About the Author:

MARK J. KAISER

Mark J. Kaiser is Professor and Director of Research and Development at the Center for Energy Studies at Louisiana State University, and adjunct professor in the Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering and the Department of Environmental Studies at LSU.

Dr Kaiser has led several studies and published extensively on decommissioning in the Gulf of Mexico, including work related to decommissioning cost, plug and abandonment operations, removal forecasting, explosive and non-explosive severance technology, rigs-to-reef programs, supplemental bonding, and regulatory modeling. His research interest broadly covers the oil, gas, and refining industry, and is related to cost assessment, fiscal analysis, infrastructure modeling, and valuation studies.

Dr. Kaiser has served as a consultant and technical expert to government agencies and private firms, and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the United States Association for Energy Economics, and the International Association for Energy Economics. Dr. Kaiser holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University.