Its OK - Its just the Brits feel a bit insulted at the moment by the clearly Anglophobe rhetoric spouted by Obama, and the pointed determination to refer to BP as
"British" Petroleum, is rather symptomatic of that, (and ironic since it is almost 50% owned and staffed by Americans, and is listed in the US, UK, Paris and Frankfurt.)
The assault on BP also conveniently over-looks the part played by American companies, Transocean, Halliburton and/or Cameron, and also turns a blind eye to Americas record of relatively uncompensated death, maiming and horrific pollution at Bhopal, incompetence in the explosion of the Piper Alpha rig in the North sea, and current and routine massive oil leaks poured into the Niger Delta by American oil companies .
But heigh ho - "they're not Americans so it doesnt matter"
Sorry - as you were...