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Patrick Pouyanné CEO of TotalEnergies

Season 1, Ep. 26

In this episode, Nicolai Tangen talks to Patrick Pouyanné Chairman and CEO at TotalEnergies, one of the largest energy companies in the world. Nicolai and Patrick discuss net zero, challenges and opportunities in the energy transition and Patrick share some fascinating insight of his past meetings with Vladimir Putin before the invasion.


Unfortunately, we experienced some technical issues during the recording of this episode, which resulted in poor quality of sound. For those that find it hard to follow what is being said, please find a transcript of the entire episode her; Transcript

 

The production team on this episode was PLAN-B’s Niklas Figenschau Johansen and Martin Oftedal. Background research was done by Sigurd Brekke with additional input from Ståle Lægreid.


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