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9 must-attend Houston energy events for March 2025

CERAWeek returns March 10-14, 2025. Photo courtesy of CERAWeek

Editor's note: March is a busy month for energy industry professionals in Houston, with a full calendar of meetups, summits, and, of course, CERAWeek. Below, we've rounded up the energy transition events you won't want to miss this month. Mark your calendars and register accordingly.

March 3-4 — Industrial Immersive

The Industrial Immersive community connects industrial, energy, engineering tech professionals making investment, strategy and tactical decisions, or building, scaling, and executing pioneering XR/ 3D/ simulations, digital twin, reality capture, edge/ spatial computing, AI/ ML, connected workforce & IIoT projects within their enterprise. This forum will bring together industry professionals to share first-hand experience, insight and advice for implementing and scaling immersive tech programs in enterprise operations.

This event begins Monday, March 3, at Westin Memorial City. Click here to register.

March 3-5 — Global Energy Meet 2025

The aim of this conference is to bring together all the key stakeholders interested in Fossil and Renewable Energy Sources to share and discuss advances and developments in these fields. It is a three-day event which features energy experts, academicians, business executives and engineers to showcase recent trends, strategies and challenges of energy systems. It creates a platform to focus on advancing new energy paradigms for energy systems and global energy issues.

This event begins Monday, March 3, at the Doubletree by Hilton. Click here to register.

March 4 — Low Carbon Investment Summit

The Low Carbon Investment Summit 2025, hosted by Flathead Forge, Energy Tech Nexus, and MetroNational, connects investors with breakthrough decarbonization technologies.The event will showcase innovative companies in decarbonization including water treatment, critical minerals, and energy transition sectors while connecting innovative companies with corporate VCs, family offices, and HNW investors. Space is limited.

This event begins Tuesday, March 4, at 11 am at MetroNational's Innovation District. Click here to register.

March 4-6 — THRIVE Energy Conference

The Thrive Energy Conference by Daniel Energy Partners is for key energy professionals collaborating on research-driven insights and trends key to developing a pathway to a “thriving” energy future. This unique event combines leadership from public and private global energy companies as well as investors under a professional yet fun atmosphere.

This event begins Tuesday, March 4, at Minute Maid Park. Click here to register.

March 10-14 — CERAWeek 2025

The foremost annual gathering in the energy sector returns to Houston March 10-14, 2025. Themed "Moving Ahead: Energy strategies for a complex world," CERAWeek 2025 will focus on the challenges ahead for energy security, supply, and climate ambitions. More than 10,000 participants from over 2,050 companies across 80 countries will convene in Houston for this ambitious event. CERAWeek comprises three platforms: the Executive Conference, the Innovation Agora, and Partner Programs. We'll dive into comprehensive CERAWeek recommendations in future articles.

This event begins Monday, March 10. Click here to register.

March 13: Energy Tech Market

Energy Tech Market features founders and industry experts sharing cutting-edge innovations, trends, and insights in energy technology. Organized by Energy Tech Nexus in collaboration with the Scale Up Hub Houston program and TechNL, this event brings together thought leaders and innovators to explore the latest developments across various sectors of the energy industry.

This event begins Thursday, March 13, at 10 am at GreenStreet. Click here to register.

March 18-20 — The Connected Worker: Energy Summit

The Connected Worker: Energy Summit provides the opportunity for you to get hands-on with the essential solutions you need to empower your frontline workforce, hear real-word case studies from energy and utility leaders, and network with your industry peers. Learn how to: create a safer work environment, boost compliance and improve efficiencies through automation, make your data mobile and reduce rework, downtime and time to decision; improve workforce mobility and maximize the use of data to continuously enhance process and asset performance; and much more.

This event begins Tuesday, March 18, at 8:45 am at The Westin Galleria. Click here to register.

March 26 — Bots And Brews Spring 2025

Bots & Brews is the H-town robotics, drones, geospatial, data & AI meetup, hosted by the Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition and the co-hosts: Industrial Digital Twin Forum, Industrial Reality Capture Forum & Industrial AI Nexus: Automate. Everyone in the energy and industrial robotics/drone/data & AI community are invited to come together to catch up and talk about real-world solutions and deployments.

This event is Wednesday, March 26, from 5 to 7:45 pm at The Cannon West. Click here to register.

March 31-April 2 — World Hydrogen North America 2025

The U.S. Department of Energy announced the Hydrogen Energy Earthshot initiative to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% within a decade. Canada has also released its Hydrogen Strategy, which aims to make the country a global leader in hydrogen production, use, and exports. Seize the opportunity to connect with industry leaders from across the hydrogen value chain, fostering long-term business partnerships and exploring potential collaborations. Engage with prominent off-takers, both nationally and internationally, and gain first-hand insights into the latest projects shaping the future of hydrogen in the USA and Canada.

This event begins Monday, March 31, at the Marriott Marquis. Click here to register.

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Devon Energy will buy Houston-based Coterra Energy. Photo via Coterra Energy

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based Devon Energy has agreed to buy Houston-based Coterra Energy in a $21.5 billion all-stock deal, forming an energy powerhouse that will be headquartered in Houston. The combined company, boasting an enterprise value of $58 billion, will adopt the Devon brand name.

Revenue for the two publicly traded companies totaled nearly $18.8 billion in the first nine months of 2025. Devon is a Fortune 500 company, but Coterra doesn’t appear in the most recent ranking.

The deal, already approved by the boards of both companies, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026. Once the transaction is completed, Devon shareholders will own about 54 percent of the combined company and Coterra shareholders will own 46 percent.

“This transformative merger combines two companies with proud histories and cultures of operational excellence, creating a premier shale operator,” says Clay Gaspar, Devon’s president and CEO.

The combined company will be one of the world’s largest shale producers, with third-quarter 2025 production exceeding 550 thousand barrels of oil per day and 4.3 billion cubic feet of gas per day. A significant presence in the Delaware Basin, encompassing hundreds of thousands of acres, will anchor the company’s operations. The 10,000-square-mile Delaware Basin is in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

The new Devon also will operate in the Permian Basin, located in West Texas and New Mexico; Marcellus Shale, located in five states in the East; and Anadarko Basin, located in the Texas Panhandle, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

Gaspar will be president and CEO of the combined company, and Tom Jorden, chairman, president, and CEO of Coterra, will be non-executive chairman.

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