Oil major BP lines up Co Kerry native as next boss

Bernard Looney has been lined up by oil major BP as its next boss, marking the second time this week that an Irish executive has been named as the next head of a British multinational.

BP said Mr Looney - who hails from Co Kerry and was educated at UCD - will succeed long-standing chief executive Bob Dudley when he retires next year. Mr Dudley took over BP and returned it to growth following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest such disaster in US history.