CERAWeek: Energy and the Economy: Quest for Growth

Agenda

Speakers and agenda are subject to change.

Monday - March 5, 2012

5:30 - 6:30 PM
Reception

6:30 - 9:00 PM
Welcome Dinner and Keynote: Will Elections in the US, Europe and new leadership in China avoid a lost decade for the global economy?

Tuesday - March 6, 2012

7:30 - 8:45 AM
Insight Breakfasts | Select One

  1. Energy Innovation Pioneers
  2. IHS CERA Expert Discussion Tables
  3. China’s Indigenous Upstream Resources
  4. Changing Fundamentals of Oil Supply and Demand: North America’s Supply Surge
  5. Latin America – Uneven Upstream Growth Prospects?
  6. The Atlantic Margins Reborn – Deepwater Potential of the Golden Triangle
  7. The Canadian Oil Sands – A Growing Role in Global Supply

9:00 – 9:05 AM
Conference Welcome
Daniel Yergin, IHS CERA Chairman

9:05-9:40 AM
Opening Keynote

9:45 - 11:00 AM
Global Oil Plenary: Meeting the Oil Supply Imperative

11:15 AM - 12:40 PM
Strategy Sessions | Select One

  1. The Future of the Automotive Sector – What is already in the product pipeline?
  2. Oil Field Services
  3. Upstream Technology
  4. Oil Finance
  5. Is Energy Investment a “Trillion Dollar” stimulus opportunity? The Impact of Energy Investment on Employment
  6. Russian and Caspian Oil
  7. Middle East and North Africa One Year On – What Does it Mean for Oil Supply?
  8. Petrochemicals and Energy – Identifying the Nexus

12:50 - 2:00 PM
Luncheon and Keynote

2:15 - 3:30 PM
Concurrent Plenaries | Select One

  • Upstream Plenary: New Global Deepwater Oil Supply: Revising Expectations Upwards with New Players Joining the Party
  • Downstream Plenary: Structuring for an Uncertain Future

3:40 - 5:00 PM
Plenary Dialogue – Policy Opportunities from Shale Gas and Tight Oil Development

5:15 - 6:15 PM
IHS CERA Expert Dialogues 
TBD

6:15 - 7:15 PM
Reception

7:15 - 9:00 PM
Dinner and Keynote Dialogue

Wednesday - March 7, 2012

7:30 - 8:45 AM
Insight Breakfasts | Select One

  1. Energy Innovation Pioneers
  2. IHS CERA Expert Discussion Tables
  3. Global Unconventional Natural Gas: Gathering Momentum after Early Disappointments?
  4. The Next LNG Supply Surge: When Will Australia Overtake Qatar?
  5. North America Gas: The Shale Gale at Age Five – Enough History to Declare it a Success?
  6. Eurasian Natural Gas: East, West or South?
    Models of Innovation in the Oil and Gas Industry

9:00 - 9:35 AM
Opening Keynote

9:40 - 11:15 AM
Global Gas Plenary

11:35 - 1:00 PM
Strategy Sessions | Select One

  1. The Energy Industry’s License to Operate: Greenhouse Gases, Water, Land Use and Socio Economic Impacts.
  2. Financing for North American Energy Infrastructure: New Opportunities and New Sources
  3. What Future for GHG pricing / regulation in a post-Kyoto world
  4. Integration costs for Intermittent Supply and Demand – Defining a Level Playing Field
  5. Costs and the Supply Chain Upstream
  6. Oil Markets: Reading the Signals in a Two-speed World 
  7. Biotechnology and Energy – Approaching the Mainstream?

1:10 - 2:30 PM
Luncheon and Keynote Dialogue

2:40 – 3:55 PM
North American Energy Plenary: The New Paradigm for North American Energy – Who Will Win the New Game?

4:15 - 5:30 PM
IHS CERA Expert Dialogues
TBD

6:15 - 7:15 PM
Reception

7:15 - 9:00 PM
Informal Themed Dinners

Thursday - March 8, 2012

7:30 - 8:45 AM
Insight Breakfasts | Select One

  1. Energy Innovation Pioneers
  2. IHS CERA Expert Discussion Tables
  3. Picking Winners: The Prospects for Solar, Wind (or Something Else)?
  4. Nuclear Energy One Year On from Fukushima
  5. Texas Energy Breakfast
  6. European Power: Economic Recovery, New Mandates, and Other Challenges

9:00 - 10:25 AM
North American Power Plenary

10:25 - 11:20 AM
Global Coal Plenary:  How Much Room is there for US Exports in Global Markets?

11:45 AM – 1.00 PM
Strategy Sessions | Select One

  1. Smart Grids – What Progress in the Past Year?
  2. Power Capital Costs and the Supply Chain
  3. Financing the Power Future
  4. Leveling the Playing Field – Integration Costs for Intermittent Supply and Demand        
  5. Electric Vehicles: How Many, How Fast?
  6. Global Nuclear Development: Renaissance or Return to Its Roots?
  7. Successful Energy Efficiency Policy: A Policy Imperative?

1:00 - 2:30 PM
Luncheon and Keynote Dialogue

2:40 - 4:00 PM
Global Power Plenary

4:05 - 5:20 PM
Global Equipment and Services Plenary
Can the Equipment and Service Suppliers Deliver the Energy Needs of the Next Decade?

5:25 - 6:25 PM
IHS CERA Expert Dialogues
TBD

6:30 - 7:15 PM
Reception

7:15 - 9:00 PM
Dinner and Keynote
The Quest: Energy, Security and Innovation -- the Next 30 years

Friday - March 9, 2012

The Quest: Energy, Security and Innovation -- the Next 30 years

7:30 - 8:45 AM
Breakfast Dialogue: Harbingers of Change – The Big Questions for the Next 30 Years

9:00 - 9:40AM
Opening Keynote: 30 Year Energy Vision

9:45  - 10:45 AM
Keynote Dialogue: Transportation and Energy

11:00  - 12:20 PM
Plenary Dialogue: What is a realistic path for technology commercialization and scale up over the next 30 years?

12:20 – 1:20 PM
IHS Forum at CERAWeek – Keynote Dialogue

1:20 - 3:00 PM
Networking Luncheon

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