OSU Energy Conference to Feature Prominent Energy Industry Executives

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Oklahoma State University’s Sixth Annual Energy Conference will highlight the latest topics in energy presented by energy industry executives from across the region. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 17 at the Cox Business Convention Center in Oklahoma City.  

Conference topics will include the future of national gas, current risks in energy finance and economics, and an integration of technologies to address the world’s energy. Griff Jones, President and CEO of Twin Eagle Resource Management in Houston, will be the moderator for the event.
 
“The annual Energy Conference has become the premier energy event featuring top industry leaders who discuss key energy topics that not only face our state but our nation,” says Larry Crosby, Dean of the Spears School of Business.
 
OSU President Burns Hargis will interview Chesapeake Energy Chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon and Devon President and CEO John Richels about the energy industry. Conference topics include:
·    Gasticity: The New Normal

·    The Future of Natural Gas

·    Natural Gas and the American Industrial Renaissance

·    Addressing our Energy Challenges Through “Smart” Customers

·    Unconventional: The International Story

·    OSU’s Natural Energy Solution and Conference Speakers Institute: An Integration of Technologies to Address the World’s Energy Problems

·    Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Benefits of Demerging

·    Current Risks in Energy Finance and Economics

Conference speakers will include:
-      Aubrey McClendon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake Energy

-      Peter B. Delaney, Chairman, President and CEO of Oklahoma City-based OGE Energy Corp

-      John Richels, President and Chief Executive Officer of Devon Energy

-      Marc Edwards, Senior Vice President of Completion and Production at Halliburton

-      Stephen McKeever, Ph.D., Oklahoma Secretary for Science and Technology and the Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at OSU
-      Howard Thill, Vice President of Investor Relations and Public Affairs at Marathon Oil Corporation

-      Philip Moeller, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

-      Betty Simkins, Ph.D., Williams Companies Professor of Business and Professor of Finance at OSU’s Spears School of Business

“It’s very rare to see such a distinguished slate of speakers. Usually, an energy conference is lucky to get one of these to speak as a keynote, each one of these speakers has the draw power of a keynote speaker,” said Jones.
 
The 2012 Energy Conference, which already has almost 300 attendants registered, is sponsored by the Spears School of Business, the Center for Executive and Professional Development and the Department of Finance at Oklahoma State University in cooperation with the Natural Gas and Energy Association of Oklahoma.
 
The 2012 Energy Conference sponsors include Chesapeake Energy, Chickasaw Nation, Crescent Services, Devon Energy, Grant Thornton, Halliburton, Hertitage Trust, Longfellow Energy, Noble Energy, OG&E, PostRock Energy Corporation, Stinnett & Associates, Twin Eagle Resource Management, and WPX Energy.
            
Other sponsors include BKD CPAs & Advisors, Cole and Reed Certified Public Accountants, DCP Midstream, Deloitte, DRG, Ernst & Young, John Zink, Oklahoma State University Foundation, Panhandle Oil & Gas, SAIC and Samson.
 
For more information about the Energy Conference, please contact Mandy McKinney at mandy.mckinney@okstate.edu   or call 405.744.5208. To register for the event, please visit  http://cepd.okstate.edu/openenrollment/conferences/energy/.