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'Pay-for-luck': Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers

  • Written by Lucas Davis, Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
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Following a long slump, crude prices have rebounded to about US$70 per barrel. That may make 2018 the most profitable year for oil and gas companies in at least four years.

Will oil and gas executives reap big rewards as well?

As energyeconomists, we’ve wondered how much the top oil and gas executives...

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