The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation & Enforcement (BOEMRE) is investigating how a very large oil spill would impact the ocean environment offshore Alaska's north-west coast, primarily in the Chukchi Sea.
State oil funds have proved to be an invaluable source of emergency funding for resource-rich emerging markets during the global financial crisis, but with these cash reserves soon to be depleted, it is foreign investors who could end up footing the bill.
West Africa remains a major security headache for the oil&gas industry, particularly Nigeria, the managing director of AKE warned delegates of a conference in Aberdeen late-September.
