Houston, We Have an Opportunity
Houston, TX, October 17-20
Supply Side Updates
Peak Oil: Exploring the Risk Factors
Robert Hirsch – Senior Energy Advisor, Management Information Services Inc.; Co-Author, Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management (“the Hirsch Report”)
Megaprojects Update
Chris Skrebowski – Editor, Petroleum Review, UK Energy Institute
Views on Production
Delayed vs. Imminent Peakers: Conceptual and Empirical Questions Regarding Reserves Growth
Richard Nehring – President, Nehring Associates
The Devil is in the Data
Jeremy Gilbert – Managing Director, Barrelmore Ltd.; Former Chief Petroleum Engineer, BP
Richard Nehring, Jeremy Gilbert – Q&A
Peak Oil in Mexico: Outlook to 2015
George Baker – Publisher, Mexico Energy Intelligence
On Minerals and the China Syndrome
Vince Matthews – Colorado State Geologist
Day 1 – Lunch Presentation
Gauging Risks of Peak Oil and Gas: Limits to Growth
Matthew Simmons – Chairman, Simmons & Co. International
A Strategic Perspective on 21st Century Energy Challenges
Tom Petric – Energy Analyst
Two Key Oil Issues
How the Game is Changing
Joe Gladbach – Managing Director, Jeffries Randall & Dewey
The Exporters’ Dilemma: Rising Domestic Consumption and Flat or Falling Production
Jeffrey J. Brown – Independent Petroleum Geologist
Joe Gladbach, Jeffrey Brown – Q&A
Beyond Oil
Natural Gas and Coal: Some Challenging Facts
David Hughes – Canadian Geological Survey
Nuclear Power: Pros, Cons, and the Efficiency Card
Scott Pugh – Energy Advisor, Department of Homeland Security
How Good is Our Bet on Biofuels?
Kyriacos Zygourakis – Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
Peak Oil and the Media
Tom Whipple – CIA Analyst (Ret.); Editor, Peak Oil Review, Peak Oil News
Featured Commentary and Summary Responses
James Howard Kunstler – Author, The Long Emergency
The Rationales for Different Perspectives on Peak Oil: An Informed Dialogue
An Informed Dialogue – Part 1
An Informed Dialogue – Part 2
• Moderator: Robert Hirsch – Senior Energy Advisor, MISI
• Richard Nehring – President, Nehring Associates
• Jeremy Gilbert – Managing Director, Barrelmore Ltd.; Fmr. Chief Petroleum Engineer, BP
• Mark Gaffigan – Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Mariano Gurfinkel – The University of Texas
• Randy Udall – President, ASPO-USA
• Roger Bezdek – President, Management Information Services Inc.; Co-Author, “the Hirsch Report”
Economic Impacts
Exploring the Impact of Resource Constraints
Peter Tertzakian – Author, “A Thousasand Barrels a Second”
Transportation Responses
Moderator: Terry Penney – National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Aviation After Peak Oil
Roger Bezdek – President, MISI; Co-Author, the “Hirsch Report”
Rail in a Peak Oil World
Alan Drake – Consulting Engineer
Plug-In Hybrid Technology Update
Justin Ward – Toyota
Roger Bezdek, Alan Drake, Justin Ward – Q&A
National, State, and Local Energy Policy Responses
Summary from the Portland Peak Oil Task Force
John Kaufmann – Oregon Department of Energy
The View from a Municipal Utility
Roger Duncan – Deputy Manager, Austin Energy
Options at the State Level
Mary Margaret Whipple – Virginia State Senator
View from the U.S. Congress
John Darnell – Energy Advisor, Office of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett
Summary from Southern California Association of Governments
Debbie Cook – Huntington Beach (CA) City Council and Mayor Pro-Tem
Texas Production History and Revenue from Oil and Gas
Elizabeth Ames Jones – Texas Railroad Commission
Q&A – Peak Oil: National, State, and Local Energy Responses
Day 2 – Lunch Presentation
Hon. Bill White – Mayor, City of Houston
Afternoon Sessions
Houston After Peak Oil: Scenarios (video pending)
Peter Bishop – Professor, Future Studies Program, University of Houston
Seth Itzkan – Analyst-Futurist, Planet-TECH Associates
Remarks from an Oil Industry Veteran (video pending)
Henry Groppe – Partner and Founder, Groppe Long and Littell
Interview and Roundtable Discussion – Featuring T. Boone Pickens
T. Boone Pickens – Founder, BP Capital Management LP
Charles T. Maxwell – Senior Energy Analyst, Weeden & Co.
Henry Groppe – Partner and Founder, Groppe Long and Littell
Summary Responses and Closing Remarks
Kyle Saunders – Professor, Colorado State University
Impacts of Fossil Fuel Peaking on Global Climate Change
Peak Oil and Climate Change: Examining the Interactions
Randy Udall – President, ASPO-USA
Hubbert’s Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change
David Rutledge – Professor and Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology
Implications of Peak Oil for Atmospheric CO2 and Climate
Pushkar Kharecha – NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies
Smart Money and Peak Oil
Feature Presentation
Charles T. Maxwell – Senior Energy Analyst, Weeden & Co.
Panel Discussion Part 1
Richard Vodra – Spire Investment Partners
Jim Hansen – KMS Financial Services
Jim Baldauf – Apex Resources
Moderator: Leslie Haines – Editor, Oil and Gas Investor
Peak Oil: Some Views from Europe
David Strahan – Filmmaker; Author, “The Last Oil Shock”
The Road to Damascus
Aage Figenschou – Simmons & Co. International