SEC reserves rules-from ultra conservative to 'anything goes'?

摘要

Listening to speakers at the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Oil IT Journal Editor Neil McNaughton remembers an earlier life working with an oil and gas promoter when the SEC's reserves regulations were extremely restrictive. New rules coming in next year open the door to 'new and proprietary' technologies. He wonders if the SEC's loosening of its criteria is a hang over from the pre-Lehman days of deregulation and 'small government.'