Annual BP world energy review to be held at Baker Institute

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News staff

The market price of a barrel of oil has swung between $147 and $40 during the past year. To make sense of this extreme volatility, the Energy Forum at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, together with the Houston chapter of the United States Association for Energy Economics, will host the 58th annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy.

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The Statistical Review has provided high-quality, objective and globally consistent data on world energy markets since 1951, said Amy Myers Jaffe, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the Baker Institute. “The review is one of the most widely respected and authoritative publications in the field of energy economics and is used for reference by the media, academia, world governments and energy companies.” A new edition is published every June.

Mark Finley, BP America’s general manager for global energy markets, will present the study’s findings at 11:30 a.m. June 16 in the Kelly International Conference Facility at Baker Hall.

Finley is responsible for BP’s coverage of global energy markets as well as the annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy. He previously served as a senior member of BP’s economics team in London and Washington, D.C. Finley has more than 20 years of private and public sector experience as an energy economist. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and holds graduate degrees from Northwestern University and George Washington University.

The event is hosted by the Baker Institute Energy Forum and the United States Association for Energy Economics.

Rice faculty, staff and students who want to attend must RSVP by e-mail (bipprsvp@rice.edu) or by fax (713-348-5993).