Susan Dio succeeds John Mingé who will chair the National Petroleum Council study into carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS)
BP has appointed a new boss for its U.S. operations.
Susan Dio, CEO of BP Shipping, has been appointed chairman and president of BP America Inc.,
Susan Dio succeeds John Mingé as chairman and president of BP America. Photo: BP
Dio succeeds John Mingé, who will move to chair a study by the National Petroleum Council (NPC) into CCUS technologies and their potential deployment. Mingé will retire from BP in March 2019, BP said.
The promotion makes Dio BP’s chief representative in the United States. The new post for Dio becomes effective May 1, 2018.
Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive said: “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 US. The US 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.”
Dio, a chemical engineer by training, has been chief executive of BP Shipping for the past three years, responsible for BP’s shipping business worldwide, including its fleet of over 70 operated and time-chartered vessels. Dio led the review and reset of the organization’s strategy and operations and oversaw the ongoing renewal of the fleet – which BP described as the largest such program in company history. Previously during her 33-year career with BP and heritage companies, she held a series of senior commercial and operating roles in the US, UK, and Australia.
BP’s operations in the U.S., over which Dio will sit at the top post, include exploration and production in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lower 48, as well as the major’s full slate of operations which span the petroleum and energy sector: refining, petrochemicals, pipelines, technology, shipping, fuels, wind energy and others.
BP U.S. headquarters are in Houston. In December 2016 BP announced it planned to move its Lower 48 headquarters to Denver.
Second 2018 executive promotion by BP U.S.
In January BP announced it had appointed another of its high ranking female executives—Starlee Sykes—as its regional president for the Gulf of Mexico and Canada. The appointment was effective Feb. 1, 2018. Sykes took over the new role after having served as vice president for BP’s global projects organization for offshore projects.
Mingé and the NPC CCUS study
BP’s John Mingé will leave the post of president and chairman of BP America to chair the National Petroleum Council study into carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS).
The NPC’s study into CCUS technologies was directed by U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and the NPC asked that Mingé take on the chairman role for the study. 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. In addition to his work on the study, Mingé will continue to provide BP with strategic advice on work to advance the energy transition.
At the September 2017 meeting of the National Petroleum Council, Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette pointed out that a single oil and gas company injects 26 times more CO2 per day than is handled by the nation’s largest and newest carbon capture and storage facility, as an illustration of why this industry is the right group to examine the CCUS issue.
Mingé has served as president of BP America since February 2013.
BP credits Mingé for leading the recovery of BP’s reputation in the U.S. 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.
More recently he headed BP’s response to the severe impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Houston area and BP’s US headquarters. Mingé had previously spent four years running BP’s business in Alaska and, earlier in his almost 35-year career with BP, held executive and engineering posts in the US, UK, Vietnam and Indonesia.
