• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Barbara Harrison

Chevron

Vice President, Offsets & Emerging, Chevron New Energies.

Barbara Harrison is the Vice President, Offsets & Emerging, Chevron New Energies. In this role she is responsible for growing Chevron’s Offsets and Emerging businesses, turning strategy into action to deliver on Chevron’s higher returns and lower carbon ambitions. In her prior role Barbara was the General Manager of Value Chain Optimization (VCO), International Fuels and Lubricants (IF&L) in Asia. She was responsible for strategic planning for IF&L and optimizing crude supply and products placements within Chevron’s refining and marketing systems across Asia and Australia. Prior to this she was General Manager, Planning and Change Management Office, in Corporate Strategic Planning, responsible for Chevron’s business planning process, secretary of the Management Committee and managed the Change Management Office which supports the deployment of the Strategic Imperatives across the corporation. Barbara previously held several positions of increasing responsibility across Chevron’s Downstream and Chemicals business including, Manufacturing, Strategy, VCO and Retail. Barbara started her career at the Richmond Refinery in California as a Process Engineer in 2001. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin in Ireland. Barbara is married with three children, two daughters and a son.

Sessions With Barbara Harrison

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 01:00pm - 01:30pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 06:00 pm - 19/mar/2024 06:30 pm

    Carbon Credits: Opportunities and challenges as a policy tool
    Climate & Sustainability

    Carbon credits are a vital tool in tackling climate change. How do carbon credits incentivize emission reductions and drive innovation? With offsets a key strategic tool for companies and countries to meet net-zero goals, how are companies using offsets in their strategic planning and investment decisions as they navigate the path to energy transition? What are the benefits and limitations of using offsets as a tool to address climate change?

Thursday, 21 March

  • 10:30am - 11:10am (CST) / 21/mar/2024 03:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 04:10 pm

    What's New in Geothermal Technology?
    Power/Clean Power

    New technologies in the geothermal space might have the capabilities of bringing in over 100 gigawatts of firm capacity by 2050. What technologies are already in place and what additional technological innovations will be required for geothermal to play a bigger role in the energy mix of the future?