AIEN International Energy Summit 'Fireside Chat' with Gretchen Watkins and Maynard Holt
In our ‘Fireside Chat’ session this morning, Gretchen Watkins, President of Shell USA, and Maynard Holt, Founder and CEO of Veriten, discussed the energy transition in the US and how the industry needs to keep the conversation going.Gretchen spoke of how the industry had been through a series of 1-2 punches. First, the pandemic shut the world down and the price of oil plummeted. Whilst the industry was still recovering from this, the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted the world to respond in a way that is shifting the global, energy system. We still don’t know at this point what the