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BP installs new boss after split over ditching green transition The abrupt departure of BP CEO Murray Auchincloss after barely two years in the job was preceded by sharp disagreements over strategy with the oil major’s chairman. eciu.us8.list-manage.com/track/click...

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BP installs new boss after split over ditching green tran... The abrupt departure of BP CEO Murray Auchincloss after barely two years in the job was preceded by sharp disagreements over strategy with the oil major’s chairman.Albert Manifold, who became chair in October, apparently didn’t rate the former CFO, who fell into the top job when Bernard Looney was fired for inappropriate relationships with colleagues. He felt he was moving too slowly in executing BP’s latest strategy of doubling down on oil and gas, selling non-core assets and decisively abandoning its efforts to transition into renewable energy.Meg O’Neill, Auchincloss’s replacement, will be the first female and lesbian boss of an oil major. She brings no-nonsense oil and gas credibility after a long career at the top of Exxon Mobil, followed by a record of focused business restructuring and deal making in a four-year spell as CEO of Australia’s biggest oil and gas producer, Woodside Energy.Her willingness to stand up to local Indigenous and climate activists in Australia suggests she https://observer.co.uk/news/business/article/bp-installs-new-boss-after-split-over-ditching-green-transition