• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Ashok Belani

Schlumberger New Energy

Executive Vice President

Ashok Belani is Executive Vice President, Schlumberger New Energy, a position he assumed in February 2020. Mr. Belani is responsible for the deployment of differentiated technologies and practices to decarbonize E&P operations, and development of new avenues of growth in emerging markets with carbon-neutral technologies. The Schlumberger New Energy organization includes early ventures for investing in businesses with the potential for new energy technology development; adjacent businesses for leveraging Schlumberger’s expertise in oil and gas through subsurface characterization and drilling activities; and new energy deployments that focus on new domains and associated business opportunities. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Belani served since 2011 as Executive Vice President, Technology, where he was responsible for Schlumberger Research, Engineering, Manufacturing, Technology Lifecycle Management, Software Technology, and Information Technology. He studied electrical engineering in India and holds a graduate degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.

Sessions With Ashok Belani

Monday, 11 March

  • 05:45pm - 06:30pm (CST) / -

    Voices of Innovation:  Ashok Belani and Blake Moret

    Join Ashok Belani and Blake Moret as they share their vision to create end-to-end solutions and technology platform to automate entire upstream operations from drilling to production, well to terminal, conventional and unconventional, onshore and offshore. Will this be the answer to provide complete lifecycle and process automation solutions? Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit.

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 05:00pm - 05:50pm (CST) / -

    Special Dialogue on Venezuela

    Panel

    Chair: Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President, IHS Markit

    Part I: Interim Government Vision for Venezuela

    • Ambassador Carlos Vecchio, Ambassador of the Government of Venezuela to the United States
    • Ricardo Hausmann, Director of Harvard's Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development


    Part II: Industry & Investment Perspectives

    • Luisa Palacios, Chairwoman, CITGO Petroleum Corporation
    • Maynard Holt, Chief Executive Officer, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.
    • Ashok Belani, Executive Vice President of Technology, Schlumberger Limited