Speaker Bios

Jay Kolb

Jay Kolb is the Partner in Charge of the firm's London office. As a member of the firm's Corporate and Energy Group, Mr Kolb's practice has included extensive experience with commercial financings, public and private offerings, acquisitions, project development and finance. He has particular familiarity with the energy industry, having concentrated on this industry segment for more than 25 years.

Originally resident in Houston, he has been involved with public and private securities offerings of corporate and partnership interests by issuers involved in oil and gas exploration, development, production and transportation activities throughout the United States. Many of these transactions involved the related or subsequent acquisition of properties by purchase or merger. In 1993, he moved to Moscow, where he served as Partner in Charge of the office until his relocation to London in 1997.

Mr Kolb received his undergraduate degree (BBA 1976) from the University of Texas, became a Certified Public Accountant in 1978 and received his law degree from the University of Houston in 1982. He is a member of the American Bar Association's Natural Resources and Energy Committee on International Law and is listed in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers. He became a partner of the firm in 1989.

 

Matthew R. Simmons

Matthew Simmons is President of Simmons & Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm. The firm has guided its broad client base to complete over 400 investment banking projects at a combined dollar value of approximately $40 billion.

Mr. Simmons was raised in Kaysville, Utah. He graduated cum laude from the University of Utah and received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He served on the faculty of Harvard Business School as a Research Associate for two years and was a doctoral candidate.

Mr. Simmons founded Simmons & Company International in 1974. Over the past 26 years, the firm has played a leading role in assisting its energy client companies in executing a wide range of financial transactions from mergers and acquisitions to private and public funding.

Today the firm has approximately 100 employees and enjoys a leading role as one of the largest energy investment banking groups in the world. Its offices are in Houston, Texas and Aberdeen Scotland.

Mr. Simmons is a Trustee of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine and Commonfund Capital, Inc. (Westport, Connecticut). He serves on the Board of Directors of Kerr-McGee Corporation (Oklahoma City), Houston Technology Center (Houston), Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (Fort Pierce, Florida) and the Center for Houston's Future (Houston). He is also on The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Foundation Board of Visitors (Houston) and is a charter member of the University of Houston National Advisory Council (Houston). In addition, he is past Chairman of the National Ocean Industry Association. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates of Harvard Business School and is a past President of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association and a former member of the Visiting Committee of Harvard Business School.

Mr. Simmons' papers and presentations are regularly published in a variety of journals and publications including World Oil, Oil and Gas Journal, Petroleum Engineers, Offshore and Oil & Gas Investors. He is married and has five daughters. His hobbies include watercolors, cooking, travel and reading.

 

Craig H. Stevenson, Jr.

Craig Stevenson was born in 1954 in Port Arthur, Texas. He graduated from Lamar University in 1976 with a BBA in Business Management.

Mr. Stevenson began his professional career in 1971 with Sabine Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. During his career at Sabine he held various positions. At the time of his resignation he was Executive Vice President, a member of the Board and Corporate Secretary.

In 1984, Mr. Stevenson left Sabine to become President of Fidelity Capital Corp. in Houston as well as becoming a member of Hvide Marine's Board of Directors.

In 1986 Mr. Stevenson left Fidelity Capital Corp. to become Vice President of Development and Marketing at Hvide Shipping.

In 1988, Mr. Stevenson was named President and Director of Seabulk Ocean Systems, an affiliate of Hvide. Mr. Stevenson was instrumental in expanding Hvide's scope of operations by developing a joint venture with OMI Corp. forming Ocean Specialty Takers Corporation. Mr. Stevenson was named President and Director of this corporation.

Mr. Stevenson joined OMI in 1993 as Senior Vice President of Chartering. He became Executive Vice President and COO in October 1994, and in May 1995, he was elected to the OMI Corp. Board of Directors. He was named President and COO on November 21, 1995. On January 1, 1997 Mr. Stevenson became President and CEO and in 1998 Mr. Stevenson became Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Stevenson resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife and two children.

 

Robert Emile Mabro CBE

Robert Emile Mabro CBE, Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1934. He obtained a degree in civil engineering from Alexandria University (1956) and after a short career as a civil engineer in Egypt, he went to France to study philosophy (1962-4) and then to London University where he obtained an MSc in economics, with distinction, in 1966.

He began his academic career at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University, where he specialized in the study of the economic developments of the Middle East. In 1969 he moved to Oxford to take up a position at Oxford University as Senior Research Office in the Economics of the Middle East.

In 1976 together with the Right Honourable Aubrey Jones, PC he founded the Oxford Energy Policy Club which still meets twice a year at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Two years later he founded and became the first Director of the Oxford Energy Seminar which is held every year in September at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. The next step was the establishment of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, an educational charity entirely devoted to research on the economics/politics/international relations of oil, gas and other energies.

In December 1991 Mr. Mabro was awarded the International Association for Energy Economics 1990 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession of Energy Economics and to its Literature.

In December 1995 he was awarded a CBE by HM the Queen in the New Year's Honours List and in 1997 the President of Mexico awarded him the medal of the Mexican Order of Aguila Azteca.

 

Chris Moorhouse, F Inst Pet

Chris was born in Douglas, Isle of Man on 7th May 1952. Secondary education was at Douglas High School. In 1970, he joined BP as a University Apprentice and studied for three years at Manchester University to obtain an Honours Degree in Chemistry. Starting in BP's Head Office in London in 1973, he has since worked in BP's downstream activity in Supply, Refining and Marketing roles including three overseas assignments in Rotterdam, New York and Madrid. Following his return from Madrid in 1992 where he was the Chief Executive of BPMed S.A. the 50/50 marketing joint venture between BP and Petromed, he spent four years as Chief Executive, Air BP, BP's aviation fuel marketing activity. In October 1996 Chris was appointed Chief Executive, BP Oil UK Ltd. and in January 1998, Chief Executive,Oil International Trading. Currently President of the Institute of Petroleum and a Vice President of the Oil Industries Club, Chris also is a director of seven BP subsidiary companies. In the past he has served on the Board of Directors of the British Road Federation and the British Energy Association.

 

Andrew Gould

Seniority: November 1975
Present Position: Executive Vice President Oilfield Services
Education: University of Wales Degree in Economic History Chartered Accountant

Schlumberger Career History

Jan. 1999 - Executive Vice President Oilfield Services
Jan. 1998 - President Oilfield Services Products
Nov. 1993 - President Wireline & Testing
July 1991 - President Sedco Forex
July 1990 - V.P. Operations Sedco Forex
Dec. 1986 - Treasurer SL NY
Dec. 1985 - Controller Wireline & Testing
Dec. 1984 - Treasurer Atlantic Asia
April 1984 - VP Finance Dowell Schlumberger Houston
April 1982 - Controller Drilling & Production Services
Jan. 1981 - Controller Forex Neptune
May 1979 - Controller FEA Wireline
May 1977 - Controller Schlumberger Instrument Velizy
Nov. 1975 - Internal Audit Paris

ANDREW GOULD Born: 17 Dec 1946
Married - 3 Children
Nationality: British

 

Antony Higginson

Antony Higginson, formerly partner and head of Lovells' Energy practice, joined Baker Botts in its London office as partner in the Energy and Corporate Group in January 2000. Mr Higginson received his PMD from Harvard Business School and his MA from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He qualified and was admitted as a Solicitor in 1974.

Mr Higginson specialises in energy and provides advice both within the United Kingdom and internationally in relation to energy projects and transactions including: petroleum concessions, production sharing contracts and risk service contracts; joint ventures; corporate and asset acquisitions and disposals; farm-ins; downstream refining and product sales; sale and purchase of natural gas and LNG; pipelines; generation and supply of electricity; drilling and service contracts.

Mr Higginson worked for Phillips Petroleum Company from 1976 to 1984, and with Sun Company, Inc. from 1984 to 1991, where he held various positions, including General Counsel of the International Exploration & Production Division, Managing Director of Sun Oil Britain, and Far East Regional Manager in Kuala Lumpur.

Mr Higginson is identified as a leading energy and natural resources lawyer in Chambers' Guide to the Legal Profession, the Legal 500 Who's Who in the Law and Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers.

 

Paul A. Weissgarber

Mr. Weissgarber is a leader of A.T. Kearney's Global Energy Practice. He has focused his management consulting career with A.T. Kearney in the area of strategy development and operations improvement with leading energy companies. The clients he has been serving extend across the energy value chain including exploration and production, natural gas gathering, processing and fractionation, pipeline operations, refining operations and chemical manufacturing. Over the past ten years, he has conducted numerous consulting assignments across multiple continents. Prior to entering consulting, he held a variety of leadership roles within the energy industry including new business development, strategic planning and operations management.

Mr. Weissgarber received a MBA from Southern Methodist University and a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas. He is a registered engineer in the state of Texas. He has authored and published multiple articles on issues in the energy industry and is frequently quoted in the trade press.

 

Dr. Pierre Jean Marie Henri Jungels

Dr. Pierre Jean Marie Henri Jungels, Hon. CBE 1989; Chief Executive, Enterprise Oil, since 1997. Born 18 February 1944. Son of Henri and Jeanne Jungels. Married 1988 Caroline Benc. Two stepchildren. Two children from former marriage. Educated University of Liège (Eng Deg 1967); California Institute of Technology (PhD 1973). Petroleum Engineer, Shell 1973-74; Dist. Manager, 1975-77, General Manager & Chief Executive, 1977-80, Fina Petroleos (Angola); Managing Director & Chief Executive, Fina plc, 1980-89; Executive Director, Downstream, Petrofina Group, 1989-92; Executive Director, Exploration & Production, Petrofina Group, 1992-1995; Managing Director, Exploration & Production, British Gas, 1996. Chairman of The Centre for Marine and Petroleum Technology 1997-1999. Past President, Institute of Petroleum. Address: Enterprise Oil plc, Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5EJ.

Tel. 0207 925 4199. Fax 0207 925 4617.

 

Sir Ian Wood

Born and educated in Aberdeen, Ian Wood graduated from Aberdeen University in 1964 with a First Class Honours Degree in Psychology. He joined the family business, John Wood & Son, and become Managing Director in 1967. The Company has since then evolved into two independent Scottish business groups.

John Wood Group PLC is the UK's largest energy services company, employing around 7,500 personnel in more than 30 countries world-wide, and with a £601m ($991m) turnover in 1999.

J W Holdings, the largest fishing company in Scotland, employs over 600 peoples with a 1999 turnover of £45m ($74m).

As well as his commitment to the Group, Sir Ian holds many appointments within the UK including Chairman of Scottish Enterprise, Chairman of the British Trade International Oil and Gas Export Board (previously OSO) and a member of PILOT, the body that succeeded the Government Oil & Gas Industry Task Force.

He received the award for Young Scottish Businessman of the Year in 1979, was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1982 in the New Year's Honours List, awarded an Honorary Degree of LL.D from Aberdeen University in 1984 and was awarded a Knighthood in the 1994 New Year's Honours List. In 1998 he was awarded an Honorary Degree of DBA from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

He was a joint winner of Scottish Business Achievement Award Trust in 1992; winner of the Service category award in the 1992 Corporate Elite Leadership Awards; received a Scotvec Fellowship Award in 1994 and Scottish Qualifications Authority Fellowship in 1997, and was awarded The Alick Buchanan-Smith Memorial Award for Personal Achievement in 1995. Sir Ian also received the Corporate Elite "World Player" Award from the Business Insider in 1996.

In 1998 he was made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, and in March 2000 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

 

Bernard J. Duroc-Danner

Bernard J. Duroc-Danner is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Weatherford International, Inc., one of the largest oilfield service and equipment companies in the industry. Weatherford combines a comprehensive line of drilling products, completion systems and artificial lift services integrated in a worldwide infrastructure of over 425 locations in 50 countries. Previous to its merger with Weatherford, Mr. Duroc-Danner was President and Chief Executive Office of EVI, Inc. where he was directly responsible for the company's 1987 start up in the oilfield service and equipment business. In prior years, Mr. Duroc-Danner was with Mobil Corporation and Arthur D. Little Inc. Mr. Duroc-Danner's family has been in the oil business for two generations. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania). Mr. Duroc-Danner is also a director of Cal Dive International, Inc. and Parker Drilling Company.

 

Samantha Hampshire

Samantha Hampshire joined Baker Botts as a Partner in the Energy Practice Group resident in the Firm's London office in January 2000. Samantha is an English qualified solicitor who before joining the Firm was a partner in the law firm Arnheim, Tite & Lewis and before that spent eight years with Slaughter and May.

Ms. Hampshire has in-depth experience in all aspects of large scale energy matters, projects, financings and corporate matters. She is recognized as a leading expert in relation to the regulation and structuring of liberalised markets in the gas and power sectors. She has advised leading energy companies, regulatory bodies, investment banks and governments on most projects undertaken in the down and mid-stream energy sector in the U.K., Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In addition to extensive experience in the energy sector, Ms. Hampshire has advised at length in international debt and equity issues, structured financings and project finance.

Ms. Hampshire graduated from the University of Birmingham with a Bachelor of Laws in English law and a Diplome d'Etudes Juridiques Francaises in French law in 1987. She was awarded a Maxwell Law Prize for outstanding performance in her examinations. She qualified as a solicitor in 1990. Ms. Hampshire is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a member of the Law Society. She speaks fluent French.

 

Jeffrey A. Dietert

Jeffrey A. Dietert is responsible for developing SCI's research coverage of the midstream and downstream areas. Jeff graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Jeff has worked as a drilling engineer for Viersen and Cochran Drilling Company; in finance functions at Oryx Energy Company and Aquila Energy Corporation. Jeff joined Simmons from Texaco, where he served as Vice President, Commercial Development.

 

G.L.M.A. (Ito) van Lanschot

Ito van Lanschot is President and COO of Reliant Energy Europe. Van Lanschot has more than 27 years of international trading, commercial, and management experience. Before coming to Reliant in August 2000, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Nidera, a privately held global agriculture trading and marketing company based in Rotterdam, with operations and subsidiaries in 12 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Prior to Nidera, van Lanschot was with Continental Grain for 19 years. He held a number of positions in Europe, South America, and the United States, most recently as Managing Director of the Iberian Region out of Madrid.

 

Richard A. Dixon

Richard Dixon graduated in Electrical Engineering from Durham University in 1963. Following a period of experience in power station operation and maintenance with the then Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) he joined Merz and McLellan, one of PB Power's constituent companies, in 1967. In his 33 year career with Merz and McLellan and PB Power, Richard has transferred from his initial Quality Surveillance work first into hydro electric engineering in 1969 and then into electrical power transmission and distribution consultancy in 1975.

He was appointed to head Merz and McLellan's Electrical Division in 1989.

Merz and McLellan subsequently became part of PB in 1995 and, in 1999, Richard assumed his present role of Director of Power Networks, PB Power Limited - the UK power engineering arm of PB Inc.

Richard is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Member of the Executive Committee of CIGRE UK - the International Transmission Conference, and a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He is also a Senior Vice President of PB Power Ltd.

 

Professor Peter A. Davies

Peter Davies obtained a B.A. in Economics from the University of Warwick and an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. For two years after graduation he worked in Swaziland as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute, firstly as Financial Economist with the Ministry of Finance and then as Assistant Research Manager with the Monetary Authority.

On his return to England he spent a year as Research Associate in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. This was followed by three years in Washington DC as Country Economist with the World Bank and by six years as Vice President and Economist with Chase Manhattan Bank in London.

He joined BP in 1985. He is currently Vice President and Chief Economist, responsible for BP Amoco's analysis of the global energy, macroeconomic and business environment, and for the publication of the BP Amoco Statistical Review of World Energy. He is a member of BP Amoco's Corporate Strategy Team.

Outside BP Amoco, he is Honorary Professor at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy, University of Dundee; President of the International Association for Energy Economics; Former Chairman of the British Institute of Energy Economics, and a member of the European Commission (DGXVII) Energy Experts Advisory Group.

He is married with three children.

Robert H. Pelletreau

Ambassador Robert Pelletreau is Of Counsel to Baker Botts through it's strategic alliance with Afridi & Angell, a Middle East-based law firm, in which he is a partner. Ambassador Pelletreau served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from February 1994 to January 1997. Prior to that time, he served as US Ambassador to Bahrain (1979-80), to Tunisia (1987-91), and to Egypt (1991-93). His other appointments in the Foreign Service included Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco and Syria, as well as senior positions in the Departments of State and Defense.

While in Tunisia, Ambassador Pelletreau conducted the US dialogue with the P.L.O. (1988-90). As Ambassador to Egypt, he was a member of the US delegation to the 1991 Madrid Middle East Peace Conference, and as Assistant Secretary he traveled frequently to the Region as part of Secretary Christopher's Middle East negotiating team. Throughout this period, he played a key role in the development and implementation of US policies toward North Africa, the Levant, Egypt and the Gulf, including Iraq and Iran.

Mr. Pelletreau attended the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and received his B.A. from Yale University in 1957. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1961. Before joining the US Foreign Service, Mr. Pelletreau practiced with the New York firm of Chadbourne & Parke. He joined Afridi & Angell in April 1997. Mr. Pelletreau is fluent in Arabic and French.

Ambassador Pelletreau is admitted to the New York State bar and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Middle East Institute and the American Foreign Service Association.

 

Deborah White

Deborah White is the Principal Administrator responsible for forecasting short-term oil demand for the International Energy Agency in Paris. Although now working for the first time in the public sector, this is a relatively recent change; she joined the Agency early in 1999 after 26 years in the energy business, all in the private sector. Ms. White's oil industry career began working for a small independent oil company, located in New York City, just two weeks before the Arab Oil Embargo.

Ms. White was born and raised in Ohio. She attended Antioch College, also in Ohio, but credits her career in the industry, her consulting experience and the Harvard Business School (MBA 1984) as her real education. She is now a principal author of the IEA's monthly Oil Market Report, and gives briefings for the IEA, government advisors and agencies, as well as for private-sector participants.

Coming up through the oil industry during its fastest period of growth, she was involved in a major producing property acquisition (of Burmah UK's US oil and gas properties) at a relatively early age, while working for American Independent Oil Company. When in 1978 she joined BP's San Francisco office, an operator of Prudhoe Bay field, she introduced quantitative economic analysis via discounted cash flow etc. to the process of deciding what facilities to add, in what order, and when. She later began valuing offshore lease blocks and producing properties. Her work with BP/Sohio was interrupted by a secondment to business school, followed by her return to the downstream arm, then Sohio Oil. Her work in Cleveland included strategic planning, valuing a refinery (Alliance), a stint in pipelines, and a return to the financial side of the ANS business.

Ms. White moved in 1989 to New York City, and to consulting, at PIRA Energy Group. In the earlier part of her work with PIRA, she followed and forecast US and to some extent Canadian energy and oil demand, with minor specialties in the infrastructure, regional markets, and company-specific strategies. Her work the last few years with PIRA was entirely project consulting, ranging from asset valuation to due diligence to strategy; her many publications at PIRA were all client-confidential.

Early in 1999, she heard Paris's call and moved to the International Energy Agency, where her work is now published every month in the Oil Market Report.