Bull, Bear & Beyond – In the chair with bp’s Ariel Flores: Building a simpler, stronger, more valuable upstream business

In our latest Edison deep dive, Neil Shah sits down with Ariel Flores, SVP Capital Development, Upstream at bp, for a candid update on a business in the middle of a quiet transformation. Flores walks through a standout 2025: 96% plant reliability, seven of 10 major projects online and the group’s biggest discovery in a quarter of a century – the world-class Boomerang field in Brazil. He explains how bp is keeping existing infrastructure full through fast-cycle discoveries and smart access deals from Iraq to India, and reveals how partnerships with NVIDIA, Palantir and AWS are compressing months of well planning into minutes. With 23 years of commercially viable resource now in the hopper, the closing question is one that investors will want answered: why bp, and why now?

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