Louisiana’s energy industry is in the midst of a fundamental transformation.
The Louisiana Energy Outlook, presented by 10/12 Industry Report and Baton Rouge Business Report, will explore emerging trends for 2024 and 2025: Energy transformation, oil and gas production, innovation and digitalization, workforce challenges and more.
The virtual event airs at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, and is sponsored by Alliance Safety Council and Bradley Murchison.
Meet the panel
REGINA DAVIS
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery Manager
Regina Davis has managed ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge Refinery since September 2023. The chemical engineer joined ExxonMobil at Chalmette Refining as a process contact engineer in 1999, progressing in leadership roles there and at the Beaumont Refinery until 2017, when she relocated to Strathcona Refinery in Edmonton, Alberta, as the technical manager and operations manager until being named Strathcona’s refinery manager in 2021.
LEE STOCKWELL
National Leader for Carbon Capture, Shell
Lee Stockwell is Shell’s general manager of U.S. carbon capture and storage at Shell, shaping the nationwide development of one of the premier technologies for the ongoing transition to energy sustainability. The LSU and Tulane University graduate has a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering and an MBA. He has been with Shell since 2001, working as a leader in exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico.
BRAD IVES
Director, LSU Institute for Energy Innovation
As director of the Institute for Energy Innovation, Brad Ives coordinates LSU’s R&D, service and outreach efforts related to the energy transition. He has a long history working with traditional oil and gas companies on emerging energy technologies. While a former assistant secretary for natural resources in North Carolina, he drafted and negotiated the state’s wind farm legislation, leading to the creation of its first wind farm. Three decades earlier, he helped write Shell Chemicals’ mission statement while pursuing his bachelor’s degree in political science and later his law degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
