Formerly an executive with Shell, David Lawrence leads the Lawrence Energy Group, LLC, and oversees investments spanning the oil, gas, and renewable energy spheres. Leveraging insight gained while with Shell, David Lawrence has authored numerous articles on topics such as energy security. He recently spoke on the topic Choices and Challenges: Delivering the World's Energy Needs at the Oil & Gas in the 21st Century Conference at the University of Tulsa.

1. David Lawrence, Shell

2.  Formerly an executive with Shell, David Lawrence leads the
Lawrence Energy Group, LLC, and oversees investments
spanning the oil, gas, and renewable energy spheres.
Leveraging insight gained while with Shell, David Lawrence
has authored numerous articles on topics such as energy
security. He recently spoke on the topic Choices and
Challenges: Delivering the World's Energy Needs at the Oil &
Gas in the 21st Century Conference at the University of Tulsa.
A focus of the talk was on how energy can be delivered in
quantities large enough to meet present and future needs
while minimizing carbon dioxide emissions.

3.  Mr. Lawrence notes that with more than 1 billion people on
earth still without electricity, particularly in equatorial regions of
the globe, there are many places where significant growth in
demand is being felt. This is exacerbated by the increased
energy footprint of societies that transition to a middle-class
level of consumption.
Unfortunately, with more than 85 percent of the world’s energy
provided through fossil fuels, the potential is for emissions and
global warming to get worse before renewable sources come
online in quantities significant enough to make a difference.
Lawrence addresses how to meet this challenge through
investment, innovation, price and policy.