C.O.B. Tuesday

Yesterday at our annual Hotter 'N Hell Conference, we saw so many of you and absolutely loved it. I think everyone in the room had a sense of "life is back!" and all loved it. We had some phenomenal guests and a broad array of energy flavors up for discussion. The theme I kept finding myself coming back to is there has never been a more fascinating time to be in energy. The issues a...

We hit a triple today with this week's guests! We were thrilled to welcome three leadership members from the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA). We had the pleasure of hosting Barry Russell, President and CEO, Dan Naatz, EVP of Government Relations and Political Affairs, and Mallori Miller, VP of Government Relations. The IPAA is critical in serving on behalf of the explorati...

We have a COBT Special Edition for you this week! We had the pleasure of visiting with a great friend of the firm, Jason Schenker. Jason is Chairman of the Futurist Institute, President of Prestige Economics and a renowned futurist, economist, speaker and author. This special edition is centered around Jason's latest book, "The Future of Travel: Trends and Technologies Shaping the Decade...

We were thrilled to welcome Les Csorba, Partner in the CEO and Board of Directors Practice at Heidrick & Struggles for this week's COBT session. Les is a highly experienced executive placement expert and his work focuses on senior-level assignments including CEO and board members across the entire energy value chain. Les began with providing background on Heidrick & Struggles' en...

For this week's session, we had the opportunity to visit with a great friend of the firm: J.P. Bauman, Principal at Altira Group. As you may know, Altira Group is a Denver-based venture capital firm that takes earned pride in building companies focused on the technology and software that will underpin the sustainable, vibrant, and fun future of supplying energy to all of us. We also had the o...

On this week's COBT, we were very honored to be joined by Dr. Steven Koonin, author of a new book entitled "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters." The title refers to the central thesis of the book... which is that in the rush to proclaim climate science definitive, we are glossing over and failing to speak honestly about so much that re...

This week we had the great opportunity to visit with Todd Kantor , Founder, Managing Member and Portfolio Manager at Encompass Capital Advisors . Encompass is a highly regarded energy-focused investment firm, headquartered in New York. Today's discussion touched on a bit of everything including current investment trends, the team at Encompass, ESG, natural gas outlook, SPACs, the oil macro, I...

Texans have forever prided themselves on our hardworking, gritty and friendly nature. We were lucky enough to visit with Dick Weekley this week who embodies all of those qualities and more. Dick is a true champion for the State of Texas - as a Texas Business Hall of Fame honoree, a philanthropist with several Texas based organizations, and with the work he and the team at Texans for Lawsuit Reform...

Today we had the pleasure of hosting Bill Farris , Associate Laboratory Director for Innovation, Partnering, and Outreach at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). In his role, Bill focuses on the NREL's partnership activity and accelerating commercialization and the transfer of laboratory technologies to the marketplace. He's worked on some pretty fascinating projects and we h...

In honor of Earth Day, we are thrilled to bring you this special edition broadcast from the Houston Museum of Natural Science . Today we had the pleasure of visiting with two great guests. First, we had Nicole Temple , Vice President of Youth Education, to hear about Earth Day activities at the HMNS, as well as updates on some of their programs for the nearly 400,000 students that visit the museum...

This week's session was truly remarkable. We had the honor of hosting the Salk Institute Harnessing Plants Initiative team comprised of some of the brightest minds working to mitigate climate change with perhaps the most genius idea since Jonas Salk's polio vaccine: harnessing the natural power of plants to rebalance our carbon cycle.   The Harnessing Plants Initiative team includes: Wol...

Welcome to another week of COBT! For today's session, we took a trip offshore to visit with Erik Milito , President of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). NOIA's mission is to advance and promote the interests of the offshore energy industry including both traditional and renewable energy resources. We had a great conversation all about the NOIA organization itself, life in...

We have cooked up a special weekend edition for you... featuring two areas of focus for us this week at TPH. Hopefully wherever you are it will be nice this weekend and you’ll find our discussion the perfect companion for a walk or a run. Then again, what goes better with a glass of wine than ESG and Solar inverters? :-) Craig Webster kicked us off today. Craig leads the ESG charge at TPH and join...

We had a super-unique and stimulating session today all about interactions between the energy industry, the media, public opinion and energy policy. We were lucky to be joined by two experts in the field: Jim Krane, Ph. D. , Author and Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute and Chris Tomlinson , Author and Business Columnist for the Houston Chronicle...

You never know who you might meet on the ski chairlift! As you'll hear, today we had the pleasure of hosting Terry Anderson , a great friend, author and scholar. Terry is the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and is the author or editor of nearly 40 books. Terry is also a Bozeman Montana "FOL" - friend of Lance. Lance as in Lance G...

We have all heard countries, states, cities and companies announce their plans to be somewhat or fully carbon neutral by 2030 or 2035 or 2050 or 2060... but the question remains, how are they... and how are we... going to really do that? For a Special Edition COBT this week, we were thrilled to visit with a great friend, Corby Robertson , to learn about the Carbon Neutral Coalition that is tacklin...

Today was really fun! We got the chance to spend an hour with Brian Sullivan, host of CNBC's "Worldwide Exchange" and a great friend of the firm. Brian has over 20 years of financial journalism and television experience, including serving as an anchor at Fox Business News as well as a producer, reporter and anchor for Bloomberg Television. He is also a Senior National Correspondent...

This week the TPH Research Team came out with a "macro" hydrogen piece. Entitled "Jack of All Trades or a Master of None?" the report stares into the future and examines the prospects for all colors of hydrogen. Today we had a walkthrough with our team to learn more. In today's Special Edition, you'll hear Matt Portillo and Jordan McNiven provide some of the highlight...

With baseball opening day right around the corner (April 1), we've dubbed today an "energy doubleheader!" We started with a discussion about this year's CERAWeek conference. We were so pleased to be joined by Dr. Atul Arya, Senior Vice President and Chief Energy Strategist at IHS Markit to speak to the conference's highlights and top themes. With everything from Biden, SPA...

Welcome to another edition of COBT! This week we were thrilled to be joined by Tisha Schuller, Founding Principal of Adamantine Energy and Author of "The Gamechanger's Playbook: How Oil & Gas Leaders Thrive in an Era of Continuous Disruption" to discuss a number of energy and environmental related topics. Tisha's experience includes environmental consulting, company advocac...

For the last few weeks, we have been asking ourselves "what do all these US energy policy decisions (especially Keystone) look like from the Canadian vantage point?" We set out to find a guest that could help us feed that curiosity. Wow did we score! We found Alex Pourbaix, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cenovus Energy, headquartered in Calgary. Alex was great and gave us an up...

Today we bring you a special edition to lift your spirits and your weekend out of this world! In fact, toward Mars, where the Perseverance rover has made a spectacular landing on the red planet in pursuit of new science.  Leading our virtual mission from his post at Caltech is our good friend, John Grotzinger. John is a professor of geology and geobiology, and the division chair for Geological and...

We have been looking forward to today's session for awhile now! We were so pleased to be joined by Susan Waller, Executive Director of Natural Allies for Clean Energy, and Mike DuHaime, Partner with Mercury Public Affairs, to discuss their efforts to change the conversation around natural gas. Natural Allies for Clean Energy advocates for a clean energy future that begins with affordable and...

First and foremost, we hope you and your loved ones are safe and warm during this winter storm that is affecting nearly 25 states. We had several topics to discuss in today's session, starting with a power (or lack of power) update and explanation of the power systems in Texas by Jordan McNiven and George O'Leary from the TPH Research team. ​​​​​To expand on current conditions in the fie...

You may already be familiar with the topic of today's show: ranked choice voting (also known as instant runoff voting). We were thrilled to be joined by two experts on the topic, Harriet Wasserstrum, Co-Founder and Chair of Ranked Choice Voting for Texas, along with Mark Jones, Ph. D., Fellow in Political Science and Chair in Latin American Studies for Rice University's Baker Institute....