Woodside Energy’s boss Meg O’Neill has been appointed CEO of BP following the shock departure of Murray Auchincloss, the FTSE 100 company confirmed on Wednesday.

British energy company bp has appointed Meg O’Neill as its next CEO, effective from 1 April 2026. O’Neill is currently serving as CEO of Woodside Energy, an Australia-based independent oil and gas producer.

Embattled BP made a dramatic CEO change Wednesday as it hired Woodside Energy leader Meg O’Neill as the first-ever woman CEO of a Big Oil giant.

O’Neill’s track record in large LNG deals and upstream growth aligns with BP’s renewed focus on traditional energy.

Meg O'Neill's appointment as chief executive of BP, the first woman to run an oil major, might clear the way for fresh merger talks with Shell

Following low profits for Q3 2024, oil giant BP has divested investments from 18 of its early-stage hydrogen projects, as TechCrunch reported. Despite the gas' versatility and clean-energy potential, hydrogen projects are costly to execute and have been ...

British energy giant BP, which this year shelved targets on reducing carbon emissions, has appointed industry veteran Meg O'Neill to be chief executive from April, replacing Murray Auchincloss who ste

FTSE 100 oil major BP has replaced CEO Murray Auchincloss with Woodside Energy chief Meg O’Neil, a surprise move indicating a major strategic overhaul driven in part by activist investor pressure and shareholder dissent over climate goals.

US onshore wind business, BP Wind Energy North America, significantly expanding its renewable energy portfolio.

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,