Many thanks for all your questions for Amrita Sen, oil analyst at BarCap. Her answers will appear on this site on Friday, April 8th.
Next week, the person in the hotseat will be Michael Bromwich, director of the US oceans regulator, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
Bromwich is the person in charge of deciding who gets to drill where in the sea off the US, and one year on from the BP oil spill, this is your chance to quiz him on everything from who should be able to drill in the Gulf of Mexico to what can be done to prevent another major spill.
Email all your questions to energysource@ft.com by Monday, April 11th.
A slightly confusing report has just dropped into my inbox from the German consultancy EnergyComment. It carries the provocative title Offshore oil drilling: Public costs and risks are too high and states (underlining the author’s own):
This is considerably more hardline than the current position even of the US government, which has implemented a six-month ban on new deepwater drilling (in this case, drilling at depths of over 500ft).
But when I look for the justification for such an assertion, it is difficult to find. Much of the report focuses on the problems that come with depth, rleaving out shallower drilling altogether. It also seems to set a high bar on what is a “justified risk”. Here’s a sample argument:
Posted in Gas, Oil | Permalink