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Infrastructure Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated) in the House of Lords on Monday, 9 February 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills on Infrastructure Bill [HL].

That is exactly the reason. The noble Lord may know that that is why some companies are going bust—today Max Petroleum, which develops oil and gas in Kazakhstan, said that it was facing insolvency because it can no longer raise the funds to develop new fields. When the price of oil is under $50 a barrel—and we are already seeing the effect on companies such as BP, which is laying off people in Aberdeen

because the price of a barrel of oil makes it uneconomic to continue to develop mature fields in the North Sea—we are facing a problem, are we not ?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
759 c1073 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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