MPGC 2023

In his role as Chief Executive Officer of ENOC Group, His Excellency Saif Humaid Al Falasi spearheads the implementation of the Group’s business growth strategy and operational excellence locally and internationally, in alignment with the vision and plans of the Government of Dubai.

A 40-year veteran in the Oil & Gas industry; H.E Al Falasi has been instrumental in the evolution of ENOC to become a reputable and leading integrated energy player. He plays a key role in driving ENOC’s sustainable operations by nurturing an organizational culture that adopts clean energy in power generation and efficient utilization of assets across the Group’s operational units.

In 2019, H.E. Al Falasi received the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the inaugural Middle East Energy Awards for his immense contributions to the energy sector. He also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering by Heriot-Watt University in Dubai as a recognition to his four decades of significant contribution to the energy industry in the region.

Dave Ernsberger is Head of Market Reporting and Trading Solutions at S&P Global Commodity Insights. Based in London, he is responsible for managing Platts commodity price benchmarks worldwide, including market reporting, news coverage and exchange relationships, from well-established markets like oil and gas through to emerging market environments like new Energy Transition commodities and recycled materials.

Dave has served in a variety of roles at Platts, including Head of Oil Content; Editorial Director for Asia (based in Singapore), and Houston Bureau Chief. He joined Platts in 1996 as a metals reporter in London, and launched coverage of Europe’s then-deregulating gas and electricity markets in 1999.

Hesham Ali Mustafa is Managing Director of Shared Services Centre, Group HR & New Business Development (SSC, GHR & NBD) at ENOC Group. He is responsible for running the Group’s core multi-functional segment through strategic management and operational development, delivering significant value to the organization through skilled governance, service excellence and cost optimization measures, while generating revenue through international business expansion through the Group’s New Business Development role.

Hesham has over 20 years’ experience in the energy sector. He joined ENOC Group in 2001 as Project Manager for ENOC’s refinery in Jebel Ali, then went on to manage ENOC’s gas business (EMGAS) & international business development, before his current appointment.

He is also spearheading ENOC’s digital transformation strategy through ‘Next’, ENOC’s accelerator program, designed to unlock growth opportunities and tackle challenges in the energy sector through building new digital ventures for business-to-business and consumer categories.

Dr. Fereidun Fesharaki is the Founder and Chairman of FGE. His work is well- recognized worldwide for pioneering oil and gas market analysis and studies of the Asia Pacific/Middle East energy markets since the early 1980s. He was elected a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the International Advisory Board of ENEOS Holdings. He was the 1993 President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). In 1995, he was elected a Senior Fellow of the US Association for Energy Economics for distinguished services in the field of energy economics. He received the Outstanding Contributions to the IAEE Award in 2012.

Dr. Fesharaki is the recipient of the 2016 Adelman-Frankel Award from the US Association for Energy Economics (USAEE) for his unique and innovative contribution to the field of energy economics. He has been appointed to the National Petroleum Council beginning in 2008 and most recently re-appointed by the US Secretary of Energy, Dan Brouillette in April 2020.

Hafedh Al-Qassab is the acting Deputy Chief Executive (DCE) and also Project Director for the Bapco Modernization Program (BMP) at Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco). Hafedh is responsible for all technical and operational aspects of the Bapco Refinery, including the functions of Refining, Maintenance, and Engineering. He is also leading the BMP Integrated Project Management Team (IPMT) which is responsible for managing the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of the major multi-billion-dollar expansion and upgrade of the existing Bapco Refinery. Prior to assuming the position of Project Director-BMP, he was General Manager Refining, responsible for the hydrocarbon supply chain at Bapco.

Hafedh’s whole career for over 26 years has been spent with Bapco, held various roles and responsibilities in the Company’s refinery within the process engineering and operations functions, including the Manager of Technical Services.

John Roper is CEO Middle East, at Uniper Global Commodities SE’s, where he is responsible for furthering the development of Uniper’s commodities and corporate portfolio in the Middle East. He is an Energy Executive with 40 years’ experience in the energy industry working for independent energy and utility companies. He has spent the last 30 years in Regional Company Management and Business Development focused on the Middle East where he has a proven track record of delivering material projects. He has held several senior positions in the International Upstream, Trading, LNG and Hydrogen businesses. John has served as a Non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Member of the Audit and Risk Committees of Caithness Petroleum PLC, a private Oil and Gas company in the UK and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of other offshore companies in the Middle East, North Africa and the Caspian.

Renu Sharma is responsible for the International Products joint ventures and aviation business in the Middle East. She has 27 years of experience in a variety of roles of increasing responsibilities in Chevron. Over the course of her career, she steadily progressed through a series of downstream roles ranging from Marine Fuels, Supply and Trading, and managing the defense fuel and storage requirements globally outside the US. Between 2011 and 2017, Renu was based in Singapore, Chevron’s headquarters for the Downstream & Chemicals business operations in Asia Pacific. While in Singapore, Renu held the roles of Advisor to the President of International Products and General Manager of Special Projects and Joint Venture Board governance.

In 2019, Renu was recognized as the first female country chair in Chevron in the middle east. In 2022, Renu was honored as one of Middle East’s most inspirational women in leadership.

Lyn Tattum is Vice President, Head of Events, Training, and Media, at S&P Global Commodity Insights and Publisher of Chemical Week. Lyn’s early career was as a journalist, publisher, writer, and interviewer in the global chemical Industry. She is well known within the international chemical and plastics industry, interviewing CEOs, chairing conferences and roundtables, and regularly attending global industry events, where she has pioneered discussions on Sustainability, ESG and Diversity.

Lyn recently launched The Chemical Leadership Circle to connect industry CEOs worldwide with critical information, providing an opportunity to network, raise awareness of key issues, and exchange ideas at a time of critical global change in economy, politics, society and business.

Shaikh Ebrahim, as the Manager of Corporate Strategy & Business Development at Bapco is responsible for developing strategies to maximize the company’s overall profitability through diversification and innovation. He is mandated to explore and develop new business areas for Bapco. He has recently been appointed as the Chairman of Bahrain Aviation Fuelling Company (BAFCO).

Prior to joining Bapco, he worked within the Higher Education Sector for nineteen years in the areas of Strategy, Innovation, Administration and Finance. He has attended several executive courses in Strategic Management and Innovation at Harvard University and MIT. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His dissertation is about innovating within the oil and gas industry. He also holds an MBA with distinction from DePaul University Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, and a BSBA from Suffolk University Sawyer Business School.

Over the past 37 years, HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum has been at the forefront of Dubai’s remarkable economic development spearheading the successful expansion of aviation, which constitutes a substantial part of Dubai’s GDP, and formulating economic, investment and fiscal policies and strategies in support of the emirate’s overarching vision.

Sheikh Ahmed embarked on his career in the aviation industry in 1985 when he was appointed President of the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), he also launched Emirates – Dubai’s international airline.

In January 2019 Sheikh Ahmed received the Honorary Sash of Mohammed Bin Rashid from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai. This was for winning the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Government Excellence Award for his leadership in aviation. In the same year, Sheikh Ahmed was appointed to temporarily oversee Dubai Holding and Meraas, and in June 2020 Meraas merged under the umbrella of Dubai Holding with Sheikh Ahmed confirmed as its Chairman.

In January 2020, Sheikh Ahmed was appointed to the newly formed Dubai Council as the Commissioner General of Dubai Economy pillar to oversee the Department of Economic Development, Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, and Dubai’s free zones, airports, ports and customs. In November 2021, the Department of Economic Development and the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing were merged, resulting in the establishment of the Department of Economy and Tourism (DET).

Outside of aviation, Sheikh Ahmed holds several government positions and plays an increasingly pivotal role in leading the emirate’s finance and energy sectors.

H.E. Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei has held the position of the Minister of Energy since March 2013 before the Ministry turning in the Ministerial Formation of 2017 into the Ministry of Energy and Industry. In July 2020, the Ministry grew even bigger when merging with the Ministry of Infrastructure Development, including the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme, and the Federal Transport Authority Land & Maritime to become The Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.

His Excellency has eminent management experiences in the field of corporate management in several sectors including shipbuilding, defense systems, petroleum services sector, oil and gas, and the real estate development sector.

Besides his Ministerial responsibilities, His Excellency holds the following positions: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Electricity and Water Authority; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Emirates General Petroleum Corporation; Member of the Supreme Petroleum Council and Executive Committee of the Council; Member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of Mubadala Investment Company; Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of: Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, Nawah Energy Company, and Barakah One Company; as well as member of the Board of Directors of Dolphin Energy.

His Excellency Haitham Al Ghais began his tenure as Secretary General of OPEC on 1 August 2022. With 30 years of experience in the global oil and gas markets, HE Mr. Al Ghais managed international and regional teams worldwide: in Kuwait, Beijing and London. HE Mr. Al Ghais joined the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) in 1993, in the International Marketing Sector, and has since held multiple managerial functions, including Crude Oil Marketing Representative; International Marketing Sector; Head of KPC’s Regional Office in Beijing, China; Manager of KPC’s European Regional Office based in London, UK; Market Research Manager, Kuwait; and in 2021, HE Mr. Al Ghais was appointed as KPC’s Deputy Managing Director for International Marketing, responsible for overseeing the development of the market outlook for KPC’s international marketing plans and participating in the drawing up of KPC and strategic long-term plans. Throughout his career, HE Mr. Al Ghais has represented Kuwait in multiple governing bodies of renowned international institutions.

His Excellency Jamal Al Loughani began his tenure as Secretary General of OAPEC on 1 March 2023. He has over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas markets.

H.E. Al Loughani joined the International Marketing sector with Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) in 1986. He held various posts for International Marketing as Regional Office Director for Singapore, Sales Administration Manager, and Deputy Managing Director. In 2013, he moved to work as Deputy Managing Director of Marketing Division for Crude Oil and Light Product Sales. He was also appointed as Deputy CEO at Kuwait National Petroleum Company for Fuel Supply Operations and Chairman of the board of the Board of Directors Kuwait Aviation Fueling Company in 2017.

His last post with KPC in 2018 was Deputy Managing Director for Sales in the International Marketing Sector.

Mike Muller is President of Vitol Asia and a board member of Vitol. Mike has over 30 years’ experience in the energy sector and has been in his present role for two years. He joined Vitol in 2018 from Shell where he held a number of trading and management roles across Australia, Singapore and the UK where from 2013 onwards he ran Shell’s global crude oil trading, shipping and supply business. Mike is currently a Director of Viva Energy Australia Pte Ltd., (formerly Shell Downstream Australia), of Boustead Petroleum Marketing Sdn. Bhd. (formerly BP Malaysia), and of Arq. Mike holds a degree in Economic Geography from Cambridge University.

Thomas Waymel is President of TotalEnergies Trading & Shipping. His scope of responsibility encompasses all trading and shipping activities for crude oil, petroleum products, biofuels and derivatives of the company.

Thomas joined Total’s Refining business in Paris in 1993. He held several senior positions in the crude oil trading business between 1995 and 2006. As Manager for Refining & Marketing branch of Total, based in Paris, he took the responsibility of the global responsibility of the Global optimisation of refined products (including biofuels). Prior to his current position, he was Senior Vice President for crude oil trading.

Sheikh Khaled Al-Sabah is currently Managing Director-International Marketing at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Acting CEO at Kuwait Oil Tanker Company. He is a senior level executive with 31 years of international commercial oil trade & sales experience. He was responsible for all KPC regional offices in London, Singapore, Japan, Korea, China, India and Pakistan to ensure that they add value to the development of beneficial relationships and profitable contracts.

Sheikh Khaled joined KPC in 1992 in the crude oil sales department as sales representative, worked in the international marketing sector for crude, marine and London office as assistant manager. He held various managerial position at KPC and was appointed as Deputy Managing Director – International Marketing Sales in 2017, prior his current position in November 2022.

Shrikant Madhav Vaidya heads the 'Fortune 500' energy company, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Mr. Vaidya has over 35 years of extensive experience in the downstream petroleum industry. He is among the select technocrats in the Indian oil & gas space, with rich expertise in the entire gamut of refinery-petrochemicals integration.

Mr. Vaidya remains a firm votary of responsible growth and environmental stewardship for a better world. Under his visionary leadership, Indian Oil is walking on path to become a Net Zero Operational Emissions Company by 2046. With future-ready business acumen and a people-centric leadership style, Mr Vaidya is an ardent believer in the power of innovation, leveraging technology and harnessing the R&D prowess to ensure future-attuned business growth. He has been championing petrochemical integration, promoting biofuels & hydrogen economy, and spearheading pioneering energy solutions to strengthen the nation's energy security.

Dr. Helen Currie is Chief Economist at ConocoPhillips. She oversees long range planning, strategic initiatives and scenarios and advises on investment and public policy issues. With over 25 years of experience in business, government and academia, Currie brings valuable perspectives to corporate planning and strategy. Prior leadership roles in energy include BD/M&A strategy, upstream and downstream business analysis, commercial risk management and markets analysis. Before joining the energy industry, Currie held roles in academia as a finance professor and in government as an economic analyst. She was named as one of Oil & Gas Investor’s Top 25 Influential Women in Energy in 2018..

Gary King is President of ICE Futures Abu Dhabi (IFAD) and joined ICE in December 2022. King has more than 30 years of experience in the commodities markets including as the former CEO of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) where he was responsible for launching the exchange and the Oman crude oil contract in 2005. King has held several senior roles in the United Arab Emirates, including senior executive roles within the Government of Dubai, Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) and DP World. He has also held international senior executive roles in the commodities sector in Dubai and Singapore with Macquarie Bank, Morgan Stanley and Standard Bank of South Africa. King was a co-founder of the first private equity fund in the Middle East focused on natural resources, and one of the first companies licensed in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). King has spent time in the United States in executive positions within the energy sector with a focus on the origination of commodity and natural resource transactions as well as buy-side consultancy.

Kieran Gallagher joined Vitol in 2003 and has over 20 years’ experience in an oil trading environment.  Prior to a move to Bahrain in 2012, he worked in both Vitol’s London and Singapore offices, fulfilling roles across the clean product slate.  He is currently Managing Director of Vitol’s Bahrain office which is the base for much of the company’s Middle East and East African trading business and operations. Kieran holds an MA in Economics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Daniel Evans is Global Head, Fuels, Refining Research & Insight at S&P Global Commodity Insights. The team Daniel leads is responsible for our global and regional short-term refined product supply, demand, price and margin outlooks and detailed downstream market research. Daniel’s team also contributes to long-term forecasting efforts and delivers global base oil and lubricants and fuel retail research. Daniel has been involved in developing our work on the future of energy and mobility and lead studies focused on decarbonization pathways for trucking, aviation and shipping.

Michael Curran is Head of Emissions Trading at Vitol, who has established its carbon trading desk. Previously he held various trading positions at Cargill across the company’s energy and sugar business. Curran holds a degree in PPE from Oxford University and an Executive MBA from Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management.

Andrew Laven is the Chief Commercial Officer for the Saudi Industrial Export Company (Sadirat), bringing Saudi production to market from food to energy and everything in between, with a particular focus on Africa.  He has worked in the oil industry for over 30 years and based in Dubai since early 2006 initially as the Vice President for BP’s Integrated Supply & Trading business in the Middle East.  Andy then joined Bomin in 2015 as their Managing Director overseeing supply and bunker sales across the region.  More recently he was the Chief Operating Officer Sahara Energy Resources DMCC responsible for business in the region and the Eastern coast of Africa.  He has been involved across the business from upstream technical roles in Papua New Guinea, the North Sea, South Africa and Venezuela to commercial roles in Aberdeen and London.

Michael Stoppard is Global Gas Strategy Lead & Special Advisor with S&P Global. He is a member of the S&P Global Commodity Insights (SPG_CI) Leadership Team and also sits on the Gas, Power, & Climate Solutions management team. Previously he spent a decade as Chief Strategist Global Gas at IHS Markit, and Vice Chairman CERAWeek, the world’s premier annual energy conference. Prior to that, he led the global gas team at IHS CERA. Before joining IHS Markit, Mr. Stoppard was a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) where he set up the gas programme.

Jim Burkhard, Vice President, Oil Markets, Energy & Mobility at S&P Global, is recognized as one of the world’s top analysts on global oil markets, scenarios, and on the future of energy and transportation. Jim has over 25 years of experience in energy market research and analysis. He is responsible for the development and coordination of S&P Global (previously IHS Markit) research, insights and messages for global and regional crude oil markets and energy scenarios. His expertise covers geopolitics, industry dynamics, global energy demand and supply, and mobility trends.

Jim is a principal leader in the creation and development of global energy scenarios that bring together the entirety of the firm’s energy research to form an integrated global outlook for the future of energy.

Patrick Dugas is Vice President LNG Trading in TotalEnergies Gas & Power Limited (TEGP), based in Geneva and is currently managing the worldwide Trading LNG Portfolio of TotalEnergies with the offices of Geneva, Singapore and Houston. He is also working in coordination with the LNG Shipping division and the Business Development of the global LNG activities of TotalEnergies.

Patrick has been involved in LNG industry for more than 15 years with past experience in power, emission & natural gas trading. He also previously run the West African Trading desk of TotalEnergies Trading SA in Geneva dealing with refined products as LPG, kerosene, gasoline, gasoil, fuel and bitumen. He has over 20 years of global experience in the energy industry with a particular focus on Risk Management. .

Sam White, Vice President of Commercial Structuring & Portfolio Management, joined Cheniere Energy in London in 2015.  In his current role he has oversight for the pricing and structuring of all short-, mid- and long-term transactions, supporting the company’s trading and origination efforts globally.  Prior to Cheniere, Sam worked for investment firms like Moore Capital Management, Citigroup and HBK Capital Management where he invested across the capital structures of energy and power companies worldwide with a particular focus on Infrastructure and North American unconventional oil and gas.  Mr. White received a BBA in Finance and BS in Economics from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Toril Bosoni is the Head of the Oil Markets Division at the Paris-based International Energy Agency and has been tracking international oil market developments for the IEA for over two decades. She is the editor of the agency’s flagship Oil Market Report and Medium-Term Oil Market Report. She is also a regular contributor to the IEA’s World Energy Outlook and World Energy Investments and plays a lead role in the agency’s essential work on energy security.

Toril obtained her BA in International Economics & Business Administration at the American University of Paris (AUP) and has undertaken extensive training in econometrics and energy economics. Toril is originally from Stavanger, Norway.

Summer Xia, oil and gas analyst in Unipec Research and Strategy Dept, Sinopec. Years of experience in global oil and gas fundamentals analysis, also focuses on China’s oil market, oil and gas trading research, short-term and long-term strategy research on oil and gas industry. Published several theses and reports in industrial periodicals and blue books.

Scott Nelson in President and Head of Trading Refinery Feedstocks & Products for Reliance International, based in Dubai. Scott traded for Cargill in Singapore and Geneva. He joined Total in Geneva where he traded middle distillates globally before becoming global trading head for Socar Trading SA in Geneva. Prior to joining Reliance, he was President of Oil and gas for BP Middle East & East Africa. Scott has a degree in economics from University of Melbourne.

Abdullah Al-Osaimi is currently Manager Corporate Planning for KIPIC. He was appointed as Project Manager for Petrochemicals project-PRIZe in 2016 when Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) was established.

Abdullah started his career as process engineer at Petrochemicals Industrial Company- PIC and was involved in the commissioning of several projects. After 7 years, he moved to the Olefins & Aromatics Strategic Business Unit within PIC and was responsible for the coordination and monitoring of PIC joint ventures activities and assigned for many feasibility studies for Refinery and Petrochemical projects worldwide and evaluated several business opportunities (grass root and M&A opportunities).

Nicolas Thévenot is Managing Director and Head of APICORP’s Corporate Banking activities, that includes financial advisory, project and asset-based finance as well as trade and commodity finance. Corporate Finance offers conventional as well as Islamic debt products.

Nicolas joined APICORP’s Project & Trade Finance Department in 2000 having worked previously for 8 years with Credit Agricole Indosuez, Paris as Economist and then Structured Finance Manager in the Asset based and Project Finance Department. At APICORP, Nicolas is a member of the Credit & Investment Committee that reviews and approves the credits as well as the direct investments of the Corporation, as well as a member of the Executive Management Committee and of the Risk and Assets and Liabilities Committee. Nicolas has had the overall responsibility for APICORP’s Corporate Finance activities since September 2004 and he has since then coordinated the financing and advisory assignments in which APICORP has been instrumental all over the Arab region and beyond.

Ahmed Mehdi is Managing Director of Renaissance Energy Advisors, a specialist energy intelligence firm. He also serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP). He previously served as an advisor to BHP Petroleum, advising on OPEC strategy, refining economics and short-term oil market fundamentals. He also serves as a Distinguished Associate at Facts Global Energy (FGE). His work has included detailed studies on physical oil pricing systems. His OIES studies include: Murban: a benchmark for the Middle East? (2019), Middle East Benchmark Pricing and the Oil Crisis (2020) and The Second Split: Basrah Medium and the challenge of Iraqi Crude Quality (2021). He was also co-editor of the OIES strategic study: Middle East Oil Pricing Systems in Flux (2021).

Firdaus Panthaki is General Manager – Marketing, Sales & Supply for Bapco where he is responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategies to support consistent business growth and to maximize the profitability of Bapco through the sale of crude oil and petroleum products.

Firdaus has extensive oil industry experience gained through senior global roles is sales & marketing and supply & logistics in BP’s downstream businesses and in energy risk management in BP’s trading division. These roles entailed close collaboration with BP’s and refining and oil products trading businesses to maximize the integrated value across the supply chain.

Rushan Pandya is Head the Carbon Trading business in Asia Pacific, for Trafigura. He joined in 2021 when the Group newly established carbon trading desk. His role is to support the growth of Trafigura’s carbon trading activity across the region which includes a focus on day trading and arbitrage in global compliance and voluntary markets; working with developers of carbon projects to structure and finance new transactions or the expansion of existing projects; and offering services to clients looking to reduce the carbon footprint of their supply chains. Prior to joining Trafigura, Rushan spent eight years at Shell where he most recently served as team leader of the structured gas trading business in Europe, and prior to this was the Head of Carbon Trading in Asia. He has over 15 years of experience spanning the physical commodity and derivatives markets and has worked from both London and currently Singapore.

Kanchan Yadav is the Senior Pricing Specialist for the global Voluntary Carbon Markets and is based in India. Over the past two years as a pricing specialist at S&P Global Commodity insights, Kanchan has been investigating various factors that affect the pricing of carbon credits across segments including premiums and discounts in the renewable energy segments as well as recent supply and demand trends in the cookstove segment. Previously, Kanchan was a stock markets and energy reporter at Informist Media, where she focused on power and coal sectors.

Edward Bell is Senior Director, Market Economics and is responsible for Emirates NBD’s analysis of rates, currencies and commodity markets. He represents Group Research in international events, media and senior client briefings, updating clients with the bank’s latest thought leadership on markets critical to their operations.

Prior to joining Emirates NBD, Edward worked as a senior commodities economies and Middle East economist at an independent consultancy in London and in Hong Kong and has degrees from the University of London and University of Toronto.

Hamed Al Naamany was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Oman LNG in 2021. Hamed comes with over 20 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry, holding different roles in technical and production management. Hamed has international industry experience through various techno-commercial in countries in Europe and North America.

In 2016, Hamed returned to Oman LNG as holding the responsibility for the LNG plant rejuvenation, Power Project and the Debottlenecking Project prior to his appointment as Oman LNG’s Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer.

Frederik Janssens is Head LNG Business Development at ENOC. He is responsible to bring ENOC into the LNG terminals infrastructure space. Currently the focus on LNG has expanded into Net Zero Technology, exploring the potential of green hydrogen and ammonium business opportunities, building on the ENOC footprint across the MENA and East Africa regions as top potential future producers. Frederik has over two decades of experience in the energy and infrastructure sector globally and been the trusted manager in and advisor to Multinational Corporations, Utilities, Governments and NOCs.

Shamma Al Rahmah is Director – Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management at ENOC Group. She oversees the establishment and implementation of ENOC Group’s integrated strategy. She plays a key role in supporting the Group’s leadership in decision making, effective strategy management, execution and the process of governance.

Shamma also leads strategy execution through the implementation of a scorecard framework across all segments and business units and ensures that all business units are equipped with the latest O&G market insights, economic overviews and market intelligence to further support ENOC’s strategic development.

Rashid Al Mazrouei is the Senior Vice President Marketing at ADNOC Gas. His strategic role focuses on ADNOC Gas’s Marketing and Procurement activities.

With over 20 years at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Mr. Rashid has held a variety of managerial positions. In 2000, he began his career at ADNOC Gas where he carried out several roles in the Marketing department with a focus on market sales and research. In 2017, he was back at ADNOC Gas Headquarters as LNG Marketing Manager where he was responsible for sales, marketing, and the business development of LNG Production and was appointed as head of the Tokyo Office in 2010. In 2019, he was promoted to Vice President Strategy where he led the organizational strategy towards a new business model.

Emin Imanov is Chief Executive Officer of BGN Trading. He joined BGN as Head of CIS Operations in Moscow in 2006. In 2007, he was appointed as Managing Director of Swiss Trading Entity based in Zug, Switzerland and held this position until 2009 when he was promoted to Head of Global Trading. Emin was appointed as CEO of BGN Trading in 2013.

Prior to joining BGN, Emin worked at Samsung Corporation and held sales manager and general manager positions; responsible for petrochemical sales to Turkish market and sourcing of petrochemical products from CIS countries. During his term, Emin was awarded the company’s ‘’Award of Excellence’’, when he was nominated as one of the 10 best sales experts in the company’s worldwide network in 2003.

Advocate Pria Hassan is the Founder and CEO of the Women of Africa (WOA) Investment Group- a dynamic women-driven service provider in the pharmaceutical, construction, logistics and energy sectors - is at the forefront of women development in South Africa. With a career spanning more than a decade, Hassan is a property, logistics and legal expert, who has held executive positions in several JSE-listed companies. Hassan also serves on the board of several women-based organisations, including the Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa (BWASA) and the Jess Food Foundation. Since 2011 she has been awarded multiple local and international awards for her contribution to the energy, construction, engineering, legal, entrepreneur and numerous other sectors. She was also honoured as CNBC’s Women of the year in 2012, recognised as the top woman leader in her sector.

Farid Badri is the Executive Director of Processing at ENOC, where he is responsible for managing all the Processing facilities within the ENOC Group. ENOC currently operates the 213,000 barrel/day Condensate EPCL refinery, and the 2000 mT/day DUGAS MTBE Petrochemical facility.

A seasoned oil and gas professional with over 25 years of experience, Farid spent his entire career with the ENOC Group, where he has gained extensive experience in the oil & gas industry. He has held several roles in refining management, supply chain management, project management, strategic planning and international sales operations. His vast experience in the integration of refining processes, operational excellence, business continuity, organizational development and performance enhancement contributed largely to leading and executing optimization and energy efficiency projects within the refinery.

Farid Badri is the Executive Director of Processing at ENOC, where he is responsible for managing all the Processing facilities within the ENOC Group. ENOC currently operates the 213,000 barrel/day Condensate EPCL refinery, and the 2000 mT/day DUGAS MTBE Petrochemical facility.

A seasoned oil and gas professional with over 25 years of experience, Farid spent his entire career with the ENOC Group, where he has gained extensive experience in the oil & gas industry. He has held several roles in refining management, supply chain management, project management, strategic planning and international sales operations. His vast experience in the integration of refining processes, operational excellence, business continuity, organizational development and performance enhancement contributed largely to leading and executing optimization and energy efficiency projects within the refinery.

Biography coming soon.

Biography coming soon.