Speaker: Mr Rob Gardner, Manager for the Energy and Economics Division of the
ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Planning Department
Date: Monday, 11 April 2011
Time: 10:30am -12:00noon
Venue: Energy Studies Institute
Conference Room
29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Block A #10-01
Singapore 119620
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About the Seminar
The world faces tremendous energy challenges. Energy enables economic growth and plays a key role in advancing social progress. Over the next two decades, demand for energy is forecast to rise dramatically across the globe, as populations and economies grow. Meeting the growing need for reliable and affordable energy - safely and with minimal environmental impact - is a key challenge facing governments and societies worldwide. Success will require international cooperation and a tremendous investment in new technologies to enable the world to expand its energy choices, improve efficiency and reduce emissions.
Key Topics to be Covered
- Energy supply/demand outlook to 2030
- Trends and new developments in world oil and gas supply
- Availability of energy sources, including fossil fuels, nuclear power and renewable energy
- Electricity demand growth and implications for power generation
- The growing role of natural gas in the energy mix
- Energy-related CO2 emissions to 2030
About the speaker
Rob Gardner is the Manager for the Energy and Economics Division of the Exxon Mobil Corporate a Strategic Planning Department based in Irving, Texas. Rob assumed his current assignment in April 2009. The group that he manages is responsible for preparing Exxon Mobil's Energy Outlook.
Rob graduated from Louisiana State University in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and began working for Mobil Oil in a series of technical and supervisory engineering positions in gas plants along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Rob then moved into natural gas marketing.
In 1990, he moved overseas and worked in the gas marketing area primarily associated with liquefied natural gas. He held positions in Indonesia, Qatar, Japan and Singapore involved in marketing and project development of LNG, natural gas and power projects. In 2001, Rob began a series of management assignments in ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing in Hous-ton before taking on his current role.
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