Energy Industry's Largest Annual Conference Cancelled Over Coronavirus Fears

CERAWeek is one of the biggest oil and gas industry events, featuring more than 800 speakers and 5,500 attendees from nearly 100 countries who get together in Houston, TX for five days each year. But this year's event has been cancelled, according to a March 1 announcement by its organizer IHS Markit. 

The reason cited for cancelling CERAWeek at the last minute, less than two weeks before it was scheduled to start on March 9, was COVID-19, the strain of coronavirus that's rapidly spreading around the world. Over the past week, coronavirus outbreaks have rapidly spread outside of China and Asia, with multiple deaths being reported in the U.S. in the past few days. 

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