Ariel Flores is the senior vice president subsurface. Ariel has been with bp for 25 years, most recently as regional president for the North Sea region.

He joined BP in Houston, Texas. Since then, he has held a variety of technical and business roles in the US, Russia, UK, Azerbaijan, Angola, Middle East and North Sea. He has spent time in the BP and TNK-BP executive offices working with executives to establish technical and functional ways of working to improve safety, efficiency and delivery.

Ariel has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Rice University and is a graduate of the Operations Academy.

He is married with three young children and as well as English he speaks Spanish, Russian and Portuguese.