2023 Agora Partners
The Innovation Agora, in its 7th year, allows for a culture of idea exchange, shared learning across multiple disciplines and technologies, and relationship-building as we explore emerging technologies, policies, financial models and solutions to the world’s greatest energy challenges.
CERAWeek Agora Partners help support the convening of this global community and exciting innovation ecosystem who are committed to advancing the growing role of technology, innovation, and scalable pathways to address the challenges of the energy transition.
Agora Partners play a prominent role in this pioneering community, contributing their expertise and experiences to this immersive and dynamic environment.
Agora Partner
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8 Rivers"8 Rivers is a Durham, North Carolina–based firm leading the invention and commercialization of sustainable, infrastructure-scale technologies for the global energy transition. 8 Rivers is developing and deploying technologies for clean hydrogen and ammonia (8RH2), transformative zero-emissions power cycles (Allam-Fetvedt Cycle), direct air capture (Calcite), post-combustion carbon capture (KC8), sour gas sweetening (TarT), clean ethylene (Codox) and other advanced clean energy systems.
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ABB"ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 105,000 talented employees in over 100 countries.
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Accenture"Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)"For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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Aramco"Aramco is a global integrated energy and chemicals company. We are driven by the core belief that energy is opportunity. From producing approximately one in every eight barrels of the world’s oil supply to developing new energy technologies, our global team is dedicated to creating impact in all that we do. We focus on making our resources more dependable, more sustainable and more useful. This helps promote stability and long-term growth around the world.
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AVEVA"AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software. AVEVA sparks industrial ingenuity by connecting people with trusted information and insights to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.
AVEVA launched in the 1960s to empower industry with better technology solutions. More than 50 years later, AVEVA is still headquartered in Cambridge, U.K., but now with over 6,500 employees around the world. Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.
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Baker Hughes"Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and with operations in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward—making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.
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Chevron Corporation"Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. We believe affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy is essential to achieving a more prosperous and sustainable world. Chevron produces crude oil and natural gas; manufactures transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and additives; and develops technologies that enhance our business and the industry. We are focused on lowering the carbon intensity in our operations and seeking to grow lower carbon businesses along with our traditional business lines.
Learn more at www.chevron.com.
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Crusoe Energy Systems"Crusoe is on a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. They are the pioneers of clean computing infrastructure that reduces both the costs and the environmental impact of the world’s expanding digital economy. By unlocking stranded sources of energy to power crypto, cloud, and data centers, they are creating the future of compute-intensive innovation that reduces emissions rather than adds to them. The world’s appetite for computation, energy, and progress will never stop growing. Crusoe is here to bring energy to ideas in ways that are aligned with the needs of our climate.
Learn more at crusoeenergy.com
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ExxonMobil"ExxonMobil has been a leader in innovation for nearly 140 years, supplying the products that people need to live healthy, prosperous lives in an ever-changing world. We’re proud of our history of developing technology solutions at a scale that few companies can match.
Today, we’re developing new products, approaches and technologies to accelerate large-scale deployment of solutions essential to modern life and a lower-emission future. We view our success as an “and” equation, one in which we can produce the energy and products society needs – and – be a leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
We aim to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from operated assets by 2050. This ambition builds on our 2030 emission-reduction plans, and we’re making significant progress. Through 2021, we’ve reduced methane emissions intensity from all operated assets by more than 40% and absolute methane emissions by nearly half since 2016.
We plan to invest approximately $17 billion through 2027 to further reduce our own emissions and help others reduce theirs, an increase of nearly 15% from our prior plan. Nearly 40% of these investments is directed toward building our lower-emissions business with customers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with a primary emphasis on large-scale carbon capture and storage, biofuels and hydrogen.
ExxonMobil remains determined to tackle head-on the challenge of strengthening energy supply security and reducing emissions to support a net-zero future while growing value for our shareholders and stakeholders.
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HIF Global"HIF Global is the world leading eFuels company, developing projects to convert hydrogen using low-cost renewable power into carbon-neutral liquid eFuels that can be transported and utilized in existing infrastructure. The name HIF represents the mission of the company: to provide Highly Innovative Fuels to make decarbonization of the planet possible. HIF Chile, HIF USA, HIF Asia Pacific and HIF EMEA are wholly owned subsidiaries of HIF Global. HIF Chile is currently constructing the Haru Oni Demonstration Facility in Magallanes, Chile, and expects to produce eFuels during the first quarter of 2023.
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I Squared Capital"I Squared Capital is an independent global infrastructure investment manager with over $36 billion in assets under management focusing on utilities, digital infrastructure, energy, transport, environmental infrastructure and social infrastructure in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Founded in 2012, the firm has offices in Miami, London, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Taipei. The I Squared Capital InfraTech strategy invests in growth-stage technology companies, focusing on scaling technology applications across the infrastructure sectors in which it invests and operates.
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Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC)"Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) was established on February 29, 2004. JOGMEC integrates the functions of the former Japan National Oil Corporation, which oversaw securing a stable supply of oil and natural gas, and the former Metal Mining Agency of Japan, which was responsible for ensuring a stable supply of nonferrous metal and mineral resources and implementing mine pollution control measures.
In November 2022, JOGMEC has changed its name to Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security and added functions of equity investment for production and storage of hydrogen and ammonia, as well as for CCS, geological structural survey for offshore wind power generation and geothermal power generation to contribute carbon neutrality.
Learn more at jogmec.go.jp/english/
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Korn Ferry"Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers.
Our 11,400 experts in more than 50 countries deliver on five core areas: Organization Strategy, Assessment and Succession, Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development and Total Rewards.
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Microsoft"Microsoft for Energy & Resources
Transform the energy and resources industry and achieve net zero with technology innovation to deliver safe, reliable, clean energy for a sustainable future. Microsoft enables companies to drive digital transformation, decarbonize, and achieve growth. With Microsoft, energy operators and providers have access to a global partner ecosystem and modern productivity platform at the scalability and reach they need with the security to protect their IP assets, operations, and data. By uniting productivity, intelligent cloud, intelligent edge, AI, and big data platforms, Microsoft helps companies solve their most complex challenges, accelerate the energy transition, and deliver better outcomes.
Learn more about our Energy & Resources solutions at microsoft.com
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries"MHI Group
Integrating cutting-edge technology and industry expertise to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. As a global leader in engineering and manufacturing, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group delivers innovative and integrated solutions across a wide range of industries from power plants and gas turbines to commercial aviation and transportation, and from machinery and infrastructure to integrated defense and space systems. MHI is reducing emissions in its operations and developing solutions that help customers across industries reach carbon reduction targets. Our broad portfolio of energy solutions provides the enhanced efficiency, flexibility and reliability needed to enable us to achieve decarbonization. MHI remains committed to securing humanity’s future alongside advancing the energy transition by improving and scaling technologies, creating new jobs and training workers to succeed in the economy of the future. For additional information about the innovative and integrated solutions we offer and the real-world impact they have, visit our Forbes BrandVoice and Spectra homepages.
Mitsubishi Power
Mitsubishi Power Americas empowers customers to navigate the energy transition affordably and reliably while also working to ensure resource adequacy and affordability and advance human prosperity throughout the Americas. At Mitsubishi Power, we’re boldly accelerating the energy transition and guiding our customers toward a brighter future with solutions that this generation needs to support those to come. Drawing on our unique and deep expertise, we pioneer breakthrough technologies—from advanced class gas turbines and AI systems for autonomous power plants to the use of hydrogen as storage and fuel—to meet the increasing demand for cleaner, more efficient, and more economical power. Mitsubishi Power applies its extensive knowledge to create tailored solutions for our customers’ needs and objectives.
Mitsubishi Power is a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI). Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, MHI is one of the world’s leading heavy machinery manufacturers with engineering and manufacturing businesses spanning energy, infrastructure, transport, aerospace and defense. For more information, visit the Mitsubishi Power Americas website.
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Oxy"Oxy is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. We are one of the largest oil producers in the U.S., including a leading producer in the Permian and DJ basins, and offshore Gulf of Mexico. Our midstream and marketing segment provides flow assurance and maximizes the value of our oil and gas. Our chemical subsidiary OxyChem manufactures the building blocks for life-enhancing products. Our Oxy Low Carbon Ventures subsidiary is advancing leading-edge technologies and business solutions that economically grow our business while reducing emissions. We are committed to using our global leadership in carbon management to advance a lower-carbon world.
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Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS)"Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS): We are a dynamic global energy group with presence in over 50 countries. We produce and deliver energy and solutions that power society’s progress in a responsible and sustainable manner.
We seek energy potential across the globe, optimizing value through our integrated business model. Our portfolio includes cleaner conventional and renewable resources and a ready range of advanced products and adaptive solutions.
Sustainability is at the core of what we do as we harness the good in energy to elevate and enrich lives. People are our strength and partners for growth, driving our passion for innovation to progress towards the future of energy sustainability.
Passionate about Progress
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Schneider Electric"Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.
We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, endpoint-to-cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.
We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.
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Siemens Energy"Siemens Energy is an integrated energy technology company intent on leading partners across the energy value chain to meet growing global demand while transitioning to a more sustainable world. We are a global market leader for renewable energies, holding a majority stake in Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE). With an estimated one-sixth of electricity generated worldwide based on our technology and an employee base of 92,000 people across 90 countries, Siemens Energy is committed to making tomorrow different today for both our partners and our people.
Learn more at siemens-energy.com.
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SLB"SLB (NYSE: SLB) is a global technology company that drives energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global footprint in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition.
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TerraPower"TerraPower is a nuclear innovation company that guides projects from research to reality. Founded by Bill Gates and other visionaries, our mission is to use nuclear science to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We are redefining what nuclear energy can be with the Natrium™ reactor and energy storage system—providing clean, flexible baseload power at a competitive cost. The Natrium reactor is being demonstrated at a retiring coal facility and will be operational this decade. Our dedicated team is advancing the research and development of a Molten Chloride Fast Reactor technology to expand the ability of nuclear technology to decarbonize industry beyond electricity, and TerraPower Isotopes develops processes to extract radioisotopes as raw materials for use by cancer drug developers.
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Trafigura"Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects the world with the vital resources it needs. Through our Oil & Petroleum Products, Metals and Minerals, and Power and Renewables divisions, we deploy infrastructure, skills and a global network to move commodities from where they are plentiful to where they are needed most, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.
Trafigura also owns and operates a number of industrial assets including global multi-metals producer Nyrstar and fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy; and joint ventures Impala Terminals, a port and logistics provider, and Nala Renewables, a power and renewable energy investment and development platform. With over 1,000 shareholders, Trafigura is owned by its employees and employs over 13,000 people working in 48 countries.
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Ultra Safe Nuclear"Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, a U.S. corporation headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is a global leader and strong vertical integrator of nuclear technologies and services, on Earth and in Space. The company produces the Micro-Modular™ reactor (MMR®), Fully Ceramic Micro-encapsulated (FCM®) nuclear fuel, and nuclear power and propulsion technologies for space exploration.
The company has active MMR deployment projects at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories with Ontario Power Generation and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Additional deployments are in development in the United States, Canada and Europe. Ultra Safe Nuclear is working in collaboration with NASA and the Department of Defense on advanced radioisotope-based power production technology, nuclear thermal propulsion systems and advanced materials using the same foundational inherent and intrinsic safety principles to drive innovation in fuels, materials and design.
Ultra Safe Nuclear is committed to opening new markets around the world for safe, commercially competitive, clean and reliable heat and power from nuclear energy. The cornerstone of USNC’s technology is FCM fuel. Based on proven and trusted TRISO fuel particles, FCM enhances safety through proprietary technology to embed TRSIO particles in a silicon carbide matrix. Ultra Safe Nuclear is the only privately funded company actively producing TRISO and FCM fuels.
USNC vertical integration captures the entire value chain, from fuel manufacturing to reactor construction and operation, maximizes competitive advantage and reduces risk.
Ultra Safe Nuclear is Reliable Zero-Carbon Energy. Anywhere.
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Wood"Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.
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Xcoal Energy & Resources"Xcoal Energy Resources is a privately-owned global coal marketing and logistics company headquartered in Latrobe, Pennsylvania (USA). A +100-person team, with a “customer first” mentality is positioned throughout 20 global offices.
Xcoal specializes in marketing metallurgical, thermal, and anthracite coals from around the world, with a focus on supply from the U.S. and Australia. Xcoal utilizes innovative and creative logistical processes to ensure that Xcoal provides customers with reliable service, stable quality, and consistent supply.
Xcoal is involved in coal mine development, financing, and related infrastructure projects and are actively pursuing investment opportunities in the global coal supply chain.
XLNG Energy & Resources was developed to market and deliver alternative forms of energy to the global marketplace. XLNG has access to abundant U.S. shale gas supply in close proximity to LNG liquefaction plants and has experience sourcing LNG from other global supply basins as well.
XLNG will build on Xcoal’s marketing infrastructure and commercial relationships, while utilizing a well-established and successful business model to deliver gas to our customers.
https://www.xcoal.com/
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