Tag: Energy

This week’s primary speaker is a longstanding friend and former COBT guest, Dr. Steven Koonin. Dr. Koonin is a Professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU, Nonresident Senior Fellow at AEI and the Author of “Unsettled.”

Today’s discussion with Ryan Panchadsaram (senior technical advisor to John Doerr, Chair of Kleiner Perkins) explored a range of topics spanning from VC investing, the tech VC world partnering with the existing energy community to achieve scaled energy solutions, and the climate action plan that was the focus of “Speed and Scale” (which Ryan co-authored).

We are amped up for this week’s feature session on power with ERCOT. With us today is Brad Jones, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, and our good friend and former COBT guest Bill Flores, Vice-Chair and Independent Board Member.

This was undoubtedly a big week for us in Houston with CERAWeek in full force. The conference brought many friends (old and new) to town and that allowed us to really get caught up on so many things. This morning, Nancy Jacobson (CEO) and Margaret White (Senior Advisor) came to our offices and we had…

We are thrilled to have Martin Lovegrove, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Kirk Lovegrove & Company join us today. Martin has a wealth of knowledge and experience around strategic advisory, acquisitions, and divestitures with 50 years in the global oil and gas business. In his career, he has advised 120+ clients on over 500 mandates and has developed four independent successful advisory companies along the way. It was wonderful to visit with Martin and get his perspective on all the issues swirling around in today’s world. Undeniably, a great deal has happened since last week’s episode with Dr. Angela Stent and Dr. Dan Yergin. As we all watch the harrowing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine develop, we wanted to provide a list of organizations that are offering relief support to the country including a few charities specifically focused on children.

On this special “Twosday,” we had the fortune of welcoming back two special guests for a discussion centered on Russia and the Ukraine and all the potential reverberations from the current conflict. Our first guest is Dr. Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at Brookings and one of the world’s leading specialists on the Former Soviet Union, Russia, and Russia’s relations with the West. In our discussion, we reference her most recent book, “Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest.” Our second guest is our longtime friend, Dr. Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman at IHS Markit and Chairman of CERAWeek. Dan is the author of a number of seminal books on energy and in our discussion we also touch on Dan’s latest book, “The New Map.”

We are deeply honored that our first Veriten COBT guest is Secretary James A. Baker, III. A native Houstonian, Secretary Baker is one of the most accomplished and insightful leaders in the past 50 years of American history. It is undoubtedly difficult to neatly summarize Secretary Baker’s accomplishments and contributions to the country and to…

This week we hit the road and spent three days in New Delhi, India. Why? Well, the first answer is CERA was holding their 5th Annual “India Energy Forum” and were nice enough to invite us. But the second answer is we have been very curious for some time now to witness first-hand how the…

We had the pleasure of visiting with Chet Thompson, President and CEO of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) for this week’s session. Chet joined us live from Washington where he and his team are working relentlessly to advocate for domestic refiners, petrochemical and midstream companies as well as educating policymakers and the public…