Tony Hayward, BP CEO, gets his life back, no longer in charge of running Gulf cleanup operations

Tony Hayward, who whined about wanting his life back while the BP oil spill fouled the Gulf of Mexico, got his wish Friday and will be skulking back to Britain.

The London-based oil colossus handed the day-to-day job of running the cap-and-cleanup operations to another company man - New York-born, Mississippi-raised Robert Dudley.

"It is clear Tony has made remarks that have upset people," BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said.

Hayward, the company's CEO, got the hook a day after he performed a know-nothing act before a disbelieving congressional panel probing the Gulf disaster.

"Right after the explosion, [Hayward] went out there, and he has been leading the response ever since," Svanberg told England's Sky News. "I think everyone believed it to be something we could deal with faster, then he would come back."

Instead, Hayward returns home in shame after presiding over an eight-week train wreck that still isn't over - and that was marked by missteps like dismissing the amount of oil leaking into the gulf as "tiny" and the now-infamous "I want my life back" crack.

Svanberg said he, too, would be taking a more public stance on BP operations. But he stuck a foot in his mouth recently when he expressed sympathy for the "small people" hurt by the disaster.

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