A Worthless Oil Field and the CEO’s $100 Million Windfall

(Bloomberg) -- The meeting would mark the beginning of the end of Lea Frye’s career in oil and gas.It was February 2014. Frye, at the time a senior engineer with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., had the job of calculating how much oil was waiting to be extracted from fields Anadarko owned. She was known to be forthright about her analyses. “She tells the truth no matter the circumstances,” her manager said in a later performance review.Going into the conference with senior executives, Frye had...