PLENARY SESSION: Gulf Coast Energy Renaissance - Reviving Production, Expanding Infrastructure

9:00 am - 10:00am • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

Delegates will get a good appreciation for the types of sectors expanding in the region, the scope of those expansions, and the extent to which these expansions help to change and potentially alleviate production, refining, and processing constraints. Factors helping to stimulate this new level of investment will also be discussed as well as the role of local, state, and federal government policies in helping to facilitate new infrastructure development. The market outlook for existing announcements and future infrastructure development will also be explored.

DUAL PLENARY SESSION: Global Warming and Carbon Management - Timing, Costs, Priorities

10:30 am – 12:00 noon • Bayside A & B Room - 4th Floor

This panel will review the energy consequences and economics of carbon capture and sequestration in the Gulf Coast and southwest regions, including expanded opportunities for crude oil recovery (EOR), carbon storage and transportation, asset creation, and capital investment requirements and risks. The discussion will include case studies of current actual sequestration and EOR projects.

DUAL PLENARY SESSION: Ratcheting Down Demand - Ratcheting Up Renewables

10:30 am - 12:00 noon • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

This panel will focus on energy reduction strategies in buildings and industry, with examples drawn from New Orleans recovery efforts; the panel will also cover opportunities and economic/operating issues relating to the rising role of wind and solar electricity generation in the power grid and will likewise deal with concerns over the potential biofuels "train wreck."

PLENARY SESSION: Challenges and Plans for Hydrocarbon Extraction from the Gulf

10:30 am - 12:00 noon • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

Top-level representatives from each of North America's three countries will probe policy and economic directions for energy recovery in the Gulf Coast region, including potential opportunities and risks, timing, capital investment requirements, and economic and geopolitical policy issues.

PLENARY SESSION: Toward Rational Energy Policies for 2009

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

With the national elections a month behind us, this high-level panel will speak to energy and economic policies that will be critically needed during the next four years. Speaking directly to the new incoming Administration, panelists will offer ways to stimulate major energy conservation measures in buildings, industry and transportation, and to accelerate replacement of hydrocarbon fuels with renewable and low-carbon substitutes. The panel will also probe ways to craft and move needed legislation through the Congress and states.