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Gas Day: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
7:30 - 8:50 AM

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE BREAKFASTS (INVITATION ONLY)

North American Natural Gas: Rising to the Challenge

  • Mary Lashley Barcella, Director, CERA
  • Jonathan Parry, Director, CERA
  • Robert Ineson, Senior Director, CERA (Chair)

European and Russian Gas

  • Thane Gustafson, Senior Director, CERA (Chair)

STRATEGY BREAKFASTS

China and the World: Innovating to Meet the Supply and Demand Challenges

Sponsored by China National Petroleum Corporation

  • Ke Feng Yan, Senior Director, CERA
  • Wenrong Xu, Assistant President, China National Petroleum Corporation

The Future Role of LNG

  • Kenneth Yeasting, Senior Director, CERA
  • John Harris, Director, CERA
  • Robert Fraser, Director, CERA
  • Michael Stoppard, Managing Director, CERA (Chair)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: What's Ahead for Deep Ocean Discovery?

  • Dan Stuemer, Vice President, External Relations, Office for Applied Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution
  • Meg Tivey, Senior Scientist, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Andy Bowen, Research Specialist, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • James Rosenfield, Senior Vice President, IHS; Co-Founder, CERA (Chair)

Corporate Venture Capital: A Conduit for Early Adoption of Emerging Technology

Sponsored by Chevron

  • Trond Unneland, Vice President and Managing Executive, Chevron Technology Ventures
9:00 - 9:30 AM

Opening Address

  • H.E. Gerhard Schröder, Former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Chairman of the Shareholders Committee, Nord Stream
9:30 - 11:00 AM

Global Gas Plenary - Breaking with Convention

  • Rune Bjørnson, Executive Vice President, Natural Gas, StatoilHydro
  • Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi, Managing Director- CEO, RasGas Company Limited
  • Aubrey McClendon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chesapeake Energy
  • Harold N. Kvisle, President and Chief Executive Officer, TransCanada
  • Michael Stoppard, Managing Director, CERA (Chair)
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

CRITICAL ISSUE FORUMS

The New Math: Spending and Cost

  • Luc J. Messier, Senior Vice President, Project Development and Procurement, ConocoPhillips
  • W.D (Dave) Bozeman, Vice President Project Support Office, Devon
  • Jack B. Hartung Jr., Manager, Project Assurance, Chevron
  • Robert E. Estill, Vice President, Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management, Marathon Oil Corporation
  • Pritesh Patel, Director, CERA (Chair)

Unconventional Gas Outside North America

  • Charles Sheppard, Vice President of Unconventional Resources and Global Basins, Hess
  • Christopher Hopkins, President, Data & Consulting Services, Schlumberger
  • Jack Lewnard, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Gas Technology Institute
  • Leta Smith, Director, CERA

Eurasian Gas Supply: A Window for New Players?

  • Matthew Sagers, Senior Director, CERA
  • Mark Gyetvay, Chief Financial Officer, Member of the Board of Directors, Novatek
  • Mitrova Tatiana, Head of Center for International Energy Market Studies, Energy Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Sergei Glazer, Project Manager, Vostok Nafta Investment
  • Katherine Hardin, Senior Director, CERA (Chair)

Outlook for US Carbon Policy and Implications for North American Gas

  • Mark Brownstein, Managing Director, Environmental Defense Fund
  • Skip Horvath, President and Chief Executive Officer, Natural Gas Supply Association
  • Melanie A. Kenderdine, Executive Director, MIT Energy Initiative
  • Peter Rosenthal, Vice President, Constellation Energy
  • Robert LaCount, Senior Director, CERA (Chair)

Financing the Transition: A Bridge to the New Energy Future

  • Peter Gaw, Managing Director, Global Head Oil & Gas, Standard Chartered Bank
  • Chansoo Joung, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
  • Darryl T. Sagel, Managing Director, Co-Head of North American Power/Energy, Lazard
  • Jonathan Gear, President and Chief Operating Officer, CERA (Chair)

LNG Trading and Global Gas Pricing

  • Robert Fraser, Director, CERA
  • Daniel Muthmann, Vice-President Global LNG Supply, E.ON Ruhrgas AG
  • Steven R. Miles, Partner, Baker Botts
  • Frederic Barnaud, President and Managing Director, Gazprom Global LNG
  • Greg La Doe, Vice President, Supply and Commercial, Shell North American LNG, LLC
  • Shankari Srinivasan, Managing Director, CERA (Chair)
1:00 - 2:30 PM

Keynote Luncheon: CERA Global Energy Insights

  • James Burkhard, Managing Director, CERA
  • Thane Gustafson, Senior Director, CERA
  • Lawrence Makovich, Vice President & Senior Advisor, CERA
  • Michael Stoppard, Managing Director, CERA
  • James Placke, Senior Associate, CERA
  • Candida Scott, Senior Director, CERA
  • Toast by Lazard
2:45 - 4:15 PM

INDUSTRY PLENARIES

North American Gas: The New Realities

  • Mark Costello, Executive Vice President, URS Corporation
  • William Garner, Parkman Whaling
  • Gregory Harper, Senior Vice-President and Group President, CenterPoint Energy
  • Ron Hyden, Strategic Business Manager-Production Enhancement, Haliburton
  • Robert Ineson, Senior Director, CERA (Chair)

LNG: The Long View

  • Robin Baker, Managing Director, Société Générale
  • Ahmed Al-Khulaifi, Chief Operating Officer, Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Ltd.
  • Patrick J. Blough, Vice President Gas Commercialization, Chevron Global Gas
  • John Harris, Director, CERA
  • Michael Stoppard, Managing Director, CERA (Chair)

European and Eurasian Gas: The Price of Security

  • Didier Holleaux, Senior Vice President E&P, GDF SUEZ
  • Reiner Seele, Chairman, Wingas
  • Laszlo Varro, Strategy Director, MOL
  • Shankari Srinivasan, Managing Director, CERA
4:30 - 5:15 PM

Special Address: Convergence of Food, Biology, and Energy

  • Juan Enriquez, Managing Director, Excel Medical Ventures, and co-founder, Synthetic Genomics, Inc., Excel Medical Ventures, Synthetic Genomics
  • Alberto Weisser, Chief Executive Officer, Bunge
5:30 - 7:00 PM

Reception

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Keynote Dinner

  • Ernest Moniz, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, MIT
  • Dan Reicher, Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google
  • David Eyton, Group Head of Research & Technology, BP
  • Toast by Philippe Joubert, Executive Vice President, Alstom; President, Alstom Power,
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