His candidacy was supported by companies in the oil sector, specifies the Financial Times.
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Chris Wright will also be a member of the brand new National Energy Council (NEC), the creation of which was announced Friday by the president-elect, and whose mission will be to “oversee the path to energy domination of the United States”.
The boss of Liberty Energy is “a leading entrepreneur in the energy field. He has worked in the fields of nuclear, solar, geothermal, as well as oil and gas”, commented Donald Trump in the press release.
“Most importantly, Chris was one of the pioneers who helped launch the American shale revolution that fueled American energy independence and transformed global energy markets and geopolitics,” he said. president-elect.
A graduate of the prestigious MIT and UC Berkeley, Chris Wright founded the company Pinnacle Technologies in 1992, “whose innovations contributed to the launch of commercial shale gas production and created an industry for mapping hydraulic fractures”, specifies the website from Liberty Energy.
He later served as chairman of Stroud Energy, “one of the first producers of shale gas, before selling it to shale pioneer Range Resources in 2006.”
Chris Wright resides in Colorado with his wife.
