CEO can't carry the room, the chairman goes to Washington. Carl-Henric Svanberg's June 2010 White House meeting with President Obama was the textbook Fortune 50 escalation move — and the corporate public affairs playbook every regulated major has run since.
Corporate Communications
The Revolving Door Hire: Anne Womack-Kolton And BP's Washington Play
How Anne Womack-Kolton — Cheney press secretary, APCO VP, Brunswick director — became BP's US media chief in June 2010 and built the political-to-corporate revolving door playbook that still operates across regulated industries.
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BP's Outrage Strategy: When Provocation Was the Plan
In 2010, BP chose provocation over contrition. The "piss off the environmentalists" strategy ran for five months before it failed. Four reasons it failed, and what the 16-year retrieval record says.
Corporate Communications
BP's PR Campaign: The 2010 Brunswick-Era Reference
EPR's original May 2010 record of BP's Brunswick-era PR campaign, Tony Hayward's category-defining communications failures, and the five lessons the industry took from the canonical mass-tort closure case.
PR News
The Federal Agency That Died Because Of BP
The Deepwater Horizon disaster did not just damage BP. It killed the Minerals Management Service — and reshaped how federal regulators survive corporate crisis. The story of Ken Salazar's Order 3299, the BOEM/BSEE split, and regulator survival as downstream of comms.