Executive Vice President of Production & Operations, British Petroleum
Search every verified Gordon Birrell interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Gordon Birrell, BP’s executive vice president of production and operations, has outlined a strategy of growing the company’s upstream oil and gas business while simultaneously reducing emissions. In a March 2025 capital markets update, he stated that the company’s strategy had been “fundamentally reset” to focus on “growing long-term shareholder value.” Birrell said BP aims to increase its oil and gas production to between 2.3 and 2.5 million barrels per day by 2030 while cutting emissions by 40% over the same period, describing the balance as “tricky” but something the company knows how to achieve. At the Baku Energy Week in June 2025, Birrell announced four new investments in Azerbaijan, including a compression and electrification platform, a block development, exploration in the Adua area, and the Shafagasaman gas field with Turkish Petroleum as a partner. He also noted a 240-megawatt solar plant being built in Jabrayil. Birrell described the world as being in an “era of energy addition” where demand is growing for all types of energy, and said BP has “way more opportunities around the world than we can fund,” allowing it to select the best projects. In Angola, he highlighted the Azul Energy joint venture’s production of over 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and its ambition to reach 250,000 barrels per day, as well as community initiatives including schools, health training, and landmine clearance.
“We've now started up five including Argo Southwest Extension which started up on Monday. We've probably got one more this year and then four next year. So out of our ramp up, we've brought on roughly 125,000 barrels per day of production, which of course was in our plan full year. So we're on plan with the ramp up from...”
“We've had a very good run in MNC now for the first half of 2025 versus the first half of 2024, we're up about 50% in profitability across the two half years and the second quarter in M and C was the best on record since we started talking about M and C back in 2012.”
“We've dropped three rigs across the portfolio that are not competitive inside our capital frame. We have decided to shut down a program in Australia on green hydrogen. We've decided to shut down some programs in the US on blue hydrogen and CCS. So we just constantly challenge ourselves to drive to the highest quality i...”
“We're currently managing about 100,000 pipelines of data across BP. We see this is costing us money, costing us more than it should do, and it's actually preventing people in the team from being able to use AI in a consistent way across the company. We're partnering with Data Bricks and Palanteer to implement a new uni...”
BP Q2 2025 Earnings Call --------- In this video, we'll cover the latest quarterly earnings results, key financial metrics, and business ...
Gordon Birrell, bp's Executive Vice President, unveils the next chapter in an exclusive POWER interview #bakuenergyweek ...
In Power with Rufat Hamzayev, BP's Executive Vice President Gordon Birrell outlines six major investments in Azerbaijan, from ...
Gordon Birrell, bp's Executive Vice President, unveils the next chapter in an exclusive POWER interview Saturday, 7 June at ...
We have fundamentally reset our strategy to grow long-term shareholder value. Hear some key points from our Capital Markets ...
Speaking at the Angola Oil & Gas conference today Gordon Birrell, EVP Production & Operations from bp shared that this event ...
It's clearer than ever that the world wants and needs secure, affordable and lower carbon energy. Achieving that takes balance.
Gordon Birrell, EVP productions and operations, opens day 3 of bp week. Watch highlights from his session which takes a closer look at the role of oil & gas in bp's strategy. www.bp.com/bpweek
Music used in video: Landras Dream by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license ...
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