The Future of Gas and Oil: School of Management Event
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: School of Management Executive Leadership Center, 4th Floor
RSVP to hgathman@bu.edu
As our demand for energy continues to grow, this future will increasingly depend on technological innovation, business model adaptation and structural industry evolution. One thing is certain, the oil and gas industry will continue to play a prominent role across the energy landscape while it seeks to address the future challenges of environmental sustainability and stewardship, the rise of alternative technologies and geopolitical, regulatory and market forces that are driving dramatic change around the world.
With a climate bill working its way through the legislative process in Washington and the Copenhagen Climate Summit just weeks away, we will explore the Future of the Oil and Gas Industry and take the measure of one of the most important issues of our time.
Moderator: Paul McManus, Executive-in-Residence & Lecturer in Globalization, Sustainability, Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship – School of Management
Thomas A. Petrie – Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch – GSM ’70
Thomas A. Petrie was a co-founder of Petrie Parkman & Co., a Denver and Houston based energy investment banking firm that merged with Merrill Lynch in December 2006. With this transaction, he became a Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch and a member of its Executive Client Coverage Group. He was a former Managing Director and Senior Oil Analyst of The First Boston Corporation. During his career, Mr. Petrie has been an active adviser on more than $140 billion of energy related mergers and acquisitions, including many of the largest. Among its other assignments, Petrie Parkman has advised the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its natural gas initiative, the State of Alaska on gas pipeline options, and the U.S. Department of Energy on the sale of the Elk Hills oilfield.
Mr. Petrie is a past president and member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts. He has also served on the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Board on Oil and Gas Accounting and has delivered a number of technical papers to the Society of Petroleum Engineers on the subjects of petroleum valuation, merger and acquisition trends, and energy policy. He has been interviewed on numerous occasions by Barron’s and has also appeared on “Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser,” “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” CNBC and Fox News.
Mr. Petrie received his MBA from Boston University School of Management in 1970.
