Showcasing our speaker line-up
In 2009, World Gas Exchange Asia will convene leading and emerging gas utilities, power generators, gas importers, traders, regulators, infrastructure developers and investors from China, Korea, Japan, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and other Asian countries to provide gas industry players a full picture on the exact demand trends, investment requirements and infrastructure developments across the region over the next few years.
Senior General Manager ,
Petronas Gas , Malaysia
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Senior Vice President ,
Electricity Generating Public Company Limited , Thailand
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Vice General Manager ,
ShanXi Provincial Natural Gas , China
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Vice President ,
Sinopec Gas Company , China
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Chairman and CEO,
GREEN DRAGON GAS , Hong Kong
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Manager, Transmission & Distribution Branch Company,
Shenzhen Gas, China
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Investment Officer and Team Leader for Infrastructure Division in China and Mongolia,
International Finance Corporation , China
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Director of Global LNG ,
Cambridge Energy Research Associate , China
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Director Oil and Gas Upstream Business Development,
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources
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Partner ,
Clifford Chance , Hong Kong
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Chairman of the Board & CEO ,
China Natural Gas , China
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President ,
Xinjiang Guanghui LNG Development Company Limited,, China
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General Manager ,
Tianjin Gas Group Company , China
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Manager, International Business Development Asia,
Statoil Hydro, United Kingdom
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Senior Manager,
Korea Midland Power
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Director General,
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources
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Senior Vice President,
Meiya Power Company Limited, Hong Kong
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Vice President ,
Global Infrastructure Partners , Hong Kong
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Energy Market Sector Leader for Manufacturing and Energy Senior Vice President India & North East Asia ,
Llyod's Register, United Kingdom
Robin Pickup is a Senior Vice President Energy of the Lloyds Register Group of companies. He holds the position of Global Director for Lloyds Register Energy’s manufacturing business sector, Chairmanship of Lloyds Register Industrial Technical Services Co. Ltd., China, a director of LR Insurance Inc., the LR Group global ASME services provider, and Lloyds Register Verification Services Inc., the LR Group global statutory services provider. He has responsibility for strategy and business development.
Completing marine school and university in the United Kingdom, Robin Pickup embarked on a seagoing career. He joined the Lloyd’s Register Group in 1983 initially in the UK, but saw his career quickly take him from the UK to Norway, Europe the Middle East and for the last 13 years to Asia. In Asia he initially held managerial positions in the group’s Hong Kong Marine business before transferring to the Energy business sector and Shanghai in 2003. He is married with a daughter and two sons and lists golf and motorbikes as his hobbies.
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CEO,
Tethys Petroleum Ltd, United Kingdom
Dr. Robson is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tethys Petroleum Limited, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Kazakhstan and Central Asia and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “TPL”. Tethys Petroleum produces gas in Kazakhstan, oil in Uzbekistan and is exploring a very large high potential area in Tajikistan.
Dr. Robson’s career has been primarily in operating oil and gas companies. He was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and one of the founders, of CanArgo Energy Corporation, an AMEX listed oil and gas exploration and production company operating in Georgia, and Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer and one of the founders of London listed JKX Oil & Gas plc, one of the first international oil and gas companies working in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union. Prior to this he was employed in technical (exploration, operations, petroleum engineering), commercial and managerial positions within Britoil plc, Hamilton Oil (now BHP Petroleum) and Mobil. Dr. Robson trained as a geologist, obtaining a First Class B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Geology and a Ph.D in Geochemistry. He also holds an MBA from the University of Strathclyde with his thesis topic being the European Gas Market. Dr. Robson has worked on oil and gas projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since 1990, establishing the first non-state gas development project in Ukraine, the first non-state drilling in the Ukrainian Black Sea, the first non-state exploration and development wells in Georgia, the first non-state dry gas production in Kazakhstan and the first Production Sharing Contract in Tajikistan. He has worked in many parts of the former Soviet Union including West Siberia, Sakhalin, the Pechora Sea, Kalmykia, Dagestan, the Caspian and Central Asia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society, a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, he holds the Order of Honour for services to the Georgian Hydrocarbon extraction industry, was formerly the energy sector representative on the UK government’s East European Trade Council and sits on the President of Tajikistan’s Consultative Council on Investment. Dr. Robson has spoken at many international forums on energy related topics in the former Soviet Union and at the “Paris Club” of donor nations.
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Directorate General,
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, India
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Managing Director ,
IDFC Private Equity , India
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Senior Vice President for LNG Asia Pacific,
Tokyo Gas Company , Malaysia
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Business Devleopment Manager,
PTT, Thailand
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Country Manager ,
Wood Mackenzie , China
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Assistant Director,
NDRC, China
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