Speakers at the Australian Gas Export Outlook 2014 Conference
Paul Balfe
Executive Director
ACIL Allen Consulting
Paul Balfe is a Director of ACIL Allen Consulting, formed in April 2013 through the merger of ACIL Tasman and the Allen Consulting Group and now Australia’s largest independent economic consultancy company. Paul has worked for 35 years in the Australian energy and resources sectors, and has overall responsibility for ACIL Allen’s gas business. He has lead the development and commercialization of ACIL Allen’s detailed gas market models and their application to strategic and policy analysis throughout Australia and internationally. Prior to joining ACIL in 1995, Mr Balfe held a number of senior executive positions in the Queensland Department of Mines and Energy. He has advised government and corporate sector clients on commercial and regulatory matters relating to the coal, oil and gas industries including CSG, shale gas and other unconventional hydrocarbon sources, as well as alternative and renewable energies. With qualifications in geology and business administration, his experience ranges across both technical and commercial aspects of project evaluation and development.
"In recent times much of the discussion regarding the Australian gas industry has clearly identified the problems facing industry, but has come up short in terms of identifying solutions. ADGO 2014 is important because it will focus on solutions and in particular on the question of how best to stimulate timely supply-side responses."
Dr. A K Balyan
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Petronet LNG
Dr. Ashok Kumar Balyan, an M. Tech from IIT-Delhi, PhD from Germany, has joined Petronet LNG Ltd., the Nation’s largest LNG importer as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to joining PLL, Dr. Balyan served as Director Incharge - HR, Business Development & Joint Ventures in ONGC Ltd. He has more than three and half decades of experience in the field of exploration, production operations, project management, business development and human resource functions in ONGC Ltd. He joined ONGC in 1976, where he served across India, handling key positions. He had been instrumental in catalyzing various HR interventions besides guiding business development initiatives in downstream, Petrochemical, Power and alternate energy sources and expanding the frontiers in synergy with inherent strength of the Company.
Paul Bloxham
Chief Economist Australia and New Zealand
HSBC
Paul Bloxham is Chief Economist for HSBC in Australia and New Zealand. In this role, he is chief spokesperson for HSBC on forecasts and trends for the Australian and New Zealand economies and their interaction with global financial markets and international economies. He is also a critical member of the HSBC Global Research team, working with 500 analysts across 87 markets to help formulate HSBC's unique global view of the world's economy. Paul joined HSBC in 2010 as Chief Economist for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this, he spent almost 12 years as an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia where he held a range of different roles in the economics department, including heading up the overseas economies and financial conditions sections. Paul has published a number of papers, including on household finances, asset prices, monetary policy and global commodity price trends. Paul is a regular commentator on local and international business television and a frequent contributor of opinion editorials to the Australian newspapers. Paul is an adjunct professor at Curtin University and a member of the Australian National University’s shadow reserve bank board. Paul holds a master’s degree in public financial policy from the London School of Economics.
Wayne Calder
Deputy Executive Director
Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE)
Wayne is the Deputy Executive Director of the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, an economic research unit within the Australian Government Department of Industry. Previously Wayne was the General Manager of the Low Emissions Coal and CO2 Storage Branch with responsibility for fostering research, development, demonstration and deployment of low emissions coal technologies and the General Manager of the Coal Sector Programs Branch where he established two new programs for the coal sector as a part of the Clean Energy Future plan. Prior to that Wayne was the General Manager of Tourism Research Australia with the Department. Wayne started his career in the Australian Public Service in the Productivity Commission and has also worked on communications policy, regional development, industry policy, taxation, energy and tourism policy.
Geoffrey Cann
National Director – Oil and Gas
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Geoffrey Cann is the Consulting National Director, Oil and Gas, in the Brisbane office of Deloitte where he focuses on helping energy and resources companies address their growth, talent and productivity challenges. He has twenty-four years of management consulting experience gained through engagements in Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea and the Caribbean. Geoffrey holds numerous publications to his name, presents regularly on Strategy topics and has been a guest lecturer at the MBA program at the Haskayne School of Business. He has a B. Comm in MIS from McGill University, an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and is a Certified Management Consultant. Most recently, he was Consulting Leader for Oil and Gas in Canada and led our strategy and operations services in Calgary.
Experience:
Geoffrey has led or conducted hundreds of projects across most areas of the oil and gas value chain, including exploration, production, midstream, refining, marketing, wholesale and retail, trading, in conventional and unconventional, for industry leading oil and gas concerns and services companies, including Arrow Energy, Suncor, Cenovus, Husky, Talisman, Encana, Irving Oil, CNRL, Devon Energy, KNOC, Enbridge, TransCanada Pipelines, Calfrac, Teck, Precision Drilling and Kelman Seismic. His specific experience relevant to Australia’s coal seam gas and LNG projects includes designing and implementing business systems architectures, improving document management practices for major projects, transforming people movement processes for remote workforces, and designing housing solutions for workforce accommodation. Also of relevance, he has developed business strategies for integrating oil refineries into global oil value chains, developed petroleum product strategies for ports, and business cases for pipeline projects. Geoffrey is a regular presenter on business topics to audiences on such topics as the current state of the global economy and implications for energy companies, China’s 5 year plan and impacts on the energy sector, and the opportunities for overseas investors in the Australian energy sector.
Mark Collette
Group Executive Manager - Energy Markets
EnergyAustralia
EnergyAustralia is one of Australia’s leading integrated energy companies with over 2.8 million customers, over 5600 MW of controlled generation and over $8B of assets.
As Group Executive Manager, Energy Markets at EnergyAustralia, Mark is responsible for EnergyAustralia’s wholesale market operations involving the annual sale or purchase of over $3B of coal, gas, electricity, renewable energy certificates and associated commodities.
Mark and his team have a unique vantage point within the industry as EnergyAustralia is the only player with wholesale operations covering brown coal, black coal, gas, renewables and large and small retailing. Mark focuses daily on the major issues affecting the industry including the introduction of a carbon price, falling demand and changing fuel prices.
Mark has been with EnergyAustralia for 9 years in roles focused on corporate strategy, policy and wholesale market operations.
Mark holds degrees in Aerospace Engineering, Business Administration and Economics.
Richard Cottee
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Central Petroleum
Richard Cottee BA, LLB (Hons) Managing Director, Central Petroleum. Mr Cottee began his career in the resources sector in 1980 when as a Business Development Manager for Itochu Australia; he was involved in the Tarong Power Station construction and the development of the Newlands-Collinsville-Abbot Point projects. As a lawyer he was part of the legal team behind one of Australia's first non-recourse project financing concerning Oaky Creek. Whilst acting for Crusader Ltd, he was involved in the negotiations of the Cooper Basin Liquids Scheme. He joined Santos Ltd in 1982 as the Senior Marketing Officer for LPG & Condensates before being relocated to Queensland (QLD) after the Jackson Oilfield discovery responsible for all commercial aspects of its development and the construction of the Jackson-Moonie Pipeline. He has been a Senior Associate of both Allens and Mallesons. In 1992 he joined Cyprus Amax Minerals Group in Sydney where he was a Director of Oakbridge Pty Ltd and Cyprus Australia Coal functionally responsible for coal marketing and sales and other matters. In 1998, he joined CS Energy Ltd, a recently corporatized Government owned corporation, during which time over 3 years of his leadership CS Energy doubled its profits and tripled its asset base. Importantly, whilst at CS Energy, the construction of the large combined cycle gas-fired power station at Swanbank E was approved. CS Energy entered into what is thought to be Australia’s first pure CSG purchase contract for Scotia gas from Santos. CS Energy also entered into letters of Intent with QGC and Arrow thus facilitating their public listings. In 2001 he was named Managing Director of NRG Ltd for the UK & Scandinavian regions. He joined QGC as Managing Director in 2002 when it had a market capitalisation of $30 million. He took QGC from an early stage explorer to a major non-conventional gas supplier sold to the BG Group for $5.7 billion in 2008. Mr Cottee is also currently Non-Executive Chairman of Austin Exploration Ltd and is a principal in Freestone.
The Hon. Andrew Cripps
Minister for Natural Resources and Mines
Queensland Government
Minister Cripps is the State Member for Hinchinbrook in North Queensland. He currently resides in Ingham, but was born and raised in the sugar and banana farming town of Tully and is passionate about the people, industries and communities of North Queensland. Both sides of Andrew's family have been based in North Queensland for several generations.
Andrew attended the University of Queensland in Brisbane, where he completed degrees in Agricultural Economics and Political Science with Honours. He was elected to the 52nd Queensland Parliament as the Member for Hinchinbrook on 9 September 2006 aged 25 and was the youngest member of State Parliament until the 2009 state election.
During his first two terms in Parliament between 2006 and 2012, Minister Cripps was at various times a member of the Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee, the Health Quality and Complaints Select Committee, Deputy Chair of the Law, Justice and Safety Committee and Deputy Chair of the Environment, Agriculture, Resources and Energy Committee.
In Opposition, Mr Cripps served at various times between 2008 and 2012 as the LNP Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Water, Disability Services and Multicultural Affairs and Reef Protection, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Economic Development and Public Works. In the lead up to the 2012 state election, Mr Cripps was the LNP Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Queensland.
Andrew was sworn in as the Minister for Natural Resources and Mines in the first Newman LNP Government on the 3rd of April 2012. Andrew's interests outside of his role as a local MP and Minister include rugby league, rugby union, cricket and golf and he also enjoys films, theatre and spending time with his family. He is a Rotarian and a strong supporter of the North Queensland Cowboys.
Ian Davies
Managing Director
Senex Energy
Ian Davies was appointed as the Managing Director of Senex Energy Limited in June 2010. Prior to joining Senex, Ian held several senior positions in the resources and investment banking industries. He was a senior executive with QGC during the establishment of Queensland’s booming liquefied natural gas industry and previously an investment banker in Melbourne with Austock Corporate Finance and in London with Barclay’s Capital. He commenced his career in Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ Energy and Mining division. Ian lives in Brisbane and is married with three young children. Ian was named Businessperson of the Year in the 2012 Brisbane Lord Mayor's Business Awards.
Rod Duke
Vice President Downstream
Santos GLNG
Rod Duke holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of GLNG Operations Pty Ltd and is responsible for leading the downstream activities of the Santos GLNG project in Australia, including the delivery of the 420 kilometre long GLNG gas transmission pipeline and the 2 train LNG plant and port project.
Rod has extensive global experience in the LNG industry with over 28 years in project management, engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, commercial, marketing and business development areas of the upstream natural gas and LNG industry. Rod’s qualifications include an Honours Degree in Chemical Engineering and a Graduate Diploma of Business Management.
Ben Eade
Executive Director
Manufacturing Australia
Ben Eade has worked with Manufacturing Australia since its inception in 2011, helping the organisation to become a strong champion for Australia’s large manufacturing base.
Prior to joining Manufacturing Australia as its Corporate Affairs Manager, Mr Eade consulted extensively to corporate, not-for-profit and public organisations, focusing on Australia’s manufacturing, energy, environment and education and training sectors.
Paul Fennelly
Chief Operating Officer-Eastern Australia
Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA)
Paul is Chief Operating Officer–Eastern Australia for APPEA which is the peak industry association representing Australia’s Oil and Gas industry. Paul is responsible for the representation of the industry’s interest in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Before commencing with APPEA Paul was a senior executive with Hastings Funds Management, a leading global investor in infrastructure assets. From 2001-2006 he was Director-General of the Queensland Department of State Development Trade and Innovation, and concurrently he served as the State’s Coordinator-General. Previously Paul held a number of senior leadership roles with the Australian Industry Group having served as Executive Director – Victoria and Executive Director- Queensland. Paul holds degrees in Law and Arts (Politics, Economics) and post graduate qualifications in law.
The Hon. Gary Gray AO MP
Shadow Federal Minister for Energy and Resources
Federal Opposition
Gary grew up in Whyalla, studied economics at the ANU in Canberra, and then studied education at the University of WA.
From 1986 until 1992 Gary worked for the Labor Party in the NT and the UK. In 1992 he was elected National Secretary of the ALP; an office he held until 2000.
Gary then returned to Perth as the Executive Director of the West Australian Institute for Medical Research, and in 2001 Gary was engaged as an Adviser in the campaign to keep Woodside Energy in Australian hands. Gary then joined Woodside, becoming the Director of Corporate Affairs and a member of the company executive team.
In 2007, Gary was elected to Federal Parliament as the Member for Brand, and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia. In 2009, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Western and Northern Australia.
At the 2010 Federal election Gary was re-elected and appointed Special Minister of State & Minister for the Public Service and Integrity.
In March 2013, Gary joined Cabinet and was appointed as the Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Tourism and Minister for Small Business. Mr Gray is now the Shadow Minister for Resources, Northern Australia and Special Minister of State.
Terry Grimwade
General Manager Market Development
Australian Energy Market Operator
Terry has extensive experience in the design, implementation and operation of electricity and gas markets in Australia. This includes the National Electricity Market, the Victorian gas market and the gas Short Term Trading Market operating at hubs in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney.
He was convenor of the inter-jurisdictional working group responsible for drafting the initial trading rules for the National Electricity Market and, similarly, led the development of the rules for the Victorian gas market.
Terry has held senior and executive management roles over many years with the Victorian Energy Networks Corporation (VENCorp) and the Australia Energy Market Operator (AEMO), with responsibilities spanning most aspects of energy market design and operation.
He has led and chaired many industry and government consultative forums, committees and working groups, tackling a range of energy market development issues and initiatives.
Hiroshi Hashimoto
Senior Analyst – Gas Group
Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
Hiroshi Hashimoto has been a Senior Analyst at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan - IEEJ, since April 2010, after serving as a natural gas analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA) located in Paris, France, from 2006 to 2010. Before 2006, Hiroshi worked for Tokyo Gas for 20 years, assuming positions in LNG procurement (strategy, project development, and contracting), business development, the New York Representative Office, and the Sodegaura LNG terminal (LNG receiving operation management). Hiroshi was a member of the Japanese government delegation to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) from 1994 to 1996 representing the Japan's city gas industry in negotiations of a multi-national convention.
Dan Hunt
Director General
Queensland Department of Energy and Water Supply
Dan was appointed as Director-General of the Department of Energy and Water Supply in September 2013. Since October 2006, Dan has served in a number of Director-General roles including as Director-General of the Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Associate Director-General, Mines and Energy in the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation and Director-General of the Department of Mines and Energy.
During his time as Director-General of Natural Resources and Mines, Dan achieved strong outcomes in the areas of: reducing red tape and costs to boost the efficiency of the mining sector; giving landholders greater flexibility to increase productivity and yield on the land; and unlocking spatial data to make this data publically available.
Dan was also responsible for delivering improvements to the mine safety framework, developing a new freehold land title model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, reviewing the Strategic Cropping Land Act 2011and delivering a number of vegetation management reforms.
In addition, Dan was responsible for investigating mechanisms to address some of the strategic issues that confronted the resources sector, particularly the inter-relationship of new technologies and their regulatory frameworks; the development of the LNG / CSG industry; resolving overlapping tenures; as well as land access issues.
Dan also oversaw the ongoing streamlining and transformation of the mining exploration and development approvals processes aimed at providing greater transparency and convenience to industry.
Other achievements during his 36-year career with the public service include the corporatisation of ports and rail infrastructure, the development of commercial contracts with Queensland Rail, and the strategic policy coordination of national transport reform. Website: www.dews.qld.gov.au
Shigeki Hirano
Chairman
Osaka Gas Australia
Mr Shigeki Hirano is Chairman of Osaka Gas Australia Pty Ltd, an Osaka Gas’subsidiary company based in Perth, Australia, effective of April 1, 2012. Mr Hirano has been Executive Counsellor forOsaka Gassince June 29, 2012.
Joining Osaka Gas in 1977, Mr Hirano experiencedhis early career as a research engineer at Research Centre and a planning staff at Gas Production Department. In 1992he was transferred to Corporate Planning Department,where he assumed his middle management position primarily engaged in the company’s long-term vision and strategiesfor investment inthe company’s gas supply infrastructureand for entryinto new businessesinliberalised energy markets.
In 2000 Mr Hiranowent back to technology related organizations, where he assumed his general management positions: Head of Technology Planning Office (2000-2003), Head of Technology Strategy Department (2003-2004), Head of Energy Technology Laboratories (2004-2008) and Head of Advanced Materials Business Promotion Department (2007-2008). In the meantime, he was appointed Associate Director in 2003, and Director in 2005.
In 2008, Mr Hirano was appointed Managing Director, CTO and Head of Technology Division. In the following year, he assumed his position as Senior Executive Officer, Head of LNG Receiving Terminals and Power Generation Business Unit, being in charge of Senboku and Himeji LNG Terminals as well as the company’s power plants across Japan with a total capacity of 1,700MW including Senboku Power that commenced its operation in that particular year.He was Member of the Board for periodsof 2005-2006 and 2008-2012.
Shinichi Kihara
Director International Affairs
Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry Japan
Born in 1970 Shinichi Kihara was appointed in December 2012 as the Director of International Affairs Division and currently serves as the IEA Governing Board Representative for Japan.
Mr. Kihara served as Senior Energy Analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris from 2009 to 2012. He contributed to their flagship publication, World Energy Outlook.
Mr. Kihara joined METI in 1993, and was involved in energy related work including the International Affairs Division in 2004 and Nuclear Power Safety Administration Division in 1998. He has diverse experience serving in other offices at METI in areas of economic cooperation, trade, export control, and other issues.
Mr. Kihara earned a Bachelor of Economics from University of Tokyo in 1993. He earned a MBA in 1998 from Cornell University, USA.
Ryuta Kitamura
Assistant General Manager Sydney
Japan Oil, Gas & Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC)
Ryuta Kitamura graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1995 and holds a Bachelors degree of engineering. He joined "Japan Petroleum Exploration Company (JAPEX)" in 1995 and worked as a drilling engineer in China, Indonesia, Azerbaijan as well as in Japan. Ryuta worked on the "Methane Hydrate Development Project" seconded to Japan national Oil Corporation (JNOC). He then moved to Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) in 2007, and then worked in project evaluation division for overseas project at research center in Japan. He worked as the instructor for the certification of well control program "WellCAP", which is presented by IADC (International Association of Drilling Contractor) as well. Ryuta moved to the Sydney office in 2012 as Assistant General Manager in charge of Oil and Gas Upstream.
Brad Lingo
Managing Director
Drillsearch Energy
Brad Lingo has almost three decades of oil and gas experience ranging from frontier deep water exploration offshore West Africa to commercialisation of major gas projects in Australia. He has been involved in all phases of the oil and gas business, as well as in project development, mergers and acquisitions, financing and equity capital raising, for both listed and private companies in Australia and internationally. Mr. Lingo was appointed to the Drillsearch Board in May 2009 and became Managing Director on 15 June 2009. Before joining Drillsearch, Mr Lingo was senior vice president and head of oil and gas at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he worked for more than four years. Prior to joining CBA, he was with AGL as an adviser on strategy and acquisitions.
Since joining Drillsearch, Mr Lingo has overseen a period of exceptional growth with the company becoming one of the leading mid-tier oil and gas companies on the ASX, focused on the Cooper Basin and with assets spanning Conventional Oil, Wet Gas and Unconventional Gas. Based in Sydney and a member of the ASX 200, Drillsearch is one of the largest acreage holders in the Cooper Basin and has joint ventures with leading E&P industry players such as Santos, BG Group and Beach Energy.
Jane Madden
General Manager and Head of Investment
Australian Trade Commission
Jane joined Austrade in February 2013 to lead the Investment Division, which is responsible for promoting and attracting foreign direct investment to Australia.
She brings experience across a wide range of policy, corporate and strategic positions with the Departments of and Resources, Energy and Tourism (RET) and Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). She has worked overseas extensively, with postings to Paris, UN, Tokyo and Pretoria/Cape Town and head of mission experience. Other previous roles include Head of Tourism Division (RET) and Australia’s lead negotiator for investment, services and intellectual property in DFAT’s Office of Trade Negotiations.
Jane possesses qualifications in Economics, Japanese, law (from ANU and University of Tasmania) and a Graduate Certificate from the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She speaks several languages, notably Japanese and French. Jane is married with three teenage children.
S Narayanan, Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh Gas Distribution Corporation Limited (APGDC)
S Narayanan currently is Managing Director at Andhra Pradesh Gas Distribution Corporation Limited (APGDC), a Joint Venture Company of GAIL & Govt. of A.P. State.
From 2005 till 2013 he worked as a General Manager Operation & Maintenance and Project Execution in various capacities at various projects & Marketing for AIL(INDIA) LTD., INDIA.
From 2005 till 2006 S Narayanan was also Managing Director at TNGCL, Agartala Tripura.
Keith Orchison (Panel Chair)
Director
Coolibah Pty Ltd
and former head of APPEA
Keith has been involved in Australian resources and industry policy issues management and communications for 34 years. He has been a communicator for 55 years, starting as a journalist in South Africa in 1959 and emigrating to Australia in 1970. He served for four years in the 1970s as public affairs manager of Associated Pulp & Paper Mills Limited and for three years as head of public relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He was chief executive of what is now APPEA for 11 years and of the Electricity Supply Association of Australia for 12 years. From 2003 to 2007 he chaired the energy committee of the Critical Infrastructure Advisory Council for the Howard government. He has also been chairman of the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network and of the CSIRO Energy Technology Advisory Committee. Today he runs his own energy advisory business as Coolibah Pty Ltd and is publisher of the blog “This is Power” and of the Coolibah monthly newsletter. He is also the editor of the “OnPower” website and yearbook and he contributes a commentary on energy issues regularly to “Business Spectator.” He was editor of the “Powering Australia” yearbook from 2007 to 2012. Keith is also engaged in the organisation and chairing of a series of energy outlook conferences. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 and in 2012 was recipient of AusIMM’s Sir Willis Connolly Memorial Medal for outstanding communication about the mining and resources sectors.
David Paterson
Director
Emergent Advisory
David Paterson has worked in the mining industry for 25 years. During this time he has been involved in assignments in more than 30 countries, in functions from exploration to shipping. An economist by training, in recent years his work has focused on creating corporate value through strategic external relations. From 2004 to 2010 David led community, media and government relations for Rio Tinto’s uranium business in Australia. In 2010, he moved to Mongolia as Rio Tinto’s Country Director and subsequently took on responsibility for Regional Development and Communications at the $6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in the South Gobi. Throughout his career, David has been closely involved in major capital projects, M&A and commercial transactions. Since leaving Rio Tinto, David has established a consultancy focused on advising mining companies on strategic issues related to external relations and corporate social responsibility
Glenn Porter
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Skills Queensland
Glenn has over twenty years experience in the employment, education and training industry having worked as a senior executive in both the public and private training sectors and industry associations across Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.
Much of Glenn’s career has been working with industry to design and deliver commercial training and workforce development solutions to meet industry needs.
His current role with Energy Skills Queensland is at the forefront of workforce planning and workforce development for this dynamic industry. Glenn has tertiary qualifications in business, education and engineering.
Robert Pritchard
Executive Director
Energy Policy Institute
Robert Pritchard is Executive Director of the Energy Policy Institute of Australia, an independent, whole of industry, energy policy organisation.
Robert is also managing director of ResourcesLaw International, a consultancy on law and policy as it affects the energy industry. He has 40 years’ experience as an adviser to government and industry on oil and gas projects, including LNG projects, and on cross-border energy trade and investment.
He has recently completed a study on the geopolitics of the oil industry.
Tennant Reed
Principal National Adviser - Public Policy
Australian Industry Group
Tennant Reed is Principal National Adviser – Public Policy at the Australian Industry Group. For the last five years he has worked heavily on climate and energy issues, advising Ai Group’s Leaders’ Group on Energy and Climate Policy and developing reports on natural gas supply, energy prices and energy efficiency. He also works on a range of issues related to manufacturing and innovation. Previously he was an adviser in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, working on fiscal policy, stimulus and infrastructure. Tennant lives in Melbourne with his wife and their young son.
Michael Roche
Chief Executive Officer
Queensland Resources Council (QRC)
Michael Roche is Chief Executive of the Queensland Resources Council (QRC), the peak representative body for minerals and energy companies in Queensland.
The QRC represents the interests of more than 270 companies with direct and service sector investment in developing Queensland’s minerals and energy resources. Together, these industries are responsible for around 25 percent of the state’s jobs and one in every five dollars circulating through the
Queensland economy.
Before joining the QRC in 2005, Michael spent nearly nine years in senior management roles with the Australian Stock Exchange in Sydney, including more than three years as the Executive General Manager of ASX’s markets and market data businesses.
Michael also has extensive experience in the government sector, including nine years in Canberra, with most of that time as a senior executive in the Economics Division of Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
From 1990, Michael served for over four years as Chief of Staff to the then Queensland Treasurer Keith De Lacy and two years as Deputy Director-General in the Queensland Cabinet Office.
Michael currently serves on several boards and advisory committees, including Chairman of the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy and member of the Queensland Government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Exploration. He is also the ambassador for the Mining and Energy Challenge, part of the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave fundraising initiative.
In 2012 he was appointed by the Queensland Government to chair the Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce.
An economist by training, Michael holds Bachelor and Masters degrees from the University of NSW and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Business degree by CQ University in 2013.
Clyde Russell
Asia Commodities and Energy Columnist
Thomson Reuters
Clyde Russell is Asia Commodities and Energy Columnist at Reuters. He writes about trends in commodity and energy markets, with a particular focus on the rise of China, and its impact on oil, coal and metals markets. He has been a journalist and editor for 25 years covering everything from wars in Africa to the current resources boom. Born in Glasgow, he has lived in Johannesburg, Sydney, Singapore and now splits his time between Tasmania and Asia. During a decade in living in Australia, Clyde covered the rapid development of liquefied natural gas projects and the increasing focus on exploiting coal-bed methane for export. He also wrote on the impact of the massive expansion of coal and iron ore projects by companies such as BHP Billiton Ltd. on the Australian economy. Prior to returning to Reuters in 2011, Clyde ran Bloomberg’s energy coverage for Asia and Australian financial markets for Dow Jones. Prior to moving to Sydney in 2000, Clyde worked as an editor for Reuters in Johannesburg covering gold and precious metals as well as the development of post-apartheid South Africa. Before becoming a financial journalist in 1996, Clyde covered civil wars in Angola, Mozambique and other African hotspots for Agence-France Presse.
Hameed Siddiqui
Former Head of the Marketing ServicesDivision
Saudi Aramco
Mr Hameed Siddiqui is President of Prescience Energy Consulting Inc., USA. Former Head of Marketing Services Division, Saudi Aramco, and former chairman of Society of Petroleum Engineers, Los Angeles Section, USA. He specialises in Oil & Gas Business Management, which includes Future Energy Trends, Identifying Critical Success Factors in Upstream and Downstream businesses, Supply Chain Value Management, Heavy and Unconventional Oil & Gas, Designing Progressive Fiscal Tools in Contracts and Negotiations, NOC-IOC Synergy, and all Management processes.
Hameed holds a Double-Master’s Degree from Stanford University (USA) i.e., MS in Petroleum Engineering and MS in Business Management, and Bachelors in Chemical Engineering/Refining from the IIT-Varanasi, India. He is a certified Supply Chain Manager (CSCM, USA). After starting his career in the enhanced oil recovery research project sponsored by the US Department of Energy at Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute, Hameed moved into corporate planning (at Getty Oil / Texaco), specialising in the investment analysis of oil, gas, M&A, and diversified businesses.
This was followed by 30 years with Saudi Aramco, working at various projects in the US, UK, Germany, Egypt, & Saudi Arabia supporting management of oil & gas, international operations, strategic planning and petrochemical business. Both as a Head of Marketing Services Division, and as an Assistant to Vice President of Marketing, Supply & Joint Venture Coordination, he has conducted global crude oil sales and marketing. He has supported Saudi Aramco’s strategic planning, development of worldwide oil business, oil refineries, petrochemicals, and international joint ventures.
Member of SPE, AIChE, IAEE, and ASHRM. Honored as a President’s Scout with the prestigious certificate of merit and good conduct from the President of India, Mr. V.V. Giri.
He has trained/consulted in petroleum and petrochemical industries in worldwide locations. He has published technical papers on Supply Change Management, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Integrated Planning, and Reservoir Modelling in the oil & gas industry.
Prof. Stefaan Simons
Director - International Energy Policy Institute
UCL School of Energy and Resources
Professor Simons, CEng FIChemE, is Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London (UCL), Director of the Centre for CO2 Technology (in London) and inaugural Director of the International Energy Policy Institute (IEPI) at UCL Australia. His research expertise is founded on particle technology, with a focus on the energy, minerals and pharmaceutical sectors, which he has used to develop low carbon technologies and processes for the energy and chemical industries. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Global Research Fellowship to develop his ideas on the open innovation of such technologies, spending time at University California, Berkeley and the University of Melbourne. Professor Simons is responsible for introducing chemical engineering degree programmes into Kazakhstan and Russia and was the inaugural Dean of Engineering at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital city, of which UCL is a strategic partner.
Professor Simons has more than 200 publications and holds the BHP Billiton Chair of Energy Policy.
Bill Tinapple
Former Executive Director Petroleum – WA Department of Mines and Petroleum
Bill Tinapple recently retired from the position of Executive Director Petroleum, Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum. In that role, in his previous similar position in the Northern Territory and prior to that in engineering and project management positions, he has been integrally associated with development of the oil and gas industry in Australia, from initial involvement in engineering studies for the North West Shelf and through the development of the first FPSO through to the rapid expansion in LNG projects. In addition to his role as a regulator both offshore and onshore, he has been a fervent promoter of the prospectivity for onshore oil and gas and the development of the industry. Recognising the potential for unconventional gas in Western Australia, particularly tight gas and shale gas, five years ago, he turned his efforts towards facilitating this aspect of the industry and making sure the Western Australia regulatory framework is appropriate for this activity. Prior to joining government, he worked internationally on several oil and gas projects in Libya, Indonesia, North Sea, Nigeria and Abu Dhabi. He is presently in a consulting role as Technical Consultant for the Western Australia Parliamentary Inquiry into FLNG. Bill’s qualifications are in engineering with a Masters of Business Administration from Ohio State University.
Howard joined Exxon Chemical Olefins Inc in 1989. His practical experience in process operations led to a rapid specialisation in process optimisation, taking his first ethylene plant from 1800 t/d to 2100 t/d without physical modification. These results led to a rapid progression within Exxon, eventually coupling reliability science with process modelling analysis to extend optimisation from the process, to a combination with maintenance, improving not only efficiency but also availability. To this day, ExxonMobil still follow these practices worldwide.
Howard is by nature entrepreneurial and after leaving Exxon he learnt the ropes of consultancy before establishing his own businesses.
His considerable skills bring a unique dimension to Hydrocarbons Operational Support.
Nigel Wilson
Government Affairs Adviser
INPEX
Nigel Wilson has been writing about the Australian energy industry for more than four decades. He has advised six State Premiers, several energy ministers and worked in executive roles in the government owned power sector. These days Nigel works for international Oil & Gas exploration and production company INPEX, which is building one of Australia’s biggest LNG projects. Nigel has long believed that energy policy is the most important public policy issue facing governments within Australia.
Tony Wood
Energy Program Director
Grattan Institute
Tony has deep experience in the energy sector. Prior to joining Grattan Institute in 2011, he worked at Origin Energy for 11 years, and was an adviser to the first Garnaut climate change review.
He is also program director of Clean Energy Projects at the Clinton Foundation. He has widespread relationships within the energy sector.
Leo Yanes
Principal
ACIL Allen Consulting
Leo holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. qualifications in economics from the London School of Economics and has been a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Economics at Harvard. Leo has extensive expertise in quantitative methods, with a strong emphasis on planning, valuation (discounted cash flows, cost-benefit analysis), quantitative risk analysis (Monte Carlo simulation), optimisation, econometrics and general equilibrium.
Leo’s experience in the oil & gas sector encompasses project appraisal using discounted cash flow and long and short-run forecasting. Leo has built cash flow models for various oil & gas projects at Santos, PDVSA (the national oil company of Venezuela) and various off-shore and on-shore projects in Western Australia and the Timor Sea. This work includes integrated supply chain valuation models for the Gladstone Coal Seam Gas to LNG project (Santos-GLNG), the Cash-Maple offshore field in the Timor Sea, and crude oil reservoirs in the Canning Basin (Western Australia). This class of models encompasses all aspects of the production process, from the reservoir (gas, condensate, crude and water flows) through to surface facilities and LNG plants and shipping. LNG facilities include both onshore as well as floating LNG.
Other projects include design of a valuation procedure for geo-political risk for mining investments (Xstrata), design and construction of a business forecasting toolkit for a multinational corporation (KPMG), construction of forecasts to 2100 for the Eastern Australia gas market. Leo has experience in economic impact studies for oil & gas projects, educational aspects of the National Reform Agenda and provided modelling support for the International Monetary Fund economic restructuring programme in Venezuela (1996).
Specialties:
Economic modelling for the oil & gas industry
Optimisation
Probabilistic valuation (risk analysis based on Monte Carlo simulation)
General Equilibrium
Applied econometrics