AI is reshaping reliability across energy, but execution remains a challenge. bp is cutting through the complexity by reinforcing its basics, removing high‑cost failures and creating scalable strategies to safeguard assets for the long-term.

Natalie Thompson, bp’s Vice President of Reliability and Maintenance, is driving a return to strong fundamentals, strengthening core practices, empowering frontline teams and tapping into global low‑cost engineering talent to deliver faster, more efficient improvements. Her approach blends standardization with flexibility and prepares bp for new technologies like agentic AI, digital twins and additive manufacturing.

In this exclusive interview, you will learn:

• How bp strengthened fundamentals, cut defects and sharpened equipment strategies
• The driving factor behind why frontline teams are moving from firefighting to proactive improvement
• Where low‑cost engineering hubs are boosting scale and speeding defect elimination
• How a single pane of glass is bringing data, insights and execution together
• How agentic AI, digital twins, robotics and additive manufacturing are driving bp’s next reliability leap