Tag: Outlook

We were thrilled to welcome Les Csorba, Partner in the CEO and Board of Directors Practice at Heidrick & Struggles for this week’s COBT session. Les is a highly experienced executive placement expert and his work focuses on senior-level assignments including CEO and board members across the entire energy value chain. Les began with providing…

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,…

This week’s session was truly remarkable. We had the honor of hosting the Salk Institute Harnessing Plants Initiative team comprised of some of the brightest minds working to mitigate climate change with perhaps the most genius idea since Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine: harnessing the natural power of plants to rebalance our carbon cycle. The Harnessing…

Welcome to another week of COBT! For today’s session, we took a trip offshore to visit with Erik Milito, President of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). NOIA’s mission is to advance and promote the interests of the offshore energy industry including both traditional and renewable energy resources. We had a great conversation all about…

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…

This week is all about being thankful and on that note, we were especially thankful to visit with our good friend Ken Hersh. Ken is the President and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center located in Dallas, Texas. He was also the CEO of NGP from 1988 to 2015. We couldn’t think of…

Today’s show is brought to you live from the Ronnie K. Irani Center for Energy Solutions at the University of Oklahoma! This week we are thrilled to be joined by Michael Cohen, Chief US Economist and Head of Oil Analysis at BP. The discussion centered around Michael’s presentation, “Energy Outlook 2020 Edition.” As always, the…

Today, our COBT session was not only stimulating but also simply great fun. We had the honor of hosting Dr. Bradford Cornell, Emeritus Professor of Finance at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. Dr. Cornell has been teaching finance for 40 years and as you will see in the video, he takes us all back…

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…