Tag: Oil and Gas

Tuesday was incredible. We traveled to Denver and drove about an hour to Greeley, Colorado. Greeley is the largest city (population of ~110K) in Weld County (~325K people). We went to Weld out of pure fascination – fascination with the county that produces over 80 percent of the oil and 60 percent of the total…

With baseball opening day right around the corner (April 1), we’ve dubbed today an “energy doubleheader!” We started with a discussion about this year’s CERAWeek conference. We were so pleased to be joined by Dr. Atul Arya, Senior Vice President and Chief Energy Strategist at IHS Markit to speak to the conference’s highlights and top…

Today’s show was all about President Biden’s recent executive order to “pause” oil and gas leasing on federal land. To help us discuss the scope of the order and how it’s going to affect oil and gas, now and in the future, we were thrilled to be joined by two key ambassadors of the oil…

Last week, an oilfield services company tried to buy logo apparel for all its employees. This was to be a holiday gift after a traumatic year. But the apparel’s manufacturer refused the order. We are told the apparel company did not want to “co-brand” with an oil and gas firm despite the fact most, if…

The oil and gas industry is facing a serious challenge and that’s finding outside capital. To tackle that issue from all angles, we assembled an all-star cast from the legal and financial communities. The conversation starts in a very unique place … and that’s with the proposed Fair Access to Capital regulations coming out of…

We were thrilled to have the opportunity to visit with Giorgio Bresciani and his colleague Dickon Pinner, both Senior Partners at McKinsey & Company. Giorgio, based in London, is McKinsey’s leader of their Global Oil & Gas practice and Dickon leads McKinsey’s Global Sustainability Practice from San Francisco. We had a robust discussion of the…

As we previewed in the midday note yesterday, COBT this week featured a robust conversation of the policies and the politics of energy. It was our way of preparing for last night’s first Presidential Debate. Our discussion covered a lot of ground and was particularly focused on the election’s implications for oil and gas. Thank…

Pedro Palma, Director at Ecoanalítica (joining from Caracas, Venezuela), David Voght, Managing Director and Founding Partner at IPD Latin America (joining from Madrid, Spain), and Luis Pacheco, Chairman of the PDVSA Ad-Hoc Board of Directors and Nonresident Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute (joining from Bogota, Colombia) for a Venezuela panel. Joe Amador, Managing Director…

Today we had the honor of hosting a great friend of the firm and a great friend of the industry, Congressman Bill Flores (R-TX, 17th District). It was a real pleasure to hear from Bill as he shared his perspective on some of the current challenges policymakers are facing, what he hopes might get done…