BP searching for next board leader
- Helge Lund will step down as BP board chairman, prompting the search for a successor.
- BP's shift away from green energy investments and a focus on fossil fuels caused the leadership change.
- BP aims to increase oil production to 2.3-2.5 million barrels daily by 2030, reversing earlier green pledges.
- Tarek Bouhouch stated that BP made a "hasty, panic-mode, U-turn on their climate promises."
- BP faces shareholder clashes at its AGM over its revised climate goals and strategic direction.
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Oil giant chairman steps down amid turbulent times across the industry: 'Unsuccessful pivot'
The transition to clean energy took a significant hit after a major change rocked the oil and gas industry earlier this month. What's happening? Hargreaves Lansdown detailed "a turbulent few days for the energy industry" in which BP board chairman Helge Lund stepped down from his position "following the oil and gas major's unsuccessful pivot to a green transition strategy." Lund's resignation came in the wake of Trump administration tariffs that…
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