{"id":19007,"date":"2026-05-26T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/26\/oil-giant-bp-chairman-removed-over-governance-concerns-interim-chief-named\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:47:26","slug":"oil-giant-bp-chairman-removed-over-governance-concerns-interim-chief-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=19007","title":{"rendered":"Oil giant BP chairman removed over &#8216;governance concerns&#8217;, interim chief named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131329149,imgsize-855366,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Oil giant BP chairman removed over 'governance concerns', interim chief named\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>British oil giant BP has removed Albert Manifold as chairman less than a year after he took over the role, citing what it described as &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; over governance, oversight and conduct at the company, AFP reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The company announced on Tuesday that board member Ian Tyler has been appointed interim chairman with immediate effect.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>&#8220;The board has been surprised and disappointed to learn of governance oversight and conduct issues it deems unacceptable and has taken decisive action,&#8221; Amanda Blanc, BP&#8217;s senior independent director, said in a statement.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Manifold&#8217;s exit comes after less than a year in the role, with BP saying the decision followed concerns related to governance standards and oversight within the company.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/international-business\/oil-giant-bp-chairman-removed-over-governance-concerns-interim-chief-named\/articleshow\/131329097.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British oil giant BP has removed Albert Manifold as chairman less than a year after he took over the role, citing what it described as &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; over governance, oversight and conduct at the company, AFP reported.The company announced on Tuesday that board member Ian Tyler has been appointed interim chairman with immediate effect.&#8220;The board&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}