Elliott Investment Management plans to ramp up pressure on BP (NYSE:BP) after the company's turnaround plan was seen as lacking in urgency and ambition, Bloomberg reported Thursday. While the plan marks a departure from BP's (NYSE:BP) previous strategy,

Elliott Investment Management is ramping up pressure on BP Plc after its new strategy fell short of the activist investor’s expectations, people with knowledge of the matter said.

U.K. oil major BP said Wednesday it’s having a “fundamental reset,” having fallen far behind U.S. rivals Exxon and Chevron in investor returns over the past few years. Investors are skeptical. The company’s American depositary receipts fell 1.

BP slashed planned investment in renewable energy and said on Wednesday it would increase annual oil and gas spending to $10 billion, in a major strategy shift aimed at boosting earnings and investor confidence.

BP CEO Murray Auchincloss is announcing plans to ditch the company's goal of growing renewable generation capacity 20-fold by 2030 and instead return focus to fossil fuels, Reuters reports. The goal measured growth from 2019 figures.