Industry Leaders Talk Energy in Monthly Webcast

Though the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the Energy Institute to postpone its annual Energy Symposium until 2021, the virus did not stop outreach to industry professionals.  

In June, the institute launched “The Future of Energy” webcast series featuring many of the speakers set to attend the symposium.  

Guests have included Scott Sheffield, CEO, president and founder of Texas-based Pioneer Natural Resources; Michelle Michot Foss, fellow in energy and minerals at Rice University’s Baker Institute; Tisha Schuller, principal and founder of Adamantine Energy; and Steve Trauber, vice chairman and global head of energy at Citi. Future guests include Kevin Fitzgerald, partner and chief utility officer at Energy Impact Partners, and Hunter Hunt, chairman and CEO at Hunt Consolidated Energy.  

Institute advisory board members, who include veteran industry executives, have partnered with millennial energy leaders to moderate these lively discussions about topics such as: “An Industry in Acute Crisis: Challenges and Responses”; “Energy in Transition: Threats and Opportunities”; “The Generational Transition in Energy”; and “Availability of Capital for Energy Investments."  

“The advent of COVID-19 has accelerated the fundamental changes already taking place in the industry after the third price crash in a little over a decade,” Dipankar Ghosh, executive director of the Energy Institute and the ConocoPhillips Chair in Energy Accounting at the Michael F. Price College of Business, said at the time of the launch. “Neither the extent nor the duration of these changes is clear. As the industry navigates this new normal, what can we learn from established and thoughtful leaders in the energy industry?” 

The institute originally released episodes on a bimonthly basis. However, it has since moved to monthly episodes, which are available for viewing at price.ou.edu/energywebcast.