As part of bp’s commitment to sustainability—anchored in strong principles that guide our operations and support our ambitions to get to net zero, improve people’s lives, and care for our planet—bp is hosting this symposium in close collaboration with key societal stakeholders, including academia and industry. This initiative underscores bp’s dedication to fostering meaningful dialogue and innovation in alignment with our sustainability strategy.
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Symposium Keynote
Bruce Price
As Group head of Engineering at bp, Bruce leads the central engineering organisation which provides expertise to bp’s upstream, refining and low carbon businesses. Bruce chairs the heads of engineering forum which represents the Company’s 3000+ practicing discipline engineers. Prior to his current role, Bruce has led a number of central technical functions and held the positions of Vice President of Operations for both the North Sea and US L48 unconventional gas business, as well as several senior operations leadership positions in Aberdeen, Houston and Alaska. He is based in Sunbury, UK. Bruce graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Surrey University. Bruce is married and has 2 children.
Speaker Biographies
Andy Best
As vice president regulatory compliance, environment, carbon, and social responsibility in bp, Andy leads a centralised discipline team, providing integration and technical expertise across bp operating businesses.
Andy is passionate about bringing bp’s Sustainability strategy to life – sustaining regulatory compliance, decarbonising operations, managing biodiversity and water, supporting employees and local communities through the energy transition and integrating Sustainability into systematic ways of working and organisational culture. bp’s ambition is to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero. Andy believes that there is a credible pathway to achieve this and that companies like bp must continue to deliver against this pathway.
Dr Peter Evans
is Senior Advisor for sustainability at bp. In this role he provides the technical leadership that underpins corporate sustainability goals through the design, selection and deployment of technology. In recent years his focus has been on the measurement and control of methane emissions. Peter holds a PhD in geochemistry and an MBA in technology management.
Martin Towns
is bp’s VP Carbon Capture & Storage, leading bp’s global CCS activity with responsibilities across subsurface, strategy, policy, technology, and projects. Martin joined BP in 2000 and has worked in a variety of leadership roles in the UK, Egypt, and Colombia. With deep expertise in carbon storage, technology, policy and business models, Martin is passionate about the energy transition. He holds degrees in geoscience from the University of Cambridge and in engineering from Heriot Watt, and lives in Surrey, England.
Sonna Sathiamoorthy
has more than 25 years at bp working in the carbon, climate and methane space. Sonna is currently bp’s Methane Program Manager and Subject Matter Expert. In this role Sonna leads bp representation on all key global or industry methane initiatives and provides leadership and support across various bp teams and functions to ensure we deliver our methane agenda.
Dr. Faye Gerard
joined IOGP in November 2023 as Energy Transition and Americas Director, seconded from bp, and is based at IOGP’s Houston office. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Tuskegee University. She has worked in the oil and gas industry for 33 years – with bp for the last eighteen and Marathon Oil for 17 years prior. Her previous roles at bp include Senior Federal Government Affairs Director, Vice President of Low Carbon and Sustainability at bpX Energy (an onshore oil and gas production subsidiary of bp), and other leadership roles in environmental engineering, projects, HSE, regulatory, E&S technical authority and safety and operational risk management.
Thomas Wheeler is a transformation leader at bp with over 17 years of experience driving operational excellence and sustainability across global upstream operations. Currently leading carbon and sustainability strategy within bp’s production business, he focuses on embedding emissions performance into the heart of how assets are operated and optimised. He has played a key role in shaping bp’s approach to treating carbon as a managed stream—alongside oil, gas, and water—supported by advanced technology and process efficiency. His work is helping bp deliver on its net zero ambitions while maintaining safe, reliable, and efficient operations.
Decarbonizing Upstream Oil and Gas: Tackling greenhouse gas emissions at the source
Andy Best
This session outlines what are the key sources of emission in oil and gas, the legislative landscape around the globe in support of reducing emission and outlines the approaches that the industry is taking to decarbonize its operations.
Carbon as the fourth fluid
Thomas Wheeler
Significant progress is made on reducing emission by operating the plants efficiently and as designed. Critical to this aim is to treat carbon emission with the same focus and rigor as we treat the production oil and gas stream as well as water discharged: carbon becomes as important as the other three fluids The module outlines the processes, tools and mindsets that underpin this approach in bp, including advanced technology on process optimization.
Methane: Measurement informed abatement
Dr. Peter Evans & Sonna Sathiamoorthy
This sessions discusses the role of enhanced methane measurement approaches can directly support abatement efforts using key insights from bp’s global methane technology deployment programme.
Industry aids to reduce methane and flaring
Dr. Faye Gerard
This module outlines the toolkit that the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) has developed to evaluate and select technologies to reduce methane and flaring.
This will include live demo of the toolkit
CCS: Capturing carbon for good
Martin Towns
This session outlines the essentials of geological carbon sequestration and describes how technically and commercially successful projects are being delivered.