“Chris has been a leading technologist and entrepreneur in the energy field. “He has worked in nuclear, solar, geothermal, and oil and gas,” Trump published about the current director of the company Liberty Energyspecialized in fracking and natural gas based in Denver, Colorado.
Liberty Energy It was founded in 2011, employs 5,500 people and has a market capitalization of US$3.33 billion. It is a leading US energy services company, recognized for its innovative completion services and technologies for the exploration and production of unconventional oil and natural gas.
Chris Wright will also be a member of the newly created National Energy Councilwhich according to Donald Trump, will be made up of all the agencies involved in “permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation and transportation” of energy. The governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum – chosen by Trump as secretary of the Department of the Interior – will be the head of the council.
In his announcement message, President Trump stated that what is “most significant” about Chris Wright is that it was “one of the pioneers who helped launch the American shale revolution, which boosted American energy independence and transformed energy markets and global geopolitics.” This technique of hydrocarbon production is similar to that used in Vaca Muerta.
Who is Chris Wright, next US Secretary of Energy?
Chris Wright He is a businessman of the hydrocarbonsa leader in fracture pressure pumping techniques for extracting oil and gas. In the nineties he was part of a team that suggested to George Mitchellthe deceased Texas tycoon and promoter of francking, the technology of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with slippery water (instead of using a gel), which led to a great advance for the production of American shale gas.
Over more than three decades, Wright admitted the relationship between the burning of fossil fuels and climate changebut on several occasions expressed doubts that climate change is related to worsening extreme weather conditions.
Furthermore, he is considered a skeptic of global warmingin line with the pressures of Trump, and now of Javier Milei. “There is no climate crisis and we are not in the middle of an energy transition either,” Wright said in a video posted to his LinkedIn profile last year.
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He was also a strong advocate of fossil fuels in public interviews, stating that they are necessary to lift the developing world out of poverty. “The world runs on oil and gas, and we need them,” Wright told CNBC in 2023, calling calls to abandon fossil fuels within a decade a “absurd deadline”.
“There is no advantage to getting in the way of the current energy system before we have built a new energy system.”Wright told CNBC at the time.
“I don’t think we will see a significant change in our hydrocarbon system in the next three decades”remarked the next official.
Chris Wright’s academic and business career
Chris WrightHe has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and completed his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Berkeley and MIT.
In 1992 he founded Pinnacle Technologiesa pioneer in innovation in commercial unconventional gas production and hydraulic fracture mapping. There he served as CEO until 2006 and then was president of Stroud Energyone of the first producers of shale gas, which was sold to Range Resources in 2006.
In 2010, he founded Liberty Resourcesfocused on exploration and production in training Bakken, and Liberty Midstream Solutions, which will be sold in 2024.
But Wright doesn’t make his living from fracking alone. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Oklo Inc., a company modular nuclear reactors small, latest generation, and EMX Royalty Corp.a global company mining royalties.
Additionally, he is involved in several nonprofit organizations, including ACE Scholarships, and is a founding board member of the Bettering Human Lives Foundation. Wright resides in Colorado with his wife, Liz, and enjoys being a passionate father, grandfather, skier, cyclist, climber, and outdoor enthusiast.
A controversial episode, which brought him fame
Wright caused a media stir in 2019 when he drank fracking fluid on camera to prove it was not dangerous.
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Now, he will take over as Secretary of Energy with the mission of promoting and increasing the production of unconventional hydrocarbons in the US, to sustain the energy matrix of that country, although US oil production reached the highest level that any country has ever produced. never under the government of Joe Biden.
Who is the next Press Secretary of the United States government?
In a raid of announcements of his new cabinet, the elected president also officially appointed Karoline Leavitt like your White House Press Secretary. The woman, only 27 years old, will become the youngest person to play one of the most visible roles of the new administration.
Working with a Republican politician will not be anything new for the communicator since she was the businessman’s spokesperson during the presidential campaign. ““I have the utmost confidence that he will excel on the podium and help deliver our message to the American people,” Trump stated.
One by one, Donald Trump’s appointments to the next US cabinet
- Elon Musk, for him Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE);
- Susie Wilesfor the Chief of Staff;
- Karoline Leavitt, as new secretary of Press;
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will be dedicated to Secretary of Health and Human Services;
- Mike Waltz will go to National security;
- Pete Hegsethfor him Department of Defense;
- Mike Huckabee for the US Embassy in Israel;
- Lee Zeldin, the former congressman who will go to Environmental Protection Agency;
- Marco Rubiothe senator who will go as Secretary of State;
- Doug Burgum current governor of North Dakotawill be secretary of the Department of the Interiorry holder of National Energy Council.
- Tom Homan, the former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will focus on deportation.
- Karoline Leavitt, Press Secretary.
- Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy.
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