2027 NAPE Summit

Name: 2027 NAPE Summit
Start: 2027-02-03
End: 2027-02-05
Location: George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas

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Date

February 3, 2027

Organization

NAPE (North American Prospect Expo)

Format

In-Person

Location

Houston, TX

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About

A marketplace for buying, selling, and trading prospects and producing properties, with programming spanning oil and gas, critical minerals, data centers, geothermal, minerals and non-operated assets, bitcoin mining, renewable energy, and offshore opportunities. The Energy Business Conference includes “US/World Energy Outlook 2027,” covering commodity pricing, production outlooks, geopolitical volatility, regulatory developments, LNG growth, capital discipline, energy security, and demand from AI infrastructure and industrial expansion. “Power Grid, Data Centers & AI Infrastructure” examines grid capacity, data-center siting, water and electricity costs, and AI-driven power demand. “AI & Technology in Energy” addresses scaling AI, governance, and innovation. “Energy During Wartime/Government View of Wartime Energy” covers energy security, critical-infrastructure resilience, global LNG, strategic minerals, military demand, cyber threats, and supply-chain disruption. “CEO Fireside Chat: Leading Energy Forward” focuses on AI adoption, workforce strategy, commodity markets, and geopolitical developments. The Technical Track features “AI for Subsurface Energy,” including generative AI for geospatial maps, OSDU and harmonized datasets, seismic interpretation, and data workflows. “New Opportunities in Traditional Legacy Oil and Gas Basins” covers direct lithium extraction from Arkansas’s Smackover Formation, geothermal co-production in the Bakken, helium and hydrogen resources, stacked-pay development, and San Andres horizontal drilling. The Capital Track addresses capital allocation, consolidation, public and private financing, infrastructure investment, underwriting energy types, and expected returns. Additional programming includes a Government Affairs Session on regulatory changes, advocacy, and policy trends, plus expo hubs focused on prospects, critical minerals, renewable energy, offshore activity, minerals and non-operated assets, data centers, and bitcoin mining.

Speakers(30)

Debnil Chowdhury

Vice President, Americas Head of Refining and Marketing, S&P Global

Bob Fryklund

Chief Upstream Strategist, S&P Global

Dr. Ning Lin

Chief Economist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin

Max Minzner

Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — Corporate, Exelon

Clay Gaspar

CEO, Devon Energy

Tracy Hewitt