Could these two things be related? https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/albert-manifold-bp-cut-board-ousting-tdz9m6ps0
Out of Bay du Nord
Do we have any other operations in Canada now?
Will Meg support the India Marginal Field Technology Project?
Will Meg come to her senses and realize that AMs desperation move to contract as a services provider to a hugely incompetent national oil company of India was a mistake. Providing technical services in brown…the darkest of brownfields offshore India... — read more
Make BP AP
Here’s to hoping BP moves HQ to the U.S.A. Make British Petroleum, American Petroleum. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
North Sea - India future
Who is on to explain the North Sea SALE includes 30% India resources?
Opinions on BP Wells LS and LJP as leaders
You get to determine the direction and fate of bp wells just you brilliantly did with the minister of people and culture. These two managers come with skill sets, challenges, and positive and negative attributes. How will Wells perform moving... — read more
Why is Elliott so quiet?
They bought a huge chunk of our shares last year and have barely made a peep. What’s their play? They need a return on this investment and it’s not clear how that’s going to happen. So what’s going on?
BPX to be divested?
Will MO divest BPX an asset she has already divested in a previous lifetime as CEO of Woodside? Your comments and opinions matter and do have effect on the company
Wish I left in 2021
Now if I get let I can’t say I EOId the economy is in tatters. Oil and gas job market is dead and what do I have to show for it. Some reinvent shares. I’ve got 25 years more to still work
aggressive targets
heard aggressive targets have been given on headcounts to svps...
“New” corporate affairs function
How deep do we think cuts will be for the corporate affairs function - formerly communications in PC&C?
Share your best and worst KD stories
The UK 🇬🇧 is looking like it’s going in the right direction. Share how KD affected your life at bp both the positive and the negative.
5 years after reinvent
The orchestra has stopped. The music of reinvent is over, just 5 years after its terrible opening. Now, the cull of the rest of the reinventors who have hidden in the VP roles needs to complete this master opus.
Bye KD
Finally gone. Stock should go up
Sunbury town hall
Anyone got an idea if there’s going to be a big announcement in Sunbury town hall tomorrow?
Who or what type features will we see in Layoffs
KD has done an excellent job of inculcating staff into new speak and all things dei and inclusion. Who are they going to layoff. What class or feature of employees?
July 1 announcement
The July 1 announcement is just a few days away. Are we going to hear about massive change, or will it just be a repeat of what we heard a couple weeks ago? Will they announcement headcount targets or kick that down the road? Personally I’m getting... — read more
Mid year reviews
How is everyone feeling about their mid year review and the new calibration? How are we feeling about the bottom 10% situation?
Will Meg be Transformative or a Caretaker placeholder at BP
Meg joined BP with a lot of fanfare from media and industry group. The employees appear to admire and hope that she is a change agent who will bring about stability, profitability and a sense of purpose to a fragmented and often troubled... — read more
it is anniversary
bP rapidly approaching same SP as thirty years ago
How Resilient is bp in a low price environment?
Predict what’s about to occur now that a low price environment and halfhearted improvement initiatives are about to collide. Will the market reward or punish current leadership?
Can GB Right a Capsized Vessel?
Is it prudent to permit a BL favorite and boosted sycophant the opportunity to repair a broken organizational structure? BP is complex by design and by intent. Creative ideas and processes that are successful at other operating companies are frowned... — read more
BL transitions to ☢️.
Looney "brings deep experience in global energy, capital markets, major project delivery, and international partnerships to the company", the Knoxville, Tennessee-based developer of nuclear fusion electricity Keep a chastity belt on all the pretty... — read more
Thoughts on mega webcast ?
Let’s hear it
One by One
Seems very very slowly, some of the useless ones are wising up and leaving. ED, AR, and now the CIO (wdf did she do anyway?). Could it be that BL's interests are being weaned out slowly by Meg.
Upstream/Downstream meeting wednesday
Any big announcements planned for the upstream/downstream meeting on Wednesday?
TSI over, all expats home by YE
I hear 50% cut of this experiment. No need for bloated central team in asset model.
Woodside taken to the Woodshed
Woodside employees are freaking out the their nice supportive environment and prospects are going to be severely impacted and if the XoM deal goes through substantial cultural adjustments will need to be made. Most Woodside employees not ready for... — read more
XOM planning on buying Woodside! Meg makes sense
Megs ears are ringing right now. BP shares a lot in common with Woodside. Much more than XOM does. But, it would be viewed as a conflict of interest. But, Meg at BP this went away. How many more oil companies will be left after this consolidation... — read more
10%
Imagine getting 10-percented, losing your job with no severance package, after working hard for a multi-billion dollar company for decades, just so the executive team can save a little money and look good to their investor overlords. Smh
Re Re Org
Was in a call yesterday where a vp said "we are locked in a room in sunbury, trying to figure out and setup the new org and reporting lines" for the capital dev team. Seems like we are "reinventing" the wheel again. Incredible waste of time and... — read more
Why does Meg get automatic praise and deference?
Why do industry observers and specifically BP staff automatically give high praise to Meg? Can one person from the outside manage to upright a failed strategy and a culture which abhors change?
Should have been more
I’m a little underwhelmed by the c-suite reorg. I was really hoping to see more change. It’s nice that some of the execs are finally getting a similar treatment that regular employees get. But we need more outside leaders to come in if we want to... — read more
Retaliatory PIP Class Action Form
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And so it begins…
Meg just announced the structure of the new Organisation “From )1 July, we will move to an Upstream and Downstream operating model, replacing our current structure of Production & Operations (P&O), Gas & Low Carbon Energy (G&LCE), and Customer &... — read more
4
BP sacked a CEO for lieing to board twice+. For abuse of power, non disclosure, then takes $32Mn off him in future benefits. BL then sues whilst MA takes on the role. a few months later the law suit is quiet, unresolved? BL gets announced as a... — read more
Evp announcement tomorrow
What are everyone’s predictions?
KD is still gainfully employed…exciting few weeks!!!
Our favorite minister of people and culture is still proving herself adept at survival and sorcery. Taking out and clearly eviscerating a Chairman of the Board with allegations of misconduct is pure corporate Hunger Games! Is KD’s on borrowed time?... — read more
Tired of hearing about backfill and promotions that never actually show up
My manager keeps promising to fill open roles but nothing ever happens. We are drowning in work and every month it is the same story about help that never arrives.
2
Despite enacting 1000s of layoffs as the company claimed it needed to reduce costs. We also expatted an American female to SJS in a GL role, paying for 5 kids to go to private school all expenses paid.