Milan, February 19-20, 2020
2nd GLOBAL LNG FORUM
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Confirmed 2020 Speakers and Honorable Guests
CHAIRMAN OF THE EVENT
Andrew Clifton
General Manager, SIGTTO
Honorable Guest
Filippo Redaelli
CEO, Total Italia
Honorable Guest
Michael Birch
Maintenance Manager, Mozambique LNG - Total
Miguel Duvison
Project Manager, Naturgy LNG
Honorable Guest
Giovanni Scimone
Vice President - Process & Technologies, Eni
Sergio Gonzalez
LNG Business Leader, Wood
Julie Sakhrai
Vice-President Oil&Gas International Business Development, Wison Offshore & Marine
Honorable Guest
Tommaso Galli
Special Projects, LNG Technology Leader and Monetization, Snam
Charles Akinlabi
Head, LNG Assets, Total
Paolo Macor
General Manager, Sofregaz
Sergio Aquenza
Head of Process Engineering Dep, Techint Engineering & Construction
Honorable Guest
Gianluca Pompa
Business Development Manager, Total
Honorable Guest
Pierre-Jean Bernardi
Senior Business Developer Strategy & New Ventures, Total
Honorable Guest
Piergiorgio Festino
Marketing & Business Development Director, Total
Honorable Guest
Sylvain Stricker
LNG Commercial Manager, Total
Honorable Guest
Ramon Barturen Antepara
Downstream LNG Account Manager, Shell
Honorable Guest
Richard Imelek
Manager LNG Origination & Business Development, OMV Gas
Honorable Guest
Fulvio Illuminati
Head of APAC HUB Onshore, Saipem
Honorable Guest
Davide Cirelli
Business Development - Business Unit International, Snam
Honorable Guest
Massimiliano Lamberti Fontana
Commercial Manager – Business Unit International, Snam
Honorable Guest
Alberto Carena
Manager of Special and International Projects, Snam
Philippe Dessoy
General Manager, Business Development, Besix
Antonio Miranda
Head of LNG Bunkering, Naturgy
Walid Darwish
General Manager Egypt, Regional Business Development Director – Middle East Hoegh LNG Egypt
Honorable Guest
Allesandro Cazzulo
Director of E&IS Italy / Environmental Infrastructure Solutions UK/Europe, Wood
Carlo Peschechera
Commercial Director, Techint Engineering & Construction
Honorable Guest
Lorenzo Ferraro
Process Manager, Techint Engineering & Construction
Honorable Guest
Juan Perez
Head of Operations, Bahía de Bizkaia Gas
Sebastien Roussel
Director, International Projects, Elengy
GuYing Van Bommel
Founder, aWONDERLAND / Executive MBA, Oxford University
Thierry Clement
Business Development Manager, GTT
Daisuke Harada
Project Director, Economist, Jogmec
Alain Giacosa
Managing Director, Marine & Inland Waterway LNG Platform
Eric Zielinski
Upstream & LNG Product Manager, Saipem
Arno Buex
GLE President and GIE Board Member
Symeon Kassianides
Chairman, Cyprus Natural Gas Public Company
Wim Tichelaar
Business Development, Gasunie
Olivier Cuny
Business Development Manager - LNG Terminals, Imodco
Ahmed Khalifa
Senior Plant Inspection Engineer, ADNOC LNG
Yana Popkostova
Founder & Managing Director, European Center for Energy and Geopolitical Analysis
Marcel Tijhuis
Senior Project Manager Business Development, Gasunie/German LNG Terminal
Juan Carbayo
Risk & Business Development Manager, Cepsa Gas
Nusret Cömert
Chairman of the Board, Damnus Energy & Investment, Inc.
Dr. Lorenzo Maggioni
Head of R&D of Consorzio Italiano Biogas
Mikko Markus Haapaniemi
Product Manager, Valmet
Raymond Walsh
GM Process Design & LNG Technology, Wartsila
Benoit Duee
Commercial Director, Fosmax LNG
Giuseppe Spotti
Chief Commercial Officer, Elengy
Lennart Pilskog
Vice Chairman, NGVA
Vytis Kopustinskas
Scientific officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Marc Van den Eynde
Vice President Sales & Marketing, Camfil Power Systems
Claudio Evangelisti
CEO, Gas and Heat
Tomas Hnizdil
Business Development Manager, Chart
Hussein Moghaddam
Senior Energy Forecast Analyst at Energy Economics & Forecasting Department, Gas Exporting Countries Forum Secretariat
Key topics
- Small Scale LNG Projects
- Global LNG market outlook: changes in gas demand and supply
- Most significant challenges LNG industry to face in the near future
- The 2020 IMO fuel sulphur regulation – the need of a developed LNG infrastructure
- Lesser known Bio-LNG – huge potential and challenges of producing
- LNG as ship fuel – how to overcome obstacles and make it more attractive for shipowners
- Latest technological developments and prospects for wider use of LNG as fuel for land transport
- The benefits of small-scale LNG: project flexibility and cost-effectiveness
- LNG terminals – their contribution to the global LNG market
Delegations
- LNG Business Leader
- Director of E&IS Italy / Environmental Infrastructure Solutions UK/Europe
- SVP LNG/FLNG
- TBC
- Technical Director
- LNG Offloading & Terminal Technology Program Lead
- Business Development Manager - LNG Terminals
- Head of LNG Technology Department
- Head of Apac HUB Onshore
- Vice-President Oil&Gas International Business Development
- TBC
- General Manager
- TBC
- GM, Process Design & LNG Technology
- TBC
- General Manager Egypt & BD Manager Middle East
- General Manager Egypt, Regional Business Development Director – Middle East
- Head of Process Engineering Dep.
- Commercial Director
- Process Manager
- General Manager, Business Development
- TBC
- Senior Project Manager Business Development
- TBC
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Meet the Speaker
Captain Walter P. Purio
CEO, LNG Marine Fuel Institute
aptain Walter P. Purio is the managing director of P and H Marine Australasia Pty Ltd and currently assists oil and gas companies in Australia to develop their strategies to provide LNG as a marine fuel to the Australasian region. He is the Founding Director and Global Advocate of the LNG Marine Fuel Institute and served as its Inaugural CEO. He is a non-executive director to Pelican Clean Energy Pty Ltd which provides marine expertise, insight and advice to government, resource and oil and gas companies as they explore the potential to develop an LNG as a marine fuel industry in the Southern Hemisphere. He serves as Governor for the non profit Leeuwin Ocean Adventures, providing at sea team learning and development sail vessel training for the youth of Western Australia. Captain Purio is Chairman of QuayChain Ltd, a Singapore registered company providing blockchain bunkering solutions to the global marine fuel industry. He is also a non executive director to CleanSubSea Ltd and Rise x Pty Ltd. providing governance, strategy and global marine expertise. Captain Purio is a seasoned maritime industry executive who has worked across several marine disciplines including commercial shipping, marine finance, marine compliance, naval operations, offshoring, mining and support to the oil and gas industry and holds a BSc degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and dual MBA’s from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium.
Meet the Speaker
Andrew Clifton
General Manager, SIGTTO
Andrew Clifton is the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of SIGTTO (The Society of International Gas Tanker & Terminal Operators Ltd), he has over 30 years experience in the liquefied gas shipping industry. This includes 19 years at sea, three years as master, mainly on liquefied gas carriers, a first class honours degree in shipping operations and shore managerial experience over the last 12 years. The latter includes three years working at the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB), marine superintendent with Golar LNG, almost two years in the SIGTTO Secretariat as a Technical Adviser and over five years in Indonesia with BP as LNG Shipping manager for the Tangguh LNG project. Andrew was also the SIGTTO Panel chairman from October 2008 until becoming GM. Andrew Clifton is the eighth SIGTTO General Manager. He is also the youngest General Manager and the first General Manager who was formerly a Technical Adviser at the Society.
Meet the Speaker
Akira Miyamoto
Executive Researcher, Osaka Gas
Akira Miyamoto is an Executive Researcher of Osaka Gas Co., Ltd., with more than thirty years of experience in researching international energy markets. Currently as a member of Energy Resources and International Business Unit of the company, which covers LNG procurement and international energy business from upstream to downstream, he leads research works for the unit and other departments of Osaka Gas.
Meet the Speaker
GuYing Van Bommel
Founder, aWONDERLAND / Executive MBA, Oxford University
GuYing van Bommel is an Economist and Engineer. She has a demonstrated history of working in the energy industry. The country she operated includes the Netherlands, Norway, UK and China. She is also the founder of aWONDERLAND, an agri-tech company that can accelerate the agriculture into high-tech industries, where systems are coupled with artificial intelligence and big data. The team of aWONDERLAND combined with Oxford Executive MBAs, industrial experts and post-doctoral R&Ds.
Meet the Speaker
Arno Buex
CCO, Fluxys
Arno Büx has been Chief Commercial Officer of Fluxys Group and
Fluxys Belgium since autumn 2015. He oversees all commercial
activities of Fluxys, both regulated and non-regulated as well as its
business development in Europe.
Arno Büx is Board Member of GIE and President of GLE, European
Industry Association of LNG Terminal Operators.
Arno Büx holds degrees in Engineering and Business Administration.
Before joining Fluxys, he has evolved within the ENGIE Group for 20
years, working in Belgium, France and Luxemburg but mostly
contributing to the development of the Group’s energy activities in
Germany. He held various executive and non-executive management positions in businesses targeting
the B2B and B2C commodity markets as well as the gas midstream sector.
Meet the Speaker
Yana Popkostova
Founder & Managing Director, European Center for Energy and Geopolitical Analysis
Yana Popkostova is the founder of the European Centre for
Energy and Geopolitical Analysis. Her work explores the
evolving landscape of risks associated with the low-carbon
transition, building tailored corporate and regulatory
anticipatory foresight for holistic and agile risk
management to particularly geopolitical, governance and
climate volatility, but also concerns related to critical
resource access. She is equally an all-around advocate for
women’s empowerment and diversity in energy.
Yana’s background is in the EU Energy policy incubator.
She has previously worked on energy policy and strategy
for the European Climate Foundation and before that
within the cabinet of the Vice-president of the Alliance of
Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and DG Presidency in
the European Parliament. She served as an expert reviewer of the IPCC 1.5 ̊C Report
and sat at the advisory board for France of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day.
In 2017, she was designated as a Future Energy Leader by the World Energy Council
and as an inaugural EUI Policy Leaders Fellow on Transnational Energy Governance.
She is an advisory board member of the World Energy and Meteorology Council
[WEMC] and a mentor for the German Ministry of Industry-sponsored Global Women
Network for the Energy Transition.
She has published widely and is a solicited international speaker on global energy
relations and transformations.
Yana holds a postgraduate degree with distinction from the London School of
Economics.
Meet the Speaker
Dietrich Roeben
Asset Manager, Mozambique LNG - Total
Dietrich Roeben is a leader in modern operations, engineering and process safety management. His career covers all phases of up- and midstream assets in operations planning, operating & maintaining mature assets, leading change, asset management, and human aspects of work. He has worked in super large assets as well as niche oil and gas facilities around the world. In his current role as asset manager he builds the operations organization for a large gas to LNG project.
Meet the Speaker
Sebastien Roussel
Director, International Projects, Elengy
Sébastien Roussel is in charge of international business development at ELENGY, a position held since 2019. He has an experience of 10 years in the LNG industry, including 5 years as Head of the LNG Portfolio Management Division of ENGIE (and then TOTAL), responsible for the optimization and risk management of the company’s global LNG Trading portfolio.
Meet the Speaker
Daisuke Harada
Project Director, Economist, Jogmec
Daisuke HARADA entered Japan National Oil Corporation (JNOC) in
1997. As an economist, he was engaged in several projects in Asia and
Oceania first 10 years.
In 2003, He was seconded to the Agency for Natural Resources and
Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (ANRE-METI), appointed as
a specialist for international energy affairs, especially on natural gas sphere.
In 2006, as soon as he returned from ANRE-METI to Japan Oil, Gas and
Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC; JNOC and Metal Mines Agency of
Japan merged in 2004), he was appointed as Deputy Director of Moscow
Representative Office and worked for starting up upstream JVs in East
Siberia.
After six years career in Russia, he came back to Tokyo in order to draft
the “JOGMEC Five Year Mid-term Plan”, which was approved by Japanese
Government in March, 2013. Now JOGMEC appointed him as a regional
specialist and economist for projects (East Siberia, Sakhalin and Arctic) in
Russia and CIS countries in Russia Project Group and Research and Analysis
Department.
Meet the Speaker
Claudio Evangelisti
CEO, Gas and Heat
Claudio Evangelisti graduated as mechanical engineering in 1978 was the managing director of Officine San Marco, , a family company until 1991.
The company, was sold to Deutche Babcock Group but returned to the property of the Evangelisti family in 1996 with the establishment of Gas and Heat.
Gas and Heat,is a solution provider for LNG infrastructure ,dedicated to use LNG as fuel, both in marine and land propulsion, as well as an energy source for small-sized on shore plants.
Based on the long experience gained in the design and construction of liquefied gas plants.
Gas and Heat is concentrated on the development and implementation of LNG applications , a cost-effective and environmentally friend fuel , which means to be focused on the future, combing the needs of “saving” with respect for our planet.
Gas and Heat is active in the research and design of such applications, together with other companies and various Italian and foreign universities, for the development of:
Plants for containment and evaporation of LNG, dedicated to LNG fuelled vessels, both for new buildings and for retrofitting
Small-medium size cargo plant for marine LNG transportation
LNG Bunker vessel for LNG
Small size land-based LNG storage plants ( 1.000-10.000 cbm)
Meet the Speaker
Hussein Moghaddam
Senior Energy Forecast Analyst at Energy Economics & Forecasting Department, Gas Exporting Countries Forum Secretariat
I am an economist with more than ten years’ experience in the oil and gas sector. I have an active contribution to the successful implementation in various energy projects. I hold a PhD in Energy and Environmental Management from the University of Vienna. Currently, I am working for the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), as a Senior Energy Forecast Analyst, headquarters in Doha, Qatar. I am supervising the GECF Global Gas Model (GGM) runs, regular updates of the data and the GECF Global Gas Outlook storylines.
Meet the Speaker
Tomas Hnizdil
Business Development Manager, Chart
Tomas Hnizdil, Business Development Manager at Chart Ferox,
joined the company 15 years ago and has fulfilled a variety of
product management and commercial roles during his tenure.
Tomas is a multi-disciplined individual and highly respected within
the cryogenic community. His current responsibilities include
helping customers adopt LNG as a safe, clean-burning, cost
effective fuel solution for energy, transportation and in industry,
particularly within the Eastern Hemisphere region.
Tomas holds a technical engineering degree from the Institute of
Chemical Technology in Prague, Czech Republic.
Meet the Speaker
Symeon Kassianides
Chairman, Cyprus Natural Gas Public Company
Dr. Symeon Kassianides is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Hyperion Systems Engineering Group. He holds a PhD and DIC in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (UK), a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and has extensive experience in project execution and management of technology in the process manufacturing industries. He has been a Member of the Board of the Natural Gas Public Company (DEFA) since 2014 and was appointed as Chairman in March 2017.
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Wim Tichelaar
Business Development, Gasunie
Wim Tichelaar (NL, Groningen, 1967). Studied Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics. Working in the oil- and gas industry since 1993. Started working with Gasunie in 1999. Various positions in the field of project management, asset management and contract management. As of 2018 working for Gasunie Business Development on LNG projects and a.o. working on the German LNG Terminal GmbH project in Brunsbüttel (near Hamburg).
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Miguel Duvison
Project Manager, Naturgy LNG
Miguel Duvison is PhD in energy engineering and fluid mechanics by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) and Master in natural gas value chain and electricity generation by Instituto Superior de la Energía (Madrid, Spain). He has more than 12 years of experience developing energy projects and his current position is Project Manager in Naturgy. He is the Technical Director of the LNGonWheels® solution and member of the inventors team that patented the system.