{"id":4624,"date":"2025-12-17T23:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:41:12","slug":"bp-hires-oneill-as-ceo-auchincloss-steps-down-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4624","title":{"rendered":"BP hires O&#8217;Neill as CEO Auchincloss steps down \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meg-ONeill-of-BP.png\" alt=\"Meg O'Neill of BP\" class=\"wp-image-187631 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meg-ONeill-of-BP.png\" alt=\"Meg O'Neill of BP\" class=\"wp-image-187631 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meg-ONeill-of-BP.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meg-ONeill-of-BP-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meg-ONeill-of-BP-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meg-ONeill-of-BP-600x394.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>New chief: Meg O\u2019Neill<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">BP has appointed Meg O\u2019Neill as its next chief executive to replace Murray Auchincloss who is stepping down immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Carol Howle, current executive vice president, supply, trading &amp; shipping of bp, will serve as interim CEO until Meg joins on 1 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Auchincloss will serve in an advisory role until December next year to ensure a smooth transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ms O\u2019Neill has been CEO of Woodside Energy since 2021 and has grown it into the largest energy company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Among her many accomplishments, she oversaw the transformative acquisition of BHP Petroleum International, creating a geographically diverse business with a portfolio of high-quality oil and gas assets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Before joining Woodside Energy in 2018, she spent 23 years at ExxonMobil in technical, operational and leadership positions around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Auchincloss said: \u201cAfter more than three decades with BP, now is the right time to hand the reins to a new leader. When Albert [Manifold] became chair, I expressed my openness to step down were an appropriate leader identified who could accelerate delivery of bp\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI am confident that BP is now well positioned for significant growth and I look forward to watching the company\u2019s future progress and success under Meg\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 more follows<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#hires #ONeill #CEO #Auchincloss #steps #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New chief: Meg O\u2019Neill BP has &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[4391,4387,266,529,265,3862,4388,4389,4390,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}