Sanctions, Conflicts & Energy Security: How Geopolitics is Redrawing the Global Upstream Map

Energy security used to sit somewhere in the appendix of a strategy deck. Not anymore. Sanctions regimes, shifting alliances and active conflict zones are now first-order variables in every upstream investment decision - reshaping where capital flows, which basins get de-risked and which are removed from the agenda.

The next in our Upstream Insights series brings together five voices who sit at the sharp end of that shift:

Raad Alkadiri - 3TEN32 ASSOCIATES and Dr Maria Shagina - International Institute for Strategic Studies bring the sanctions and geopolitical risk lens.

Ben Cahill - Cockrell School of Engineering, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Robin Mills -Qamar Energy bring the market and policy analysis.

Gayle Meikle - Frontier Founder and CEO, brings the holistic global industry view, and Daniel Davidson, Frontier's COO, hosts.

Daniel - together with our audience - will be asking the critical questions around the geopolitical redrawing of the upstream map, where the industry goes next - and who's positioned to move first…

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