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...BP and Adnoc declined to comment beyond NewMed’s statement....
...Sir John Sawers, the former head of MI6, will also step down from the BP board in April, after nine years of service....
...“The message we’re telling [BP] is: keep your flexibility to adjust to what will happen in the actual world.” BP chair Helge Lund must feel that he is caught between a rock and a hard place....
...BP has become a “Marmite” stock, in terms of dividing opinion sharply....
...In the case of BP, it hasn’t....
...Some of BP’s investments in offshore wind — in particular the US — have looked misguided. However, BP’s strategy has since evolved....
...BP is set to book a $700mn windfall due to tax changes aimed at boosting corporate pension fund investment in the economy....
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...“This irrational strategy has, quite understandably, depressed the value of BP’s share price,” it said....
...Finance chiefs have rarely been appointed to the top job at BP....
...BP will also “pragmatically adapt” to changes in energy demand across the world “much like we did in February 2023”, he said....
...Finance chiefs have traditionally not been appointed to chief executive at BP but Auchincloss is generally well liked by BP’s institutional investors....
...BP declined to comment, while Loudon could not be reached for comment....
...“It’s not necessarily the right decision because BP needs root-and-branch transformation in my view....
...The museum’s decision to renew its partnership with BP was criticised by environmental campaign groups and activists....
...BP’s share price has trailed the MSCI Europe Energy index since the resignation. Rivals Shell and TotalEnergies now earn a valuation premium of 12 per cent to BP’s 3.2 times enterprise value to ebitda....
...Murray Auchincloss is BP’s continuity candidate in more ways than one....
...BP needs to pick a chief executive with similar credentials — and fast....
...BP and Equinor had agreed to sell renewable energy credits from the 1,260MW Empire Wind 2 phase of the project at a strike price of $107.50 a megawatt-hour....
...BP concluded this week that failure amounted to “serious misconduct”, which would affect his pay arrangements....
...BP said Venture Global’s actions were “a wilful breach of our contract”....
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