Like a number of other independent oil-company executives who have been forced to put their companies into bankruptcy in recent month, Miller Chief Executive Carl Giesler blamed his company’s financial woes in part on plummeting oil prices. The price of global benchmark Brent crude fell to less than $45 a barrel this summer from more than $100 a barrel a year ago. Miller Energy, a former Tennessee company that shifted its oil and gas drilling to Alaska in recent years, has also been beset by other problems. The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused the company of accounting fraud and in August, a group of companies that said they were owed millions from Miller’s Alaska subsidiary moved to push the unit into bankruptcy. Company officials had recently been in talks with a prospective lender for $165 million capital infusion, Mr. Giesler said in an interview on Friday with The […]