IP Week 2021: ONLINE From crisis to low carbon opportunity: A decade of delivery for the oil and gas industry

This coming decade will be defined by three historic, global challenges: building a resilient recovery from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic; achieving the UN goal of universal access to energy for all populations; and charting an ambitious course – at COP26 and beyond – for tackling the threat we all face from the climate emergency.

Today’s oil and gas sector faces the toughest of operating environments, but the ingenuity of its people, its engineering capabilities and innovative spirit will all be pivotal in rising to these global challenges.

As the sector’s leaders and influencers gather virtually for IP Week 2021, for a programme uniquely convened and curated by the Energy Institute’s industry experts, this remains the pre-eminent international event for building collaboration between industry, government and society.

The urgency of action, together with the associated risks and opportunities in geographies around the world, will be at the heart of an unmissable week’s agenda.

Energy Institute are offering MESIA subscribers 20% off the published price. Please use promo code MESIAIP20 when booking to take advantage.

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Confirmed speakers include:

• Bernard Looney CEng FREng FEI, CEO, BP
• Anders Opedal, CEO, Equinor
• Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Total
• Ryan Lance, Chairman and CEO, ConocoPhillips
• Nigel Topping, High Level Climate Action Champion, UNFCCC COP26
• HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary General, OPEC
• Dr Fatih Birol HonFEI, Executive Director, IEA
• Helima Croft, Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets
• Giovanni Serio, Global Head of Research, Vitol
• Dr Leila R Benali, Chief Economist, Energy Economics, Strategy & Sustainability, APICORP
• Meghan O’Sullivan, Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
• Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Senior Vice President Downstream, Aramco
• Dr Nikolas Meitanis, Advisor, Office of the CEO, Masdar
• Gauri Singh, Deputy Director-General, IRENA
• Dr Vijay Swarup, Vice President, Research and Development, ExxonMobil
• Reem Abdullah Al-Ghanim, Head of HR & Support Services – Chemicals Business, Aramco
• Chris Mahaffey, Vice President of Strategy, Petrocare
• Mariam Musallam Al-Qubaisi, Head of Sustainability, Government, International & Communications, Etihad Airways
• Wael Sawan, Upstream Director, Shell
• Guido Brusco, Upstream Director, Eni
• Dr Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General, World Energy Council
• Dr Ivan D Ivanov, Team Lead, Occupational and Workplace Health, Environment, Climate Change and Health Department, Division of Healthier Populations, World Health Organization (WHO)

Topics explored include:

• Climate emergency and the pandemic aftershock – opportunities out of the crisis?
• The geopolitics of energy transformation
• Reinventing the energy industry in response to climate change and COVID-19
• Pathways for accelerating the low carbon transition
• Exploring the transport industry journey to net zero
• Asia’s pathway to a low carbon future
• Sub-Saharan Africa’s sustainable growth and development: its roadmap and progress towards low carbon

Book your place to one of the biggest events in the energy sector and get together virtually with over 1,500 industry professionals from over all over the world, to hear the latest news and updates, debate key issues, and network to form new partnerships.

For more information and to book your place, please visit ipweek.co.uk or contact Amna at akhan@energyinst.org.