The Alberta Oil Sands, Fort McMurray Alberta Canada
Energy issues, taken seriously
A former chairman of OPEC. Chairman of Total. CEOs of BP, LUKOIL, Vestas Wind Systema, Microsoft, Peabody. Then there’s former US Presidents Clinton and Bush and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
The attendee list of CERAWeek 2011 in Houston is notable for not only the big brains, but the sheer big: There are about 2,000 delegates to this 30th anniversary of CERA’s leading-edge dialogue on energy issues.
Among them, four from the Government of Alberta. Alberta representatives from the departments of Energy and Environment are speaking on panels and in private meetings with the goal of both educating and themselves learning.
Alberta has a significant profile at this event. Its energy resources are widely known among these delegates. That’s true even among the approximately 200 major media covering the event: In two-hour and forty minute series of media interviews yesterday, not a single journalist struggled with the concept of in situ oil sands drilling, and some even knew differences between CSS and SAG-D. This is not common!
Monday was a light schedule. The event gets rolling in force Tuesday, and I’m fifteen minutes away from being able to change that to “today.”
Good night!
- David Sands