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

Al Cook

Equinor ASA

Executive Vice President, International Exploration & Production

Al Cook holds the position of Executive Vice President for International Exploration & Production overseeing Equinor’s business outside Norway. He joined Equinor in 2016 as the Senior Vice President overseeing operations in Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Libya, Nigeria, Russia and Venezuela, moving to Executive Vice President of Global Strategy & Business Development in 2018. Cook joined from BP, where he was Chief of Staff to the CEO. Cook joined BP in 1996, taking on a series of project development and commercial roles in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico. He then worked in field operations in the North Sea from 2002 to 2005, becoming Offshore Installation Manager. From 2005, he led the IGB2 Project in Vietnam and acted as President for BP Vietnam. Cook worked from 2009 to 2014 as BP’s Vice President leading the development of the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan and construction of the Southern Gas Corridor. Cook holds a master’s degree in Natural Science from St. John’s College, University of Cambridge and in 2005 completed the International Execution Programme at INSEAD.

Sessions With Al Cook

Monday, 9 March

  • 03:20pm - 04:05pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Politics of Climate: Splintering coherence or thousand points of light
    Climate & Sustainability Geopolitics/Policy/Regulatory

    COP25, held in Madrid in December 2019, failed to define the rules to implement the Paris Accord. With the United States and Brazil withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and others increasing coal-fired generation, the 2015 political consensus underlying the Paris according is shattering. Still, some argue that environmental activism seen in municipalities and non-federal entities around the world—and the focus on sustainability emerging in the financial sector—represent a thousand points of light. How can industry, the financial sector, and environmental activists most effectively support a sustainability agenda that is itself sustainable? 

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / -

    Scope 3 Emissions and Getting to Net-Zero
    Clean Tech

    Thousands of companies, universities, and cities have announced “Paris-compliant” emissions targets. Oil and gas companies used to concentrate on operational emissions (Scope 1) and resist setting goals for emissions relating to the use of their products (Scope 3). But this is changing. How do you define net-zero? Can Scope 3 emissions be meaningfully measured and managed? Whose responsibility are these emissions anyway?