[1] CERA has research and consulting staff across the globe and covers the oil, gas, power, and coal markets worldwide.
The company was founded in 1983 by Pulitzer Prize winning author Daniel Yergin, James Rosenfield and Joseph Stanislaw.
Many of them attend "CERAWeek", the company's annual conference held at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston, Texas.
Past keynote speeches have been given by the energy secretaries and ministers of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Mexico, Norway, and the United States.
[4] In June 2008, Daniel Yergin said that markets have helped fuel a "shortage psychology" that the world is "running out of oil".