U.S. Refining and Crude Oil Exports: An Update: Refining- Panel 1
Channel: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Date: 2015-04-03

The CSIS Energy and National Security Program is pleased to host a conference focused on the latest developments in the crude oil export debate as well as the role of refining (both domestic and globally) in finding an economically viable home for US light oil production. As debates heat up over domestic policy choices affecting both the upstream and downstream sectors, the need for informed (and perhaps more detailed) discussion has become increasingly important. This conference seeks to both inform and supplement the debate on two issues that will have a large impact on the future domestic U.S. energy landscape as well as global investment going forward.

The Refining panel will provide a primer on the U.S. refining sector, addressing refinery configurations, operations and economics; the ability of the domestic and global refining system to accommodate additional light oil production and some of the implications of investment choices and oil flows in the near and medium terms.

Featuring:

Joanne Shore
Chief Industry Analyst,
American Fuel & Petrochemicals Manufacturers

Martin Tallett
President and Founder.
EnSys Energy

Lynn Westfall, Petroleum Markets Analyst,
U.S. Energy Information Administration's Office of Energy Markets and Financial Analysis

Moderated by:

Frank Verrastro
Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics at CSIS

The Exports panel will address the current regulatory framework, the politics of exports and the potential geopolitical implications of allowing or impeding such activity.

Featuring:

Theodore Kassinger
Partner with O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Sharon Burke
Senior Adviser to the New America Foundation

Moderated by:

Sarah Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow with the CSIS Energy and National Security Program.