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Senior Specialist,
J.P. Kenny Inc.
Sandeep Khurana has 15 years of diversified
experience in engineering design, accompanied by technical
support and
management responsibilities in procurement, fabrication and
installation of offshore platforms, production facilities,
and, most recently, subsea equipment and pipelines. He currently
serves as a senior specialist at J.P. Kenny Inc. with responsibilities
such as project coordination, execution and field development
planning. He graduated in 1990 from Rice University with
an MS degree in civil engineering.
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Distinguished Advisor, BP
George King serves as distinguished advisor with BP and has 33 years experience
in well completions. King holds degrees in chemistry, and chemical and petroleum
engineering. He has many industry accomplishments, including patents, papers,
books, engineering awards and teaching.
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Vice President, Gas Commercialization, Anadarko
Canada Corporation
Randy Kopjar is vice president, Gas Commercialization, Anadarko Canada Corporation.
Based in Calgary, he is responsible for the development and operation of the
Bear Head LNG Terminal in Point Tupper, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Most
recently, Kopjar held the position of manager, Liard Gas Project for Anadarko
Canada Corporation in Calgary, where he was responsible for planning and development
of the Liard East Gathering System in Fort Liard, NWT. Kopjar graduated from
the University of Calgary with a BS in mechanical engineering.
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General Manager, Drilling and Production Systems,
ChevronTexaco Energy Company
Randall Kubota is the General Manager
of Drilling & Production
Systems for ChevronTexaco's Energy Technology Company. The
position involves managing the technical expertise, technical
development, and research for the drilling, subsea, and floating
production disciplines. Prior to his current position, Kubota
held various positions in Texaco's drilling and production
operations. He also served as the Operations Sponsor for
ChevronTexaco Oversea Petroleum and International Drilling
and Subsea Manager for Texaco. In addition, Kubota held the
position of Central North Sea Asset Manager, and was the
Galley Project Manager for Texaco. He graduated from Cornell
University.
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Vice
President, Freeport-McMoRan Energy
LLC
David Landry is Vice President of Freeport-McMoRan and has
participated in the operations and management of Freeport's
offshore mining facilities since joining the company in 1976.
He currently is responsible for all activities related to
the development of the Main Pass Energy Hub, which will be
licensed as a Deepwater Natural Gas Port for the importation,
processing and distribution of natural gas into the U.S.
Landry holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering and an
MS degree in engineering from Tulane University.
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President, Schlumberger Information Solutions
Olivier Le Peuch currently serves as President of Schlumberger
Information Solutions (SIS), where he leads the effort to
deliver excellent products and services and bring additional
business value to our customers. He joined Schlumberger in
1987 and spent several years at the Schlumberger Riboud Product
Center, where he held a number of technology and management
positions. He also has served as Oilfield Units Product Line
Manager for Schlumberger, Technical Manager for IndigoPool.com,
and Product Development Manager for SIS. Le Peuch holds an
M.S. degree in electrical engineering from ENSERB engineering
school in Bordeaux and a research degree in microelectronics
from the University of Bordeaux, France.
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Director of Investments, TNK-BP
Boris Litvak was named director of Investment Department for TNK-BP in 2001.
He is responsible for investment activity and capital management of oil production,
refining and marketing. Litvak plays a leading role in the formation of TNK-BP
capital investment portfolio (around U.S. $2 billion), ranking and monitoring
of investment projects and evaluating merger and acquisition targets. Before
joining TNK-BP, Litvak spent 23 years with Texaco in different locations,
as director of project analysis and vice president in new business development.
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Vice President, International and Federal
Relations, Amerada Hess Corporation
Albert Marchetti serves
as vice president, International and Federal Relations of
Amerada Hess Corporation. He joined
the company in 1984 and has held positions in finance and
accounting within the International Exploration and Production
division. He also was responsible for leading the Amerada’s
West Africa business unit from 1998 through 2001. He holds
a BS from the State University of New York and an MS from
Binghamton University.
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Vice President, Global Projects, Halliburton Energy
Services Group
As vice president for Global Projects, Mark McCurley is responsible
for leading strategic projects within the Energy Services Group.
He also directs teams that support the key strategic marketing
focuses on natural gas, deepwater, mature assets and national
oil company business strategy and marketing. Prior to assuming
this role, McCurley served as vice president of Halliburton Deepwater,
which provided technical and commercial solutions covering the
upstream exploration and production activities of deepwater operators
globally. He became a Halliburton vice president in the mid-1990s
and has led Business Development, Completion Products and Services
and the Europe/Africa region. McCurley holds a B.S. degree in
management and marketing from Abilene Christian University.
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Managing Partner, Altira Group LLC
Dirk McDermott has more than twenty years’ experience in operational
and investor roles within the oil and gas sector. In 1993, he co-founded
Aspect Management, a Denver based venture capital firm that managed the oil
and gas portfolio of General Atlantic Partners and also invested in early
stage oil and gas technology enterprises such as GeoGraphix, Inc. In 1996,
McDermott founded Altira so he could focus exclusively on energy-technology-based
venture opportunities. He has served as a director on the boards of Altira
portfolio companies Canyon Offshore, NuTech Energy Alliance, RC Squared and
Coherence Technology Company. Dirk holds both an MS degree in geophysics
and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Chief Operating Officer, TNK-BP
In
his capacity as TNK-BP chief operating officer, Larry McVay
oversees performance of Upstream, Downstream, Technology,
Oil Field Services and Supply Chain Management, bringing
western petroleum management concepts into the company. Previously,
McVay served as technology vice president operations and
vice president Health, Safety and Environment. McVay led
BP’s Upstream Operations Excellence effort on improving
operating efficiency and integrity management, and his leadership
has resulted in a significant improvement in safety performance – BP
safety performance is now one of the top in the industry.
He has 25 years of senior management experience and over
35 years of industry experience. He holds a BS in mechanical
engineering from Texas Technology University.
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Vice President, Global Consulting
Tony Mills has served as vice
president of Global Consulting for Wood Mackenzie since January
2004. He joined the company
in 1996 to set up and launch the North Africa and Middle
East Upstream Service providing research and consultancy
for the region. He was made director of Africa, Middle East
and FSU Upstream Energy Research in 2000. Mills has over
20 years of energy industry experience, having worked for
Chevron, Trafalgar House Oil & Gas, Gaffney Cline & Associates
and Louisiana Land & Exploration. He holds a BS in mechanical
engineering from Liverpool University, an MS in petroleum
engineering from Imperial College London, and an MBA from
the Cranfield School of Management.
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President and Chief Operating Officer, IHS
Energy
Ron Mobed serves as president and chief operating officer for IHS Energy.
He was appointed in April 2004, following 22 years of service with Schlumberger.
Mobed has a history of success in growing and transitioning businesses through
innovation and by focusing on customer needs. He has a diverse background
in operations, product management, software development, marketing, professional
services and information technology. At Schlumberger, he served in multiple
roles including vice president of GeoQuest Asia; vice president and general
manager of Information Management for Schlumberger GeoQuest; and other sales,
marketing, consulting and management positions. Mobed received his Bachelor’s
degree in engineering from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge,
and was awarded his master’s in petroleum engineering with distinction
from Imperial College at the University of London.
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Senior Advisor, Integrated Subsurface
Work Processes, Statoil
Peter Eilsø Nielsen serves as senior advisor for Integrated
Subsurface Work Processes with
Statoil in Norway. He has worked for Statoil in a number of
positions for the last 14
years, most recently as sales manager for Statoil internal
corporate services. Prior to that, he
served as department manager for Sub-surface Applications (Statoil
IT); advisor in Structural
Geology (Statoil Technology); and several project leader positions.
Nielsen holds a degree in structural geology from the University
of Oslo.
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Chairman And Chief Executive, Officer, Petrie
Parkman & Co.
Thomas Petrie leads Petrie Parkman & Company, an energy investment banking
firm that has advised Saudi Arabia on its natural gas initiative, the State
of Alaska on gas pipeline options and the US Department of Energy on the
sale of the Elk Hills oilfield. During his career, Petrie has been an active
advisor on more than US $130 billion of energy-related mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining Petrie Parkman & Company, he served as managing director
and senior oil analyst of First Boston. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Petrie is a past president and member of the board of directors of the National
Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts. He earned a BS degree from
the US Military Academy at West Point and an MBA degree from Boston University.
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President, Pickering Energy Partners Inc.
Dan Pickering leads Pickering Energy Partners, where he is responsible for
oil service coverage and energy strategy. Prior to founding Pickering Energy
Partners, he served as head of research at Simmons & Company International.
He also has served as an E&P analyst and sector fund manager at Fidelity
Investments and served in engineering and finance functions at Arco Alaska
Inc. He frequently has been recognized for research excellence by such organizations
as Institutional Investor and Greenwich Associates. He holds a BS degree
in petroleum engineering from the University of Missouri and an MBA degree
from the University of Chicago.
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Deputy Consul
General of Russia in Houston
Nikolay Platoshkin has served as
deputy consul general of Russia in Houston since May 2004.
He started his career in
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in 1987. At the
Ministry, he served as attaché of the economic and
consular desk at Soviet, Russian embassy in Bonn, Germany;
as second secretary of Russian-German economic relations
in 4th European directorate; as first secretary heading the
political desk at the Russian embassy in Berlin; and as councillor
and head of the Armenian desk. He is a graduate of the Moscow
State Institute of International Relations with distinction
and holds a PhD in history. He has authored two books in
Russian on German and Spanish history.
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Chief Executive Officer, INTEC Engineering
John Reed currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of INTEC Engineering.
He directs INTEC operations located throughout the world from its Houston headquarters.
Prior to his current position, Reed served as President and Acquisition Manager
of Heerema Marine Contractors North and South America divisions. He is professionally
and technically affiliated with the Marine Technology Society, the National
Ocean Industries Association, and the International Marine Contractors Association
Americas where he served a term as national Chairman.
Reed completed a Program for Executive Development at the
International Institute of Management Development in Switzerland.
Reed holds a bachelors degree from the University of Mississippi
(Oxford) and an MBA from Delta State University.
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Group Executive Vice President, Aker Kvaerner Group
Jon
Reinhardsen serves as Group Executive Vice President for the
Aker Kvaerner Group with revenues of U.S. $6 billion.
Reinhardsen has served as head of the Houston "dual
headquarters" since January 2003. His responsibilities
include overseeing all Aker Kvaerner operations outside Europe
within oil, gas, energy and process, as well as its equipment
companies worldwide. Reinhardsen has 10 years experience
within executive management and nine years within senior
management in Aker Maritime, Maritime Group and Tentech International,
among other companies. Prior to this, Reinhardsen worked
four years in the research field.
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Vice Chairman of the Board, ChevronTexaco
Corp.
Peter J. Robertson is vice chairman of the board
of directors for ChevronTexaco Corp,
a position he has occupied since January 2002. From January
2002, until December 2004, he was responsible for directing
the company's worldwide exploration, production and global
gas businesses. Since January 2005 he has had direct responsibility
for Strategic Planning; Policy, Government and Public Affairs;
and Human Resources. He collaborates closely with the chairman
in overseeing the strategies and operations of the company.
He joined Chevron in 1973 and has held a variety of positions
with the corporation around the world. He earned a Bachelor's
degree in mechanical engineering from Edinburgh University,
and he holds a Master's degree in business administration
from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, where
he attended
as a Thouron Scholar.
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Manager of Investments, Shell Technology
Ventures
Ricardo Rodriguez has a diverse background, including management consulting,
many years’ experience in oil and gas finance, investing in new oil
and gas technologies, and mergers and acquisitions. He has taught as a professor
of finance at the Graduate School of Business, Instituto Tecnolgico Autonomo
de Mexico (ITAM). He holds a BS degree in mining engineering from the Colorado
School of Mines and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. He also
has completed graduate courses in corporate and securities law from the University
of Chicago Law School and in American law from New York University.
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Consul General of Canada, Dallas, Texas
Jean-Michel Roy was
appointed consul general of Canada in Dallas, Texas, in September
2002. He served as Canadian Consul
General in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from August 1998 to August
2002. Roy joined Canada's foreign service and served at diplomatic
missions in Belgrade, London, Santiago, New York and Brasilia
and more recently for a second tour of duty in London. In
Ottawa, his assignments were as executive assistant to the
senior assistant under secretary, Department of Industry,
Trade and Commerce, and as director of Export Controls, Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He holds a BA
degree in political science and an MBA degree from the Université de
Montréal.
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Chief Executive Officer,
Energy Valley, Inc.
Art Schroeder serves as chief executive officer of
Energy Valley, Inc., a company that provides money, marketing
and management
to advance energy-related technologies. Schroeder also serves
as a principal and founder of The Energy Forum, LLC, which
specializes in energy-related conferences and tradeshows. For
more than 20 years, he has been responsible for operations,
engineering, construction, environmental, health and safety,
and crisis management within the petroleum sector. He holds
B.S. and M.S. degrees from Georgia Tech and an M.B.A. from
the University of Houston. He also completed a certificate
program at the University of Houston in eBusiness management.
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President, AmeRussia Shipping
Co.
Rick Shannon has spent his life in the transportation industry,
holding senior management positions in major transport companies
and overseeing vessel and cargo operations in worldwide trades
routes over a 40-year career. He has concentrated in difficult
and developing parts of the world such as in the early 1970s
in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and later in the 1980s
in China, where he represented the National Line of China,
COSCO, in the United States. In 1993, he opened his own office
in Russia as AmeRussia Ltd and the USA as AmeRussia Shipping
Company. In 1994, AmeRussia was appointed general agent for
Baltic Shipping Company, the national line of Russia operating
176 vessels worldwide. In 1995, while continuing his own
companies, he was appointed president of Atlantic Ro-Ro Carriers
(ARRC) in the USA.
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Chairman, Simmons & Company
International
Matthew Simmons is Chairman of Simmons & Company
International, a specialized energy investment banking firm he founded in 1974.
The firm, which has offices in Houston, Boston, London, and Aberdeen, has guided
its broad client base to complete more than 500 investment banking projects at
a combined dollar value of approximately U.S. $58 billion. Simmons graduated
cum laude from the University of Utah and received an MBA with Distinction from
Harvard Business School. His papers and presentations are regularly published
in a variety of journals, including World Oil, Oil and Gas Journal, Petroleum
Engineers, Offshore, and Oil & Gas Investors.
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Deputy Assistant Secretary, Oil and Natural
Gas, US Department of Energy
Jim Slutz currently serves as the deputy assistant secretary
for Oil and Natural Gas in the Office of Fossil Energy of the
US Department of Energy. In this position, Slutz is responsible
for administering oil and gas programs, both domestic and international,
including research and development, policy analysis, and natural
gas import and export licensing. Previously Slutz has served
as director, Indiana Division of Oil and Gas, and in various
managerial and technical positions for the Ohio Department
of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas. Slutz holds
an MBA from Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business,
and a BS from Ohio State University, School of Natural Resources.
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President, Production and Non-regulated Operations, El
Paso Corporation
Lisa Stewart serves as president for Production and Non-regulated Operations
at El Paso Corporation. In this capacity, Stewart is responsible for El Paso’s
production operations as well as the company’s other non-regulated
businesses, including midstream, power, marketing and petroleum businesses.
Prior to joining El Paso, Stewart served as executive vice president, Business
Development and Exploration and Production Services, for Apache Corporation,
where she was responsible for leading the company’s business development
activities as well as its exploration and production services, including
corporate reservoir engineering. She holds a BS degree in petroleum engineering
from the University of Tulsa.
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Director, Petroleum Risk
Manager, Markets and Countries Group, PFC Energy
Roger Tissot is responsible for the Petroleum Risk Manager (PRM),
a Web-based analytical resource that evaluates political, economic
and industry-specific risk in leading oil-producing countries
around the globe. Tissot also helps coordinate PFC Energy's Latin
America team.
Prior to joining PFC Energy, he worked with EnCana Corporation
and a number of Canadian-based energy companies on political,
economic and market-risk issues in Latin America.
Tissot holds an M.A. degree in economics from the University
of Laval, Quebec, and recently completed his MBA degree from
the University of Calgary.
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State Secretary, Ministry
of Petroleum and Energy
Oluf Ulseth currently serves as state secretary of the Norwegian
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. He joined the Ministry
of Petroleum and Energy in June 2004 as state secretary.
Prior to that position he served as state secretary of the
Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, and as executive
vice president of Strategy and Business Development, head
of major accounts, senior vice president of Major Accounts,
vice president of Strategic Analysis and advisor to the CEO
for Storebrand ASA. He studied costal artillery at the Royal
Navy Officers' Training School and completed a one-year course
in comparative political studies at the University of Bergen.
He holds an MS in economics and business administration from
NHH.
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Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering,
Dean of Undergraduate Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Kim Vandiver has served as professor of mechanical and
ocean engineering for the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since January
2005.
Vandiver serves as dean for undergraduate research and director
of the MIT Edgerton Center. He founded the Edgerton Center
in 1992 to provide resources for MIT students engaged in
hands-on educational projects. He also serves as director
of the MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program,
which involves 80% of MIT's undergraduate students in research
projects with MIT research staff and faculty.
Recognized for excellence in teaching, Vandiver has stressed
the importance of hands-on learning. He has worked to enliven
the mainstream curriculum, incorporating more and earlier
opportunities for students to solve real-life problems, engage
in research and develop relationships with faculty.
A member of the Ocean Engineering Department faculty since
1975, Vandiver chaired MIT's faculty from 1991 until 1993.
His research focuses on the dynamics of offshore structures
and flow-induced vibration. He teaches dynamics and mechanical
vibration at the graduate and undergraduate level.
Vandiver was the first recipient of the Arthur Lubinski
Best Mechanical Engineering Paper Award at the 1984 Offshore
Technology Conference (OTC). He also served as the 1987 OTC
Program Committee chairman.
He holds a B.S. degree in engineering from Harvey Mudd College
of Science and Engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
ocean engineering from the MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution Joint Program. He also is an active consultant
in structural dynamics with the offshore engineering industry.
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Vice President, Marine Engineering,
Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas
Don Vardeman is vice president of marine engineering for Kerr-McGee
Oil & Gas in Houston.
Vardeman began his oil-and-gas industry career in 1975 with
Amoco in operations,
drilling and facilities. In 1977, he began working for Owens-Illinois
as a plant electrical engineer and joined Sun Oil Company
in 1979. There, he served as manager of facility engineering,
manager of operations technology and manager of the Neptune
project. When Kerr-McGee merged with Oryx in 1999, he became
manager of marine facilities engineering. Vardeman has overseen
several of the company's deepwater developments, including
Nansen, Boomvang, Redhawk, Gunnison and the company's newest
deepwater development under way at Constitution.
Vardeman serves on the Board of Directors of the Offshore
Technology Conference. He holds a BS degree in electrical
engineering from Texas A&M University.
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President, Middle East and North Africa, ConocoPhillips
Since 2004, P.C. (Paul) Warwick has served as president,
Middle East and North Africa, for exploration and production
of ConocoPhillips. In 2001, Warwick was appointed president
and chief executive officer of Gulf Indonesia Resources Limited
and then assumed the role of president, ConocoPhillips Indonesia,
following the ConocoPhillips merger in 2002. With a background
in projects and operations, he held a number of positions
related to the large capital projects and operations in the
UK and Norway prior to being appointed as managing director
of Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited. In 1999, he became
president and chief executive officer of Gulfstream Resources
Canada Limited, but later that year rejoined the company
as president and managing director of Conoco Energy Nigeria
Limited. He obtained an MS degree from Cranfield Institute
of Technology.
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Stone
Energy Corporation
David H. Welch serves as president, chief executive officer and director
of Stone Energy Corporation. At Amoco, and later, BP, Welch served as Director
of Worldwide Exploration and Production Strategy, President of Amoco GOM,
President of BP Amoco GOM Deepwater, President of BP Alaska/Canada Gas, and,
finally, as Senior Vice President BP America, Inc. He has run businesses
throughout North America and also completed negotiations for the formation
of the Amoco-Shell Permian Basin Joint Venture now known as Altura Ltd. He
holds a BS degree in petroleum engineering from Louisiana State University,
graduated from Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program
and completed executive development programs at Stanford Business School
and Cambridge University.
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Mayor, City of Houston
Mayor Bill White serves as the executive officer of the City of Houston.
As the City's chief administrator and official representative, the Mayor
is responsible for the general management of the City and for seeing that
all laws and ordinances are enforced. Previously White was president and
chief executive officer of the WEDGE Group, where he led the business to
record performance. He also served as Deputy U.S. Secretary of Energy. White
was a partner with the law firm Susman Godfrey, where he handled complex
business litigation. He also taught law at the University of Texas at Austin.
White graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and graduated from
the University of Texas Law School with highest honors.
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Director, Expatriate Management Center of
Excellence, ConocoPhillips
Paul White serves as director of
the Expatriate Management Center of Excellence for ConocoPhillips,
an integrated energy
company operating in over 40 countries with approximately
36,000 employees and assets of US $93 billion. He is responsible
for managing expatriate policies and practices that ensure
the effective mobility of over 800 international assignees.
He is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management,
the National Foreign Trade Council Expatriate Management
Committee and serves as chair of the Evaluation Committee
for the Overseas Schools Advisory Council, US Department
of State.
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Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador,
Minister Responsible for Business
The Member for Humber West
since August 2001, Danny Williams served since 2001 as Progressive
Conservative Party Leader
and as Opposition Leader prior to winning the government
in October 2003. Williams studied political science and economics
at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received a degree
in Arts in Law from Oxford University in England, and returned
to Canada to earn a Bachelor of Law degree from Dalhousie
University in Halifax. He practiced law in Newfoundland and
Labrador beginning in 1972 and was appointed Queen’s
Counsel in 1984. He has also been involved in Newfoundland
and Labrador’s oil and gas industry as president of
offshore oil and gas supply and services company OIS Fisher,
and in the hospitality and tourism industry through the operation
of three golf courses and a hotel resort.
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