Industry Lecture: A Recap of CERAWeek 2024 with Darren Shelton

Hear Darren’s review as a speaker and take on the presentations, focus and outcomes of the most important energy conferences of the year!

CERAWeek 2024 explored strategies for a multidimensional, multispeed and multifuel energy transition. The drive for energy transition is reshaping the competitive landscape for companies and countries – creating new opportunities and risks across the energy value chain. The imperative to reduce emissions has grown in urgency. Yet expectations of a simple linear global transition have been shaken as climate goals compete with concerns over how to deliver economic growth while ensuring energy security, energy access, and affordability. The multidimensional energy transition reflects different realities and timelines by region, technology, industry strategies, the variety of social and political approaches and divergent national priorities in an increasingly multipolar world.

About the Speaker

Darren Shelton is a 28-year veteran of the maritime industry having managed multiple shipping agencies and currently serves as director of sales for Moran Shipping where he drives business development with premier global maritime companies.

In 2018 he envisioned a blockchain startup for the energy sector which led to his co-founding FuelTrust, an AI driven software company that follows commodities through their lifecycles for supply chain solutions.

Darren is currently an MBA candidate at the University of East London, adding to his studies at Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas Bible College, Hope International University, and an honorary degree from Alvin Community College where he also presently serves on the Board of Regents. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Lone Star Harbor Safety Committee, which represents 800+ shipping stakeholders in the Houston region, in addition to serving on the boards of several other community organizations.

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