U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Lisa Murkowski Join List of Speakers at IHS CERAWeek 2016
Senate Majority Whip and Chairman of Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee to participate in special policy dialogue at world’s
preeminent energy conference, February 22-26, 2016
U.S. Senators John Cornyn (Texas) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) will
participate in a special policy dialogue during the 35th IHS CERAWeek,
February 22-26 at the Hilton Americas—Houston. Senator Cornyn, the
Senate Majority Whip and Senator Murkowski, who chairs the Senate Energy
and Natural Resources Committee, will join Daniel Yergin, IHS vice
chairman and conference chair, for a discussion on the U.S. and global
energy future, Friday, February 26.
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U.S. Senator John Cornyn (TX) will deliver remarks during the IHS CERAWeek 2016 energy conference, February 22-26 in Houston. (Photo: Business Wire)
“We are honored to be joined by Senators Cornyn and Murkowski at IHS
CERAWeek 2016,” said Yergin of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global
source of critical information and insight. “Their experience and
leadership on important energy issues and other public policy issues
will provide key insights at a transformative time, both in the United
States and the broader energy world.”
IHS CERAWeek is recognized as a leading forum offering 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 insights and
critically important dialogue on the most urgent issues and realities to
be faced in energy markets, technologies and geopolitics.
Senators Cornyn and Murkowski will join a distinguished group of
speakers that will include U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz; the
CEOs of ConocoPhillips, GE, Royal Dutch Shell and Siemens; the President
of Mexico; 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 include:
(A complete list of speakers and conference program information are
available at www.ceraweek.com)
(Alphabetical order)
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H.E. Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, secretary general, GECF
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Philip Asherman, president and CEO, CB&I
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Norman Bay, chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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Ben van Beurden, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
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Fatih Birol, executive director, IEA
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Iain Conn, CEO, Centrica
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Sen. John Cornyn, majority whip, U.S. Senator, State of Texas
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Christopher Crane, president and CEO, Exelon
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Theodore Craver, chairman and CEO, Edison International
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Gregory Ebel, chairman, president and CEO, Spectra Energy
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Russ Girling, president and CEO, Transcanada
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Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president, Republic of Iceland
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Stanley Fischer, vice chairman, Federal Reserve Board
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Greg Garland, chairman and CEO, Phillips 66
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David Hager, president and CEO, Devon
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John Hess, CEO, Hess Corporation
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Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric
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Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO, energy, Mubadala
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Joe Kaeser, president and CEO, Siemens AG
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Yuji Kakimi, president, JERA
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Hirobumi Kawano, president, JOGMEC
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Ryan Lance, chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips
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Doug Lawler, president and CEO, Chesapeake Energy
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Emilio Lozoya, CEO, PEMEX
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H.E. Tord Lien, minister of petroleum and energy, Norway
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H.E. Gabriel Obiang Lima, minister of mines, industry and energy,
Equatorial Guinea
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Thomas May, chairman, president and CEO, Eversource Energy
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chairman, Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee, U.S. Senator, State of Alaska
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Donna Nelson, chairman, Texas Public Utility Commission
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Enrique Peña Nieto, president, Mexico
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Kunio Nohata, senior executive officer, Tokyo Gas
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Doug Oberhelman, chairman and CEO, Caterpillar
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Scott Sheffield, chairman and CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources
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Adam Sieminski, administrator, U.S. Energy Information
Administration
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Besim Sisman, president and CEO, Turkish Petroleum
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Angela Stent, director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East
European Studies, Georgetown University
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Peter Terium, CEO, RWE
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Jim Teague, CEO, Enterprise Products Partners
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Jean-Pascal Tricoire, chairman and CEO, Schneider Electric
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Steve Williams, president and CEO, Suncor Energy
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Daniel Yergin, vice chairman, IHS (IHS CERAWeek Chairman)
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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.
Media Accreditation
Media registration is now open. Members of the media interested in
covering IHS CERAWeek 2016 are required to apply for accreditation.
Applications can be submitted via the following link: http://on.ihs.com/cwmediareg.
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