Welcome to the first episode of Crude Conversations, the show where engineer and entrepreneur, Rohan Irvin, sits down with the leaders and legends of the oil and gas industry to find out what they do differently. Deconstructing their success and their failures so that we can all learn from their experiences.

What you’re about to hear is a conversation with Bill Arnold and Aaron Davis. Bill was Shell's Washington Director of International Government relations as well as being appointed by the White House as Senior Vice President of the Export Import Bank of the United States. Aaron Davies on the other hand is an engineer and manager at Oxy who was one of Bill’s first students at Rice University’s Jones School of Business. During the episode we touch on Bill’s experiences with leaders around the globe, including George Bush, former KGB heads and Saddam Hussein. We dissect Networking which is something that Rohan considers Aaron and Bill to be world class at, and of course they debate the pros and cons of doing an MBA. We also reference a lot of people, books and resources that you can find listed in the show notes at www.crudeconversations.com