Robert Molina

bp Ventures - Investment Principal - Global Oil & Gas Investments Lead

2025 - Current

Oil & gas value chains – enabling bp to deliver on its aims to get to net zero and care for our planet with a focus on hydrocarbon investments that decarbonize extraction & refining, Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage (CCUS) and blue hydrogen.

bp Ventures - Interim Global Oil & Gas Investments Growth Engine Lead

2024 - 2025

- O&G growth engine lead focused on investing in innovative technologies in support of bp’s production & operations strategy - Led the successful exit of two portfolio companies, delivering over 2x financial return and over 600% of strategic value delivery

bp Ventures - Investment Associate

2023 - 2024

- Commercial lead and shareholder representative for ventures investment in green electrolyzer company—Advanced Ionics; shareholder representative and board observer for AI company—Beyond Limits and carbon capture startup—Solidia - Supported bp’s biofuel strategy through a direct investment into a waste to fuel technology startup to help decarbonize the maritime industry and part of the Hydrogen, Renewable & Power growth engine deal team, sourcing and investing in low–carbon startups

Board Observer

2025

Board Observer

2023 - 2025

Board Observer

2023 - 2024

Investment Banking Summer Associate

2022 - 2022

MBA Candidate

2021 - 2022

- Focused on Finance track, Entrepreneurship, and Energy Sustainability- integrating energy law, policy, and technology. - Chaired the Sloan Fellows Speaker committee; member of Investment Banking, Energy, and Hispanic Business Clubs.

Production Team Lead- Development

2020 - 2021

- Production Team Lead Development Program in offshore deep-water Gulf of Mexico, supporting safe and reliable Oil and Gas operations. - Responsible for leading a team of 15 in the production of hydrocarbons in BP’s largest floating facility while managing risk, reducing equipment vulnerabilities, and executing preventive maintenance activities. - Guided the rollout of the Activity Integration Workbench tool to help modernize how work gets executed, improving task prioritization and helping to increase job execution efficiency and productivity by 10%.

Offshore Site Engineer- Global Operations

2017 - 2020

- Commanded the multidisciplinary delivery of safe and reliable oil and gas operations in the Mad Dog facility. - Created and executed a strategy to identify, track, and resolve plant equipment vulnerabilities leading to a 15% decrease in facility hydrocarbon leaks, diminishing environmental emissions, and personnel exposure to hazardous materials. - Spearheaded integration of engineering, operations, and construction teams to debottleneck the control of work processes and streamline the execution of safety-critical work, bringing about over $5M in savings of unplanned production deferrals.

Mechanical Engineer- Global Operations

2016 - 2017

- Advised the offshore teams in short and long-term equipment repairs to maximize plant reliability. - Devised a computer-based tool to determine repair strategies on non-fit-for-service piping systems to prevent the release of hydrocarbons and personnel exposure to hazardous media, resulting in over $10M savings in un-deferred production. - Headed incident investigations and equipment root-cause failure analysis on engineering structural designs and safety-critical equipment, lowering safety risk to personnel and reducing unplanned facility shutdowns by over $2M/day.

Project Engineer- Global Operations

2015 - 2016

- Directed multimillion-dollar brownfield projects through engineering design, logistics, and execution. - Reduced $15M project cost by $500K via minimizing third-party engineering involvement and leveraging bp’s internal teams. - Led a continuous improvement effort to accurately resource-load projects resulting in a reduction of critical project backlog and a 15% - 20% reduction in schedule impact.

Operations Discipline Engineer- Global Operations

2013 - 2015

- Collaborated with functional engineering groups and external suppliers to optimize asset availability. - Conducted and accomplished a multi-disciplinary technical study to upgrade offshore full facility piping systems’ metallurgy and structure supports, mitigating personnel exposure to high-pressure gas from catastrophic piping metal-embrittlement failures. - Orchestrated engineering redesign of a temperature-sensing device, resulting in savings of over $15M in un-deferred production.

Topsides Package Engineer- Global Projects

2011 - 2013

- Supervised third-party contractors in the engineering design of a multibillion-dollar offshore floating facility. - Constructed and implemented a technical engineering standard resulting in capital savings of $15M in equipment reduction. - Spearheaded the modeling of subsea and topsides separation systems resulting in a 10% reduction in project Capex and Opex.

Project Mechanical Engineer Intern

2010 - 2010

- Project Engineer in the Mad Dog Phase 2 Development Project, working in the Floating Systems Program- Topsides Engineering Team. - Accountable for analyzing the topsides equipment reliability and availability of a new offshore facility to account for the entire life cycle of the platform under various production forecasting curves. - Built a topside and subsea Project Choke Model to determine choke points in the process design and make recommendations around equipment sparing, opportunities for weight, space and cost savings. - Performed sensitivity study around peak oil and water rates to aid in equipment sizing criteria and help determine adequate equipment redundancy.

Project Engineer Intern

2009 - 2009

- Project Engineer in BP’s Global Projects Organization- Mad Dog Topsides Team. Involved in the expansion of the Mad Dog Platform Subsea Tie-Back & Waterflood System. - Drove the MD South Waterflood Feasibility Study to properly understand the financial impact between a new offshore facility versus utilizing an existing asset. This scope included working with a multidisciplinary engineering team, project services, stakeholders and making final recommendations on the most feasible path forward. - Accountable for the delivery of the Topsides Water Injection Lightweight Filtration Study. This included overseeing engineering contractors and working with various filtration technology vendors to identify the most suitable filtration equipment based on cost, footprint, efficiency, and reliability.