CWC | Ninth Annual World LNG Summit Barcelona 2008

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SPEAKERS 2008

Elizabeth Spoomer
BG AMERICAS AND GLOBAL LNG

As BG's Senior Vice President, Business Development Americas & Global LNG, Betsy has responsibility for all aspects of new projects, continued strategic growth and development for the Region. Betsy joined BG Group in 2001 as Chief Executive Officer of BG LNG Services, the US subsidiary formed to manage BG’s Lake Charles position. Due to rapid growth in BG’s North American business, BG in 2004 announced the formation of a new region covering North America, the Caribbean and Global LNG and Betsy has lead the business development activities for the Region since its formation. Prior to joining BG, Betsy held various leadership positions with Amoco and then BP focusing on business development. Betsy graduated with a B.A. in Economics and History as well as an MBA from the University of Colorado.

Hamad Mubarak Al-Muhannadi
RASGAS COMPANY LIMITED

Mr. Hamad M Al Muhannadi was appointed Operations Manager of RasGas Company Limited in December 2004. He joined RasGas in July 1994 as Onshore Business Manager after working nine years in Qatar Petroleum. In October 1999, Mr. Al Muhannadi was appointed RasGas Train 2 Project Manager. Prior to his current position as Operations Manager, Mr. Al Muhannadi was assigned responsibility for the Management Services Group. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University. Mr. Al Muhannadi brings more than 20 years of experience in projects and operations to RasGas.

H.E. Gabriel Nguema Lima
MINISTRY OF ENERGY & MINES, EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Gabriel Nguema Lima graduated with a degree in Economics from Alma College, Dallas, Texas. Between 1999 and 2003 he was Secretary of State for Mines and Hydrocarbons and has been Vice Minister of Mines, Industry & Energy since 2003. He is the President of the Committee for the Monitoring of Petroleum Operations and a member of the boards of SONAGAS (Compañía Nacional de Gas de Guinea Ecuatorial), GEPetrol (Guinea Ecuatorial de Petróleo) and SEGESA (national electricity company).

Darren Jones
CONOCOPHILLIPS

D.C. (Darren) Jones is President, Global Gas, for ConocoPhillips’ Exploration & Production segment. Darren began his career as an engineer with ARCO International Oil & Gas Company in 1982 in Los Angeles. He moved to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1989 to join the ARCO Alaska, Inc., subsidiary as planning consultant. In 1993, he transferred back to Los Angeles to ARCO’s corporate treasury group as senior financial consultant. He rejoined ARCO’s international group in 1996 to manage international business development support activities while in the Plano, Texas office. In 1998, he was named manager of ARCO Alaska’s planning, evaluation and commercial group, a position he held until 2000. Following Phillips’ acquisition of ARCO Alaska, Inc. in 2000, and prior to the merger of Conoco and Phillips in August 2002, Darren served as business development manager in Exploration & Production. Following the merger, Darren served as Vice President, Greater Kuparuk Area and Cook Inlet until he assumed his present appointment in March of 2007.

Francisco Velasco
GAS NATURAL SDG, S.A.

Mr. Francisco Velasco is graduated in Mining engineering and has developed his entire professional career in the gas industry in relation with international projects, gas supply contracts and trading. Since October 2004, Mr. Velasco is Upstream Manager with responsibility on exploration & production projects of Gas Natural.

Amitava Sengupta
PETRONET LNG LTD

Enrique Loctura
REPSOL YPF SA

Mining Engineer at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas of Madrid. In 1972, he joined the National Company of Petroleum in Tarragona (ENPTASA), which is today incorporated in Repsol YPF, and has since occupied positions of great responsibility in ENPETROL, CAMPSA, CLH and Repsol YPF. He actively participated in creation of Gas Natural SDG, a company resulting from the merger between the former Catalana de Gas and Gas Madrid. He has been Managing Director of Petronor, Managing Director of Gas Natural SDG and Executive Director of Repsol YPF to Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. Currently, he is Executive Director of LNG as well as Member Business Committee of Repsol YPF, S.A.

Dr Alirio Parra
CWC GROUP LIMITED

Alirio A. Parra was Venezuela’s Minister of Energy and Mines from 1992 to 1994 and head of its OPEC delegation. He is a past President of the OPEC Conference and of the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE). As Minister of Energy and Mines he was Chairman of the Stockholders Assembly of PDVSA. As a member of the Presidential Commission on Oil Nationalisation in 1975, Dr Parra participated in the smooth transition of the Venezuelan oil industry to the then newly created Petroleos de Venezuela S.A., of which he became a founding Board Member. During Dr Parra’s 15-year tenure on the Board of PDVSA he helped shape the national oil company into a highly efficient entity that significantly increased the reserves position of the country and modernised the downstream including the revamping of the refinery sector in Venezuela and integrating abroad both into US and European markets. Dr Parra is a previous President of the International Association of Energy Economists (1988), and a past Chairman of the British Institute of Energy Economics (1997) and the Oxford Energy Policy Club (1984-95). He has also been a Member of the International Advisory Board of Total. He is currently a Director and Senior Associate of The CWC Group and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Energy Intelligence Group (EIG), Washington DC. He is a Vice-Chairman of the Anglo-Venezuelan Society, London. In October 2006, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Energy Economics.

José Simón
IBERDROLA, S.A.

José Simón is Bachelor in Law and Economics by Universidad Pontificia Comillas and MBA by IESE-Madrid. He joined Iberdrola in 1997, as Planning Director of the Planning and Development Department until September 2001 when he was appointed Gas Procurement Vice President, nowadays in the Energy Management Direction. He has led the team in charged of dealing long-term international LNG and pipegas agreements, for a total amount of approximately 8 bcm/year. He started his career as Senior Consultant in Arthur Andersen, focussing on electrical, oil and gas companies.

Kentaro Morikawa
TOKYO GAS CO. LTD

Kentaro Morikawa became Chief Representative of the Paris Representative Office of Tokyo Gas Co. in 2007. Prior to that, in 2004, he was General Manager, LNG Contracts, Gas Resources Department and in 1998 he was General Manager, World Gas Conference Tokyo 2003. MrMorikawa joined Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd in 1980.

Tom Cordano
EXXONMOBIL LNG MARKET DEVELOPMENT INC.

Tom Cordano is currently President, ExxonMobil LNG Market Development Inc., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company. In this role, Tom has worldwide responsibility for the development of markets for LNG produced in projects where ExxonMobil has an equity position, through a network of eight offices in Asia, Europe and the US. His responsibilities also include the development and/or acquisition of mid and downstream infrastructure and other commercial activity as appropriate to support ExxonMobil's LNG business. Examples of this activity include the Golden Pass (US), South Hook (UK) and Adriatic (Italy) LNG Terminals. Prior to moving to his current position, Tom spent 4 years in Doha, Qatar as ExxonMobil's Senior Vice-President, Qatar LNG Marketing, as a member of the RasGas Board of Directors and as an alternate member of the Qatargas Board. During his 38 years with ExxonMobil, Mr Cordano has worked in a variety of marketing, commercial and planning assignments in the upstream, downstream and chemical businesses.

Katsumi Kuroda
MITSUBISHI CORPORATION (UK) PLC

Mr. Kuroda joined Mitsubishi Corporation in 1979 and has been in charge of energy business since then, having experienced assignments at Tokyo, New York, Hiroshima, and London. Lately he has been responsible for LNG trading as well as Natural Gas/LNG arbitrage/diversion business to bridge markets between Atlantic and Asia Pacific regions.

Rod Duke
ENERGY MARKET AUTHORITY, SINGAPORE

Rod is currently the Director of the Singapore LNG Project for the Energy Market Authority of the government of Singapore, and has overall responsibility for contracting of LNG supply, import terminal development and regasified LNG sales and for policy development. Prior to moving to Singapore in 2007 he was General Manager Gas Business Development for Woodside in Australia, marketing LNG to Asian and Atlantic basin buyers and doing spot trading. Rod worked for Woodside for more than 20 years, from 1984 to 1996 in engineering and onshore and offshore operational roles on the North West Shelf project; and then from 1998 onwards in a range of pipeline gas and LNG marketing, commercial and business development roles, including sales to Japan, China and Korea and import terminal development activities based in North America. In between, he spent two years with Santos as the commissioning and operations manager of a large new onshore gas development in Queensland. Rod has a honours degree in Chemical Engineering and a graduate diploma in Business Management.

Wuttikorn Stithit
PTT

Mr.Wuttikorn Stithit has taken the position as Vice President, LNG Supply Department, PTT Public Company Limited (PTT) since year 2006. Mr.Stithit has worked in various areas such as corporate planning, business development, finance, natural gas wholesale marketing, and natural gas logistics. He also joined PTT’s team to initiate LNG import to Thailand in year 1995. Mr.Stithit graduated with Master’s Degrees in Business Administration and Industrial Engineering.

Steven C Sparling
SUTHERLAND, ASBILL & BRENNAN LLP

Steven Sparling chairs the LNG group at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, a US-based law firm with an extensive global energy practice. Steven has counseled multinational clients regarding projects throughout the LNG value chain, including siting and development of LNG import terminals, project development, safety and security issues, and stakeholder engagements. Steven has unique and inter-disciplinary experience in vessel movements and operations of regas facilities, particularly in the multi-user environment. He also has advised clients regarding LNG contracts and contractual risks, including negotiating agreements for LNG supply, terminal capacity use, multi-user terminal operations, and marine services. He writes and speaks frequently on these matters and contributes to Sutherland’s blog on LNG (www.LNGLawBlog.com). Steven's extensive LNG experience builds on his seven-year tenure with the U.S. Navy, where he served as a Naval Officer aboard the USS Barry (DDG 52). Steven graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and magna cum laude from George Mason University School of Law (JD).

Dominique Venet
ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE

Dominique Venet is Executive VP Gas of Electricité de France (EDF). He joined EDF in 2003 to create the Gas Division of the Group. A graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris and Stanford SEP, he has spent most of his career in the TOTAL Group which he joined in 1979. He was lastly in the position of Vice-President Middle East Africa in the Gas & Power Division. He was previously in charge of the development of the Qatargas at Total LNG project. His He has had postings to the Middle East and Africa.

Simon Bonini
CENTRICA ENERGY

Simon Bonini currently heads Centrica’s LNG business unit as Director LNG. Centrica will become the largest holder of LNG regasification capacity in the UK’s Isle of Grain LNG terminal as well as holding exploration acreage in Nigeria, Egypt, Norway and Trinidad and Tobago. Simon Bonini has over twenty years of experience in the global LNG business and has been based in the USA, Trinidad, UK and mainland Europe. He spent 17 years at BG Group where he was responsible for the acquisition and management of their LNG import business at Lake Charles and the LNG shipping business. While at BG he held the positions of President of BG's LNG Services, Vice President Global LNG and Vice President LNG Shipping. Most recently Simon was Chief Operating Officer for 4Gas, the independent LNG terminal developer based in the Netherlands. Prior to that he worked for Woodside of Australia developing an LNG entry strategy for North America. Simon Bonini graduated from Imperial College, University of London with a First Class Honours Degree in Chemical Engineering. He holds an MBA from INSEAD Fontainebleau, France. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Jean Luc Colonna
GAZ DE FRANCE

Jean-Luc Colonna started his professional career in 1974, directly for Gaz de France Group. He first held various technical and international positions in Transmission and LNG activities. He was then responsible for Underground Storage operations and development, Deputy V-P of the newly created E&P Division, Managing Director of the German E&P affiliate, and V-P Northern Europe for mid- and down-stream development. He was appointed as V-P LNG for Gaz de France Group in June 2007.

Octavio Simoes
SEMPRA LNG

Mr Simões has over 27 years of experience in the energy industry. He joined Sempra Energy in December of 1998 where he is Vice President, Commercial & Development at Sempra LNG. His responsibilities include marketing the capacity of regasification terminals, securing LNG supply and shipping, commercialising natural gas from the terminals, and acquiring equity positions in liquefaction plants. Prior to his current assignment, he was Vice President, Asset Management responsible for managing the fleet of power plants owned by Sempra Generation totaling 2,550 MW, Vice President of Planning & Analysis, and Director of Project Development responsible for developing and acquiring generation projects. Previously, Mr Simões worked for Earth Tech as Senior Program Director, New England Electric System as Director of Generation Projects in the unregulated affiliate, and Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation as a Mechanical Engineer. Mr Simões is a native of Lisbon, Portugal and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusettts – Dartmouth, and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Josu Murguialday
REPSOL GAS NATURAL LNG

Before start working with Repsol and Gas Natural, my entire professional career was carried out at sea as deck Officer and Master, in Companies like Exxon and Golar. I had been sailing during 14 years, four of them in VLCCs and the rest ten on board of LNG/Cs, trading worldwide. I was also assigned during one year to USA as “Building Superintendent” for getting back in service one LNG/C that was laid up for the last 18 years. Actually I’m assigned to Repsol Gas Natural LNG as responsible of Operations and New Projects, looking for the day to day operations of our fleet and supervising the nautical part of the New Projects.

Gerald Humphrey
CB&I

Gerald Humphrey is Vice President Business Development – Global LNG for CB&I where he has responsibilities for the LNG market sector worldwide. The LNG market sector within CB&I includes LNG liquefaction, regasification, peak shavers, floating LNG and LNG tanks. He has been in the Engineering and Construction industry for over 35 years and the LNG industry for almost 30 years. He started his career after graduation from The University of Texas with a B.S.C.E. degree in 1973 with the M.W. Kellogg Company (now KBR). His involvement in the execution of LNG projects began in 1979 when he started his progression through roles in engineering, project management and business development for LNG projects located in Malaysia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Peru, Chile, China, Canada and the United States. He joined CB&I in 2005 as Vice President Operations for LNG projects and moved into his current business development role in 2008. He is a member of the board of directors for the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, a trade association of LNG producers, shippers, terminal operators and developers, energy trade associations and natural gas consumers that facilitate rational issue discussion and the development of public policies that support LNG’s increasing contribution toward meeting the U.S.A.’s energy needs and economic growth.

Andy Flower
FLOWER LNG

Andy Flower is an independent consultant advising clients on the LNG business, where his areas of expertise include: strategy, marketing, project structures, LNG shipping, pricing, contracts, LNG supply and demand and project economics. In his 25 years of LNG industry experience he has been involved in the development of many of the world’s LNG projects and in the marketing of LNG in Asia, Europe and the USA. He has led the negotiation of major LNG contracts with buyers in all these markets. Previous to being an independent consultant, Andy was Senior Adviser LNG, BP Gas and Power, where he took a leading role in the establishment of a Global LNG team in the newly created Gas and Power stream in BP. Global LNG is responsible for coordinating BP’s upstream and downstream LNG activities and establishing an LNG Trading and Shipping function. Andy led the negotiations with LNG sellers to acquire cargoes of LNG in the short and medium term to support BP’s trading strategy. He also provided support for BP’s bid for participation in the Guangdong terminal in China. Before that he was Director LNG, Gas Directorate, BPAmoco, where he participated in the integration of Amoco’s LNG interests in Trinidad and potential LNG project in Egypt with BP’s LNG activities.

Christopher Ross
CRA INTERNATIONAL

Christopher Ross, Vice President of CRA International Inc., has 40 years of global experience helping international, national and independent oil and gas company clients develop and execute corporate and business unit strategies. He has assisted clients with LNG strategies and transactions since the 1970s. Mr. Ross has authored many articles providing insight into important changes in the petroleum business and is co-author of the book on leadership of energy companies: Terra Incognita – A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders. He received a BS in Chemistry with Honors from London University and completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.

Leon Harland
SBM OFFSHORE

Leon Harland is director of LNG FPSO development of SBM Offshore. Born in The Netherlands in 1970, he graduated as Civil Engineer from Delft University of Technology in 1994. After having specialised in reliability assessments of offshore platforms, he joined SBM’s Monaco offices in 1998 and held various positions related to FPSO projects since. In 2004, he was asked to start a new group focusing on Offshore Gas & Power developments. Leon is now made responsible to set-up and head an important new business line within SBM Offshore: the LNG FPSO.

Philip R Weems
KING & SPALDING LLP

Philip R. Weems is head of King & Spalding’s global energy practice and Managing Partner of the Firm’s three Middle East offices. Based in Dubai, he specializes in LNG / gas projects. His LNG experience includes significant, “cutting-edge” export, transport and import projects, including most recently upstream LNG projects in Nigeria and PNG and terminals in Singapore and Italy. He was based in Jakarta for 8 years, serving as AGC of VICO for Bontang matters from 1990-96 and as lead attorney for ARCO on Tangguh matters from 1997-99. He is ranked by Chambers Global, International Who's Who of Oil & Gas Lawyers, and Euromoney. For 2003-04, he served as President of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.

Theo Oerlemans
GASOL PLC

Theo Oerlemans is a Management Consultant in the international gas and LNG business. He is presently Senior Advisor with Poten & Partners, Inc. in New York, chairman of Africa LNG and Managing Director of Oerlemans Consultancy Ltd. He provides advice to energy companies, governments and financial institutions. He is particularly interested in the areas of strategy, project financing, project management and organisation, gas marketing and contracts. Theo retired from Shell in 1997, after a career of 35 years mainly in the development and management of the international gas and LNG business. From the end of 1993 until March 1997, he was the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Nigeria LNG, finally realizing this important project. Before that he was Director Business Development of Shell International Gas Ltd. in London. As such he was involved in the development of all the Shell LNG Projects. He is a graduate in Engineering from the University of Delft, the Netherlands.

John Fahy
ERAS CONSULTING LTD

John Fahy is an economist by training and the Managing Director of ERAS energy consultants who developed the emPower energy modelling platform. He has over 20 years’ experience in the energy sectors as an investment banker, analyst, project director, industry consultant and public policy advisor. His specialisations are market deregulation, investment strategy, financial modelling, contract pricing and asset valuation. He has undertaken numerous gas and power projects worldwide for all of the major oil, gas power companies.

Arnaud Cruiziat
GASELYS

Arnaud Cruiziat graduated from a French business school with a further year specialised in Finance (ESSEC - 1992). He spent several years working in the Société Générale group (investment banking & asset management). He joined Gaselys in December 2001 as Chief Operating Officer and then moved to be in charge of Structuring and LNG hedging services. He is a member of the EFET Gas Committee.

David Fuller
RWE SUPPLY & TRADING GMBH

David Fuller graduated from the University of Salford with an honours degree in Chemical Engineering. He also holds a Master of Business Administration. David is Head of LNG at RWE Gas Midstream GmbH, based in London, and manages LNG business from liquefaction through to regasification. David is managing RWE's move into the LNG business and is pursuing Atlantic Basin and liquefaction opportunities and developing RWE's presence in LNG. Prior to this David worked in the upstream in Asia from 2004 to 2006 and developed the first LNG project in the UK for over 30 years and the first phase of the Grain LNG from 2001 to 2003.

Steven R Miles
BAKER BOTTS LLP

Steven Miles is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Baker Botts LLP. His practice focuses on project development and finance in the US and internationally, particularly in the LNG, natural gas, electric power, and renewable energy industries. He has worked on over 35 LNG projects worldwide and currently co-chairs the LNG Committee of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), which is in the process of drafting model form agreements for LNG spot and short-term sales. He is listed in the Chambers USA Guide America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2005 and 2006, and in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006. He has been selected five times as one of the leading project finance attorneys worldwide by the editors of the International Financial Law Review. Mr Miles holds a BA (summa cum laude; 1980) from Union College; an MBA (1984) from Cornell University; and a JD (1984) from the Cornell Law School where he was editor of the Cornell Law Review.

David Ledesma
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

DAVID LEDESMA is an experienced commercial manager with hands-on knowledge of developing and closing commercial gas transactions as well as developing business strategies. During 25 years in the energy and utility sector, David has worked on the development of complex integrated energy projects, negotiations at government level, and in the management of joint ventures. While with Shell, David worked overseas in Malaysia and the Netherlands and travelled extensively to the Middle East and Asia. He was a key member of the team that closed a major LNG project in the Middle East. Since 2000, as Director of Consulting, then Managing Director of the Gas Strategies Group (formally EconoMatters Ltd) David worked on and managed LNG and gas consulting assignments in Europe, Middle East and Asia. David regularly lectures on LNG and participates in industry conferences and seminars. In August 2006 David was retained by 4Gas, an independent LNG regasification terminal developer, to support its strategy and LNG Supply activities. David also works with Outsights, an independent futures and scenario planning consultancy, and is Project Manager for a key assignment with the UK Government Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). David has a degree in economics and Geography from the University of Exeter, UK.

Anouk Honore
OXFORD INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY STIDIES

Ms. Anouk Honore is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. She works in the Natural Gas Research Programme. Ms Honore’s work focuses on natural gas demand, supply and power generation in Europe, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Atlantic basin -with a special focus on the consequences of price arbitrage, and natural gas markets in Southern Europe. Her forthcoming publication is entitled “European gas demand, supply & pricing: cycles, seasons and the impact of LNG price arbitrage”. Before joining the OIES, Ms. Honore worked at the International Energy Agency on natural gas issues.

Hon. Paul Tiensten, LLM, MP
MINISTER, NATIONAL PLANNING & DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT

Paul Tiensten was born in 1966. He has a Bachelor Degree from the University of Papua New Guinea and a Master Degree in Resources Law at the Center for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. He served as a Director of Petroleum and was also responsible as Project Manager for the World Bank – funded Gas Development and Utilization Technical Assistance Project. In 2002, Mr Tiensten was elected to the 7th National Parliament. He was appointed Chairman of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Gas and Energy Development He was later appointed the Trade and Industry Minister on the 12th November, 2003 in a minor reshuffle. In 2005, he was again appointed to head the merged Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry as a result of a minor reshuffle, a position he held until the end of Parliament. Mr. Tiensten was re-elected for a second term of Parliament in 2007 General Election, and was appointed Minister for National Planning and District Development. Mr. Tiensten is also the Minister responsible for Government Business in Parliament and he is one of the four Deputy Parliamentary Leaders for New Guinea Islands Region of the ruling National Alliances.

Maria das Graças Silva Foster
PETROBRAS

Engineer Maria das Graças Silva Foster holds, since September 2007, the position of Director for Gas & Energy in Petróleo Brasileiro S. A. – Petrobras. Ms. Graça is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), she holds a Master’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ), and an MBA in Economics from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. From May 2006 to September 2007 she was serving as the President and CEO of Petrobras Distribuidora S.A. Previously, she had performed as the President of Petroquisa, a position she took over in September 2005. From January 2003 to September 2005, Ms. Graça was the Mines & Energy Ministry’s Secretary for Oil, Natural Gas, and Renewable Fuels. In that interval, via Presidential Decrees, Ms. Graça also performed as the Interministerial coordinator for the Federal Government’s Biodiesel Program: Biodiesel Production and Use; and as the National Executive Secretary for the Federal Government’s Program for the National Oil Industry’s Mobilization (PROMINP). In April 2007, Graça Foster was awarded the decoration of Commander of the Rio Branco Order granted by the Ministry of External Affairs of the Brazilian Government.

Paul Q. J. van Poecke
4GAS

Mr Van Poecke is CEO 4Gas, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and is one of the companies founders. 4Gas was established in 2005 as a demerger from the LNG assets of Petroplus. Mr Van Poecke joined Petroplus in 1995 as CEO Logistics and later served on the board of Petroplus in this capacity also for 1 year as the COO of the refineries. In 1999 he was responsible for initiating and developing the Dragon-LNG terminal, the first LNG project in Wales. Previously Mr Van Poecke was Technical and Operational Director Van der Sluijs Group, and was responsible for tank storage networks. Mr Van Poecke started his career as a branch manager with AMRO Bank.

Jason Bennett
BAKER BOTTS L.L.P.

Jason Bennett is a partner in the Dallas, Texas office of Baker Botts L.L.P. who concentrates on project development, project finance, and international business transactions and investments. Mr. Bennett has extensive current experience with liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, including assisting clients with the development, construction, and launch of greenfield liquefaction projects (including three such projects in the last four years), regasification facility projects, LNG shipping matters, and the structuring of LNG trading platforms and investments. Such assistance typically includes structuring advice and drafting and negotiation of Shareholder Agreements, Gas Sales Agreements, LNG Sale and Purchase Agreements, LNG Master Spot Sales Agreements, Terminal Use Agreements, Scheduling and Coordination Agreements, Time Charter and Shipbuilding Agreements, Port Liability Agreements and Conditions of Use, and other related project agreements. Mr. Bennett has recently assisted Brass LNG, BP, Gazprom Marketing & Trading, Peru LNG, Merrill Lynch Commodities, Marathon, and Petrobras with substantial LNG matters, and has worked with other clients which have projects that are not yet in the public sphere. Mr. Bennett holds a BA (1993) from University of Texas at Austin; and a JD with honors (1999) from Georgetown University Law Center. He is also proficient in Russian.

Martijn Schouten
VOPAK LNG

Martijn Schouten, graduated from the Rotterdam School of Management with a Masters of Science degree in business administration. Martijn is business development manager Asia at Vopak, a Rotterdam based global independent terminal operator. Vopak is pursuing opportunities in the global natural gas marketplace by developing terminal services to the LNG industry. With a history going back almost four centuries, Vopak is the global market leader in independent storage and handling of liquid oil products, chemicals, vegetable oils and liquefied gases. Vopak has 78 terminals in the world’s most strategic ports in 31 countries. Martijn was actively involved in the commercial development of the Gate LNG terminal in Rotterdam and part of the negotiation team for the Terminal Use Agreements underpinning the Investment Decision taken December 2007. Prior to this assignment Martijn worked several years at Vopak in various positions.

Rudolf Huber
ECONGAS GmbH

Rudolf is a professional negotiator and is involved in all LNG negotiation lines EconGas currently follows through. He helped secure first Regasification capacity for EconGas at the GATE terminal in 2007 and actively helps to lay down the foundations of Shippers cooperation. Rudolf has recently been named Head of Business Development of EconGas and as such is responsible for strategic oversight of LNG. He remains deeply involved in the structuring and negotiation of all sorts of term agreements. He heads the LNG shipping team and is responsible for strategic supply. He also shapes policy on the short-term and trading aspects of the business and helps develop and implement the necessary auxiliary functions such as Risk Management and financial expertise. His new position allows him to broaden his view and consider the impact LNG has on the EconGas business model in order to optimize and integrate. Rudolf has not been an energy man since his tender youth. A lawyer by training, he has acquired the necessary skills on the beat. He obtained a Masters degree in Commercial and Taxation law from the Jean Monnet faculty (Université Paris XI).

Tom Warren
SUTHERLAND ASBILLl & BRENNAN LLP

Lars Odeskaug
TORP TECHNOLOGY

Lars Odeskaug, born 1953, holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1976. In total Mr. Odeskaug has more than 30 years experience in management, engineering, fabrication and financing within the oil and gas industry. He was one of the pioneers in the offshore oil business in Norway in the late 70's and 80's, holding senior engineering positions with Brown & Root, and working for Mobil, Exxon and Norsk Hydro. Mr. Odeskaug was APL’s Project Manager for the Conoco Heidrun crude oil loading project in 1993 and 1994, the first major STL project. Since startup the installation has delivered 100% regularity. From 1994 to 2002 Mr. Odeskaug was Managing Director of Hitec Marine. He developed the company from a small North Sea based products supplier to a leading international player within the offshore oil and gas loading industry, with subsidiaries and representatives covering the international market. In 2002 Mr. Odeskaug moved to Houston, Texas and formed the company Remora Technology to start commercialization of the proprietary HiLoad Technology for loading of crude oil and gas. Several companies have since been formed based on this technology, and today Mr. Odeskaug is the CEO of TORP Technology which is the developer of LNG terminals based on the HiLoad Technology with projects ongoing in the US and Europe.

Vincenzo Di Lorenzo
BRASS LNG LTD

Mr Vincenzo Di Lorenzo of ENI assumed the duties as Managing Director of the Brass LNG Limited company on November 15, 2007. In his previous assignment as Managing Director of ENI UK, he was a member of the Board of over 20 ENI Subsidiaries and was responsible for the Upstream and Midstream Gas Trading activities in the UK, Faroes and Ireland. Mr Di Lorenzo has acquired over 30 years experience in the upstream and midstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. Of his 30+ years of industrial experience, 22 years were acquired from working in overseas assignments in several countries in West Africa, the Far East, South America and the North Sea. He has a degree from the University of Naples in ‘’Mechanical Engineering’’ and an equivalent to a Masters degree in ‘’Advanced Technology applied to the Oil Industry’’.

Ian Belmore
RWE SUPPLY & TRADING GMBH

Ian's career spans 20 years virtually all of which has been within the LNG industry. Whilst at RWE Ian has worked on the Gate and Adria LNG Projects and was heavily involved in RWE's purchase of 50% of Excelerate. Before he was the Terminal manager of the Isle of Grain LNG plant where he oversaw the conversion from a peak shaving plant to an fully operational LNG import terminal.

Christopher Beale
CHEVRON UK

Mr. Beale is Director of LNG Marketing and Trading for Chevron Global Gas where he is responsible for Chevron’s LNG European activities. Since joining Chevron in 1998, Mr. Beale has held various positions in Upstream Planning, Natural Gas Business Development, Renewable Energy Development and LNG Marketing. Mr. Beale holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University and an MBA from Tulane University.

Keith Bainbridge
LNG SHIPPING SOLUTIONS

Keith Bainbridge spent 15 years at sea with BP Shipping before BP left him in 1986! His career path then took him into the “sleuth world” of tracing oil losses on behalf of Lloyds’ Underwriters before attaining a steady job with French Oil major Elf. Sleuthing still continued but concentrating but then on ship quality before was seconded to Nigeria LNG in 1995. Keith was Shipping Manager for Nigeria LNG from July 1995 to November 1997 where upon he joined the Paris brokerage firm Barry Rogliano Salles concentrating on LNG commercial development. It was during the period with BRS that Keith the joint publication with GTI on “A Review of the Global LNG Shipping Industry” now suprceded by LNG Trade and Transport. 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. Since May 2007 he has been appointed a Managing Director of LNG Division in Clarksons.

Richard Pratt
FEARNLEY

Richard has worked in the LNG industry for 20 years. He worked in a variety of managerial positions over 8 years in ADGAS during the company’s doubling of LNG capacity in 1994 including responsibility for fleet expansion and originating spot sales opportunities together with strategy formulation. After working with Poten and Partners he joined what was to become Mirant Corp. where he imported spot LNG cargoes into the USA, before joining Repsol where he originated and managed the Canaport LNG terminal project to conclusion of definitive documents. Most recently he formulated and managed Morgan Stanley’s entry strategy into the LNG industry.

Scott Chrisman
SEMPRA LNG

Scott Chrisman is Director of Commercial Development for Sempra LNG, which leads Sempra Energy’s efforts to develop liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminals and LNG purchases and sales activities. Scott is responsible for developing and negotiating commercial contracts including LNG regasification capacity contracts, LNG purchase agreements, and other arrangements necessary for the growth of Sempra LNG’s business activities worldwide. Sempra LNG’s current facilities include Energia Costa Azul, a 1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcfd) terminal located in Baja California, Mexico which achieved commercial operations in May 2008, and Cameron LNG, a 1.5 Bcfd terminal located along the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana which will complete construction in early 2009. Before he joined Sempra LNG, from 1998 to 2003, Scott was in investment banking, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) at Simmons & Company International in Houston. Scott was responsible for over $3 billion of M&A transaction support for companies throughout North America and Europe in such areas as gas pipelines, gas processing, gas storage, oil pipelines and energy service companies. From 1995 to 1997, Scott was Senior Business Planner for Exxon Chemicals and was responsible for managing its $150 million per year North American intermediates chemicals business. From 1990 to 1995, Scott was Senior Engineer for multiple chemical units throughout Exxon Chemical’s site in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was responsible for project engineering, operations support, and startups and shutdowns. Scott has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from The University of Tulsa, and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Rice University in Houston.

Frédéric Deybach
GAZTRANSPORT & TECHNIGAZ

Frédéric Deybach became an Engineering Duty Officer in the French Navy after his graduation from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Etudes et Techniques d'Armement (ENSIETA, Brest, France) in 1992 with an Engineer Degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He served for three years in the Surface Ship design office of DCN Ingénierie in Paris as deputy naval architect for CHARLES DE GAULLE Aircraft Carrier and later as nuclear safety manager. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Boston, USA) in 1997 with a Master of Science, he returned to DCN Ingénierie where he was the naval architect for two frigates and the new amphibious assault ship ordered by the French Navy. He joined Gaztransport & Technigaz (G.T.T.) in 1998 as commercial engineer. He has been the manager of the Marketing department between 2002 and 2007, actively promoting the membrane technology around the world. Since October 2007 he is the Director of the Engineering division, which is principally in charge of, the design of the Cargo Containment System and the Cargo Handling System and, the supply of all related drawings and calculation notes to the shipyards and classes for each new LNG Carrier project.

Francisco de la Parra
CFE - COMISION FEDERAL DE ELECTRICIDAD

Rudolph Huber
EconGas

Rudolf is a professional negotiator and is involved in all LNG negotiation lines EconGas currently follows through. He helped secure first Regasification capacity for EconGas at the GATE terminal in 2007. Rudolf has recently been named Head of Business Development of EconGas and as such is responsible for strategic oversight of LNG. He remains deeply involved in the structuring and negotiation of all sorts of term agreements. Rudolf holds a Masters degree in Commercial and Taxation law from the Jean Monnet faculty in Paris.