COPAS OF DALLAS - LUNCHEON SERIES

 

October 13, 2011

Topic:  Evaluating Oil Price Risk

 

National wealth depends on energy use. In particular, transport—of everything—depends almost exclusively on petroleum products. This is a risk management issue for oil producers as much as it is for consumers. After a short economic introduction including supply-demand, the marginal barrel, elasticity, and the sometime second-order effect of refining capacity, Ms. Starks will discuss evaluating and managing oil price risk. Ms. Starks will open with the similarities between writing technothrillers and analyzing oil risk and, if time permits, the abbreviated “brown bear story.”

 

Speaker:   Laura Starks – Starks Energy Economics (SEE)

 

Laura Starks consults on targeted public-company investments and risk management in the energy business through her company, Starks Energy Economics.  Ms. Starks previously worked for Amoco, ARCO, and predecessors of Valero in engineering, marketing, and finance. She also worked full-time for engineering firm Muse Stancil on projects for national and international energy companies. Ms. Starks has a parallel vocation as a high-stakes thriller author, a venture that shares the same risk assessment background as her energy consulting and which has given her additional marketing and media experience through signings, radio interviews, television interviews, and online social and professional media. Her first book, 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy, about a plot to sabotage oil refineries, received five-star reviews. She serves as a board member and assistant treasurer of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library, was past board chair of the Dallas Metropolitan YWCA, was selected to attend the inaugural TEDxSMU, co-holds a US patent for lithium alumina, and has run five half-marathons.

Copies of her book, 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy, will be available for purchase at the meeting for $15.