Patrick Pouyanné CEO of TotalEnergies
In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen
Norges Bank Investment Management
4.8 • 186 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Nicolai Tangen talks to Patrick Pouyanné Chairman and CEO at TotalEnergies, one of the largest energy companies in the world. Nicolai and Patrick discuss net zero, challenges and opportunities in the energy transition and Patrick share some fascinating insight of his past meetings with Vladimir Putin before the invasion.
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The production team on this episode was PLAN-B’s Niklas Figenschau Johansen and Martin Oftedal. Background research was done by Sigurd Brekke with additional input from Ståle Lægreid.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to our podcast in Good Company. I'm Nicola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian |
| 0:07.6 | Someone Wealth Fund. In this podcast, I talk to the leaders of some of the largest companies we are |
| 0:11.9 | invested in so that you can learn what we own and meet these impressive leaders. Today, I'm talking to |
| 0:18.0 | the CEO and chairman of Total Energy, Patrick Puyenne. |
| 0:22.2 | Total Energy is one of the largest multi-energy companies in the world. |
| 0:25.9 | They have more than 100,000 employees and are active in more than 130 countries. |
| 0:31.5 | We own over 3% of the company translating into 38 billion crooner or more than 4 billion US dollars. So tune in. |
| 0:39.1 | Unfortunately, we had some sound issues with this episode, but we still won't release it because |
| 0:42.7 | it was just like seriously interesting. |
| 0:53.8 | So, well, first of all, Patrick, thank you very much for taking the time. |
| 0:57.7 | Now, you are the CEO or one of the largest energy companies in the world. |
| 1:01.1 | Do you think we'll reach net zero in 2050? |
| 1:03.5 | Yes, we have to be optimistic. |
| 1:05.1 | The challenge is huge, to be honest, because to reach net zero, |
| 1:08.0 | we need to change the whole energy system of the planet. |
| 1:11.2 | And it's a huge and it's a prominent task. |
| 1:13.7 | We have to believe in the capacity of mankind to be creating innovation. |
| 1:19.0 | My answer is why not? |
| 1:20.1 | But we have to work out all together. |
| 1:22.8 | The world and not only in the developed world, |
| 1:26.1 | but together the emerging world, we want to succeed. |
| 1:29.3 | And what's your take on the current energy crisis that we are currently seeing? |
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