Interesting people, thought-provoking presentations and lively exchanges were the order of the day when experts from across the U.S. and from Europe and the Middle East convened in Tulsa to discuss “OPEC at 50: Its Past, Present and Future in a Carbon-Constrained World.” Presentations covered key events in OPEC’s history, the organization’s actions in response to those events, and analysis of OPEC’s actions and motivations.
Additional topics included oil pricing, especially whether it is driven primarily by market fundamentals (supply and demand) or if financial speculation plays a significant role, and different analysis approaches and modeling techniques. View videos of the proceedings on YouTube.
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The complete day’s program is available here. For additional information about each of the distinguished presenters, click on the presenter’s name:
- Anas Alhajji, PhD., NGP Energy Capital Management, Dallas, TX
- Stephen Brown, PhD., Professor, Univ. of Nevada – Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
- Dermot Gately, Professor, New York Univ., New York City, NY
- David Greene, National Center for Transportation Analysis, Knoxville, TN
- Hillard Huntington, Exec. Dir., Energy Modeling Forum, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
- Daniel Johansson, PhD., Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Robert Kaufmann, PhD., Professor, Boston University, Boston, MA
- Cynthia Lin, Asst. Professor, Univ. of California-Davis, Davis, CA
- Dr. Hasan M. Qabazard, Director of the Research Division at OPEC, Vienna, Austria
- Michel Robe, Assoc. Professor, American University, Washington, D.C.
- Roger Stern, PhD. Guest Scholar, Princeton University
- Dr. Nourah Yousef, Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
To view the slide presentations, click on the presentation title:
- “OPEC at 50: Looking Back and Looking Ahead” (Dermot Gately)
- “Production (OPEC and non-OPEC) and World Oil Prices” (Robert Kaufmann)
- “Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis” (David Greene)
- “Assessing the U.S. Oil Security Premium as World Oil Markets Change” (Stephen Brown)
- “World Oil Modeling in Retrospection” (Hillard Huntington)
- “OPEC at 50: Its Past, Present and Future in a Carbon-Constrained World” (Hasan M. Qabazard)
- “Economics and OPEC’s History and Projections for its Future” (Anas Alhajji)
- “The Future of Oil and Oil Rents in a World with Climate Policies” (Daniel Johansson)
- “An Empirical Dynamic Model of OPEC and non-OPEC” (Cynthia Lin)
- “Oil Scarcity Forecasts in the Development of U.S. National Security Policy towards the Persian-Arabian Gulf” (Roger Stern)
- “Do OPEC Members Know Something the Market Doesn’t?” (Michel Robe)
- “Energy Economics and Saudi Arabia” (Nourah al-Yousef)
In addition, Prof. Doug Reynolds, University of Alaska Fairbanks, has submitted a paper to be published in the conference proceedings: “What is OPEC? It Is Saudi Arabia”