A team led by Canadian Queen’s Counsel Alison Redford will be reviewing the evaluation of plans for the development of ExxonMobil’s Payara oil field that is being undertaken by Bayphase Oil and Gas Consultants.
The team also includes the former Deputy Minister of Energy in Newfoundland, Canada, senior international reservoir engineers and Jay Park, QC, Managing Partner of Park Energy Law based in Canada and the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Natural Resources said yesterday.
An announcement only of the hiring of Redford yesterday immediately prompted questions over her technical qualifications to conduct the review, which resulted in the ministry hours later explaining in a second press release that she would be leading a team and that she has also worked with other groups around the world to conduct similar reviews. It also detailed her experience in the field and in governance.
