Will the oil price crash disrupt the BP-Hilcorp deal? Alaska state regulators want to know.
State regulators have asked Hilcorp, the independent oil company buying BP’s Alaska assets, to disclose whether and how the pandemic-driven crash in oil prices will affect its ability to seal the $5.6 billion deal.
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