Tag: Oil

We had the great opportunity to visit with Mike Sommers, President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute (API) in today’s session. Founded over 100 years ago, the API represents all segments of America’s oil and natural gas industry with over 600 current members. Their mission is to promote safety across the industry globally and…

This is a stunningly big week for energy networking. In Denver, EnerCom is hosting The Oil and Gas Conference at the Westin and in Houston, the NAPE Summit is taking place at the George R. Brown Convention Center, and the Offshore Technology Conference is happening at NRG. Holding conferences the same week in Houston, NAPE…

With so much in the news recently about the private “Race to Space,” you may share a curiosity of ours, and that is “how far along are the commercial space businesses that have planted roots in Texas?” We have specifically been drawn to the exciting developments rapidly unfolding at Boca Chica, Texas just outside Brownsville….

Today we had the pleasure of hosting Bill Farris, Associate Laboratory Director for Innovation, Partnering, and Outreach at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). In his role, Bill focuses on the NREL’s partnership activity and accelerating commercialization and the transfer of laboratory technologies to the marketplace. He’s worked on some pretty fascinating projects and we…

With all the talk of fracking and energy that showed up in the Presidential debate of late, we decided to try and do a show which was “on the ground” and “based in the reality” of today’s energy world. That was a tall order but we called on the TPH friend network and found people…

We had the great opportunity to visit with MacKenzie Davis, a Managing Partner at SailingStone. SailingStone is a well-known, highly regarded global natural resource investor based in San Francisco. The firm has recently completed some fascinating research on the changing energy world and that was the focus of our conversation. MacKenzie walked us through a…

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…

Our guests for this week’s “COBT” were two very well regarded energy thought leaders: Shawn Reynolds, Portfolio Manager at VanEck Mark Viviano, Head of Public Equities at Kimmeridge Energy Management They are great minds and great friends and we had an awesome “around the world of energy opportunities and issues” discussion with them. Thank you…

This week, we welcomed to COBT Alex Epstein. Alex is the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels , a New York Times bestseller, and founder of the Center for Industrial Progress. He is perhaps best known for his voice as a philosopher who offers a “positive, pro-human alternative to the green movement” and…