HOUSTON -- Susan Dio, chief executive of shipping for BP, will succeed John Minge as chairman and president of BP America Inc. on May 1. Minge will then chair a study by the National Petroleum Council (NPC) into carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies before retiring in March 2019.
Dio has supervised BP’s global shipping for the past three years, including the renewal a fleet of more than 70 operated and time-chartered vessels, the largest such program in BP’s history. Before her shipping assignment, Dio was based in Houston as BP’s head of audit for refining and marketing. She has also held senior commercial and operating roles in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia during her 33 years with BP.
“Susan’s breadth of operational and commercial experience gained with BP around the world—including leading our global shipping business, running a major refinery and managing a chemical plant—make her ideally suited for the key role of representing BP in the U.S.,” said Bob Dudley, group chief executive of London-based BP Plc. “The U.S. is a vital part of BP; we have invested more than $100 billion here since 2005. All our businesses, from exploration to refining to renewable energies, operate at scale in the U.S., and together they make up the largest portfolio of businesses we have anywhere in the world.”
Minge became chairman and president of BP America in February 2013. Since then, he has helped the company recover from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Hurricane Harvey. Prior to leading the company, Minge spent four years overseeing BP in Alaska; before that, he held executive and engineering positions in the United States, United Kingtom, Vietnam and Indonesia.
“John has been a superb leader of BP America through a period of great challenge,” said Dudley. “He has driven a culture of safe, reliable and compliant operations throughout our businesses, worked steadily to rebuild our reputation and been a tireless advocate for BP and our industry in Washington and across the U.S.”
As chair of the NPC’s study on CCUS technologies, Minge will oversee CCUS's integration into the energy marketplace, specifically the petroleum industry. CCUS is a process that captures carbon-dioxide emissions from sources such as coal-fired power plants to prevent it from entering Earth’s atmosphere.
“The effective use of CCUS technologies will be key to meeting the world’s ambitions to reduce carbon emissions, and it is vital that we understand these technologies and how they can best be integrated with our energy systems,” Dudley said. “I am certain that the study John will lead will make an important contribution to developing this understanding.”
Houston-based BP America Inc.’s national convenience-store brand is ampm, a franchised banner operating in West Coast markets. With nearly 1,000 c-stores in the United States, BP America ranked No. 7 in a year-end update of CSP’s2017 Top 202 list of the largest c-store chains in the United States.
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