21-02-2025
BP's CEO Cut His Teeth on Crisis — Now He Faces the Toughest Test Yet
By , Swetha Gopinath, and Dinesh Nair
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Murray Auchincloss had just returned to BP Plc's London headquarters from a long stint in other corners of the company's global empire, when everything changed in an instant.
Oil was gushing out of a drilling vessel that exploded off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 people. It was April 2010, and the Deepwater Horizon disaster was about to become the largest-ever marine oil spill in the US and the most monumental crisis in BP's 100-year history, costing $65 billion. Auchincloss's new job as chief of staff to the CEO put him right in the middle of the response.
