World National Oil Companies Congress 2013 speakers

Mr Al-Aradi, duputy managing director of KOC participates in developing overall, long and short term strategies that affect the Company’s operations to support KPC deliverables by Creating the annual business plan and budgets for KOC’s West Kuwait Production Operations, Maintenance, Operation Technical Services, Water Handling and g)    Directs...

Ahmed Al-Ahmed has over 20 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas industry including reservoir/field development and surveillance, project management and strategic planning, He joined Qatar petroleum in 1992, during this time he has undertaken a range of positions as a Head Surveillance & Well Operations in MM and other Fields with ...

Salim Al Sibani is the Chief Executive Officer of Oman Oil Exploration & Production since its inception as a separate business entity in 2008. He has more than 22 years of experience in the oil and as industry. During this time he has acquired vast experience in project management, business development, business planning and investments...

Managing Director, National Oil Corporation of Kenya, April 2011 to-date
Ag. Managing Director, National Oil Corporation of Kenya, Aug 2010 - March 2011
Deputy Managing Director, National Oil Corporation of Kenya, 2007 – August 2010
Company Secretary & Legal Manager, National Oil, 2004 – 2007
Senior Advocate, Iseme, Kamau &...

Johannes Benigni is the founder and director of JBC Asia, Singapore and the founder of JBC Energy, Austria. Mr Benigni first started the Austrian company in the early 1990s, focusing mainly on oil brokering in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the years he has steered the company away from oil brokering to specialise in consulting, research, and...

Jeremy has been in the energy business for more than 30 years. He is a graduate of Oxford University where he read physics. He joined Shell in 1980 following post-graduate experience at the California Institute of Technology. He also holds a masters degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Sloan Fellow...

Jan Dirk Bokhoven is CEO of EBN and heads the Executive Board. He also has a direct responsibility for the commercial department, which is responsible for the sale of the EBN share of the produced oil and gas. Jan Dirk graduated in 1983 at the TU Delft in Mining, with the specialization in Petroleum production. He started his professional career...

Posts held:. Technical Electrical Engineer, Industrial Technology Institute of Luanda, 1974. Engineer Maintenance Technician, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, 1974–76. Marketing of Derivatives of Petroleum, Belgium, 1976. Deputy Inspector of the Directorate of Technical Fina Petroleum, National Directorate of Petroleum. Marketing, 1977–79. Lubrication...

Andy is responsible for Ernst & Young's transaction advisory services to the global oil and gas industry. Andy has been the firm for 21 years, spending the last 15 years advising oil and gas companies on a variety of public and private transactions covering both upstream and downstream operations in over 20 countries. Andy’s clients have...

Petroleum Engineer, specialist in Evaluation and Management of Projects and with 25 years of experience with Ecopetrol S.A. Colombia and Perú in which he has had different roles in the industry, such as E&P Technical Development Manager, South Regional Manager, Manager of the Magdalena’s Production District, Superintendent De Mares Operations...

1 OCT.2004  - 31 OCT.2005: Executive Vice President Supply and Logistics, PTT
    1 NOV.2005 - 30 JUN.2009:  Executive Vice President Natural Gas Vehicle, PTT
    1 JUL.2009 - 31 DEC.2009 : Executive Vice President Trading Business Unit, PTT
    1 JAN.2010 -30 SEP.2011    : Senior  Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy, PTT
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Mr. Conner was appointed Managing Director of the Oiltanking Group in September, 2012. Mr. Conner joined Oiltanking Houston L.P. in 2000 before moving to the Group’s corporate headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, in 2003. In that role he was responsible for International Business Development within Oiltanking. In that position he also served as a...

Ian Davison has over 30 years experience in the international oil and gas industry, predominantly with BP, where he held a number of senior commercial roles. He has worked closely on a range of major oil and gas projects around the world, including Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and has been involved in developing...

Claudio Descalzi has been Chief Operating Officer of Eni - Exploration & Production Division - since July 2008. He is currently President of Assomineraria and Vice President of Confindustria Energy. He was born in Milan in 1955. In 1979 he graduated in Physics at the Milan Polytechinic University. He joined Eni in 1981 as Oil & Gas field...

Ken is Archer's VP of Marketing & Sales for its eastern hemisphere and technologies group. He joined the company in 2009 with more than 20 years E&P industry experience gained mostly with the oilfield technology firm Schlumberger. Following an early career as a wireline field engineer, petrophysicist and sales manager, he held several...

Manuel Ferreira De Oliveira is Galp Energia's Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors since April 2006 and Galp Energia's Chief Executive Officer since January 2007. Before joining Galp Energia, he was the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of Unicer – Bebidas de Portugal, SGPS, S.A. from 2000 to 2006, and...

Mr. MARK A. GYETVAY, Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, and a Member of the Board of Directors of OAO NOVATEK

Mark Gyetvay is the Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board as well as a Member of the Board of Directors of OAO NOVATEK and Chairman of the Board’s Strategy and Investments ...

Tony Hayward studied geology at Aston University in Birmingham and completed a PhD at Edinburgh University.. . He was Group Chief Executive of BP from 2007 to 2010 having joined BP in 1982 as a rig geologist in the North Sea. Following a series of technical and commercial roles in Europe, Asia and South America, he returned to London in 1997 as...

Dieter Helm is an economist specialising in utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment, and concentrating on the energy, water, communications and transport sectors primarily in Britain and Europe. He is a Professor at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Mr. Jafarov has joined SOCAR in 2009, as a Finance Director at SOCAR Trading (Singapore). In August 2010, he became the Group Finance Director of SOCAR’s Turkey operations, and in 2011 has also been given a dual responsibility to act as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of SOCAR. Mr. Jafarov was born in 1979. He holds a BA in Finance from...

Philip Lambert is the CEO of Lambert Energy Advisory. Philip set up Lambert Energy Advisory Ltd in 1999 as a business providing independent strategic and financial advice to governments, oil and gas, and electricity companies. Lambert Energy Advisory has focused on the increasing power and influence of the national oil companies. Mr. Lambert has...

Came to Statoil from the position of CEO in Aker Kværner ASA and held central managerial positions in the Aker RGI system from 1999. He has been political adviser to the Conservative Party of Norway's parliamentary group, a consultant with McKinsey & Co and deputy managing director of Nycomed Pharma AS.

Mr Messina has twenty years' experience in business development and executive management across the Energy, Oil and Gas, and Agricultural sectors. As one of the founding principals of Hutton Energy, he has been instrumental in the development of the Company’s European shale portfolio. Since 2009, Mr Messina has driven Hutton’s strategy for...

Sarah presents BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today Programme. She is also an occasional presenter on BBC World’s Hardtalk.
Since joining the BBC for the launch of News24 in 1997, she has presented many programmes including Newsnight on BBC2 and Breakfast News on BBC1.
Her first job was as a television reporter in the Channel Islands. After three...

Ali Moshiri has been president of Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company, based in Houston, Texas, since 2008.

Mr. Moshiri joined Chevron in 1978 as a reservoir engineer and later became a drilling engineer. In 1983, he became senior production engineer with supervisory responsibilities in the Gulf of...

May 2012-present: Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy, Equatorial Guinea. 2010-2012: Delegate Minister of Mines, Energy and Industry. 2003-2010: Vice-Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy. 1999-2003: Secretary of State for Mines and Hydrocarbons.

Alexandre Oliveira is the Ernst & Young Global Emerging Markets Oil-Gas Sector Leader based in Dubai. He has deep industry knowledge working closely with National Oil Companies, Governments and International companies globally. He has held positions in Schlumberger, Statoil, Baker Hughes, Accenture and the Boston Consulting Group in...

Peter has been in the Oil & Gas business for over 30 years, he is the Managing Partner of Bain & Co’s Global Oil & Gas Consulting business. He works with the industry’s leading national and commercial oil companies on strategic operational and capability development issues. Over his career Peter has also worked alongside many of the...

Jay Pryor is vice president at Chevron Corporation. He is responsible for identifying and developing new, large-scale upstream and downstream business opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions. Pryor earned his bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Mississippi State University in 1979. That same year, he joined Chevron...

Senator the Honourable Kevin Ramnarine was appointed to the 10th Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago by his Excellency the President, Professor George Maxwell Richards, acting on the advice of the Honorable Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar. On June 27th, 2011, he was appointed as Minister of Energy...

Alvaro Rios has over 30 years of experience in regional energy issues throughout Latin America. He is currently a senior Partner Director in Gas Energy and Drillinginfo. Responsible for upstream and downstream energy studies and developments in Latin America with focus on unconventional resources and natural gas. Executive Secretary of the Latin ...

Nouriel Roubini is the co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an independent, global macroeconomic strategy research firm. The firm’s website, Roubini.com, has been named one of the best economics web resources by BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist. He is also a professor of economics at New York...

He has been Chief Executive Officer of Eni since June 2005.

He is currently Non-Executive Director of Assicurazioni Generali, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of London Stock Exchange Group, Non-Executive Director of Veolia Environnement. Besides he is in the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School and Fondazione Teatro alla...

Mr. Jürgen Schuster heads the department of M&A and Upstream Commercial of Wintershall based in Kassel, Germany. In 2012 he had a major role in the announced strategic alliance deal with Statoil on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. He has 15 years of experience in the E&P industry and held positions as head of corporate development and...

He was born in 1966, in Rize. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University Petroleum Engineering in 1988. Between 1988-1993, He worked as Log Engineer in TPAO Batman District Management and TPAO Adiyaman District Management, between 1995-2003 as Well Completion Engineer, Technical Operations Chief and Workover Chief Engineer in TPAO Adiyaman...

Shri B.C.Tripathi, is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from NIT Allahabad and graduated in 1982. He started his carrier in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and subsequently joined Gas Authority of India Limited (now GAIL India Limited) in 1984 when the Gas Industry in India was at its infancy. Sh Tripathi is one of the founder employee of GAIL and ...

Jeroen van der Veer was appointed a member of the Supervisory Board as of 1 July 2009 at the General Meeting of 27 April 2009. From 1 October 2009 until 9 May 2011 he was vice-chairman. He has been chairman since 9 May 2011. Until the end of June 2009, Mr. van der Veer was chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell plc. Jeroen van der Veer is...

Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva is the Chairman & Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC), India’s most valuable Maharatna public sector enterprise and currently number 2 Exploration & Production Company of the world. Under the professional stewardship of Mr Vasudeva, ONGC today is the highest Profit making and highest Dividend ...

Carlos Villegas Quiroga was born in Potosí, Bolivia. Economist from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) Bolivia, he has a Masters Degree in Economics with specialization in Political Economy from the Center of Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences in Mexico; and a Ph D. in Development Strategies from the UNAM-CIDES, in Mexico. He was ...

Peter Voser became Chief Executive Officer on July 1, 2009. Before his appointment as CEO, Peter had been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and an Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell since 2004. He was CFO of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies from October 2004 to July 2005. Peter was CFO and an Executive Committee Member of the Asea Brown...

Andrew Yakubu is a Nigerian business executive and chemical engineer. As a committed and dedicated professional, Engineer Yakubu has received numerous recognitions, which include: NNPC Group Managing Director’s Award for outstanding performance, 1987; Nig. Society of Chem. Engineer’s 1997 Presidential Merit Award for actualising the Escravos Gas...