Additional Big Oil companies where women are finance chiefs include Exxon Mobil SVP and CFO Kathryn A. Mikells, who has held the role since 2021, but is retiring in February due to health issues, and Shell CFO Sinead Gorman, who has been finance chief since 2022; both earned a spot on the Fortune 2025 Most Powerful Women list.

Meg O'Neill's appointment as chief executive of BP, the first woman to run an oil major, might clear the way for fresh merger talks with Shell

Auchincloss, an introverted BP lifer who spent more than 25 years at the oil major, resisted efforts by the gregarious Manifold, a former CEO of Irish building materials group CRH, to radically reshape and slim down the company, three people familiar with the relationship told the FT.

BP p.l.c. (NYSE:BP) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed. A caller asked if they should add more to their position in the stock or wait. Here’s what Mad Money’s host had to say in response: “I think you should sell it before you hang up with me,

Woodside Energy’s boss Meg O’Neill has been appointed CEO of BP following the shock departure of Murray Auchincloss, the FTSE 100 company confirmed on Wednesday.

BP has tapped Woodside Energy's Meg O'Neill as its next CEO, its first external hire for the post in over a century and the first woman to lead a top-five oil major as the firm pivots back to fossil fuels.

BP Plc was ousting its CEO and filling the role with an outsider, vetted during a top secret process that only a handful of people even knew was happening.

O’Neill’s track record in large LNG deals and upstream growth aligns with BP’s renewed focus on traditional energy.

While BP is a solid oil stock, I'd buy shares of ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) before I'd add BP to my portfolio. Here's why.