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Local Content: Maximizing Value Creation and Building Competence in Your Own Country
Commercialisation of Gas Discoveries Remote From Infrastructure (So You Found Gas, What Do You Do With It?)
Global Challenges & Opportunities in Gas & LNG
NOC Strategies in Gas and LNG Development
Future Prospects for LNG Shipping
Maximising the Value of Strategic Partnerships in Gas and LNG
The Future for NOCs in an Age of Uncertainty
Maximising the Value of Strategic Partnerships and Cooperation
Energy Geopolitics, Resource Nationalism and Overseas Expansion
NOCs and E&P Efficiency
Global NOC Perspectives, Insights, and Opportunities
Finance and Corporate Governance
Human Resources
Downstream Strategies and Market Outlook
Regional Perspectives on Refining Capacity and Investment Strategies
Refining of Alternative Fuels
Financing and M&A
Partnerships and Relationships
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Meet our speakers
A panel of leading indursty experts will be offering their insights into the future of NOCs and the oil industry.
(speakers are listed in alphabetical order)
General Manager in Projects & Planning,
EGAS
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Assistant Vice Chairman for Operations,
EGAS
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Vice President, New Business Development, ,
Saudi Aramco
Abdulaziz M. Al-Judaimi is also a member of Saudi Aramco’s Executive Management and serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of South Rub-Al Khaldi Company Ltd (SRAK). He has also served as Vice President of Northern Area Oil Operations and is the former President & CEO of Aramco Gulf Operations Co.
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Chairman and MD,
Kuwait Oil Company
A KPC board member since 2004, Sami Al-Rushaid joined KOC as Chairman and MD in 2007 with a remit to maximise the huge upstream potential in Kuwait.
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Group Executive Director, Finance & Accounts,
NNPC
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Deputy Managing Director,
National Oil Corporation of Kenya
Sumayya Hassan-Athmani has been Deputy Managing Director, National Oil Corporation of Kenya since 2007.
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Managing Director,
LNG Shipping Solutions
In January 2001 Keith joined as a Director in LNG Shipping Solutions: LNG Shipping Solutions was created by a merger of LNG departments of BRS in Paris and Clarksons of London. Since July 2005 he has been managing Director. In April 2007 he has been appointed as Managing Director of Clarkson LNG.
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President Director,
Gas Strategies Group Limited
James Ball is an internationally respected advisor on natural gas policy and strategy. He is President Director of Gas Strategies Group Ltd and its Gas Strategies Consulting division. He has led assignments with the most important energy companies in the world and has acted as personal advisor to key leaders and organisations in gas and LNG world wide for the last 20 years. James has been involved in the inception, delivery and completion of numerous projects with clients (including the innovative GasPort project of Excelerate Energy from its inception).
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Managing Director,
JBC Energy
Johannes Benigni is Managing Director of JBC Energy GmbH in Vienna, Austria (formerly PVM Oil Associates Vienna). Mr Benigni founded the company in the early 1990s, focusing mainly on oil brokering in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the years Mr Benigni has steered the company away from oil brokering to specialise in research, energy studies, consulting and training. JBC Energy currently has 60 people working from its headquarters in Vienna, while the company also has operations in Singapore and London. The company has a substantial portfolio of publications on oil, gas and alternative fuel markets.
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Partner,
Simmons & Simmons
George specialises in projects and mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the energy and utilities sectors. He is a partner in our International Projects group, working from our Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices as the local Head of the Energy & Infrastructure Group, having previously worked in our London office (1998-2002), Abu Dhabi office (2002-2006) and Dubai office (2006-2007). He specialises in oil and gas, energy and other infrastructure projects.
George has held positions as in-house counsel at a major oil company and a leading oil field services company. He is recommended as an Energy lawyer in PLC Which Lawyer? 2008, as an Oil and Gas lawyer in Who's Who Legal 2008 and as a leading energy lawyer in the Guide to the World's Leading Energy & Natural Resource Lawyers 8th edition. He is also recommended for corporate and M&A work and projects and energy work in the 2009 edition of Legal 500.
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Partner,
Ernst & Young (CIS) Limited
Andy Brogan is a transaction advisory partner in Ernst & Young’s Moscow office.
Andy has been with Ernst & Young for 18 years. He recently moved to Moscow from London after spending the previous 10 years specialising on transaction services – with a focus on the oil and gas industry.
Andy has advised oil and gas companies on a variety of public and private transactions covering both upstream and downstream operations in over 20 countries.
Andy has a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London) and is a UK Chartered Accountant.
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Rodrigo Carvalho Nogueira Vilanova, Gas & Power Trading Manager,
Petrobras America Inc.
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Partner,
Simmons & Simmons
Adam Cooper is a partner in our Energy & Infrastructure Group. Adam has advised on a number of market-leading project financings in recent years, including the Ras Abu Fontas A1 project in Qatar, Egyptian LNG and on a number of downstream petrochemical and refinery projects. Recommended for project finance by PLC's 'Which lawyer?' 2009, Adam is described as having "Extensive experience in advising sponsors, lenders and governments on major energy, project finance and structured finance transactions".
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Managing Director, Head of Resources & Energy Group, MENA,
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited - DIFC Branch
Based in the Middle East since 1999, Darren currently heads HSBC’s investment banking team covering the resources and energy sectors within the MENA region, i.e. oil & gas, power & utilities, and mining & metals. He joined HSBC in Dubai in 2004 having worked for five years in Saudi Arabia for Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation, a specialist financing institution established by OPEC.
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Vice President, Exploration and Production,
PDVSA
Eulogio Del Pino is Geophysical Engineer graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1979, with a MS degree in Oil Exploration at Stanford University, in 1985. In 1979 he started his career on venezuelan oil industry at INTEVEP, PDVSA´s Technology and Research Center, were held different technical and supervisors positions.
In 1990 he was appointed Latin America Technical Manager for Western Atlas Company. In 1991 he returned to Petróleos de Venezuela, where he held several managerial positions at Corpoven, another of PDVSA’s affiliates in the recent past. In 1997 he was appointed Exploration and Delineation Manager of PDVSA Exploration and Production. He had the responsibility to coordinate the PDVSA’s restart Offshore Exploration Campaign in the Plataforma Deltana in 2001.
Later in 2003 he was appointed General Manager of Strategic Associations from de Corporación Venezolana de Petróleo, PDVSA’s affiliate, in charge of representing at the Strategic Association of the Orinoco Oil Belt and in 2005 he was named Director of PDVSA and President of PDVSA CVP.
Del Pino has been elected for President and Vice President of the Venezuelan Society of Geophysical Engineers (1990-1994), Vicepresident of the US’s Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1996-1997), and Founder and Coordinator of the Latin American Geophysical Union. Del Pino was a professor both pregraduate and post-graduate level in the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Universidad Simón Bolívar, in Caracas.
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Managing Consultant,
Gas Strategies Group Limited
David Drury is a Managing Consultant with the consultancy Gas Strategies. In the course of the last ten years he has provided strategic advice on gas markets and projects to many major energy companies and financial institutions. David’s main consulting interests centre on international gas projects, Mediterranean and European gas markets and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Prior to his consultancy career David held a series of senior posts with BP, holding successively the posts of BP Exploration’s general manager in Algeria, Director of Southern European Gas Marketing and General Manager in Turkey.
David is a regular contributor on natural gas and LNG to several industry publications and is a member of the Alphatania faculty that provides specialist training on natural gas and LNG. He holds degrees in chemistry from Oxford University and is a member of the Institute of Energy and a former director of the Observatoire Méditerranéen de l'Energie.
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President & Managing Director,
Middle East Petro Chem Engineering & Technology
Dr. Mohammad Fatemi is the President and Managing Director of Middle East PetroChem Engineering & Technology (MEPET). He is responsible for all technical and management related activities of MEPET.
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Partner, Global Oil & Gas Leader,
Ernst & Young LLP
Wendy brings vast experience to the global oil and gas leadership role. Starting with BP, she has spent her entire career in the oil and gas sector advising major integrated oil companies on large scale transformation programs, merger integration, carve outs and shared services. Wendy is also on the advisory board of Positive Energy – the global leadership network for women in the oil and gas sector.
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Chief Economist,
Shell International B.V.
Steven Fries is Chief Economist at Royal Dutch Shell, where is responsible for advising senior management and the board on global macroeconomic developments and on energy market and environmental policy issues that affect the group’s operations. He also holds a visiting professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and a William Golding Senior Fellowship at Brasenose College, Oxford. Prior to joining Shell, he was Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Dr. Fries began his professional career as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. He earned a D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford after receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Dr. Fries has published widely on climate policy, finance and financial institutions, and the post-communist economic transition in Eastern Europe.
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Libya, a member of OPEC, holds the largest proven oil reserves in Africa, with an estimated total proven oil reserves of 41.5 billion barrels. Shokri Ghanem, the previous prime minister, is credited with liberalizing the Libyan economy and accelerating the opening of the country to international petroleum investment. In 2006 he was named chairman of Libya NOC with full responsibility for all petroleum sector policies and operations.
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Vice-President United Arab Emirates and Qatar,
TOTAL
Jean-Luc GUIZIOU, 47, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy (1985), Stanford University (MSc, 1988) and Paris University (PhD, 1993), serves as Vice-President Middle East for Total Exploration & Production as from March 2009.
He joined TOTAL in 1988 as a Research & Development project manager in geophysics. In 1993 he was transferred to Buenos-Aires as a Senior Geophysicist for Total Austral (Argentina). From 1996 to 1999, Mr Guiziou spent three years at Total’s Corporate Finance in Paris, before taking the position of Vice-President, Americas, as a coordinator for Total’s Exploration & Production activities in the Southern Cone. From 2002 to 2006 he served as President of Total E&P Canada in Calgary, engaged in the development of the Athabasca oil sands. From 2006 to March 2009, he served as Vice-President, Financial Operations for Exploration & Production at Total’s Corporate Finance in Paris.
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Partner, Energy and Infrastructure, Global Project Finance Group,
Linklaters LLP
Matthew Hagopian is a partner in Linklaters Energy and Infrastructure Group who specializes in the development and financing of large scale oil and gas projects.
Recent projects in which he has advised NOCs or their lenders or co-sponsors include: the Sakhalin II LNG Project with Gazprom, the Vysotsk Oil Export Terminal with Lukoil, the GNL Quintero LNG Project with ENAP, the Shtokman Oil and Gas Project with Gazprom, the Gdansk Refinery Project with Lotos, the Oryx Gas to Liquids Project with QP, the Gassi Touil Oil and Gas Project with Sonatrach, the HOVIC Refinery Project with PDVSA and the OK LNG Project with NNPC.
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President, Eurasia, Europe and Middle East Exploration and Production,
Chevron
A native of Mississippi, Mr. Hollingsworth earned a bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1979 and joined the company in that year as a drilling engineer in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He held positions of increasing responsibility, working on both inland and offshore production activities. Assignments included Drilling, Planning, Petroleum Engineering and Operations positions in Scotland, Syria, Denmark, Louisiana, and the New Mexico and West Texas Permian Basin.
In 1990, Mr. Hollingsworth was named Operations Superintendent in Lafayette, Louisiana, supervising Gulf of Mexico offshore and onshore oil and gas production, including gas plant processing operations and marine transportation activities.
He was appointed Operations Manager of Chevron Nigeria Ltd., based in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1991. In 1995, he was appointed to the position of General Manager - Operations for Tengizchevroil in Tengiz, Kazakhstan.
In 1997, Mr. Hollingsworth completed the Executive Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University and in 1998, became Vice President and General Manager Marine Transportation for Chevron Shipping Company LLC, Chevron Corporation's worldwide marine transportation subsidiary headquartered in San Francisco. In August 1999, he was appointed Managing Director for Chevron Overseas Petroleum’s San Ramon Strategic Business Unit.
Starting January 1, 2008 Mr. Hollingsworth was appointed President of new operating company Chevron Eurasia, Europe and Middle East Exploration and Production based in London, UK.
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Chief Energy Correspondent,
Financial Times
Carola Hoyos is the Financial Times chief energy correspondent, joining the team in 2003. Previously, she had been the FT’s United Nations correspondent, based in New York, covering – among other things – the lead up to the Iraq war and the oil-for-food scandal.
Before joining in the FT in 1999 she was a reporter for Bridge News Service in Los Angeles and New York, writing primarily about energy.
In 2000, she was part of a team of FT journalists who won the UK’s Foreign Press Association award for best business and finance story for their investigative series on Africa’s blood diamonds crisis.
Carola graduated with honors from Tufts University in Massachusetts, taking degrees in economics and international relations.
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Vice President - Business Development,
National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago
Andrew N. Jupiter currently holds the position of Vice President, Business Development of the National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NEC) and is now the Acting President. He is the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries. He was the leader of the Government negotiating team that signed nineteen Production Sharing Contracts between GORTT and several multi-national oil companies from 1993 – 2004.
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Group Chief Executive,
Emirates National Oil Company Limited (ENOC) LLC
Saeed Khoory is the Group Chief Executive of ENOC (Emirates National Oil Company Ltd), which is the flagship company of the Government of Dubai in the petroleum sector. ENOC owns and operates more than 30 active subsidiaries and joint ventures in various fields of the oil and gas business, including exploration and production, refining, gas processing, jet fuel supplies, terminalling, LPG and retail distribution of petrol, gas, lubricants and chemicals. Saeed Khoory is also Chairman of the Board of various joint ventures and subsidiaries within the ENOC group.
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Senior Vice President,
StatoilHydro ASA
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Director, LNG and Gas Exports,
Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries of Trinidad and Tobago
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Upstream Team Manager,
Gas Strategies Group Limited
Chris is Manager of the Upstream Team at Gas Strategies Consulting. Chris has significant experience assisting clients, from NOCs to AIM listed independents, to create and implement strategies to monetise gas in the challenging European and African gas markets.
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Mr Esteban Levin Balcells, CFO,
Pemex
Since 2002 Levin has performed various functions in PEMEX: As Acting Managing Director of Financial Information Systems he began the accounting consolidation project and reviewed the Form 20-F 2002 of PEMEX including the application of Mexican Bulletins B-10 (inflation), B12 (Statement of Changes in Financial Position), C9 (liabilities and contingent provisions), C15 (impairment of assets); and review of the methodology of successful efforts for hydrocarbon reserves valuation. From 2002 he was Investor Relations Officer and part of the team responsible for the reengineering of the corporate finance functions and the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) when working as Chief of Staff to the Chief Financial Officer. As Managing Director of Finance and Treasury of PEMEX, he was responsible for the analysis of domestic and international markets for finance and treasury decisions, planning and execution of the PEMEX financing program and definition of strategies to obtain optimal financing conditions, as well as strategies for derivatives operations as well as responsible for investment policy of current assets and member of the Board of Directors of KOT Insurance Company, Ltd. Mr. Levin was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Petróleos Mexicanos on October 27, 2006.
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President, CEO & Co-Founder,
World GTL Inc
David C. Loring, is the co-founder, president and CEO of World GTL. Under Mr. Loring’s leadership, World GTL has built a world-class management team to capture and commercialize undervalued natural gas opportunities.
Currently, Mr. Loring is directing efforts to finance and build a GTL hydrocarbon processing facility in Trinidad and Tobago. World GTL Trinidad, the joint-effort between Petrotrin, the leading petroleum company in Trinidad and Tobago, and World GTL Inc., is on-track to be the first commercial GTL facility in the Americas.
Prior to founding World GTL, Mr. Loring headed Loring Petroleum, where he provided expertise in all aspects of international petroleum exploration and production agreements, including the negotiation and drafting of foreign concession agreements, tax issues, operating agreements, drilling and seismic contracts, production agreements.
Mr. Loring has benefited from nearly 30 years of experience in the petroleum industry, starting with the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). Serving as a Senior International Attorney for ARCO of Los Angeles, he advised on international mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Mr. Loring handled negotiations and drafting of agreements regarding petroleum exploration and production operations. He has also served as a legal advisor to ARCO British Limited, and has extensive experience in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
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Associate Fellow,
Chatham House
From 2002 to 2007, Valerie led energy research at Chatham House. She is an expert on national oil companies and their relationship to the state. Her book, “Oil Titans; National Oil Companies in the Middle East” (The Brookings Institution, Chatham House, 2006), is based on over 120 in-depth interviews with the management of national oil companies and officials at the Ministries of Petroleum. Valerie Marcel also leads a major initiative on “Good Governance of the National Petroleum Sector”, in which 22 producing countries have worked together to define principles of good governance and establish guidelines for best practice. She previously taught international relations at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and the University of Cairo. Valerie is now based in Dubai, where she is working as a consultant.
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Director of Career Development Department,
Saudi Aramco
Moutaz M. Mashhour is the Director of Career Development Department at Saudi Aramco. He oversees all corporate development programs and services.
Prior to his recent assignment, Moutaz was appointed as the interim Vice President of Human Resources for King Abdullah University of Science and Technolgy (KAUST). During his assignment with KAUST, he guided the critical process of selecting and recruiting qualified and highly specialized faculty, researchers and support staff that will contribute to the optimal learning environment called for in the University's vision and mission statements.
Mr. Mashhour has almost 20 years experience in human resources development with Saudi Aramco.
He has served as administrator of several divisions, including leadership development and Saudi development divisions, competencies development, and worked as a performance improvement consultant for the Vice President of Employee Relations and Training.
Mr. Mashhour has extensive experience in the human resources field and has been responsible for providing performance improvement solutions for both organizational and individual development, and recently served as a key member of the Corporate Strategic Imperatives team where he helped develop the "Preparing the Workforce for the Future" report and recommendations to senior management. He has represented Saudi Aramco in a number of regional and international organizations and forums, including the Asian Region Training & Development Organization (ARTDO), the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), and the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM). He presented Saudi Aramco's documented experience in the implementation of its competencies development, performance management, and succession and career planning programs to the HR Oil & Gas Exchange Forum in Paris.
Mr. Mashhour also has broad based experience as a career counselor and advanced industrial training instructor.
Mr. Mashhour holds a B.S. in Industrial Management and an M.S. in Business Administration from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals.
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Fareed Mohamedi is a Partner of PFC Energy. He heads the Markets and Country Strategies department, which houses PFC Energy's expertise in evaluating the investment risk faced by international oil companies and the political-economic drivers shaping oil and gas sector policies in petroleum producing countries. Fareed also manages PFC Energy's oil market analysis team which is renowned for its analysis of OPEC oil market management strategies. He helped develop PFC Energy's expertise on national oil companies.
Fareed has been at PFC Energy since 1990. He has also worked at Moody's Investors Service as the lead country analyst for a number of petroleum and gas producing countries, at the Institute of International Finance in the Middle East and Asia departments, at the World Bank's Africa department, at Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates' Middle East service and at the economic research section of the Ministry of Finance and National Economy in Bahrain. In the 1970s, he managed several parts of his family business which had branches in Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Fareed holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from the Center For Contemporary Arab Studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and a B.A. in Economics from Western Michigan University.
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General Manager,
ADNATCO-NGSCO and UAE Governor for OPEC
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Former Senior Advisor to the President & CEO of Statoil,
INTSOK
Willy H Olsen is an oil and gas advisor to the Norwegian Oil and Gas industry after retiring from Statoil. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
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H.E. Marcelino Owono Edu, Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy,
Equatorial Guinea
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Partner & Head of Downstream Practice:,
PFC Energy
John Paisie is a Partner and Head of the Downstream and Petrochemicals practice, which focuses on the development of corporate and operational strategies. John specializes in assisting clients to undertake strategic reviews and to implement major change initiatives.
Prior to joining PFC Energy, John spent eight years with IBM Consulting Services (formerly PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PwC Consulting) as a member of the Global Energy Strategy practice, and was an Associate Partner at the time of his departure. While at PwC Consulting, he was based for three years in Asia, during which time he consulted with major international companies, such as Shell and Caltex, and national oil companies, such as Petronas, Pertamina and CNPC. He also participated in several merger, acquisition, and restructuring projects involving the petrochemical industry. Also while with PwC, John spent 2 years in Europe consulting for major international and regional oil companies, including BP and ChevronTexaco.
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Mr Christovam Penteado Sanches, Executive Manager for the E&P North-Northeast,
Petrobras
Christovam Penteado Sanches graduated in Geological Engineering from Ouro Preto Federal University (UFOP), Minas Gerais, in 1981, where he subsequently graduated in Reservoir Geo-Engineering in 1983. He joined Petrobras in 1983 and initially worked at the Research Center (CENPES) and in sedimentary basins located in the northeastern region of Brazil. In addition, he worked as exploration geologist and has carried out reservoir production activities in the Bahia Business Unit over the last 25 years. In the 1990s he served as Manager of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy. In 2004 he held the position of Reservoir Characterization Manager and then Production Engineering Manager in the Bahia Business Unit, when he was appointed Executive Manager E&P North -Northeast.
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Vice President, Corporate Business Development,,
Chevron
Vice President, Corporate Business Development
Jay Pryor is Chevron Corporation vice president for Corporate Business Development. He is responsible for identifying and developing new, large-scale business opportunities throughout the world.
A native of Mississippi, Pryor earned his bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Mississippi State University in 1979. That same year, he joined Chevron U.S.A. Production Co. as a petroleum engineer and held a number of production-related positions. He gained valuable downstream management experience in U.S. natural gas sales during the country's transition toward deregulation.
Pryor held a succession of management positions with increasing responsibilities in Asia, the United States, Europe and the former Soviet Union.
In 1992, Pryor joined Chevron's international subsidiary Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc. as the first manager of petroleum engineering in the newly established Tengizchevroil joint venture in Kazakhstan. In 1996, he transferred to San Ramon, Calif., as sponsor in charge of career development for operations personnel. He also served as general manager of Human Resources for Chevron's worldwide operations.
In 1999, he became managing director of the Asia South business unit and managing director of Chevron Offshore (Thailand) Ltd. In 2002, Pryor was named managing director of Chevron Nigeria Ltd., one of Nigeria's leading petroleum exploration and production companies. In that position, he was responsible for directing Chevron's oil and gas operations in West Africa, including Nigeria, São Tomé, Chad and in Equatorial Guinea.
Pryor assumed his current position in May 2006.
Pryor also is co-chairman of the Nigerian Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDS, a body inaugurated by Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo to spearhead efforts by the country's private sector to combat the spread of the deadly disease. In addition, he is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and founded the society's first branch in Kazakhstan.
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Director, Research Division,
OPEC
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Senior Vice President, Refining & Petrochemicals Joint Ventures & Strategic Projects,
OMV Refining & Marketing GmbH
Jeffrey Rinker is responsible for managing the OMV interest in refining joint ventures and special projects including the Bayernoil Refinery in Germany (45% OMV), the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Investments company (25% OMV) and the Ceyhan Refinery project in Turkey. He is also responsible for representing OMV’s majority (51%) shareholder interests toward the Petrom Refining and Petrochemicals Division.
From January 2006 until July 2008 he was a member of the Petrom Executive Board, with responsibility for the Refining and Petrochemicals Division of Petrom, and he continues to participate in the Petrom Executive Board as a non-voting observer.
He graduated Chemical Engineering in 1989 from Carnegie Mellon University and then worked 16 years for BP in various technical and commercial management positions in the US and the UK, including manager of the global acrylonitrile catalyst business of BP Chemicals; first manager of BP’s hydrogen fuels program, during which time he also served as Chairman of the non-profit National Hydrogen Association; executive assistant to the BP Group Vice President for Technology; and Business Manager for the 160,000 bbl/day (8mta) Toledo Ohio Refinery.
Mr. Rinker joined OMV in 2005. He resides in Vienna with his wife Joyce, and his sons Alex and Matthew.
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Mr Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, Group Managing Director,
NNPC
Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo joined the NNPC twenty three years ago rising steadily over the years to his present position as Group Managing Director of the Corporation. In the course of his twenty three year career, Mr. Barkindo has served the Corporation meritoriously and held several key positions in the organization some of which include the following:- Deputy Managing Director/Chief Executive, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas; Managing Director/Chief Executive HYSON/CALSON, an International Trading Arm of NNPC; General Manager, NNPC London Office; Head, International Trade, NNPC, London; Special Assistant to the Minister of Petroleum and Energy; etc.
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LNG Marketing Manager,
Gazprom Global LNG ltd.
Rosario Sgarioto is Marketing Manager of London based Gazprom Global LNG Ltd. With over 10 years experience in the natural gas and LNG industry he is responsible for all commercial LNG marketing activities worldwide.
Rosario previously worked for ENI Gas & Power in Milan and El Paso in London, assuming various capacities in natural gas and LNG business development activities.
He received a first class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Palermo and completed a Master in Management and Economy of Energy and Environment at the Scuola Superiore Enrico Mattei in Milan.
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Partner,
Simmons & Simmons
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Gary Smith is currently Chief Executive Officer of Golar LNG, one of the world's largest independently owned LNG shipping companies. Golar has over 30 years experience in the Global LNG industry and is the only shipping company dedicated exclusively to LNG transportation. Golar is currently expanding its activities to include the provision of Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRU’s) and Floating LNG production units (FLNG).
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Partner,
Simmons & Simmons
Martin is an experienced international oil and gas lawyer who specialises in LNG and gas projects. He has worked on the Isle of Grain LNG project since 2004 and recently closed the GATE Terminal project in Rotterdam. He has also acted for a variety of companies in relation to LNG sale and purchase agreements.
He has also worked on several major international electricity and water sector restructurings as well as power and water project financings. He has acted for sponsors, developers, governments and lenders. Martin joined Simmons & Simmons in 2005 as a Partner in the Energy and Projects Group.
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Jeroen van der Veer leads the Executive team at Royal Dutch Shell and is accountable for business performance and implementing strategy. Since 2004, he has led Shell through major change – simplifying governance and organisation, and clarifying direction and accountabilities.
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President and CEO,
Sudapet Co. Ltd
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Managing Consultant,
Gas Strategies Group Limited
Chris specialises in European gas market development, liberalisation and regulation. He is Director of Gas Strategies Consulting, and involved in all aspects of management and business development activities. Some of his recent consulting assignments include, participation in a major study on European gas market liberalisation which looked at 25 countries and 25 companies across the region, competitor analysis for utilities operating in Europe and a quarterly report which analysed the developments of market opening across the EU. Chris has a Ph.D. in economics from King's College London.
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Global Head of Oil & Gas,
HSBC Bank Plc
Philip Wolfe is the Global Head of Oil and Gas, Resources & Energy Group, Investment Banking at HSBC.
Prior to joining HSBC in 2003, Philip worked for five years at Deutsche Bank, where he was a Director in the Global Energy & Utilities Group.
Before joining Deutsche Bank in 1998, Philip was at Merrill Lynch in its Global Oil & Gas team in London, New York and Singapore.
During his 19-year investment banking career, Philip has been involved in numerous landmark oil & gas acquisitions, divestments, financings and privatisations representing NOCs, governments and IOCs across the globe including, amongst others, acting as advisor to: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in relation to its agreement with Chevron extending and amending the terms of the Partitioned Neutral Zone (“PNZ”); PetroChina on its acquisition of a 49% stake in the Osaka refinery from Nippon Oil; PetroRabigh’s sponsors Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical on its IPO; Polish Oil & Gas Company (PGNiG) on a Norwegian upstream acquisition from ExxonMobil; PGNiG on its IPO in 2005; Saudi Aramco on the acquisition of a strategic stake in Showa Shell (Japan) from Shell; BP on the €6.7bn acquisition of Veba Oel from E.On and €2.4bn sale of its Ruhrgas stake; OMV on various acquisitions; Turkish Privatisation Authority regarding the secondary offering of Petrol Ofisi; Croatian government on the privatisation of INA; PDVSA on its Ruhr Oel JV; PTT on its privatisation; Republic of Kazakhstan on its oil & gas privatisations; and Hungarian State on MOL’s IPO in 1995.
Philip holds a Bsc. Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Bristol.
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