Oil and gas will continue to play an ongoing role in the global energy system for decades, BP’s Chief Executive Bernard Looney said Monday. While the British multinational oil and gas company has committed to become a net-zero company by 2050 or sooner in an effort to tackle climate change, and is actively focusing on reducing emissions, the CEO said that the two major industries in the energy market will continue to play a role. “It may not be popular to say that oil and gas is going to be in the energy system for decades to come but that is the reality,” Looney told CNBC at the ADIPEC energy industry forum in Abu Dhabi. “What I want us to do is to focus on the objective—and I wish we had less ideological positions and more focus on the objective—which in this case is to drive emissions down.” Looney noted that replacing with coal with natural gas …