How BP’s New Boss Became the Most Powerful Woman in Fossil Fuels

O’Neill has argued that pragmatism, not ambition alone, should determine which climate solutions survive. Under her watch, Woodside doubled oil and gas output, leaned aggressively into seaborne LNG, and shelved lower-carbon projects that failed to clear commercial hurdles. “We should prioritize measures that deliver the biggest bang for buck,” she told a room of mining executives at the Melbourne Mining Club in February.Inside Woodside, current and former colleagues describe O’Neill as analytically rigorous ...