Townhall Meeting with Iain Conn

This Friday, BP Indonesia employees get a chance to meet one of the executive director of BP global, Iain Conn. Mr. Iain Conn is an executive assistant of BP's CEO Lord John Browne. In the townhall meeting, Mr. Iain talked about several current important issues around BP. It is clear from his speech he expresses very much concern about safety in BP's operation. He said that BP is not about money or profit or production, BP's top priority is safety. Safety is above all else. After the pipeline incident in US, clearly BP's reputation is falling down. So to handle this issue, the promotion of safety is very important. He also said that in the next 6 months it will be a hard moment for BP since there will a be a hearing in US regarding the past incidents. Most newspapers will write bad news about BP.

Mr. Iain not just talked about serious things, well there is a joke about BP vs ExxonMobil. He told us that one day there is a luxury limousine elegantly run on the streetroad but the driver and the passenger are elderly people and that is Exxon. The driver look at the mirror and see a new green shiny car and in a several minutes the green car is approaching the limousine. The driver wonders whether the car will pass over him. But what happen is the green car cannot pass this limo and start losing the distance from the limo. The green car is BP. Funny ha ? I think it will be funny if Mr. Iain tell it directly to you.