Oil and gas adviser to the world

Pedro van Meurs draws on international knowledge to help Alaska

Larry Persily

Petroleum News Juneau Correspondent

Pedro van Meurs has advised Alaska on oil and gas tax policy since 1996, using his 30 years of international knowledge gained by helping dozens of nations plan tax policy for exploration and development of their resources. This three-part series starts with the story of how van Meurs got into the business. Parts 2 and 3 will cover his views on world oil and gas markets and Alaska.

International oil and gas consultant Pedro van Meurs has been in Mexico while business people were kidnapped, in Bolivia as 25,000 protestors demonstrated in front of his office, driven around burning buses to get to his desk in Guatemala, and been in Africa during coups. But it was his work in the....

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