What did we think of Meg this time round?
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We tried to do the deal in the North Sea with Shell but couldn't get it over the line so they went with Statoil.
End of an era!
@j3 something has got to give, either a full sale or some kind of JV, could be Ithaca as it's the only large independent which hasn't done M&A of late...
Sounds like the North Sea is definitely on the chopping block
@g7 well having an ivy league degree is not a certification for being clever. It is mostly a reflection of the family you were born in.
@g7 lol… we’re bragging about an MBA now? I don’t know about your country but in the US they basically hand those to anyone willing to write the check.
Let’s check the engineering bona fides…. Ahh yes, the prestigious Florida A&M engineering program!
Look, we have a huge range of intelligent, highly competent, and amazing leaders that just so happen to be women or PoC. Heck every other GoA APM is one.
You’ve obviously never worked around the one in question.
This little slugfest has been super fun to watch.
Funny how the upvoter/downvote split in this particular subexchange all shifted by about 14 in the past hour. Guess either a ton of us have nothing better to do on a Friday night or someone found a vpn and has their gears really ground up over this....
@g7
Are.....are you said APM?
@g7 Those platforms are delivering because of the ops personnel on board and the onshore support staff. Not because of her fake leadership. Rushing to the mic to ask a foolish question in front of a global audience is all about visibility, which unfortunately historically is rewarded in bp. DEI just made it another excuse to fill the top with those empty vessels. Even meg showed that she was a phony...
@e5 If you’re so worried about the company, maybe you should learn to read. From the recent ITK article, it doesn’t look like her platforms are struggling. It’s disgusting to see that any successful woman or person of color is relegated to being a DEI hire. I’m sure you’re shaking in your mediocre steel toed boots seeing a le----n at the top of the house. Last I checked said APM has an Ivy League Degree. If that equates to d-mb maybe you should question the educational system in your country and not her credentials.
SS (aka Landfill Queen) will lead Upstream. She has been groomed for executive position. EE will leak the technical solutions. GB and WL should be punted out.
@bp lol the response to the question was brilliant!
@bn where does major projects sit, wired in EE or GB ? and do SVPs get watered down in VPs now !!!
Why is EE leading upstream? Hasn’t he been closely involved with the whole BL changes and approved it!
Was hoping an SVP /fresh thinking would instead lead it.
@dv EE to top 40, to uplift again. Swing and a miss.
Just a rational employee that wants our company to succeed. That can only happen when leaders are chosen because they perform, understand how to create value, and are held accountable when they don’t. Choosing leaders to fit quotas and because they run to the front of the room to schmooze a EVP or CEO is a path to mediocrity.
That particular APM is d-mber than a bottle of air (which she once demanded an SDS on).
@d2 in most cases our corporate structure (in legal sense) requires a head of country. In many cases that’s the same SVP as the primary business lead but in countries with multiple branches of BP there has to be a single unifying person.
@bp you sound like a Bitter Betty who landed in that APM’s bottom 10%. If your work comms are as poorly structured as your post, I can see why.
Why is she the only one running multiple platforms if she’s that bad?
I love that she called HR, HR! Didn’t correct herself back into the stupid P&C! Hope we go back to just calling HR what it is. Maybe a sign of what’s to come!
Overall I do like her style, wish there was more announcements made, just shows how slow we are still as a company to make decisions and move on.
@bn bp should get rid of as many Central functions as possible. Look at the most profitable organizations with still good safety record - P&L accountability is key. Central functions dilute the focus, create mini kingdoms and bp managed to get to an absolute chaos on that. Lastly, need to be wary of keeping too many of existing management - bp's culture became too much of a political party (without any critical thinking) rather than a business and unfortunately most leaders do not how to operate differently (or got to be leaders in the first place) while following that philosophy. WL is implicated in leading purposeless RC&S org so surprising to see him suggested even as an interim COO downstream. Better to use one of SVP's. Head of HR should have gone by know - it is unthinkable that she was running the org with BL having relationships (unless it was her blowing the whistle which I doubt). Lastly, get rid of expensive Heads of countries org - let the business leader with P&L accountability engage with local stakeholders as necessary.
This was the first time I saw her dodge any question. She didn’t answer about the layoffs, only spoke around performance.
I’m just happy a leader finally put that mic hungry GoA APM in her place. Ever since she DEI’d into the Atlantis OIM job (absolutely destroyed the culture and almost blew up the facility) she’s been the epitome of failing upwards via su-king up instead of substance.
Glad Meg sniffed out how boneheaded the question was and sat her down.
@ap announcing June 1, EE will lead upstream as COO-upstream with business VPs reporting in, WL will temporarily lead downstream as COO-downstream until outside hire named. GB will lead a new “Technical Solutions” hub housing the central teams from Prod, SS, SOL, HSE & SORA. P&C to be renamed HR, Finance stays under KT as CFO
@ap will be announced in june, including tier1/2 LT
@af they are so repetitive. Wake me up when they want to tell us something new.
Do we even know yet who is running the upstream / downstream businesses yet and what is happening the G&LCE part
@OP Does anyone still attend these? Why?
I like how she answers questions. Very direct
@OP BS wears a lot of makeup