Nick Spencer serves as the Whiting Refinery Business Unit Leader since October 2009 coming to BP from ConocoPhillips. Previous to this, Nick held the position of General Man-ager Middle East and North Africa Refinery Marketing and Transportation. In 1980, he joined the Humber refinery in England and worked in process engineering and projects before taking on a series of supervisor roles at the refinery. In 1995, he transferred to Conoco headquarters in Houston to lead the operations optimization team for the company’s refining and marketing activities in Gulf Coast region. He moved to Lake Charles, LA the following year to serve as operations manager at Conoco's refinery in Westlake. After a term at Harvard business School, he moved to Ponca City refinery, Oklahoma, in 1999 as refinery manager. In 2002, he transferred back to the UK as general manager of the Humber refinery. Following this assignment, he relocated to London as general manager of European Refining and in September 2006 he moved to Abu Dhabi to lead two new Refinery development projects, one in Saudi Arabia and one in Fujairah. A native of England, Nick earned a first-class honors degree in chemical engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He also successfully completed the General Manager Program at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Nick and his wife, Angela, reside in Chicago, IL.