As the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico enters its forty second day, Paddy Power are offering odds on the first stakeholder involved with the continuing crisis to leave or lose their job.
Top of Paddy Power’s sack list is BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward who’s increasingly ominous outlook about the prospect of plugging the leak anytime soon sees the Englishman installed as the bookies 6/4 favourite.
Next in the betting and further up the BP food chain comes Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg at odds of 2/1. Other names include White House Energy Adviser Carol Browner at 16/1 and President Obama himself at a seemingly unlikely 20/1.
Paddy Power said,
Like our previous odds on the first species to become extinct due to the BP oil spill, we hope our betting will focus the minds of punters on the continuing crisis as it unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico.
First to leave lose/leave their job?
6/4 Tony Hayward (BP Chief Executive)
2/1 Carl-Henric Svanberg (BP Chairman)
9/4 Doug Suttles (BP Chief Operating Officer)
12/1 Clint Guidry (Secretary of the Louisiana Shrimp Association)
14/1 Lisa Jackson (Administrator of the EPA)
16/1 Carol Browner (White House energy adviser)
20/1 President Barack Obama
Will Tony Hayward be CEO on 31st December 2010?
5/6 Yes
5/6 No
Next CEO of BP
5/2 Iain Conn
3/1 Andy Inglis
3/1 Robert Dudley
4/1 Byron Grote
5/1 Doug Suttles
8/1 Carl-Henric Svanberg
14/1 Malcolm Brinded
20/1 Simon Henry
25/1 Jorma Ollila
25/1 John A Carrig
33/1 Ryan M Lance
40/1 Christophe De Margerie
50/1 Peter Voser
50/1 James Mulva
