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Richard Campbell to retire from BP; Steve Marshall to take over reorganized company
Petroleum News Alaska Staff
Richard Campbell is retiring from BP effective Sept. 30, the company said July 19. His successor will be Steve Marshall, currently regional president, BP Scotland.
The company will also be reorganized, with six Alaska business units consolidated into a single organization that Marshall will lead.
Campbell has been regional president of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. since Jan. 1, 1997.
Marshall is a 24-year BP employee who worked in Anchorage and on the North Slope from 1978 to 1986. His arrival will coincide with the consolidation of six Alaska business units into a single organization that Marshall will lead. BP said that it is moving towards formation of larger business units worldwide, in order to improve regional strategy implementation and business delivery.
The organization Marshall will head will be more centralized.
“What it will do is we will have a more traditional business model with the president of BP Exploration (Alaska) responsible for the delivery of the total Alaska business,” BP Exploration (Alaska) spokesman Ronnie Chappell told PNA.
The present system, he said, is one in which the smaller business units centered around a group of assets in Alaska had responsibility both to executives outside Alaska and to the president of BP Exploration (Alaska).
Marshall will report to Jack Golden, Group Vice President for Upstream for BP in North America.
Campbell retiring to British Columbia “I’ve decided that after more than 32 years with BP the time has come to do something new,” Campbell said. “We have lots of ideas, but no firm plans. Gabrielle and I will miss our many Alaska friends. We’ve grown to love this part of the world. We plan to return often.”
Campbell and his wife, Gabrielle, will be moving to Gabrielle’s hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. Their two daughters, recent graduates of Service High School in Anchorage, will be in school in Vancouver.
Prior to his arrival in Alaska, Campbell was president of BP Exploration Colombia. He joined BP in 1969 after graduating from Glasgow University with an honors degree in geology.
In his early career, he held geologist assignments in Libya, Singapore, London, Italy, Scotland and Turkey. Management assignments thereafter included assistant to the regional exploration manager for Africa and the Middle East, head of the Review Group for the Central North Sea, head of exploration for Southeast Asia and head of the Regional Appraisal Group for Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
More recently, he held positions as general manager of BP Petroleum Development, Brazil; general manager of BP Petroleum Development, Egypt; business development manager for U.K. Gas, based in London; general manager for the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Canada, also based in London, and general manager for exploitation, Europe, based in Glasgow.
Campbell and his wife, Gabrielle, have served on the boards of various educational and nonprofit organizations during their time in Alaska.
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