BP names Meg O’Neill
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Meg O’Neill, CEO of Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Energy, will replace Murray Auchincloss as CEO of the British major BP.
Meg O’Neill is BP's first external boss in its 115-year-old history. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The surprise appointment of Meg O'Neill as BP's first outsider CEO offers the bruised $90 billion British oil company three clear strategic choices for moving forward: build, buy or be bought.
Meg O’Neill’s rapid rise to the top of one of the world’s biggest fossil-fuel companies has been unencumbered by doubt. At a moment when oil executives are still being pressed to move away from hydrocarbons,