Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. What we do
  3. Our purpose and strategy

Our purpose and strategy

We operate at the heart of the global energy system, helping countries across the world with their energy needs and serving millions of customers every day

Our purpose

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. 

Our strategy 

Our strategy helps bp compete and grow value as energy demand evolves and continues to grow, all in service of growing shareholder value and returns

We plan to grow the upstream, focus the downstream and invest with discipline in transition.  

Diagram depicting bp's strategy to grow the upstream, focus the downstream and invest with discipline in transition.
Argos platform in the Gulf of America.

Growing the upstream: our oil and gas business

 

We are growing upstream production and cash flow through disciplined investment. We have a deep upstream resource base, and combined with disciplined investment criteria, we are well positioned to deliver medium and long-term organic growth. 

Three people stood together onsite at Rotterdam refinery, Netherlands.

Focusing the downstream: our customers and products business

 

We continue to reshape the portfolio to focus on markets and businesses where we have advantaged and integrated positions. We are taking clear actions to drive improved performance, including addressing costs in our customers business, and improving operations in refining. 

Investing with discipline in transition

 

We are investing with discipline: with selective investment in biogas, biofuels and EV charging, where we see strong demand growth; adopting innovative capital-light partnerships in renewables; and focusing investment on hydrogen and carbon capture projects to support us in decarbonizing our operations, and position us for growth through the next decade. 

All while continuing to drive value through our distinctive strengths in trading, technology and partnerships.