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Hear from THE best speakers in the industry
Knowledge from inside the industry and from those who are leading the NOCs industry.
- Hear case studies presented by those active in the market
- Get your questions answered during the interactive Q&A sessions
- Meet all those involved during our speed networking session and continue discussions informally at the networking drinks reception
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2008 speakers
Manager, Human Resources Development,
ADNOC
Salem Rashed AlMatroushi is currently Manager, Human Resources Development for the E&P Directorate at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). He leads a team of professionals that facilitates the development and implementation of competence (technical/behavioural) frameworks of minimum standards for ADNOC Exploration & Production Group of Companies. Part of his team responsibilities is Capability Building, Talent Management and Succession Planning. Since joining ADNOC in 1988 he worked on various management, operational and technical assignments mainly in petroleum development with the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) and then with the Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO).
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Managing Director of Finance and Treasury,
Pemex
Mauricio Alazraki was appointed Managing Director of Finance and Treasury at Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) in November 2006. Prior to this he was Associate Managing Director of Finance and Head of Capital Markets also at PEMEX. Other positions of Mr. Alazraki include Manager for Latin America at West Merchant Bank in London and Manager of Foreign Trade at the Mexico Commodities Company (CONASUPO). Mr. Alazraki received his B.A. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he was part time professor from 1991 to 1993, and a Master degree in Finance from the London Business School (LBS) in 1997.
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Executive Vice President, E&P,
MOL Hungarian Oil & Gas
Zoltán Áldott (39) has been the Executive Vice President of Exploration & Production at MOL Group. He graduated from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1991 with a degree in Economics. From 1990 to 1991 he worked at Creditum Financial Consulting Ltd. From 1992 to 1995 he held various positions at Eurocorp Financial Consulting Ltd. From 1995 to 1997 he headed the Privatization department, from 1997 until 1999 he was the director of Capital Market department. Since 1999 Mr. Áldott served as Director of Strategy and Business Development. From November 2000 he acted as Chief Strategy Officer and, since June 2001 til September 2004 as Group Chief Strategy Officer. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of INA d.d., member of the Board of Directors of the Budapest Stock Exchange.
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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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Mr Hussein al-Shahristani, Minister of Oil,
IRAQ
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Western Black Sea Project Manager - Exploration Department,
Turkish Petroleum Corporation
After completing his collegiate studies in the United States (B.S.: Geological Engineering, University of Oklahoma, M.S.: Geology, University of Tulsa), Mr. Aydemir joined TPAO Exploration Department, and has been working in TPAO since 1987. He was involved in several exploration and development projects mainly in Southeast Turkey and Kazakhstan oilfields. He was promoted as Offshore Western Black Sea Manager in 1999. He has since, of Operator’s and Majority stakeholders’ manager led the drilling of deepest-water offshore wells in Turkey to date and development of first offshore gas fields in the Black Sea. His specialty is working with several companies and branches in the oilfield. While managing joint projects with ARCO, BP, and Toreador in Turkey at various times, he also managed all aspects of an integrated effort involving exploration, drilling and production sides of the business. Mr. Aydemir, in addition to managing several joint projects, managed TPAO’s own exploration efforts in the Black Sea. The very aggressive 50000 km 2D plus 5000 sq km 3D seismic campaign led by him between 2004 and 2007 opened up totally new vistas in a previously unknown basin. Mr. Aydemir continues to lead the Western Black Sea team at the present time and intends to carry it to the mastery of ultra-deep water realm of the Black Sea.
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Managing Director,
LNG Shipping Solutions
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Director, World Energy Outlook and Chief Economist,
International Energy Agency
Dr. Fatih Birol is Chief Economist and Head of the Economic Analysis Division of the Paris-based International Energy Agency. He is organiser and director of the World Energy Outlook series, the IEA’s flagship publication. He worked for six years in the Secretariat of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, before joining the IEA in 1995. The World Energy Outlook (WEO) series is widely recognised as the most authoritative source for world energy information and medium to long-term energy projections and analysis. In recent years, the World Energy Outlook has received a number of honours for analytical excellence. In October 2006, he was made a Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Academique by the French Government in recognition of his distinguished services to the field of energy economics. In March 2007 he was presented with the Golden Honour Medal of the Austrian Republic in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the understanding of global energy issues, first at OPEC and now at the IEA.
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MD, Head Project and Export Finance Oil & Gas,
HSBC Bank Plc
James Bishop is a Managing Director and Head of Oil & Gas and Mining & Metals in HSBC’s Project and Export Finance department. Prior to joining HSBC in 2002, James worked for 3 years at The Industrial Bank of Japan Limited, where he was a Director in the Oil & Gas Project Finance team. Before joining IBJ in 1999, James was at Royal Bank of Canada in both London and Toronto. James began his career with Natwest Markets. During his 15-year banking career, James has focussed almost exclusively on arranging and advising transactions in the oil & gas industry covering M&A, capital markets, asset financing and project finance in countries including, but not limited to, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, UK, Germany, Egypt, Oman, Poland, Kazakhstan and Canada. Transactions include Egyptian LNG Trains 1 & 2 (Petrobras, EGPC and BG), Qatargas II (Qatar Petroleum and Exxonmobil), Oryx Gas-to-Liquids (Qatar Petrolem and Sasol), Egypt Basic Industries Corp (EGAS, KBR and others), Sohar Refinery (Oman Oil Company) and Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (Basell, SAT and Kazmunaigaz).
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Partner,
Ernst & Young LLP
Andy Brogan is a transaction advisory partner in Ernst & Young’s Moscow office. Andy has been with Ernst & Young for 18 years. Andy moved to Moscow from London last year having spent the previous 10 years specialising on transaction services – with a focus on the oil and gas industry. Over the last 10 years 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’s clients have ranged from large global enterprises such as Gazprom, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and BHP Billiton to independent resource companies such as Burren and JKX Oil and Gas. Andy has also worked for various Governments in connection with transactions in the oil and gas industry. 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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Senior Advisor to Trading & Marketing,
Total
Guy Broggi is a Senior Advisor LNG Trading, Total Gas & Power Ltd. (London & Paris)
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Managing Director ,
ONGC Videsh
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Exploration Director,
Sonangol
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Mr Jean-Matthieu Castellani, Vice President,
Schlumberger Business Consulting
Jean Matthieu is a Vice President of Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC) based in London, UK. He is a highly experienced international oil and gas management consultant with a track record of achievement. He has worked worldwide at senior levels with IOCs, NOCs and governments to develop and implement innovative solutions that meets the client's objectives. His focus is on strategy development, efficiency improvement programs, organisation & change management, E&P contracts design and negotiation.
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Executive Director,
Centre For Global Energy Studies
Fadhil Jafar Chalabi was born in Baghdad, Iraq in September 1929. After graduating with a BA in Law from Baghdad University in 1951, he took up a post with the Iraqi Ministry of National Economy, and between 1956 and 1958, he obtained two postgraduate diplomas in Political Economy from the Université de Poitiers in France. Between 1960 and 1962, he obtained a doctoral degree in Economics from the Paris University with a dissertation on oil economics. His professional involvement in oil began early in 1968, when he was appointed Director of Oil Affairs at the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad. He was chosen for the office of Permanent Under-Secretary of Oil in 1973, leaving after three years to join OAPEC as Assistant Secretary General. By 1978, Dr Chalabi held the office of Deputy Secretary General of OPEC in Vienna, acting for the Secretary General himself from July 1983 until June 1988. He finally departed in summer 1989 to assume his present position of Executive Director of the newly-established Centre for Global Energy Studies in London, founded and chaired by former Saudi Arabian Oil Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Fadhil Chalabi was charged with a variety of policy-making responsibilities during the time he spent in his native Iraq, many of which were oil related, and which included membership of the Board of Directors both of the Iraq National Oil Company (1968-76), and the Central Bank of Iraq (1971-1976). He also served on sundry Government boards and Commissions associated with oil finance, economics, etc. He is the author of two books: OPEC and the International Oil Industry: A Changing Structure (Oxford University Press 1980); and OPEC at the Crossroads (Pergamon 1989). In addition, he has written several articles on energy and oil economics, and is a worldwide speaker at numerous energy and oil seminars and colloquia.
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Chairman and Managing Director,
Gail India Ltd.
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Partner,
Simmons & Simmons
Tom joined Simmons and Simmons as a partner in 2007, based in our Hong Kong office. Previously Tom has worked in Hong Kong, the Middle East, Japan and the UK. Tom has experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, specialising in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Tom is highly regarded for his expertise in the Energy sector and has extensive experience in advising National Oil Companies. Tom was ranked as a “leading individual” in Energy and Natural Resources by Guide to World's Leading Lawyers(2006/7). He is also ranked as a leading individual in IFLR1000 (2006/7). Legal 500 has described Tom as being "highly recommended for his international commercial perspective" (2005/06 edition). Asia Legal 500 has recently described Tom as a " Leading Individual" for energy and projects (2007/08 edition).
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Deputy Executive Director and Chief Economist,
Centre For Global Energy Studies
Leo Drollas currently holds the twin positions of Deputy Director and Chief Economist at the CGES, where he is in charge of all the publications and most of the studies produced by the Centre. Leo Drollas also contributes papers in his own right and has dealt with subjects as diverse as oil inventories and prices, oil prices in the long run, the demand for aviation turbine kerosene, US gasoline demand, oil’s shipping needs, oil export tariffs, oil prices and production, oil capacity utilisation and oil prices, oil pipeline tariffs, OPEC’s oil-quota policies, Asian tiger oil demand, the connection between desired oil stockcover, oil futures prices and the effect of oil prices on economic growth. Leo Drollas has co-authored with David Long of Oxford Petroleum Research Associates a major CGES study on the strategic hedging activities of oil companies. Leo Drollas has written many articles and studies on oil, energy and the economy in general, and has completed a book on oil with Jon Greenman called “Oil – the Devil’s Gold”. He has spoken at numerous conferences on diverse oil-related subjects, including the oil market in the short and long term, Asian oil demand, oil’s role in power generation, the oil futures markets, global warming and non-OPEC oil supplies. He has appeared on the business programmes of CNN, CNBC, the BBC's World Service, Bloomberg TV, Williams Energy and other channels, and has contributed to many radio programmes in Europe and the US. Leo Drollas is regularly quoted on the main wire services and in the world's leading financial newspapers in the West and in the Far East.
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Phillip Ellis joined Willis in March 2006, bringing with him a wealth of knowledge and experience working with energy and energy-related clients around the world. Prior to joining Willis, Phillip served six years with the Boston Consulting Group as leader of their Oil and Gas Practice. Prior to BCG, Phillip was with Booz Allen & Hamilton, for over 13 years where he last headed up their Energy Practice for Europe and the Middle East. He has a history of growing significant new business and international teams. He has led a number of industry-changing programmes during his career. These have included reorganising the upstream headquarters of a major oil company, developing the privatisation strategy for a European national oil group and leading the design of the world’s largest gas development scheme in the Middle East. Phillip also designed and led a crisis scenario on gas supply to Europe for a major oil company which anticipated major risks and opportunities now facing the industry. He recently led a global benchmarking of investment criteria, methods and decision-making culture in the upstream oil industry, enrolling sixteen of the world’s most prominent oil companies in the programme. He has also been engaged in helping a large oil group develop new business in the Middle East. Phillip received an M.S. in Management from the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.A. in Science, Technology and Public Policy from George Washington University, and a B.S. in Atmospheric Physics from the University of California, Davis.
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Partner, Head of UK Oil & Gas,
Ernst & Young LLP
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EVP & MD, Africa, Middle East & Asia,
BG Group
Stuart Fysh joined BG plc in 1998 and was appointed Executive Vice President in November 2003. He is currently responsible for the Group’s activities in Egypt, Tunisia, Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, Israel and areas of Palestinian Authority and Madagascar and business development elsewhere in the region. He previously spent 17 years with the mining, steel and petroleum conglomerate BHP, where his various roles included commercial, business development, corporate planning and research and development. He has lived and worked in Australia, Pakistan, India, Singapore and Egypt
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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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EVP & MD, Americas & Global LNG,
BG Group
Martin Houston joined British Gas in 1983 and was appointed Executive Vice President in 2000. Based in Houston, he is currently responsible for the Group’s activities in the USA, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and for the Group’s Global LNG activities. He has held a number of technical and commercial posts, predominantly with an international focus, and played a leading role in the development of the LNG industry in Trinidad and Tobago. He is a non-executive director of Severn Trent Plc and a fellow of the Geological Society of London.
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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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President,
Future Trends International
Farzam Kamalabadi, a Persian American, born and raised in Iran, educated in Boston, now residing in Shanghai China for over two decades, is one of the very few personalities widely acclaimed both by the Chinese media and also recognized by the China government leadership at large as a true "China Hand" and a leading authority on China. In 1993, he established Future Trends International (Group) Corporation, a China specialist US Corporation engaged in investment and trade consulting, oil and gas and energy, government lobbying, and so on. It is recognized as the leader in grassroots government, enterprise, and media relations and networking throughout China. This network encompasses over 900 Mayors or Deputy Mayors, as well as over 50 Governors or Deputy Governors in over 250 cities in virtually every province of China. Moreover, it covers hundreds of media organizations, thousands of local government agencies, numerous private and public entities and prominent personalities. On the national level, Future Trends enjoys equally effective relationship with major ministries, agencies, prominent personalities; and with over 100 individual leaders in the top Central Government circles in the ministerial level and above.
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President of the OPEC Conference,
OPEC
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First Vice President,
Rosneft
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Executive Vice President, E&P,
OMV
Since January, 1st 2002: Executive Vice President of OMV, responsible for Exploration and Production business. Since July, 1st 2004: Additionally Managing Director of OMV Exploration & Production GmbH
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Mr Abubakar Lawal Yar’adua, Group Managing Director,
NNPC
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Group Executive Director, Finance & Accounts,
NNPC
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Jeremy Leggett, 50 is Chief Executive of Solarcentury, a pioneering UK-based electric power company. He is also a founding board member of the world’s first private-equity-focussed renewable energy fund, Bank Sarasin’s New Energies Invest AG. He is a board member of Jupiter Green Global Investment Trust, and Associate Fellow in Solar Energy at Oxford Univeristy’s Environmental Change Institute.
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President,
National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago
Mr. Frank Look Kin was appointed President of the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited on May 1st, 1996. Mr. Look Kin had been NGC’s Vice President, Business Development as well as Vice President, Technical Services. Prior to joining NGC in 1990, he had worked for approximately twenty (20) years in various technical positions with the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, where his final position was that of Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Look Kin has held active membership in several professional societies. In 1993, he received the Distinguished Engineer Award of the Trinidad and Tobago section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and in 1996 he was elected as a fellow of the Association of Professional Engineers. Mr. Look Kin is a Director of Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited, Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad and Tobago, National Enterprises Ltd and National Quarries Company Ltd.
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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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Managing Director,
Morgan Stanley & Co. Limited
Alastair Maxwell is a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley’s Global Energy and Utilities Group with responsibility for the oil and natural gas sectors in Europe. • Joined Morgan Stanley in April 1998 after 10 years at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson • Responsible for Morgan Stanley’s Energy and Utilities activities in Latin America until September 2001 Notable Transactions • Notable transactions include: • Privatisations of 9 Brazilian electric utilities • Equity/Equity-linked offerings by COPEL and CELESC (Brazil) and Gener (Chile) • Acquisition of Electricidad de Caracas by AES • Sale of Fortum’s Norwegian E&P assets to ENI • Structured financings for Repsol ($340mm) and Gazprom ($1.25Bn) • Spin-off and IPO of Neste Oil (€577MM) • IPOs on AIM of Frontera Resources ($90MM) and Urals Energy ($130MM) • Acquisition of 10.7% of Gazprom by Rosneftegas ($7.2Bn) • Sale of Neste Oil’s E&P activities in Russia ($320mm) • Follow-on equity offerings for West Siberian Resources ($162mm) and Urals Energy ($210mm) • IPOs of Saras (€2.1Bn) and Galpenergia (€991mm)
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Director of Exploration,
NIOC
He was born on June 7th 1957 in MASHHAD, Iran. He has been admitted to Tehran polytechnic university, receiving his bachelor of science in Mining Engineering, in 1979. Following to his compulsory military service, he has been employed by N.I.O.C Exploration in 1982 and began his work in the field of Geophysics where he obtained valuable experiences. In 1989 he commissioned the data processing center for the first time and due to his effort new Oil and Gas fields were explored. Since 1993 he has been appointed as Deputy Director of Exploration and later in 1997(month of September) as Director of Exploration and member of board of directorate. During his experiences in managerial sector, he has improved and developed different field of activities for exploring maximum amount of discovered hydrocarbon after Islamic Revolution. Also in international investment sector, he has signed 11 Exploration and Exploration &Development contracts with 15 companies from 12 countries-Commercial Oil were discovered in three blocks-
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Partner,
PFC Energy International
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Chairman, Latin America,
ChevronTexaco
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.
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HE Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, Deputy Petroleum Minister & NIORDC President,
National Iranian Oil Refining & Distribution Company
His Excellency Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh is currently Deputy Petroleum Minister and President of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC). He passed his primary and secondary schools in Iran, then earned his B.Sc. in environmental engineering from Californian Polytechnic University. He also received scholarship at the University of California at Berkeley on postgraduate studies in industrial management. He covered of about forty years of service in different industrial fields as follows: From 1969 to 1978 he worked as Technical Director of various Iranian industrial companies. In 1978 he became a member of the board and Deputy Managing Director of Iran Khodro Company. In 1979 he became Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. In 1980, he was appointed as Minister of Mines and Industries. In 1981, he took over as the Deputy Prime Minister. In the same year he served as the director, General Production and Infrastructure affairs and advisor to the Head of Planning and Budget Organization. From 1982-1985 H.E. Nematzadeh was a Member of the Board and Deputy Director of Iran's Defense Industries Organization. From 1985 to 1987, he served as the Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of Tavanir Company, Ministry of Energy. From 1989, he became Minister of Industries and served in this position for 8 years. In 1997 he became Deputy Petroleum Minister and President of National Petrochemical Company for 8 years. From 2005 up to now, he is serving as the Deputy Petroleum Minister and President of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC)
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Mr Francisco Nepomuceno Filho, Executive Manager for E&P Corporate,
Petrobras
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Chief Financial Officer,
Rosneft
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Group Executive Director, Exploration & Production,
Nigerian Gas Company
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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. 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 President& CEO of Statoil and was head of the President's Office before his retirement. He is an educated economist and spent 15 years in journalism before joining Statoil in 1980.
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EVP Administration and Chief Human Resources Officer,
Halliburton
Lawrence Pope is Executive Vice President of Administration and Chief Human Resources Officer for Halliburton and is a member of Halliburton’s Executive Committee. He has global leadership responsibilities for Human Resources; Health, Safety and Environment; Sustainable Development; Operational Excellence; Security; Real Estate Services; and Corporate Aviation. Mr. Pope began his career with Halliburton in 1990 as a recruiter with Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR). He progressed to Manager of Compensation and Human Resources Systems in 1996 and was then promoted to Director of Compensation and Human Resources Systems for Halliburton. After becoming Director of HR for Halliburton’s Energy Services Group (ESG) in 1999, he was promoted to Division Vice President of HR for the ESG in 2001. Mr. Pope then served as Senior Vice President of Administration for KBR and as Halliburton’s Vice President of Human Resources and Operational Excellence. Mr. Pope holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in business administration from the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. He is a graduate of Halliburton’s President’s Seminar (now called the President’s Leadership Excellence Program) and a Certified Compensation Professional.
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E&P Senior VP for Strategy, Growth and R&D,
Total
Patrick Pouyanné, 43, is a graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines of Paris. From 1989 to 1996, he held several positions in the French Industry Ministry, then at the Cabinet of the Prime minister as Advisor for Environment and Industry (1993-1995) and Head of Cabinet of the Minister for Telecommunications and Information Technologies (1995-1996). He joined the Group in 1997 as General Secretary in Angola. In 1999 he was appointed Group Representative and General Manager of the E&P subsidiary in Qatar. In August of 2002, he became Senior Vice President Finance Economics Information Systems for Exploration and Production and Member of the E&P Management Committee. Effective January 2006, He has been appointed Senior Vice President Strategy Business Development Engineering R&D for Exploration and Production. He is member of the Group Management Committee since May 2006.
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Senior Vice President International E&P,,
StatoilHydro
Ottar Rekdal graduated from the University of Trondheim as a chemical engineer in 1972. He came to Statoil in 1975 and held several managerial positions in Statoil, including Vice President of the Technology and Projects Division, Chief Technology officer of the Statoil Corporation, Senior Vice President of Natural Gas and Supply, SVP of International E&P West Africa and SVP Statoil International Gas & Power. His present position in StatoilHydro is Vice President International Exploration and Production Europe and North Africa.
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Dr Daniel Saba De Andrea, Chairman of the Board of Directors,
PERUPETRO S.A.
Mr. Saba has held different positions in the public and private sectors, among which worth mentioning are: Consultant for United Nations Development Program - UNDP, Manager of Promotion for Investments in COFIDE; Director / General Coordinator of the Privatization Committee of PETROPERU; Principal Assessor for Defense of the Consumer Congress Committee; Principal Assessor to the 2nd Vice-President of the Congress; Professor in different Universities. He is an Industrial Engineer from the “Universidad de Ingeniería” – UNI, Peru; MBA from the University of Stanford, California, USA, with a major in Economics; Magister in Business Administration from ESAN, Peru; “Programa Alta Dirección” PAD at the University of Piura, Perú; and United Nations Development Program Studies, among others.
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Vice President - New Ventures,
PetroSA
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Dr Maria das Graças Silva Foster, Director for Gas & Energy,
Petrobras
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Chairman,
National Iranian Tanker Company
Current position and responsibilities. 1 – Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of National Iranian Tanker Company. (Since 1984) 2 – Member of the Board of Steamship Mutual Underwriting ASSOC. 3 – Chairman of the Asian P&I Club. 4 – Executive Member of the Organization of Islamic Ship Owners Association. 5 – Chairman of Arya Shipping Company.
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Mr. Martin Stewart-Smith, Partner,
Simmons & Simmons
Martin is an experienced international oil and gas lawyer who specialises in LNG. 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 including Shell, Sonatrach, The World Bank, Barclays Bank and Gaz de France. Martin joined Simmons & Simmons in 2005 as a Partner in the Energy and Projects Group. From 1988-1995 he was a member of the Projects Group of Clifford Chance, during which period he spent two years on secondment to the World Bank Group in Washington D.C.
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Sveinung J. Stohle is President & Chief Executive Officer of Høegh LNG Ltd., based in Oslo Norway. In charge of the LNG shipping subsidiary of the Høegh Group, which comprises a fleet of 6 LNG carriers in world-wide trade, and with 2 innovative LNG regas vessels on order for delivery in 2009. In addition to traditional LNG shipping, the activity of HLNG includes 2 firm projects for floating LNG terminals, one in the US and one in the UK, as well as own development of LNG Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessels.
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Vice-President pf E&P,
PDVSA
Luis Vierma has a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Universidad Central de Venezuela (1978) and a master’s degree in Geology (Petroleum Geochemistry) from Indiana University (1984). Between 1975 and 1978 he was a professor of the Chemistry Department of Universidad Central de Venezuela. From 1978 to 1981 he was an Exploration Geochemist in PDVSA’s Research Center in Caracas. Between 1981 and 1984 he was appointed Research Assistant in the Department of Geology at Indiana University. He was then appointed: Head of the Geochemistry Laboratory in PDVSA’s Exploration Center, Hydrocarbons Exploration Project Leader in PDVSA’s Exploration Center, and Head of the Inorganic Geochemistry Unit. In 1993 he was manager of Exhibit XIII, Agreement between the Minister of Energy and Mines of Venezuela and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in Microorganic Crude Enhanced Recovery. In 1995 he was Head of the Geochemistry Section of PDVSA’s Exploration Center. In 1997 he was Head of the Geology Section and in 1998 he was appointed Exploration Business Manager. In 2000 he was appointed Director of the Office of Policies and Plans of the Vice Ministry of Hydrocarbons of the Ministry of Energy and Mines. In 2002 was the General Director of Hydrocarbons of the Ministry of Energy and Mines. Since 2003 he has been Deputy Minister of Hydrocarbons (Ministry of Energy and Mines). Also, in March 2003 Luis Vierma was named Director in the Board of Directors of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). Then, in August 2003 Luis Vierma was appointee to be the President of an affiliate of PDVSA, Petroleum Venezuelan Corporation (CVP), and in 2004 was named President (acting) of INTEVEP, an affiliate of PDVSA in research, technology and science affairs. In January 2005 has been appointed as Vice-president of Exploration and Production of PDVSA.
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Managing Director, Resources & Energy Group,
HSBC Bank Plc
Philip Wolfe is Managing Director, Resources & Energy Group, Investment Banking at HSBC, responsible for the global oil & gas sector. 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 18-year investment banking career, Philip has been involved in numerous landmark oil & gas acquisitions, divestments, financings and privatizations representing NOCs, governments and IOCs across the globe including, amongst others, acting as advisor to: 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.
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