bp is making changes to its executive team and simplifying its organizational structure, the company said Apr. 18.
bp will continue to have three businesses—production and operations, gas and low carbon energy, and customers and products—enabled by trading and shipping. The current regions, corporates and solutions organization will be integrated into the businesses and functions, and bp will now be supported by five functions: finance; technology; strategy, sustainability and ventures; people and culture; and legal. bp’s executive leadership team will reduce in size to 10 members. bp's financial reporting structure remains unchanged.
William Lin, already a member of the leadership team serving as executive vice-president for regions, corporates and solutions for the past 4 years, will now lead the gas and low carbon energy business, succeeding Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath who is retiring from bp. Lin has worked in bp for 28 years, holding senior management roles in Asia Pacific, Egypt, and the US, and as head of bp’s group chief executive office and as chief operating officer in the former upstream segment responsible for oil and gas regions across the portfolio.
Emeka Emembolu will head bp’s technology function, taking over from Leigh-Ann Russell who is leaving bp for an external opportunity. Emembolu has been chief of staff for the past 2 years as part of a 25-year bp career. Before joining the executive office, he ran bp’s business in the North Sea. Prior to that, he held a range of senior technical leadership roles in the Gulf of Mexico/Canada, North Africa and Alaska businesses and in bp’s subsurface function.