Our summer “What to Watch” series has one goal: to translate the hyped-up headlines into key takeaways for oil and gas leaders. Have no doubt that two of the three disruptors (rise of the millennials and mainstream environmental activism) are key drivers in Exxon’s board shakeup. But at Adamantine, we are interested less in what caused the board shakeup and much more in how it’s playing out in the real world — and what those details signal for your company. Read on to find your game-changing takeaways.

Plenty of oil and gas realists have critiqued the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) roadmap to net zero by 2050. Instead, I want to look at the opening it creates for game-changing oil and gas leadership.