BP America Boss to Head NPC Study of CCUS

The head of BP America, John Mingé, will move to chair a study by the National Petroleum Council (NPC) into carbon capture, use and storage technologies and their potential deployment, retiring from BP in March 2019, the UK major said March 20.

The NPC’s study into CCUS technologies was directed by US energy secretary Rick Perry and the NPC asked that Mingé take on this distinguished role, BP said. The study will consider CCUS technologies; the factors and policies required for their successful deployment; and possible pathways for integrating CCUS at scale into the energy marketplace, particularly in the petroleum industry.

BP CEO Bob Dudley, who said Mingé had been a "superb leader" said: “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. I am certain that the study John will lead will make an important contribution to developing this understanding.”

Susan Dio will be his replacement as chairman and president of BP America and so BP’s chief representative in the US, from May 1. Dudley said her breadth of operational and commercial experience gained with BP around the world – including leading its global shipping business, running a major refinery, and managing a chemical plant – made her ideally suited for the key role of representing BP in the US, where BP has invested more than $100bn since 2005. The US is home to the largest portfolio of BP businesses anywhere in the world.

Dio has run BP's shipping business for the past three years and is overseeing its ongoing renewal of "over 70" operated or time-chartered vessels. But she will not be there to witness the switch to ultra-low-sulphur fuel oil or equivalent (0.5% sulphur content) as bunkering fuel in 2020, as mandated by the International Maritime Organization.

In addition to his work on the study, Mingé will continue to provide BP with strategic advice on work to advance the energy transition.

Mingé became head of BP America in February 2013, leading the recovery of BP’s reputation in the US through the years following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, leading a stronger focus on safety and reliability and ensuring that obligations to federal and state governments and Gulf Coast communities were met, BP said.