Thursday 14 January 2016
BP's operations in Poland not to be affected by global employment cuts
Past Tuesday (Jan 12,2016) BP
announced plans to ask four thousand employees worldwide to leave the company,
due to falling oil prices. Until the end of 2017, employment in the vertical
exploration and production (upstream), is planned to be reduced from 24
thousand to 20 thousand people. In the same time, BP in Poland has plans for
maintaining its market share, without employment reduction.
The approach BP takes in Poland
differs mainly due to the fact that its operations there are limited to the
re-selling (petrol stations and petrochemicals distribution). As USA Today noted “During a townhall event at its
Aberdeen office in northern Scotland Tuesday, BP said 600 of the cuts would
take place at it operations in the North Sea, or the swath of ocean between the
U.K. and the rest of Western Europe” – locations where BP either explores
raw material or pursues the direct management of the resources.
Piotr Pyrich, general director of
the Polish branch of BP Europa SE was asked if the reduction in the employment
in the upstream operations will affect re-selling, confirmed on Wednesday (Jan
13,2015) that the company has plans for further development in retail sector in
Poland. "Poland is one of the few European countries that continuously
maintains economic growth. We want to participate in this development, opening
every year after dozens of gas stations and investing an average of about 100
million dollars per year"- he said in an interview with Polish Press
Agency.
Pyrich emphasized that BP wants
to maintain its status as the second largest owner of the petrol station
network in our country (the first position is kept by Orlen). At the moment,
the company owns 500 stations in Poland (500th petrol station has been opened
in December 2015).
According to Pyrich, the company
will invest both in its own facilities and a network of partner stations. The
main focus of the company are petrol stations with the direct closeness to
motorways and express roads.
Furthermore, BP will develop
business related to the sale of aviation fuel as part of a joint venture
company established together with Lotus. The company provides fuel at airports
in Gdańsk, Warsaw, Katowice and Lublin. "The Polish market of fuel and air
is one of the most dynamic in Europe" - he stressed. BP will also be
present in the bitumen sales.
Based on:
- http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/01/12/bp-cut-4000-jobs-globally-oil-prices-drop/78673652/
- http://m.onet.pl/biznes/branze/energetyka-i-surowce,c4ygc
- http://biznes.onet.pl/wiadomosci/energetyka/bp-zwolnienia-w-ciagu-dwoch-lat/41sx1y
- http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/15/092655FD00000514-0-image-a-1_1421362330265.jpg
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