BP PLC's (BP) newly
appointed Chief Executive Robert Dudley will travel with departing CEO Tony
Hayward to Moscow this week to meet with Russia's
top energy official Igor Sechin, a government spokesman said Monday.
Dudley and Hayward
will meet Sechin, who is deputy prime minister in charge of energy, Wednesday
or Thursday.
A BP spokesman confirmed the pair will meet BP's Russian partners as well
government officials, but declined to comment on the schedule.
The visit will be Dudley's first trip to Russia
since he was forced out of the country in 2008, when he was head of TNK-BP Ltd.
as part of a fierce shareholder dispute between BP and its Russian partners
over control of the venture.
Dudley takes over from Hayward Oct. 1 and Hayward has been
appointed non-executive director at TNK-BP.