• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Tufan Erginbilgic

BP p.l.c.

Chief Executive, Downstream

Tufan Erginbilgic, Chief Executive, Downstream, BP, heads the global manufacturing and marketing operations, the product and service-led arm of BP, made up of three businesses: fuels, lubricants, and petrochemicals. Previously, Mr. Erginbilgic was the Chief Operating Officer of the Fuels Business, accountable for BP’s fuels value chains worldwide, global fuels businesses, and the refining, sales, and commercial optimization functions for fuels. He joined Mobil in 1990 and BP in 1997 and has held a wide variety of roles in refining and marketing in Turkey, various European countries, and the United Kingdom. In 2004, Mr. Erginbilgic became Head of BP’s European Fuels business. He took up leadership of BP’s Global Lubricant business in 2006 before moving to head the Group Chief Executive’s office. In 2009, Mr. Erginbilgic became Chief Operating Officer for the Eastern Hemisphere Fuel Value Chains and Global Lubricant businesses. In May 2011, he was appointed to the Board of GKN plc as a Non-Executive Director. In December 2015, Mr. Erginbilgic became a Member of the Turkish-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Board of Directors (TBCCI). In May 2017, Mr. Erginbilgic joined the Strategic Advisory Board of the University of Surrey.

Sessions With Tufan Erginbilgic

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 03:15pm - 04:00pm (CST) / -

    Downstream: Competing through the cycles

    Panel Oil

    The downstream business of refining crude oil and marketing products to end-users has long been a valuable, if occasionally out of fashion, part of the oil company portfolio. Today, the downstream business is attractive to a range of different types of owners. These companies seek out downstream profits from processing new low-cost crude oils, capturing product growth in emerging markets, and integrating further into petrochemical. Still, there is the ever-present concern that increasingly stringent policies aimed at decarbonization and local air quality will affect the downstream pillar of the oil business.