Speakers (15)
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Captain Mark K. Lane
Senior Vice President, Operations
Excelerate Energy
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Captain Mark K. Lane, Vice President of Operations at Excelerate Energy, LLC, is a Master Mariner licensed by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) to command ships of unlimited size and unlimited horsepower on any waters of the world. Captain Lane has been sailing as a licensed merchant officer since 1979 accumulating over four thousand days of documented sea time. He was ‘Master-in-Command’ of LNG carriers, Panamax bulk carriers, offshore supply ...more
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Tony Acton
Principal
ActOn LNG Consulting Ltd
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Tony Acton qualified in Physics, Cryogenic Engineering and researched the thermal properties of cryogenic helium. He has been in the LNG Industry for over 28 years working in Europe, the Far East, India, the Middle East and South America.
Until very recently he was LNG Development Manager for BG Group and worked on many new LNG export and import projects and acquisitions with particular responsibility for technical definition and site selecti ...more
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Patrick Englebert
Senior Project Manager
Exmar
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Patrick Englebert
Started at TRACTEBEL as a project engineer for large power plants, water production and waste treatment plants. Then joined EXMAR technical department , in charge of ship and offshore newbuilding and conversion projects. At present, responsible for EXMAR STS concept, production and technology development; also involved in other innovative projects at EXMAR.
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Branko Pokorny
Managing Director
Gate Terminal
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Mr. Pokorny is Managing Director of the Gate Terminal. He is responsible for the further construction and development
of the Gate terminal, the first LNG import terminal in the Netherlands, at the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam. He has extensive experience with managing large scale projects in the energy-related sector. Before joining Gate terminal he was Concession and Project Director of Elyo East London Energy, part of Suez Energy Services and Gener ...more
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Dr Chris Smith
Manager - Asset Integrity
Applus RTD Pty Ltd
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Chris has over 25 years of materials and inspection experience addressing plant integrity, inspection planning and fitness for service issues in the Oil, Gas, Petrochemical and Power Generation industries. After being awarded a PhD for research on welding and fracture mechanics for offshore jacket structures, Chris worked in the power generation industry and subsequently with a number of engineering consultancy and inspection companies.
Chri ...more
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Kevin Jackson
Oil & Gas Industry Manager
Mogas Industries Inc.
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Kevin has over 30 years in the design and application of actuators and control valve design. His initial design involved the development of a new range of Hytork Actuators in the late 1980s with additional inventions in the area of control accessories. More recently Kevin developed the tortuous path FlexStream® rotary control ball valve. In 2006, Kevin accepted and moved to Houston to take up his current role as Control Valve Product Manager for ...more
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Andrew Woodhead
Business Development Manager, North Africa
Weatherford Pipeline & Speciality Services
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Andrew Woodhead graduated from Coventry Polytechnic and has more than 19 years of experience in operational and business development aspects of process and pipeline services; he has been involved in many LNG projects including Damietta LNG, Yemen LNG and Darwin LNG. Andrew is currently Business Development Manager for North Africa within Weatherford’s Pipeline & Specialty Services Division.
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Calogero Migliore
LNG Technology Manager
Repsol
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Calogero Migliore has more than 20 years of experience in operations, technology and project management in the oil and gas industry. He joined the LNG Technology Group at Repsol in 2005, and became the LNG Technology Manager in 2007. In this capacity, he is responsible for Repsol’s Technology portfolio in the LNG value chain, developing activities in R&D, and providing technology support to the engineering projects under development (liquefaction ...more
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Raul Risi
Project Manager
Technip
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Raul Risi is currently Project Manager in the Offshore LNG Department of Technip and particularly in charge of the development of offshore LNG transfer technologies such as the cryogenic pipe-in-pipe. He joined Technip in 1992 and spent 12 years in the Process and Technology Division as a process engineer and process leader on LNG and gas process engineering. Raul Risi holds a master degree with honours in chemical engineering from Rome Universit ...more
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Heinz Bauer
VP Technology, LNG and Gas Processing
Linde
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After graduation at the Technical University Munich as PhD in Applied Physics, Dr Heinz Bauer joined Linde Engineering 28 years ago. He worked in different positions in process design as well as sales and marketing. His focus has been on all kind of cryogenic gas processing including cracked gases, synthesis gas, refinery off-gases and of course natural gas. Heinz has contributed with many papers to international conferences and is co-author of t ...more
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Larry Perkins
Business Development Director
Honeywell
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Larry Perkins is responsible for business development for LNG and, in general, oil and gas markets for the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) business for Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The ACS business includes sales, delivery and support of a wide range of automation solutions including distributed control systems, quality control systems, advanced software solutions, field devices, industrial security and other solution ...more
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Rainer Duebi
Business Development Manager FLNG
Burckhardt Compression AG
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Rainer Duebi holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technikum Winterthur and a Master in Business Administration.
He was employed at Sulzer from 1985 until 1995 and worked in the manufacturing of reciprocating compressors, gas turbines, pumps and diesel engines.
After his study in 1999 he started as Commissioning Engineer for larger onshore gas turbine power stations at ABB and later Alstom. During his career he was leading erecti ...more
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Neil Smallwood
Managing Director
FTI Group
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Gerhard Kanz
Pipeline Department Manager
Adria LNG
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Mike Wilkes Question time
Director LNG Licensing & Technology
ConocoPhillips
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Michael Wilkes received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Phillips University. He joined the Conoco process engineering department in 1978 and has worked in various process, project, operations engineering and supervisory positions for Conoco, Dubai Petroleum Company, Chevron Research Company, and ConocoPhillips around the world. His work in the ConocoPhillips LNG Licensing group has included techn ...more
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