Inside Bernard Looney's rise and fall at BP - The Times

Inside Bernard Looney’s rise and fall at BP

Bernard Looney was already under pressure over the oil major’s green strategy. His failure to tell a divided board the full truth sealed his fate. By Oliver Shah

ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES COWEN

Bernard Looney’s wedding in October 2017 was very much a BP event. Looney married Jacqueline Hurst, a life coach, at the Mayfair Library in central London. The reception was held at Harry’s Bar, the private members’ club next door favoured by Lord Browne of Madingley, the former boss who counted Looney as the last of his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — an elite cadre of executive assistants marked out for greatness.

The guests included Bob Dudley, BP’s chief executive at the time, his predecessor Tony Hayward and Andy Inglis, the former head of exploration and production. BP’s then chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and his wife acted like Looney’s parents, his wife giving a speech. “It was the most bizarre evening I can remember,” said someone who

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