Oil & Money 2010
 

 

2010 Program - Confirmed Speakers & Topics

 

Confirmed keynote speakers include: 

 

 

 

 

Christophe de Margerie, CEO, Total

H.E. José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum, Angola

Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Other confirmed speakers include: 

Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Dutch Shell

Andrew Gould, Chairman & CEO, Schlumberger Limited (2010 PEY Winner)

Rilwanu Lukman, Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria

Shokri Ghanem, Former Prime Minister, Libya

David W. Williams, Chairman, President and CEO, Noble Corporation

Bernard J. Duroc-Danner, Chairman, President & CEO, Weatherford International Ltd.

Chris Ross, Senior Consultant, CRA Charles River Associates

Issam A.R. Al-Chalabi, Former Minister of Oil, Iraq                     

Fereidun Fesharaki, Chairman & CEO, FACTS Global Energy

Peter Wells, Non-Executive Director, Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd.

Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency

Edgard Habib, Chief Economist, Chevron Corporation

Mikkal Herberg, Research Director, Asian Energy Security, The National Bureau of Asian Research

Thamir Ghadhban, Advisor to the Prime Minister & Former Iraqi Oil Minister, Iraqi Government

Bassam Fattouh, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Oil and Middle East Programme, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Ivan Sandrea, Vice President, International E&P Strategy, Statoil

Grant A. Porter, Vice Chairman, Barclays Capital

David Ledesma, Independent Strategy and LNG Consultant, South-Court Ltd.

Sadad Al-Husseini, President, Husseini Energy Co., and Former Executive Vice President and Member of the Board, Saudi Aramco            

P.M.S. Prasad, Executive Director & Member of the Board, Reliance Industries Limited

Wolf E. Regener, President & CEO, BNK Petroleum, Inc.

Walter van de Vijver, President & CEO, Reliance Exploration & Production DMCC

Martin Lovegrove, Vice Chairman, Oil & Gas, Standard Chartered Bank

Jakob Thomasen, Chief Executive Officer, Maersk Oil

Steve Edwards, Global Leader, Chemicals & Petroleum, IBM

 

Key Agenda Topics

 

Ministerial Forum and Corporate

Keynote Speeches

Top energy ministers and corporate leaders will offer their perspectives on how they are confronting today’s geopolitical and business challenges.

 

NOC-IOC Forum: Future Competition, Cooperation and Alliances

Relations between state firms and private investors remain in flux. International oil companies are in a transition toward alliances with national oil firms and, at the same time, recent upstream arrangements are calling into question the future viability of the established production-sharing model.

 

Global Oil Market Outlook

Where are oil prices headed and what is driving them?

 

Deepwater Safety and Upstream Environmental Risks

The industry faces a host of new challenges in the aftermath of the Macondo spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

The Center of Economic Gravity Shifts to Asia: Implications for Energy

Asia’s phenomenal energy demand growth and the growing Asia-Middle East nexus require a reappraisal of the future direction of the energy business.

Iraq’s New Oil Investment Policy: A Game Changer?

Iraq plans to increase production to 12 million b/d. Are these ambitious goals realistic, and, if not, what can be expected? How might Opec react? What does this volume growth mean for the companies involved and the region?

 

Leadership Forum: The Global Implications of Shale Gas

Will shale gas supply as much as half the natural gas production in North America by 2020? How will international gas markets be affected?

 

The New Financial Landscape

The financial underpinnings of the energy business are shifting with new regulations and challenges to both accessing capital and deploying it effectively.

 

Changing Regional Natural Gas Markets. and New Pricing Practices

The global natural gas business is facing price pressures, big supply shifts and security of supply issues that are impacting long-term pricing and trade

 

The Geopolitics of Energy

This session will cover the broad range of geopolitical and regional pressures shaping the energy business from Iran and the Middle East to Russia, China and Central Asia.

The Oil & Money 2010 program is still being developed. Please check back for regular updates.

In the meantime, please find below a schedule of events for the conference. Kindly note, this is merely a guideline and is subject to change:

 

Monday, October 11

18:30 – 20:00 Welcome Cocktail Reception

 

Tuesday, October 12

08:00 Conference begins

18:00 Close of day one

19:30 Petroleum Executive of the Year Cocktail Reception

20:15 Petroleum Executive of the Year Dinner

23:00 Carriages

 

Wednesday, October 13

08:30 Conference begins

14:00 Luncheon

15:30 Close of conference