Today marks day one for me posting a critical issue / incident about bp.
DWH: Andy inglis required an announcement on a large oil discovery to continue the success story of bps deep exploration in GoA. As he often did he made a couple of calls ahead of the quarterly results to get that well done and announce success, result DWH
@c6 we get it, you’re a grumpy pensioner or someone who was fired for cause. Move along.
@bz I was on the call. See yall tomorrow
@OP That’s a very selective reading of events. Pinning DWH on “Andy wanting a discovery” is the kind of folklore people repeat when they don’t understand how BP actually operated at the time. The root causes were systemic, cultural, and multi‑party — not a single exec making a phone call.
And as for Kosmos — come on. Kosmos had nothing to do with DWH. Different basin, different partners, different governance, different era. Dragging them into this is just rewriting history to fit a story.
If you’re going to post daily “critical issues”, at least anchor them in facts rather than myths that have been circulating for a decade. The real lessons from DWH are about process safety, risk normalisation, and decision‑making under commercial pressure — not conspiracy theories about who “needed” a discovery.
How does Kosmo Energy play into this? BP could buy them out
Please share more context. BP and Kosmos in the GoA…share your insights
I once received a similar call. Those tanks need to be completed and flow one barrel into them before the investor day so I can say the turnaround is complete.