![CARSON, CA - AUGUST 07: The BP West Coast Products LLC Carson oil refinery on August 7, 2006 in Carson, California. BP Global is shutting down its Prudhoe Bay oil field operations, the nation?s largest, on Alaska's North Slope because of severe corrosion in an oil transit line. The shutdown will cut supplies to West Coast refineries and will drive oil and gasoline prices sharply higher, raising new criticisms of the company's safety record. British Petroleum (BP) is facing a criminal investigation over a ma](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-12/12.7%20McCown.jpg?h=0aa56565&itok=mHs-7Dpk)
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Brigham McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
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Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
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Thomas J. Duesterberg
Senior Fellow
Thomas J. Duesterberg
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Arthur Herman
Senior Fellow
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Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology