Tony Hayward, the departing chief executive of BP, is expected to be offered a directorship at TNK-BP, the group's Russian joint venture, when he leaves the multinational oil group in the autumn.
BP had not yet made any formal statement on Mr Hayward's position by early evening UK time and the company's board was still meeting to make a final decision, but people close to the company said it was expected that his departure would be mutually agreed.
Mr Hayward was heavily criticised in the US for his role in BP's response to the massive oil spill that followed the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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