Energy Thinks: The Angels in the Details with John Dabbar
John Dabbar is managing director of low-carbon technology at ConocoPhillips, and I spoke with him about the recent National Petroleum Council (NPC) study he led, Charting the Course: Reducing GHG Emissions from the U.S. Natural Gas Supply Chain. As Austin Knight and I did in my interview with him, John and I unpacked what you can learn from writing a report with 200 of your most important stakeholders!
Why John Dabbar?
My view: The Moment is creating a once-in-a-generation opportunity for oil and gas companies to lead into the future. But we can’t do so credibly unless and until stakeholders believe that our industry has its own emissions house in order. And doing so is a much more complex and nuanced task than casual industry observers realize! John is well positioned to provide insights on what you, the oil and gas leader, need to glean from the new NPC study and his experience leading it.
Some of John’s insights:
On how the oil and gas industry should tackle decarbonization: “We made a lot of recommendations on things that industry should be doing … not being told to do by a regulator, but we should do these things.”
On why listening to stakeholders in the community is crucial: “You really need to understand what is important to that community. That community may have a history with the oil and gas industry that you may not know anything about. If you don’t know that history, you are completely unable to address the concerns generated by that history.”
On the importance of bringing on small operators: “Early on in the study, we brought on board a large number of small operators, people that aren’t members of the National Petroleum Council, and in one case, it was a guy that owns one well. We wanted to make sure that we got the small operator concerns incorporated early on … and we made recommendations that would help … the thousands of small operators around the country on their emissions-reduction journey.”
Bonus content!
This work is hard. Listen to hear empowering insights from John’s cat herding of the NPC experience! You can read the report (or—let’s be realistic—the executive summary) here: Charting the Course: Reducing GHG Emissions from the U.S. Natural Gas Supply Chain.
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To the angels,
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