World National Oil Companies Congress 2012 - list of speakers 

Risk Manager for DONG Energy with primary responsibility for E&P, Marine Risks, Contractual Risk Management. Educated as Lawyer from University of Copenhagen. Have worked as both Insurer (claims division), Broker (Aon, Willis Corroon) and Client (e.g. Risk Manager for Group 4 Falck (now Group 4 Securicor) and Senior Insurance Adviser or Maersk Oil ...

Chemical Engineer graduated from the Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno University (UAGRM), with and MBA in Oil & Gas from the Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra University (UPSA). Mr. Mario Arenas held several positions, including National Regulations Manager of YPFB, Director of LPG and OLEOFINAS of YPFB’s National Vice-Presidency of Operations in...

Zoltán Áldott, the President of INA Management Board from 1th of April 2010, started his career in 1990 as an associate in Creditum Financial Consulting. Since 1992 to 1995 he held various positions in Eurocorp Financial Consulting. He joined MOL in 1995 as the lead of Privatization Department. From 1997 till 1999 he was Director of Capital...

Jamal Al Loughani Kuwaiti national holding BSc Chemical Engineer from Kuwait University, in the year 1986 started his career with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. During his 26 years of experience he worked in various departments of the International Marketing sector. In November 2007 appointed Deputy Managing Director – Marketing Operations with...

Khalid Ali Alsumaiti has been the Deputy Managing Director (Exploration & Prod. Dev.) for Kuwait Oil Company since 2007.

Mr. Kumar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Osmania University. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has 29 years of experience in the oil and petroleum industry. Prior to joining our Company, he was the Director (Finance) of NRL for over three years and prior to that, he worked with HPCL for 23...

A Professional Geophysicist with 26 years experience exploring and developing a variety of North American sub-basins. Born in Calgary and earning a BSc. in Geophysics from the University of Calgary before starting a career at BP Canada in 1986. The BP assets were used to start Talisman Energy IPO in 1993 and a path of exploring and discovering...

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 & Maema...

Momodou has been the managing director of Gambia National Petroleum Company (GNPC) since 2008. Before Joining the national oil company, Momodou started his carrier as a clerk with the then Gambia Commercial and Development Bank in 1979 and moved to the Gambia Telecommunication Company in 1991 as accounts supervisor. In 1999 he moved to IBC Bank as ...

Øistein Bøe is the Head of Reservoir Technology for Statoil. Øistein Bøe took his PhD at the University in Bergen (1990) within the area of applied mathematics (reservoir mechanics) and was employed by Hydro (merge with Statoil in 2007) in 1990. He started working as a reservoir engineer and has experience from field development, production and...

Jan Dirk Bokhoven studied at Delft University of Technology and received his master degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1983. Until 1996, he held various positions at the oil companies Conoco and Veba Oil. In 1997, he started working for Clyde, first as Exploitation Manager, then as Commercial Manager. In the latter position, he was responsible...

Louis Bon graduated from Ecole des Mines de Paris in 1979. He joined Total in 1980, in the operations division, and went through expatriations in Norway (1982-1984), in the UK (1985-1989) and in Abu Dhabi (1990-1991). He moved to projects in 1991, on the Qatargas development, - relocated for two years as a resident in Japan – and then on the...

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Gary Boubel is senior vice president of Global Developments for Hess Corporation, a global, integrated energy company based in New York City. He is responsible for the appraisal, economic evaluation, conceptual engineering and execution of all capital and major expense projects for upstream activity worldwide. Boubel joined Hess in September 2009 ...

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 ranged ...

Brian has been CEO of Oman LNG since February 2007. He joined Royal Dutch Shell in 1980. His career has spanned management and executive positions in oil refining, gas, personnel, and major projects’ screening and execution in the oil, gas, chemicals and metals sectors. He has worked in Europe, the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Africa and the...

Educational background as Mechanical Engineer and graduated in 1981 from Copenhagen Technical University. Has worked for Maersk Oil since then in almost all capacities within the Drilling Discipline, ranging from offshore Supervisor in the North Sea to Drilling Manager in the Middle East and now heading up the Corporate Drilling Group with...

Jon has advised on international acquisitions, divestments and fund-raisings covering around 30 countries globally and acting for many Oil & Gas companies including BP, Chevron, Shell, ONGC Videsh, Hellenic Petroleum, Saudi Aramco, PetroSA, RWE DEA, Vedanta Resources, Petro-Canada, Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Salamander Energy. Jon is a respected...

Osmond Coelho is a General Manager for Petrobras.

As BP’s Vice President for Shah Deniz Full Field Development, Al Cook is responsible for the integrated leadership of this $20bn project, bringing gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe for the first time. The project includes construction of offshore facilities in Azerbaijan, expansion of a terminal and pipeline system from Azerbaijan to Turkey and...

Jeffrey Cooke is the manager for Project Risk and Reviews for ConocoPhillips. Cooke started with DuPont in 1988 as Systems Analyst in the Keylar™ manufacturing facility in N. Ireland. Responsibilities included computing support for product tracking & handling and ISO 9000 internal auditing. He joined Conoco (a DuPont subsidiary) in Aberdeen as...

Key Accountabilities: Mike is accountable for the leadership of BP’s access, exploration and resource appraisal activities and the long-term replacement of BP’s resource base. Education: Dr. Daly graduated from the University College of Wales in geology, and after several years as a field geologist in Africa he completed a Ph.D. at Leeds...

Currently Head of Development and Production at Galp Energia. Before joining Galp Energia in 2004, Daniel held various positions in Schlumberger and Transocean at various locations (Nigeria, UK, France and Brazil). He has a mechanical engineering degree from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and the University of Glasgow; an MBA from INSEAD...

Kudo Eresia-Eke is a Communicator, Social Scientist and Administrator. He holds a Ph. D in Political Theory and is currently Manager, External Relations of Nigeria LNG Limited. He is also the Chief Administrative Officer of the Oil and Gas Industry Foundation in Nigeria, where he performs ex gratia functions of training former Niger Delta...

Victor Eromosele has more than 30 years experience in the Oil and Gas industry, 17 of which have been in management positions Seconded from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 2007, he is the General Manager Finance/CFO of Nigeria LNG Limited, Africa’s leading exporter of LNG. Prior to NLNG, he was General Manager Finance at...

Mr. Fjeld is one of three persons who founded FLEX LNG Ltd. in 2006. He is the Chief Executive Officer of FLEX LNG. Prior to setting up FLEX LNG he held the position as Commercial Manager at Höegh LNG, an LNG ship owner in Oslo, Norway. Mr. Fjeld has a nautical degree and has worked at sea as a deck officer in the Royal Norwegian Coast Guard and ...

Manuel Ferreira de Oliveira is CEO of Galp Energia, SGPS, SA and has been since January 2007. He has been Chairman of Fundação Galp Energia since 2009, Executive Director and COO of Galp Energia, SGPS, SA from April 2006 till January 2007 and CEO of Galp Exploração e Produção; Petrogal – Petróleos de Portugal; GDP – Gás de Portugal; Galp Power and ...

Dr. Fouad Fleyfel currently holds the position of Head of Process and Flow Assurance Engineering in Shell Nigeria Exploration & Production Company (SNEPCO). He joined SNEPCO over three years ago. His current activities and his team activities involve work on Projects in all aspects of the Development phases from Identifying and assessing to...

Allen Gilmer is the Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Drillinginfo. Drillinginfo’s product suites are used throughout the US oil patch and around the globe to accelerate workflows and business critical decision processes. Allen is a Geophysicist, E&P executive and recognized thought leader in the oil and gas information/technology field. He holds a...

Ram K. Goyal is the Risk Management Advisor and Leader of Central Reliability Engineering at Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). His areas of interest are hazard and risk analysis, process safety management, environmental risks, contingency planning, insurance and engineering standards. Prior to joining BAPCO, he was at Fluor Daniel, Inc., Sugar ...

Geert Graaf is a Member of the Executive Board for GASUNIE

Paul Groves is the MD of Petrofac’s Training Services and he joined Petrofac in June 2009. As MD of Petrofac’s Training Services business, Paul has overall responsibility for developing and running the group’s global training and consultancy business. Paul previously worked with Shell from 2001, where he held a number of business development-led...

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. Mr. Gyetvay’s main areas of responsibilities include external financial reporting and control, treasury, corporate finance, investor relations and capital market activities, as well as corporate...

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 a...

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.

Lars Henneberg is Head of Risk & Insurance at A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S. The A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group is a worldwide conglomerate with operations in some 130 countries and a workforce of some 108.000 employees. The Group is involved in a wide range of activities in the shipping, energy and associated industries. Lars is a lawyer by background and has...

Edgar Hernandez Caro is the E&P New Business Manager for Ecopetrol SA

Born in 1961, Mr. Yang Hua graduated from China University of Petroleum with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering. He also received an MBA degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT as a Sloan Fellow. Mr. Yang joined CNOOC in 1982. From November 2006 to March 2010, Mr. Yang served as Assistant President of CNOOC. In...

Rashid Javanshir is responsible for managing the BP’s E&P business in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. He is a President of Azerbaijan International Operating Company – Operator of ACG PSA, President of BP Shah Deniz Company - Operator of Shah Deniz PSA, CEO of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline Company, and General Manager of South-Caucasus gas...

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Petter has 20 years experience in risk management and trading from internantional banks and as a consultant. He is regional director in GARP(Global Association of Risk Professionals), and was advisor for the Norwegian SEC several years. Petter Kapstad joined Statoil in 1994 as Financial Controller. and since 1996 has been responsible for building...

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism is responsible for the formulation and implementation of Government policy on matters pertaining to trade, industry, tourism and Consumer, in such a way that it will contribute positively towards the further development of the Cyprus economy and the well-being of the population of the island. The...

Chakib Khelil was the Algerian minister of energy and mines from 1999 to 2010 and president of Sonatrach form 2001 to 2003. Khelil organised the first national oil companies forum meeting in Algiers in April 2002. Khelil was also president of OPEC in 2001 and 2008, of the African Energy Commission (AFREC) in 2001, of the Association of African Oil ...

Ben Knowles is a Partner at Clyde & Co.

Roland Kobia is the Ambassador of the European Union to Azerbaijan. Before that, he was the International Energy Relations Advisor to the EU Commissioner for Energy, Andris Piebalgs, when he was in charge of energy security, oil and gas, trade, relations with suppliers and transit countries, as well as nuclear issues. He was notably in charge of...

Hans Kristian Olsen is the President (CEO) of Nunaoil A/S – National Oil Company of Greenland. He has nearly 30 years experience in mineral exploration during employment as geology student, geologist, vice president and president in private companies and at Bureau of Minerals & Petroleum in Greenland.

Tom Langford is a Managing Director and Global Head of Energy Investment Banking. Mr. Langford recently joined UBS from Morgan Stanley, where he spent seventeen years as an investment banker covering the energy industry, most recently serving as Global Head of the firm’s Energy Group. During his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Langford worked in...

Rod is a global chief executive officer and serial entrepreneur with twenty years of experience operating companies in China, Europe and the USA. Leading venture capitalists and corporate investors including AT&T, Intel, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen have shared his vision and invested over $100M in his companies. His first company, Insignia...

Nick Maden joined Statoil in January 2011 as Senior Vice President responsible for International Exploration at Statoil. Prior to taking up this role he was Exploration Vice President for International and East Coast exploration at Petro-Canada and then Suncor. Nick has a Bachelor of Science in Geology from Kings College, London, and a Master of...

Dr Valérie Marcel is an Associate Fellow with Chatham House and a consultant for KPMG’s Global NOC Team. She is a leading expert in national oil companies (NOCs), petroleum sector governance and strategic issues affecting the energy industry. She is currently investigating governance issues in new oil hot-spots in Sub-Saharan Africa and advises...

Roland graduated from Imperial College in 1978 and has over 30 years' experience in design, construction, safety and operations' management in the oil, gas and chemicals business. Early in his career, Roland specialised in design and construction projects for BP, Shell, Marathon, ICI and worked for major consultants and contractors to the E&P...

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Marcio Rocha Mello, PhD, Petroleum Geologist and Geochemist, expert in petroleum geochemistry, petroleum exploration and petroleum systems. Worked 24 years in PETROBRAS, most of them as the Head of the Petroleum Geochemistry Group. In 1996, foundered and headed the First Center of Excellence of Petrobras (CEGEQ) up to 2000. From 1990-2000 he was...

José Jorge Moraes Junior is the Executive Manager for E&P Corporate for Petrobras

Ali Moshiri is president, Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company, a newly formed organization based in Houston, Texas. He is responsible for upstream operations in Africa and Latin America.

Marcos Mozetic is the Managing Director for Repsol Exploration.

Faizel Mulla is the Corporate Strategist for PetroSA, South Africa’s national oil company. His responsibilities include strategy development and facilitation, knowledge management, continuous improvement, portfolio planning, business intelligence, Scenario Planning, Strategic Integration and executive problem solving.

Phil Murray is CEO of Petrotechnics and founded the Company in 1989 after recognising a significant operational need in the Oil & Gas industry to use technology as an enabler to intelligently embed, automate and manage frontline work processes to drive operational efficiencies and improve safety management. Since that time Phil has been the...

A Chartered Insurance Practitioner and a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of India, Hari has close to 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. Currently the Head of Insurance of RasGas Company Limited, Doha - one of the largest LNG producers in the world, he has had his stint as an underwriter in the general insurance industry in India...

Dr. Dawood Nassif, General Manager, Strategy & Business Development, The Bahrain Petroleum Company. Holds B.Sc and Ph.D from Newcaslle University.UK and M.Sc. from Imperial College, London, all in Chemical Engineering. Has 30 years experience in the Oil Industry, mainly in Oil Refining. Spent many years on assignments with contractors on major...

Mehmet Öğütçü, Chairman, Global Resources Corporation, sits on the board of Genel Energy plc. as independent non-executive director and serves as senior advisor to BG Group. He is also the chairman of Invensys plc. Advisory Board. He is on the international advisory boards of APCOWorldwide, KCS, Windsor Energy Group, European Policy Forum, The Oil ...

Willy H Olsen is an oil and gas advisor to the Norwegian Oil and Gas industry after retiring from Statoil. Willy H Olsen had a number of positions during his 23 years with Statoil, including Managing Director of Statoil UK Ltd and Senior Vice President for Statoil’s activities in the Caspian. He was for several years a senior advisor to the...

Marcelino Owono Edu is the Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy for Equatorial Guinea.

Denis Painchaud is the Director, International Government Relations for Nexen Inc.

Jan Panek is Head of Unit dealing with retail energy markets, coal and oil in the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission in Brussels. He joined the European Commission in 2005 following an earlier career in the diplomatic service of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs during which he occupied positions in the Ministry'...

Tibor Papp graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in 1994, and then finished an MBA in 2002 at the joint International Program of Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management (Cleveland, USA) and IMC Graduate School of Business (Budapest). He is a registered broker in Currency and Grain sections of Budapest Commodity Exchange...

John Pothecary is currently Managing Director of RPS Energy’s Europe Africa and Middle East region, and responsible for co-ordinating the on-going development of this part of RPS Group’s business. John has over 30 years in the Oil & Gas industry and has worked for RPS since 1999 following 20 years working with Amoco and Lasmo, much of which was...

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. A native of Mississippi, Pryor earned his bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Mississippi State University in 1979. That same year, he ...

Graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris. After joining Total in 1979 he was assigned to various drilling, production, logistics, planning and operation management positions in UK, Tunisia, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Algeria, France, Venezula, Thailand and Myanmar. From 1999 to 2003 he was Managing Director of Total in...

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...

Joseph Colin Ramothibe is the Acting MD for Namcor

John Roberts is Energy Security Specialist with Platts, the world’s leading independent source of energy information. He has testified to UK parliamentary committees on Turkish, Russian, Caspian and Mideast energy security issues. His latest book, Pipeline Politics: The Caspian and Global Energy Security, is due to be published imminently by...

Howard Rogers is the Director of Gas Research for the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies

Mark Rowley is a Partner with Baker Botts. He specialises in the development of large-scale petroleum projects, including cross-border pipelines and LNG projects. During his career he has lived and practised in New Zealand, England, Azerbaijan and Australia, and has worked on oil & gas matters in countries around the World. In 2010 Mark moved to...

Laurent Ruseckas is a Senior Associate at IHS CERA

Since June 2008, Christoph Schlichter has been Senior Vice President Production North Africa at RWE Dea AG, Hamburg, Germany. He is responsible for RWE Dea's operations in Libya and Egypt as well as for RWE Dea’s interests in Algeria. From 2002 to 2008, Christoph Schlichter was Managing Director of RWE Dea’s subsidiary in Great Britain, RWE Dea...

Dr. Rainer Seele has been Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Wintershall since October 2009.

Gabriel Selischi is responsible for the upstream domestic assets of OMV Petrom. He studied electrical & mining engineering and started his professional career with Schlumberger in France. He held a range of engineering, petroleum engineering and consulting roles internationally and most recently held the position of Director of Projects &...

Keith Strutt has over 30 years experience in the construction industry. Having begun in construction management, he trained in quantity surveying and progressed to corporate management. Keith has worked in the Building, Civil Engineering and Rail sectors of Construction, and extensively on the preparation and defence of contractual claims in these ...

EbrahimTalib has a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, and a Diploma in Gulf Executive Management & Strategic Leadership Program from Darden School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. In his capacity as General Manager - Refining Division of the Bahrain Petroleum Company...

Graduated from Moscow State University in 1978 with an MSc in marine geomorphology. From 1982 to 1986 - a post-graduate researcher at the Institute of Oceanology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Moscow), where specialised in shelf lithodynamics and continental margin geologic development. In 1986 received PhD in marine geology. For the...

Dr Do Van Khanh is Member of Board of Directors, President & CEO of PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP). Previously he was Chairman of the Board of Directors, PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP).

Have more than 25 years of project experience from oil and gas industry primarily within the Subsea Area; Presently Vice President Subsea Compression Projects Portfolio including the Åsgard Subsea Compression project. Since 2005 had the position as project manager on Ormen Lange Southern Field, Ormen Lange Compression Pilot and Tyrihans...

John joined the oil industry in 1988. He spent 6 years in Schlumberger in LWD and Directional Drilling – was part of the research team that brought LWD to the North Sea. He became a Drilling Engineer for DDPS. He has worked for BP and ConocoPhillips as well as setting up drilling groups for a minnow and GDF Suez. He is v experienced in HPHT...

Paul has extensive oil and gas industry experience having worked for Shell International for 12 years, followed by a further eleven years with independent companies, most recently with Hunt Oil and Pioneer Natural Resources. He held a wide variety of engineering, management and business development positions throughout Shell’s global operations...

Philip Wolfe is the Co-head of Energy for UBS. He joined in June 2010 and is responsible for the coverage of EMEA oil & gas clients and the execution of transactions in the global oil & gas industry. Prior to joining UBS he was Global Head of Oil & Gas at HSBC. Previously, Philip worked at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch in London, New York and...

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Takashi Yoshida has been the Director General, Research & Analysis Department, Oil & Gas Upstream Business Unit at JOGMEC since July 2011.

Hernando Zerda-Noriega is the Head of Corporate Strategy & Business Performance for Ecopetrol SA. He is a Chemical Engineer from Universidad de América, with a specialization in International Economics from Universidad Externado and a Masters in Business Administration from Universidad de los Andes. He has worked in the oil industry for 16...