Rebecca Boudreaux, President at Oberon Fuels, shares her presentation delivered at Venture Summit Friday, July 12, 2013.

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Energy, Innovation, & Environment
Rebecca Boudreaux, Ph.D.
Oberon Fuels, Inc.
Technological innovations….
continue to re-define what is possible

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Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)
Pipeline
“First great engineering project
of the 21st century”
• Crude oil from offshore
Caspian Sea to the
Turkish coast of the
Mediterranean Sea
• 1,099 miles long
• 4 years to build
• $4 billion price tag
• Crosses
• 3 countries
• 1,500 rivers & bodies
of water
• High mountains
• Earthquake fault zones

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Shell’s Pearl Gas-to-Liquid Plant
~ $20 billion (Qatar)

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Source: http://www.sdge.com/newsroom/press-releases/2013-04-11/sunrise-powerlink-sunset
SDG&E’s Sunrise Powerlink
$4 billion (Imperial Valley, CA)

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TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS….
Is bigger always better?

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“We propose increasing the use of
alternative power, distributed
generation of electricity, which will
reduce the reliance on the large power
plants.” - NY Governor Cuomo
2013 State of the State Address

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Distributed Energy Production
• Economically Advantageous
• Supply Stability
• National Security
• Reduction in logistic costs
• Ability to use wasted resources…

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LANDFILL GAS
WASTED RESOURCES
“New York City’s Final Recycling
Frontier: Food Waste”
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg

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FLARED GAS
North America 12-17 bcm

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Innovation & Environment…
…in developing countries
“Though all America's carbon pollution fell last year,
global carbon pollution rose to a record high...
Developing countries are using more and more energy,
and tens of millions of people entering a global middle
class naturally want to buy cars and air-conditioners of
their own, just like us...”
- President Obama, June 25, 2013

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Energy, Innovation, & Environment
Is Bigger Always Better?