We see a lot of Robert Dudley of BP on TV now.
His experience-

Univ. Illinois, BA, Chemical Engineering
Southern Methodist Univ. MBA
AMOCO Petroleum, 1979 until merger with BP, 1998
1987-1993- Various AMOCO projects, South China Sea
1994-1997- AMOCO projects in Russia
1999- Head, BP Group Strategy, London
-2003- Various projects, Russia, Middle East, North Africa
2003-2008- Chief Executive Officer, TNK-BP, a Russian-BP company
2009- Managing Director, BP Group, with oversight of activities in Asia and America.

From BP Press release, 2009: www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7051363

Linked with this article is BP's statement on transparency, a letter in response to EPA and DHS letters.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today said BP has "from day one, frankly not fulfilled the mission it was supposed to fulfill," expressing frustration Sunday with the delay in stopping an underwater oil gusher 33 days after the explosion.
"Do I have confidence that they know exactly what they are doing? No."
CNN News, CNN Politics, Political Ticker, May 23.
The article notes that the tasks involve construction, mobilizing equipment and fabricating new devices.

It is evident that preparations for the safety of the operation were not made; too little attention was paid to the dangers of accident when drilling in deep water, to a target near the limits of feasibility, and high pressure conditions in the target formation.
Salazar and others likened the salvage operation to an Apollo mission.

The deep horizon projects beginning to be drilled are quite different from the numerous shallow wells drilled in the Gulf. To continue the 'space' analogy, it is like the Enterprise entering an unknown galaxy. Exaggeration, but it is going where no one has gone before.