Yulia Reuter

BP in the Gulf and Beyond: The Changing Risk Profile of Unconventional Oil & Gas Development

As BP gets closer, hopefully, to permanently containing the spill at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, the disaster has raised questions about BP’s future, that of its sector peers, and the prospects for further unconventional oil and gas production.

The Integrated Oil & Gas team of RiskMetrics ESG Analytics, part of MSCI, has considered these issues as part of our recently published annual company and industry reports. (We will present this research in a webcast on September 15th- click here in September to register). This article sums up our perspective on four key questions:

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