Tag: Natural Gas

A couple of weeks ago, President Biden met with Russian President Putin in Geneva for their first summit. To help us better understand where Russia has been and where it is going, we reached out to one of the world’s foremost Russia experts, Dr. Angela Stent. We were delighted when she agreed to visit with…

We hit a triple today with this week’s guests! We were thrilled to welcome three leadership members from the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA). We had the pleasure of hosting Barry Russell, President and CEO, Dan Naatz, EVP of Government Relations and Political Affairs, and Mallori Miller, VP of Government Relations. The IPAA is…

This week we had the great opportunity to visit with Todd Kantor, Founder, Managing Member and Portfolio Manager at Encompass Capital Advisors. Encompass is a highly regarded energy-focused investment firm, headquartered in New York. Today’s discussion touched on a bit of everything including current investment trends, the team at Encompass, ESG, natural gas outlook, SPACs,…

We have been looking forward to today’s session for awhile now! We were so pleased to be joined by Susan Waller, Executive Director of Natural Allies for Clean Energy, and Mike DuHaime, Partner with Mercury Public Affairs, to discuss their efforts to change the conversation around natural gas. Natural Allies for Clean Energy advocates for…

We had the exciting opportunity to visit with Ryan Clancy to discuss the $900 billion COVID relief bill passed by the US Congress on Monday. Ryan is the Chief Strategist at No Labels, an organization at the spearhead of a non-partisan movement “to find common sense solutions to our toughest problems.” No Labels and its…

Somewhere between a new Administration, the lead Iranian nuclear scientist being killed, and an ongoing OPEC meeting, we were hungry this week for Middle Eastern and Washington insights. We were so lucky as we found our good friend Ambassador Edward Djerejian of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy to help us sift through the…

Today we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Naomi Boness, Managing Director of the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative. The Natural Gas Initiative (“NGI”) partners with research groups and industry partners to “generate the knowledge needed to use natural gas to its greatest social, economic, and environmental benefit.” We had a fantastic conversation about a broad…

Our guests for this week’s “COBT” were Neal Anderson, President of Wood Mackenzie,and Randall Collum, Managing Director of Natural Gas & Upstream Analytics at Genscape. Neal gave us a peak under the hood at Wood Mac, discussing the trends he sees in the macro picture, including the evolving “energy transition” that now includes carbon capture…

Welcome back to another edition of Close of Business Tuesday. Today, we had the great honor of welcoming Dan Yergin as a special guest to the show. While Dan certainly needs little introduction, he is the Vice Chairman of IHS Markit, founder of CERA, and a highly esteemed and revered voice in the energy space….