Energy investors from six continents arrive to attend EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® 21
Starting Sunday, August 14, EnerCom will host The Oil & Gas Conference® 21 in Denver, and in spite of a lingering commodities price downturn generating turmoil for the industry, the EnerCom conference is again attracting a large pool of registrations.
“We are proud of breaking through the 2,000 registration level for this year’s conference. Attendees are from all over the world,” EnerCom founder and president, Greg Barnett, told Oil & Gas 360®. “As soon as the penguins open a hedge fund on Antarctica, we’ll welcome them to the next EnerCom.
“It’s a real testament to the professionals at EnerCom that work tirelessly to make this world-class event what it is, regardless of where we are in the crude oil and natural gas commodity cycle. We hosted EnerCom in 1998 when oil traded at $10 a barrel and natural gas in the Rockies sold for less than a quarter per Mcf. We also saw the highs in 2008 and we witnessed the Great Recession firsthand.”
Origins of the EnerCom Conference
Being the host of a major international investor conference wasn’t Greg Barnett’s primary goal back in August of 1996 when his oil and gas management consulting firm, EnerCom Inc., hosted the first EnerCom conference in Denver. When EnerCom Denver 2016 closes, it will mark the 43rd conference hosted by the company, which was recently recognized by Forbes magazine as one of America’s Best Management Consulting firms.
Acting on a request from a client company to host an investment conference, Barnett made a few phone calls to a handful of clients to test the idea. They thought it was a good one, so he put the idea in front of a group of investors who said it makes sense to host an event in Denver to hear producers and to gain better insight about their plans to grow and develop their oil and gas resources. Interest from independent oil and gas companies grew every year until the EnerCom conference grew into one of North America’s most respected independent oil and gas-focused investor conferences.
“So, to all the companies that are presenting, all the expert speakers and the more than 2,000 investment professionals heading to Denver from six continents, we look forward to seeing you at EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® and thank you for your continued support,” Barnett said.
The conferences have a world-class group of sponsors. Credit Agricole, Netherland Sewell & Associates, Preng & Associates, Hein & Associates and PLS, Inc. are global sponsors. Sponsors of The Oil & Gas conference® 21 are: GMP Securities Wells Fargo, CIBC Capital Markets, Stephens, Inc., Repsol, Haynes and Boone, Wunderlich Securities, Fifth Third Bank, DNB ASA, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Mutual of Omaha Bank, Petrie Partners, PNC Financial, Scotiabank, Shell, and Rivington Holdings.
Barnett said: “It takes a world-class group of sponsors to deliver a world-class energy investment conference.”
This year’s EnerCom presenting companies represent exploration and production operations and services in all the major North American unconventional, conventional and shale basins, Alaska, Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, Canada and other international regions.
The conference consistently brings together ideas about the future of the oil and gas industry to a global investing audience.
Included in the 2016 program are panel discussions and single presentations from private E&P and oilfield service companies, industry experts, economists and analysts who will deliver keynote talks and participate in panel discussions on a diverse set of topics including:
- the changing future of Mexico’s oil and gas industry;
- a presentation from the former chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas on the new era in American energy;
- the Permian Basin;
- Canada’s Montney shale play;
- oil and gas development in China;
- economic and political insight on China and Russia;
- presentations about new shale technologies from the Colorado School of Mines;
- software as an asset panel; and
- future development of the Bakken/Three Forks play.
Additional information about EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® 21 is available here.
Conference presenter/speaker schedule is here.
