92. Vicki Hollub Thinks Oil Has a (Low Carbon) Future
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week we get into Republicans and climate change, faith and climate change, and some exciting news in climate philanthropy!
And our guest for this episode is President & CEO of Occidental Petroleum, Vicki Hollub. Not only is she the first and currently only female CEO of a major oil and gas company, but Occidental - or Oxy as the company is fondly known - is the first US oil and gas major to announce their strategy to reach Net Zero across emissions scopes 1,2 and 3.
We explore with Vicki the process of capturing carbon for enhanced oil recovery and why this has translated into plans to build the largest Direct Air Capture facility in the world, how they see their new DAC business venture beyond Oxy’s own fields, a vision of the energy future with oil and how they think they will contribute to a Net Zero carbon world.
But with the complicated history between oil and gas majors and the public, will the public trust needed to ensure Oxy’s success be rebuilt in time?
And stick around later in the show for a musical performance from Alex Serra!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism, I'm Tom Rificarnak. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Cristiano Pigueroos and I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:19.3 | This week we discuss Republicans and climate change, faith and climate change and big news |
| 0:25.5 | for climate philanthropy. |
| 0:27.1 | We speak to Vicki Hollub, CEO of Texas Oil and Gas Giant, Occidental Petroleum and |
| 0:32.5 | we have music from Alex Serra. |
| 0:34.5 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:37.8 | So guys, back to normal delivery now this week, no race to zero. |
| 0:49.6 | We're back to just your day-to-day Outrageant Optimism, we're thrilled you stayed with |
| 0:53.0 | us everyone. |
| 0:54.0 | I hope you enjoyed it, but we're back to normal service. |
| 0:56.3 | How are you guys doing at a good week? |
| 0:57.8 | It's not any less exciting, Tom, you're saying back to normal, honestly there is no normal |
| 1:03.3 | at all. |
| 1:04.3 | Paul looks a little downcast. |
| 1:05.3 | On steroids. |
| 1:06.3 | Everything is on steroids right now. |
| 1:08.1 | Freda Mines said that you spend all your time trying to think there's this happening |
| 1:10.9 | and then we're going to get back to normal, but there is no back to normal. |
| 1:14.8 | This is the one thing we've learned that changes the eternal present and we should always |
| 1:17.8 | be ready for it and grow. |
| 1:19.8 | Thank you, philosopher Dickinson. |
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