We welcomed another great guest to COBT this week! Michael Shellenberger, Founder and President of Environmental Progress, joined us to discuss his new book, "APOCALYPSE NEVER." Michael is a lifelong environmentalist and wrote the book to counter the extreme arguments often made in today's climate debate. He has also been an outspoken proponent of nuclear power as a means of dealing with the effects of climate change. Michael's highly acclaimed and highly analytical book leaves you feeling hopeful about what has been and can be accomplished. We were thrilled to have him talk with us.

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We have a “COBT Special Edition” for you this week! We were thrilled to have the opportunity to visit with Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota this morning. We had plenty to cover with the Senator given the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy and how it affects the Bakken and America's national and economic security.   

Senator Cramer was very generous with his time and thoughts and we greatly enjoyed the conversation. As you will hear towards the end, we also had some great conversation around the 45Q tax provision, the Paris Accord, and how the energy debate can be made more balanced and more bipartisan. For the good of the nation and the world, we need it. We are excited to keep pushing for what our friend Scott Tinker calls the “radical middle” and we appreciate your thoughts and suggestions as we try and get there.

We want to say a big thank you to Senator Cramer on behalf of the energy community for giving us the "on the ground" view of the current environment in North Dakota.

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Today we had the honor of hosting a great friend of the firm and a great friend of the industry, Congressman Bill Flores (R-TX, 17th District). It was a real pleasure to hear from Bill as he shared his perspective on some of the current challenges policymakers are facing, what he hopes might get done in the next Congressional session, and what good things he believes are happening that we aren't talking about enough. As always, Bill is direct and practical in his comments.

Colton Bean, Director of Midstream Research for TPH, made his first COBT appearance. Colton provides his thoughts on both the Dakota Pipeline news, the recent Dominion transaction with Warren Buffett, and infrastructure broadly.

Mike Bradley, Colin Fenton, and Matt Portillo also chimed in with their current views on oil, gas and current markets. Colin hit us up with some carefully crafted charts of the week.

This week we were thrilled to be joined by Daniel Neff, Co-Chairman of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, along with Paul Perea, TPH's Co-Head of M&A. Gained from over four decades of experience advising major companies, Dan shared his insightful perspective on top concerns for public company directors, managing a New York-based law firm through COVID-19 and the unique, positive aspects of deal making in the energy industry.  

We kicked off the session with our panel of TPH experts: Mike Bradley, Colin Fenton, and Matt Portillo. Mike hit earnings for Q2 and what we can expect for the second half of the year. Colin and Matt shared their thoughts around the upcoming election and its implications for the industry.

Welcome to another edition of COBT! This week, we were thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with Ben Ratner, a Senior Director for the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-profit seeking to solve the world's toughest environmental issues in practical and economic ways. We were also joined this week by Craig Webster, TPH's Head of ESG.

And of course, we had the regular TPH band members: Mike Bradley, Colin Fenton, and Matt Portillo. They jump in on $40 dollar oil, a preview of earnings season, and Carbon Emissions Trading levels in the European Union and how to understand them. Our opening commentary begins with the TPH crew and then 15 minutes onward, you'll find our discussion with Ben Ratner.

Today we had the pleasure of speaking with two Energy Technology stars: Emily Reichert, CEO of Greentown Labs, and Brad Burke, Managing Director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. 

Greentown Labs has just announced that they are expanding to Houston and we couldn't be more excited for them to join in the effort to make Houston the capital of the new energy world. Headquartered outside Boston, Greentown Labs coming here is an exciting leap forward for the city. Emily was most kind to join us on GL's big day. (Press release available here).

Brad and the Rice Alliance team also have the excitement of their startup competition this week. The competition has been going for twenty years, offers the most prize money of any similar competition, and has seen almost 700 startups over these last 20 years. Successful startups coming out of Rice have gone on to raise almost $3 billion in additional capital. Brad did a great job getting us fired up for everything happening "inside the hedges" over on South Main.

We also had our expert TPH crew: Mike Bradley, Colin Fenton, and Matt Portillo. The screens were green today and our team offered up some summary commentary on latest sentiment. Lebanese protests, Japanese stimulus, LNG cargos, Chinese-Indian skirmishes, Beijing schools and promising COVID treatment news were all in there.

 Our guests for this week’s “COBT” were Neal Anderson, President of Wood Mackenzie, and Randall Collum, Managing Director of Natural Gas & Upstream Analytics at Genscape. Neal Anderson brings over thirty years of experience in the energy industry to the conversation, most of them served at Wood Mackenzie, to provide depth of perspective on the macro outlook. Randall Collum’s extensive experience as an analyst for over 20 years in natural gas an oil production analytics gives context and color around the data him and his team see on a daily basis.

We also have with us our staple TPH experts: Mike Bradley, Colin Fenton, and Matt Portillo, back this week too.  

Our guests for this week’s “COBT” were two very well regarded energy thought leaders: 

• Shawn Reynolds, Portfolio Manager at VanEck
• Mark Viviano, Head of Public Equities at Kimmeridge Energy Management

They are great minds and great friends and we had an awesome “around the world of energy opportunities and issues” discussion with them. Thank you Shawn and Mark!
 
 Our usual panel of TPH experts Mike Bradley, Colin Fenton, and Matt Portillo, were all back this week too. We hit OPEC+, today’s oil price, latest investor likes and dislikes, budding geopolitical risks and the latest COVID-19 data observations.