Director of Process Safety
Archaea Energy, A bp Company
Samantha Scruggs, PE, PMP, CCPSC
Samantha has 20 years of experience in the process safety engineering, risk, HSSE and management system fields, with significant capability in ideating, developing, and delivering process safety and HSSE programs targeted from the operations front line to engineers and leadership.
Samantha’s current role is Director of Process Safety for Archaea Energy – a bp company, supporting production of renewable natural gas (RNG) across the US. She has worked at bp since 2005, holding roles in the upstream, downstream and group organizations, in the office and in the field, at offshore and onshore assets, and in both domestic and international locations.
Samantha is a keen participant in the Center for Chemical Process Safety and joined the CCPS Planning Board in 2023. She has been bp’s representative to the CCPS Technical Steering Committee (TSC) since 2016, and also acts as a member of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) Steering Committee, representing bp since 2020. Samantha is also the 2025 Chair of the AIChE Process Safety Division Leadership Team, and serves on two Process Safety Expert Groups within the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP).
Samantha is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas (2012), Project Management Professional (2013), and has a CCPS Process Safety Professional Certification (2016). She has a BS in Chemical Engineering and a certificate in Systems (Process) Safety Engineering from Texas A&M University, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management from the University of Manchester.
