30 places available globally for the Downstream leaders of tomorrow London, UK | BP Plc today started its 2015 Future Leaders Programme (FLP), a recruitment campaign which aims to fast-track early career recruits to be the business leaders of the future. The FLP is a highly selective global recruitment and development programme, run by BP for candidates around the world to work in its Refining & Marketing businesses and its Safety & Operational Risk and Information Technology & Services functions. This year’s programme builds on the success …

Lagos, Nigeria — Two multinational oil companies operating in Nigeria are on the verge of divesting their assets in the country’s oil-rich Niger Delta region, Nogtec gathered from a local newspaper, Daily Trust. According to the report, the exercise would leave a bitter taste in the industry as both companies would sack half of their workforce in the country in order to execute the divestment programme. It was gathered that each of the companies has about 8,000 personnel in its employ, meaning that same figure …

Johannesburg – South Africa Petrochemicals group Sasol may cut as many as 1,000 jobs as the world’s largest producer of petroleum from coal prepares a reorganisation, the Solidarity union said last week. “They are reducing their costs,” Marius Croucamp, a spokesman for Solidarity at the Johannesburg-based company, said. Talks with the union started in late November after Sasol and Boston-based management consultancy Bain & Company developed proposals to reduce the company’s size, he said. Sasol plans to save R3billion from cost cuts within the next …