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| Date: | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| Topic: |
"New Views on North American Gas: After the
Inflection Point" PFC Energy, a leading oil, gas and service company advisory firm, will discuss why the consensus on where North America will source its natural gas may be dead wrong. Senior Director, Raoul LeBlanc, will discuss how 2007 established new patterns for both supply and demand and why we are moving to a new phase of the gas cycle. |
| Speaker: |
Raoul LeBlanc, Senior Director,
Financial Advisory, PFC Energy Raoul LeBlanc is Senior Director of PFC Energy's Financial Advisory practice. Raoul is responsible for helping to develop and grow PFC’s emerging relationship with a wide range of financial institutions and to tailor PFC’s research and consulting to meet their needs. Raoul joined PFC Energy in January 2007, bringing fifteen years of experience in strategic and industry analysis. From 1997-2006, Raoul worked at Anadarko Petroleum. During his tenure there, he directed the company’s Strategic Planning effort, which assumed responsibility for strategy formulation, portfolio optimization, scenario planning, and competitor analysis. He contributes a strong background on issues related to North American independents and natural gas market developments, and has experience in mergers and acquisitions, evaluation and modeling of financial results, and E&P corporate valuation. Prior to Anadarko, Raoul was a senior oil analyst at Energy Security Analysis, a market analysis consulting company in Washington, D.C. where he led coverage of Asian markets and worldwide distillate fuels. Raoul has worked and studied in Japan, the Western Pacific, and Britain. He holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and an M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. |
| Company: |
For over 20 years, PFC Energy has
created and sustained long-term relationships with most of the
leading oil, gas and service companies worldwide. We operate at the
highest level in companies, governments and financial institutions. PFC Energy provides consulting and advisory services across the value network including:
PFC Energy has 150 consultants worldwide, with offices in Houston, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Bahrain and Washington, D.C. www.pfcenergy.com |
| Location: | Farnsworth
Pavilion - Rice Ley Student Center Detailed campus maps are available on the web at http://www.rice.edu/maps/ . On most campus maps, the Farnsworth Pavilion, Ley Student Center is designated as number 37. The Central Campus Garage is the closest parking facility. On the map, it is located to the left of the Ley Student Center. |
| Time: | 11:30 am sign-in with the speaker beginning at noon |
| Fee: | $25 per person - a boxed lunch will be served |
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