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Few tears will be shed for ousted BP chief executive Tony Hayward, who famously attended a yacht race while his company’s blown-out oil well decorated the Gulf of Mexico with crude, and who whined to reporters during the crisis that he wanted “my life back.”

He’ll get his wish in October, when he’ll be succeeded by fellow BP executive Robert Dudley, whose to-do list has at least four urgent items: Make sure the well is finally capped, put a less obnoxious face on the world’s second largest private oil company, dig the company out of its costly hole and — most important — change a culture that apparently puts safety a distant second to cutting costs.

The trouble is that BP has been through this sort of crisis before, eventually dumped a CEO, and little changed. Even now, neither Hayward nor Dudley seems to understand (or will admit) that their company has a problem. Hayward spoke Tuesday as if the April 20 blowout that killed 11 men was just a fluke: “Sometimes you step off the pavement and get hit by a bus,” he said. Yeah, but in this case, it was as if BP was running, texting and talking on a cellphone when it blundered into the street.

Investigators and heads of competing oil companies have all reached the same conclusion: BP had an unusually difficult and dangerous well on its hands in mid-April, but company supervisors repeatedly ignored standard industry practices and shaved safety margins in ways that saved time and money but made an accident more likely.

Dudley seems just as clueless as the man he’s replacing. “I don’t accept, and have not witnessed, this cutting of corners and the sacrifice of safety to drive results,” he said, according to The New York Times. You have to wonder whether this guy has been asleep for the past five years.

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