Emmet Oliver
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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BP ousted the Dublin man, Albert Manifold, on Tuesday, saying the move follows serious concerns raised to the board related to important governance standards, oversight and conduct.
Let's find out more about what's going on with business correspondent Emmett Oliver.
Good morning, Emmett.
Morning.
When this happened a couple of days ago, everybody was wondering what in heavens had happened?
Are we any clearer?
Just when you look at it, I mean, he, as you were just saying there, he's saying I pushed hard, I challenged people directly.
And then he talks about the characterisation of my conduct that is now being put about.
And if you go back and look at what BP said when this announcement was made a couple of days ago,
it was ambiguous enough to leave everybody wondering about Albert Manifold and about what had happened.
When you say, oh, you know, there are issues around governance standards and oversight and conduct issues.
I mean, it does leave you with questions in your mind as to what exactly went on.
So you can understand why he feels aggrieved about that statement, particularly coming off the back of the dismissal of the former BP CEO, Bernard Looney, because people might just...
not connect the two, but, you know, two Irish men in very senior positions in BP, very different scenarios, but a connection might be made.
Right, well, I mean, it is interesting that you talk about the gilded life of an executive in BP, and he's made it very clear that he was not interested in living that way or living this part of his working life, certainly in that way.
I heard a former BP senior employee saying...
This is about, you know, needing to be of the oil industry, that there are very difficult things happening now and you need to have lived and breathed what they do in order to deal with these problems.
In other words, BP is a closed shop and you need to be one of the lads to be able to survive and thrive in that sort of an organisation.
But we might.
You know, that's the other side of it, depending on how far this goes.
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