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

Starlee  Sykes

BP

Regional President for the Gulf of Mexico and Canada

Starlee Sykes is the Regional President for GoM & Canada, the highest revenue generating business in the BP upstream portfolio. Prior to this role, Starlee served as VP for Offshore Global Projects and VP for Global Deepwater Projects & Projects Performance. These roles headed international teams focused on solving the complex development challenges, resulting in improvements to execution. Starlee has been recognized as an Outstanding Leader in Energy by the Houston Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business & has been named as a 2020 Engineering Outstanding Alumni from Texas A&M. She is Chairman of the Board of Directors of BP Exploration & Production and a member of the BP America Board of Directors. She is a member for both the BP America Diversity & Inclusion Council and the BP U.S. Benefits Committee. Starlee is a representative on the API Upstream Committee and a Board Member of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). She is also is active in the community and serves as President of the Board of Trustees for Spindletop Charities and the United Way executive sponsor. Starlee received her Mechanical Engineering degree from Texas A&M University and is on the Industry Advisory Board for the Engineering College.

Sessions With Starlee  Sykes

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 03:00pm - 03:45pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Competitive Sources of Supply
    Upstream Oil & Gas

    The future for global crude oil supply faces the most challenges and uncertainty since the mid-1980s. Competitive oil and gas supplies are influenced by volume, quality, and cost of supply of remaining resources; investment behavior; and concerns about demand destruction or “peak oil” in a policy environment focused on promoting renewable technologies. In a lower oil or gas demand scenario, not all “barrels” will attract investment or find a market. The most competitive “barrels” will be those that offer the lowest cost, lowest emission, shortest cycle time, and most capital commitment flexibility. What other factors will influence supply competitiveness? Are there enough competitive E&P industry investment opportunities? Will the focus on project design, applications of digital and other technologies, efficiencies in the supply chain, and concentrated portfolios create more competitive supply?