T. Boone Pickens To Speak at Aspen Institute

August 11th, 2008 at 05:33pm Post Staff 43

SOURCE: Aspen Institute

Aspen, CO, August 11, 2008 –– The Aspen Institute will host a special event featuring T. Boone Pickens, chairman and CEO of BP Capital Management, on Friday, August 15, 2008. The event will take place at 2:30pm at the Paepcke Auditorium on the Institute's Aspen Meadows Campus. Tickets ($10) will go on sale beginning August 11th at the Wheeler Box Office.

T. Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of BP Capital Management, is principally responsible for the formulation of the energy futures investment strategy of the BP Capital Commodity Fund and the BP Capital Equity Fund. With more than $4 billion under management, BP Capital manages one of the nation’s most successful energy-oriented investment funds. Pickens frequently utilizes his wealth of experience in the oil and gas industry in the evaluation of potential equity investments and energy sector themes. He has not been shy in predicting oil and gas prices and — more often than not — has been uncannily accurate.

Pickens is also aggressively pursuing a wide range of other business interests, from water marketing and ranch development initiatives to Clean Energy, a company he founded and is the largest shareholder. Through Mesa Water, Pickens is the largest private holder of permitted groundwater rights in the United States. Clean Energy is advancing the use of natural gas as a cleaner-burning and more cost-effective transportation fuel alternative to gasoline and diesel.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.aspenshowtickets.com or by calling Aspen Show tickets at the Wheeler Opera House at 970-920-5770. Society of Fellows may make reservations by calling 970-544-7980. For more information on this and other Aspen Institute events open to the public, please contact Cristal Logan at 970-544-7929 or cristal.logan@aspeninstitute.org, or visit the Institute's website at www.aspeninstitute.org/aspenevents.

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