“We are pleased to welcome Minister Al-Naimi to IHS CERAWeek 2016,” said Daniel Yergin, conference chair and vice chairman of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. “At a time when the state of the world’s oil market and its governing dynamics are of the highest interest, his insights and perspective will contribute greatly to the important conversations that will take place at this year’s IHS CERAWeek.”
IHS CERAWeek is recognized as a leading forum providing insight into the energy future. Chaired by Daniel Yergin, IHS CERAWeek 2016, Energy Transition: Strategies for a New World will mark the event’s 35th anniversary and will convene more than 2,800 delegates from more than 50 countries and more than 300 speakers to provide fresh thinking and critically-important dialogue on the most urgent issues and realities to be faced in energy markets, technologies and geopolitics.
The exact date and time of Minister Al-Naimi’s IHS CERAWeek 2016 address is yet to be determined. He will join a distinguished group of speakers that will include U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz; EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy; the CEOs of ConocoPhillips, GE, Royal Dutch Shell and Siemens; the President of Mexico; the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency; the Secretary General of OPEC; distinguished energy ministers; the Vice Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board; and leaders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Energy Information Administration and the Texas Public Utility Commission.
Key themes to be explored at IHS CERAWeek 2016 will include responses to volatility and uncertainty in a time of low oil prices; what’s ahead for markets, investment, costs and technology; the environmental agenda, including climate policy and responses to the COP 21 climate conference in Paris; changing structure of the electric power industry; prospects for renewables; emerging competitive strategies and industry structure; and regulatory policy and geopolitics.
Featured speakers at IHS CERAWeek 2016 will include:
(A complete list of speakers and conference program information are available at www.ceraweek.com)
(Alphabetical order)
H.E. Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, secretary general, GECF
Philip Asherman, president and CEO, CB&I
H.E. Abdalla Salem El-Badri, secretary general, OPEC
Norman Bay, chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Ben van Beurden, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
Fatih Birol, executive director, IEA
Iain Conn, CEO, Centrica
Sen. John Cornyn, majority whip, U.S. Senator, State of Texas
Christopher Crane, president and CEO, Exelon
Theodore Craver, chairman and CEO, Edison International
Gregory Ebel, chairman, president and CEO, Spectra Energy
Russ Girling, president and CEO, Transcanada
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president, Republic of Iceland
Stanley Fischer, vice chairman, Federal Reserve Board
Greg Garland, chairman and CEO, Phillips 66
David Hager, president and CEO, Devon
John Hess, CEO, Hess Corporation
Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric
Joe Kaeser, president and CEO, Siemens AG
Yuji Kakimi, president, JERA
Hirobumi Kawano, president, JOGMEC
Ryan Lance, chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips
Doug Lawler, president and CEO, Chesapeake Energy
Emilio Lozoya, CEO, PEMEX
H.E. Tord Lien, minister of petroleum and energy, Norway
H.E. Gabriel Obiang Lima, minister of mines, industry and energy, Equatorial Guinea
Thomas May, chairman, president and CEO, Eversource Energy
Gina McCarthy, administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chairman, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senator, State of Alaska
Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, minister of petroleum and mineral resources, Saudi Arabia
Donna Nelson, chairman, Texas Public Utility Commission
Enrique Peña Nieto, president, Mexico
Kunio Nohata, senior executive officer, Tokyo Gas
Doug Oberhelman, chairman and CEO, Caterpillar
Scott Sheffield, chairman and CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources
Adam Sieminski, administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
Besim Sisman, president and CEO, Turkish Petroleum
Angela Stent, director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University
Peter Terium, CEO, RWE
Jim Teague, CEO, Enterprise Products Partners
Jean-Pascal Tricoire, chairman and CEO, Schneider Electric
Steve Williams, president and CEO, Suncor Energy
Daniel Yergin, vice chairman, IHS (IHS CERAWeek Chairman)
Yilin Wang, chairman, CNPC
Registration Information
IHS CERAWeek 2016 will be held February 22-26 at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston, Texas. Further information and delegate registration is available at www.ceraweek.com.
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