What are your predictions for 2026?
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Strike at Whiting is coming for sure
BL, please stop commenting on thelayoff, and go back to what you do best: IG posts; inappropriate workplace relationships that result in promoting incompetent women for sleeping with you; and id--tic, destructive business strategies. mmmk?
looney...good humor!
I predict continued whimpering from the workforce as they are pushed to do an honest days work at the office and not sit around at home in their pajamas playing video games.
bp is very resilient and will be very successful, nothing is going to happen!
@kv. The U.S. listing would be better.
Us govt will force foreign-based oil companies to either move their HQ and stick listing to the US or sell their US assets to US-based companies.
Further organisational flattening—fewer layers, fewer duplicated roles. Move back to Upstream / Downstream model
Continue with India transition eliminating more roles in USA, UK
Central empires dispersed with delivery focus only
Centralisation of corporate functions (HR, finance, procurement, digital).
More outsourcing of transactional work
bP share price will reach same value as 30 years ago. CHECK.
Losing
@e6 definitely one of the realistic scenarios. Would not be, however, so confident about the takeover
- crisis management
- outsider CEO going harsh
- divestments, further lay-offs
- shareholder pressure
- uncertainty regarding sell-off
- Oil goes to 52$/bbl
- New CFO and 4 EVPs go
- Buyback stopped
- 7000 headcount reduction
- US listing
- Impairements in Q1 before new CEO (Archea & co)
- spin off BPX
- Sell most non core assets bp pulse etc
- growing disconnect beteen leadership team and employees due to external hiring
- M&S sold
- year end 2026 shell puts a bid on bp
Another reorg
Leadership split up the company and sell off parts to attract a buyer. After securing a deal, they layoff a large part of bp staff with a very low severance package. The rest of staff are ring fenced to facilitate a MOC to the new owner. People who survive the transition will be let go a year after closing of the sale. Probably best to get out now.
That the whiners will keep whinin.
market cap will not exceed half of what it was 20 years ago
continued asset sales (at bad prices)
continued deterioration of morale
more offshoring nonsense
more cr-p leadership
another step closer to takeover/irrelevance