IHS Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin: Energy Industry Facing "New Realities and Overturned Assumptions"

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

As industry, policy and financial leaders from around the world prepare to convene IHS CERAWeek 2015 in Houston, IHS Vice Chairman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin says that the energy world is facing a time of great turbulence and transition.

"Along with the oil price collapse itself, key developments over the past year have overturned fundamental assumptions that were underpinning the planning and investment for meeting the world's ever-growing need for energy," said Yergin, who serves as conference chairman. "Not long ago the expectation was that $100 per barrel oil would be the new norm, China's strong economic growth would continue unabated, and OPEC and Saudi Arabia would continue to play the traditional role as swing producer in support of oil prices. Events have proved otherwise, and so we have a time of recalibration and transition—an ‘era of new realism'—for the energy industry.

"The theme for this year's conference, Turning Point, speaks to managing and leading through the current cycle," Yergin continued. "But it's also about long-term considerations and fundamental factors, such as North America's emerging role as the new swing producer, the critical choices facing the power industry, and what to expect from the upcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change later this year as the world seeks to find the right balance.

"We are honored to have such a broad and distinguished group of global energy, policy and financial leaders at IHS CERAWeek that includes government and ministerial leaders along with CEOs and senior leaders from the world's major energy companies," Yergin said. "This assembly of leaders presents a unique opportunity to understand the challenges ahead and develop the strategies needed to meet the ever-growing and ever-changing demands of our energy world."

IHS CERAWeek is recognized as a leading forum offering insight into the energy future. Chaired by Daniel Yergin, IHS CERAWeek 2015, Turning Point: Energy's New World, will convene more than 2,800 delegates from more than 50 countries and more than 300 speakers to examine the new risks and realities to be faced in energy markets, technologies and geopolitics.

Distinguished government officials speaking at IHS CERAWeek 2015 include:

Ernest Moniz, United States Secretary of Energy; Sally Jewell, United States Secretary of the Interior; Gina McCarthy, administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chairman, Senate Energy Committee, U.S. Senator, State of Alaska; Kenneth Anderson, commissioner, Public Utility Commission of Texas; Pedro Joaquĩn Coldwell, secretary of energy, Ministry of Energy of Mexico; Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president, Republic of Iceland; Amos Hochstein, special envoy, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State; Colette D. Honorable, commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Stephen Lovegrove, permanent secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change, United Kingdom; Ian Macfarlane, Minister of Industry and Science, Australia; Máximo Pacheco, minister of energy, Government of Chile; Greg Rickford, minister of natural resources, Canada; Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, United States Deputy Energy Secretary; Todd Stern, special envoy for climate change, U.S. Dept. of State; Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senator, State of Alaska

Featured energy industry speakers at IHS CERAWeek 2015 will include:

(Oil and Gas)

Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO, ExxonMobil; Robert Dudley, group chief executive, BP; Ryan Lance, chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips; Patrick Pouyannė, CEO and president of the executive committee, TOTAL SA; Eldar Saetre, president and CEO, Statoil ASA; Emilio Lozoya, CEO, Pemex; Claudio Descalzi, CEO, Eni; Vagit Alekperov, president, OAO LUKOIL; Miguel Matías Galuccio, CEO, YPF; Harold Hamm, chairman and CEO, Continental Resources; John Hess, CEO, Hess; Richard D. Kinder, chairman and CEO, Kinder Morgan; Scott Sheffield, chairman and CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources

(Power)

Patricia K. Collawn, chairman, president and CEO, PNM Resources; Leo Denault, chairman of the board and CEO, Entergy; Thad Hill, president and CEO, Calpine Corporation; Enrique Ochoa Reza, director general, Mexican Federal Electricity Commission; Tom Siebel, chairman and CEO, C3 Energy; Jean-Pascal Tricoire, chairman and CEO, Schneider Electric

Key themes to be explored at IHS CERAWeek 2015 will include managing through turbulence, assessing turning points and new landscapes for the oil, gas and power industries, and identifying energy's grand challenges that will be confronted over the long term.

Registration Information
IHS CERAWeek 2015 will be held April 20-24 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 2015 are required to apply for accreditation. Applications can be submitted via the following link: http://www.cvent.com/d/crq9ry/4W.

Expanded List of IHS CERAWeek 2015 Speakers:
(A complete list of speakers and full conference agenda are available at www.ceraweek.com)

(In alphabetical order)

• S.M. Hossein Adeli, secretary general, Gas Exporting Countries Forum
• Gen. Keith Alexander, former director, U.S. National Security Agency; commander, U.S. Cyber Command
• Vagit Alekperov, president, OAO LUKOIL
• Muhammad Al-Saggaf, acting head of shared operations and services, Saudi Aramco
• Kenneth Anderson, commissioner, Public Utility Commission of Texas
• Robert Armstrong, director, MIT Energy Initiative
• Steve Bolze, president and CEO, GE Power and Water
• Greg Boyce, CEO, Peabody Energy
• Andy Brown, upstream international director, Royal Dutch Shell
• Luis Cabra, executive VP, exploration and production, Repsol
• Steve Chazen, president and CEO, Occidental Petroleum
• Pedro Joaquĩn Coldwell, secretary of energy, Ministry of Energy of Mexico
• Patricia K. Collawn, chairman, president and CEO, PNM Resources
• Akaraphong Dayanada, group senior vice president – strategy and business development, Banpu Public Company Limited
• Leo Denault, chairman of the board and CEO, Entergy
• Claudio Descalzi, CEO, Eni
• Lisa Davis, member of managing board, Siemens AG
• Robert Dudley, group chief executive, BP
• Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute
• Robert C. Flexon, president and CEO, Dynegy
• Miguel Matías Galuccio, CEO, YPF
• Jack Gerard, president and CEO, American Petroleum Institute
• Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president, Republic of Iceland
• Harold Hamm, chairman and CEO, Continental Resources
• Gary Heminger, president and CEO, Marathon Petroleum
• Thad Hill, president and CEO, Calpine Corporation
• John Hess, CEO, Hess
• Amos Hochstein, special envoy, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State
• Colette D. Honorable, commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Walter Isaacson, president and CEO, The Aspen Institute
• Sally Jewell, United States Secretary of the Interior
• Joe Kaeser, president and CEO, Siemens AG
• Hirobumi Kawano, president, Japan oil, gas and metals, National Corporation
• Melanie Kenderdine, director, Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, U.S. Department of Energy
• Richard D. Kinder, chairman and CEO, Kinder Morgan
• David John Wissler Knox, managing director and CEO, Santos Ltd.
• Fred Krupp, president, Environmental Defense Fund
• Ryan Lance, chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips
• Stephen Lovegrove, permanent secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change, United Kingdom
• Emilio Lozoya, CEO, Pemex
• Ian Macfarlane, minister for industry and science, Australia
• Rokas Masiulis, minister, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania
• Gina McCarthy, administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Al Monaco, president and CEO, Enbridge
• Ernest Moniz, United States Secretary of Energy
• Steven L. Mueller, chairman of the board and CEO, Southwestern Energy
• Shigeru Muraki, director, vice-chairman of the Board, Tokyo Gas
• Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chairman, Senate Energy Committee, U.S. Senator, State of Alaska
• Máximo Pacheco, minister of energy, Government of Chile
• Henry Paulson, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Patrick Pouyannė, CEO and president of the executive committee, TOTAL SA
• Enrique Ochoa Reza, director general, Mexican Federal Electricity Commission
• Greg Rickford, minister of natural resources, Canada
• Eldar Saetre, president and CEO, Statoil ASA
• Tom Siebel, chairman and CEO, C3 Energy
• Adam Sieminski, administrator, U.S. Department of Energy
• Scott Sheffield, chairman and CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources
• Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, United States Deputy Energy Secretary
• Charif Souki, chairman and CEO, Cheniere Energy
• Todd Stern, special envoy for climate change
• Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senator, State of Alaska
• Ernie Thrasher, CEO and chief marketing officer, Xcoal Energy and Resources
• Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO, ExxonMobil
• Jean-Pascal Tricoire, chairman and CEO, Schneider Electric
• Mike Winkel, member of the board of management, E.ON SE
• John Woolard, vice president, energy, Google

IHS CERAWeek 2015 would like to acknowledge the following partners:

ANH, API, BP, Cheniere, ConocoPhillips, ERM, ExxonMobil, GE, Honeywell, Siemens, Statoil, TOTAL, Vinson & Elkins, Xcoal, YPF, Aramco, Centrica, Chevron, Cisco, Dow, Egon Zehnder, Eni, HSBC, JOGMEC, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, MIT Energy Initiative, Repsol, Schneider Electric, The Carlyle Group, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. and USGRDCO

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