Message-ID: <7006543.1075858302305.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:32:00 -0800 (PST) From: steve.young@enron.com To: rick.buy@enron.com Subject: Helsinki Cc: ted.murphy@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: ted.murphy@enron.com X-From: Steve W Young X-To: Rick Buy X-cc: Ted Murphy X-bcc: X-Folder: \Richard_Buy_Dec2000\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: Buy-R X-FileName: rbuy.nsf Rick: I suggest that you, Ted, D Hardy and I visit by phone in the next couple of days to further discuss communication between the various groups involved. It would be useful for D Hardy and I to further describe some of the behind the scenes conversations that occurred involving the principal groups (ie. RAC, Acctg, Logistics, Legal and Commercial) and the sequence and timing of those conversations. I believe it will be most useful for you to have a better understanding of the interaction among the groups as this is discussed among senior management in the coming weeks. I firmly believe that the Accounting/Commcl. Support and Logistics groups got much to close to commercial and were not second guessing some of the key issues. Some of our more difficult conversations and resistance when collecting information came from commercial support and logistics, not just commercial. Given the nature of discussions around this issue, it is important that we have this conference call some time this week. Let me know when you have some time or alternatively have Karen schedule with Sharon. On a related note, at some point there was a struggle within Liquids concerning control over trading in the Helsinki office (between London and Ilkka). Although the Helsinki office was originally intended only as a marketing office, in some respects it evolved into a stand-alone operation. I can not see where there was a conscious decision for it to be more than a marketing outpost and it would appear the decision concerning the amount of control enjoyed by Ilkka and his team came solely down to K Beasley. I would like to discuss this in this call as well.