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

Michael Webber

ENGIE

Chief Science & Technology Officer

Dr. Michael E. Webber is Chief Science and Technology Officer at ENGIE, a global energy and infrastructure services company. His latest book, Power Trip: the Story of Energy was published 7 May 2019 by Basic Books with a six-part companion series aired on PBS starting Earth Day 2020. His first book, Thirst for Power: Energy, Water and Human Survival was published in 2016 by Yale Press and was made into a documentary. Dr. Webber was selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and as a member of the fourth class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars, which is a leadership training program organized by Presidents George W. Bush and William J. Clinton. He has authored more than 400 publications, holds six patents, and serves on the advisory board for Scientific American. Dr. Webber holds a BS and BA from UT Austin, and a MS and PhD from Stanford University. 

Sessions With Michael Webber

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Water & Energy
    Climate & Sustainability

    The US shale revolution unleashed previously unimaginable volumes of oil, gas,…and water. Indeed, of all the products involved in developing unconventional basins, water is perhaps the most difficult to manage. Not only is it required upfront in large quantities during hydraulic fracturing operations, but it is also perpetually needed—in ever-increasing volumes—as more wells come onstream. Essentially, being an oil & gas company in a shale play means becoming a water company as well. How have operating companies and service companies responded? Do now-established best practices in the United States also apply to nascent unconventional plays around the world? How are the capital and debt markets involved in facing the challenges around water? Industry experts representing the producer, service company, and financial points of view will address these questions and more.