Conferência Argus Rio Crude

Renata was secretary and deputy secretary of oil, gas and biofuels in the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Brazil. She was responsible for the governance design of the TOR+ Bidding Round and represented the ministry in the TOR review clause negotiation. She was also chief legal counsel of the ministry and has 15 years of experience as a federal attorney in the Attorney General’s Office of Brazil. Renata was supervisory board member of PPSA and Eletronet. She has a master’s degree at Uniceub and participated in a women’s leadership programme at Harvard Kennedy School. She is the co-creator of the "Yes, They Exist" programme and she is in a mentoring programme called “EmpodereC”, which seeks to promote gender equality in the energy sector. She is the mother of two children. Read less

Graduated in mechanical engineering from Escola de Engenharia Mauá, Sao Paulo, with an MBA in Management from COPPEAD-UFRJ, Victor has a vast experience in the oil and gas segment. In over 30 years at Subsea 7, he was responsible for several projects, focusing on deepwater technologies. For 17 years he has been the company leader for South America, responding directly to the executive team and board of Subsea7 in Europe. Since 2017 he has been CEO of Vast Infraestrutura, a Prumo Group company dedicated to providing infrastructure and logistics solutions for liquids for the energy market. Victor also serves as Board Member at Porto do Açu, DOME, Oceânica S/A and as Advisory Board member of COPPEAD-UFRJ. Read less

Rogerio co-heads the firm’s oil and gas, and maritime law practices. He received his law degree from Rio de Janeiro State University in 2003 and post-graduated from FGV-Rio in 2011, specialising in corporate law and capital markets. He also completed specialisation courses in oil and gas contracts (Brazilian Petroleum and Gas Institute, Rio de Janeiro) in 2008 and International Oil and Gas Law, Contracts and Negotiations (RMMLF, Houston) in 2018. Rogerio is an active speaker in conferences, who has been focusing his legal practice in oil and gas, offshore services and maritime law for more than 15 years, assisting his clients in contract negotiations and regulatory matters involving government bodies such as the National Petroleum Agency, National Waterway Transportation Agency and the Brazilian Navy. Read less

Daniel joined Galp in 2004, actively contributing to the development of the upstream business unit, where production, reserves and resources have grown markedly (particularly in Angola, Brazil and Mozambique partnerships). His focus is on a growing organisational culture with an emphasis on safety, performance, innovation and sustainability. Earlier in his career, Daniel had roles in Schlumberger and Transocean across several countries including Nigeria, UK, France and Brazil. He holds an MBA from INSEAD business school in France/Singapore. He is a graduate from Lisbon IST in Portugal, and Glasgow University with a BEng in mechanical engineering, with post-graduate studies in energy at Harvard Business School (EUA) and COPPE/UFRJ (Brazil). Read less

Juan Carlos has more than 18 years of professional experience, with 12 years of commercial experience in the Americas and European energy value chains, with a strong focus in trading and commercial development in the upstream and downstream sectors including refining, logistics and supply. In 2005, he started his international career as a project engineer in the water treatment sector, working at Veolia Water in the US for six years. After finishing his MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he joined BP in 2012 and spent six years working in Chicago and London in the commercial space. After more than 14 years abroad, he decided to return to his native Colombia and joined Ecopetrol in 2018 as the global head of crude and carbon trading, leading the commercial strategy of Ecopetrol´s crude oil portfolio and commercial decarbonisation. Read less

James is responsible for business development in southern Europe and Africa. James has been with the company since 2004 performing several editorial roles, including editing European electricity and emissions market publications. From 2007-10, he was the editor of the daily Argus Crude report, managing a global team of reporters and developing new crude price assessments. Prior to joining Argus, James worked as a teacher, speechwriter and journalist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and American literature from Manchester University and a master’s degree in international journalism from City University, London. Read less

Sean leads analysis and modelling of international crude oil supply, crude oil prices and Latin American petroleum markets for the EIA’s monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook forecast. Sean has worked in petroleum market analysis for the EIA since 2006, where he has worked on global crude oil and refinery markets for the Short-Term Energy Outlook and Annual Energy Outlook, policy analysis on programmes such as the Renewable Fuel Standard and California Low-Carbon Fuel Standard, and has been a regulator contributor to the EIA’s Today in Energy and This Week in Petroleum publications. He received his BSc in economics from the University of Tennessee and an MSc in economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Read less

Monica has developed most of her career in Repsol. After three years working for BP Chemicals in London, she joined Repsol Trading in 2003 as products operator. She moved to petrochemicals trading in 2007 and then middle distillates trading in 2010. In 2015, she joined the crudes desk where she traded Sweet, Brazil and West Africa crudes. In 2018, Monica was appointed crude oil trading manager. The team focuses on supplying the refining system as well as trading Brazil, West Africa and Sour crudes. Read less

Pedro was appointed as commercial and marketing vice-president of the Ecopetrol Group, the largest oil and gas conglomerate in Colombia and one of the largest in Latin America, in April 2017. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Industrial University of Santander, a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and an MBA from the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He has more than 33 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and previously spent 15 years in the upstream business with Chevron petroleum company in different locations, and his last assignment was as the commercial and business planning manager for Chevron Latin America, where he also served as a member of the leadership team. Throughout his career, he also worked with Enron Energy Services as a risk manager and as a business development manager at Enron International based in Houston, Texas. Read less

Isabela is a specialist in economic law from FGV/SP law school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She holds a master of laws in financial law and a PhD in energy, both from the University of Sao Paulo. She was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Environmental Policy at the Imperial College London in 2019. Currently, she is a lawyer and director of CCS Brazil, an organisation that promotes the implementation of geological carbon capture and storage projects in Brazil. Read less

Tom Reed joined Argus from UK broadcaster the BBC in 2003. He worked on Argus’ corporate and European products desks before moving to head Argus’ Asian market analysis of oil and generation fuels. As Vice-president of China crude and products he oversees Argus’ China oil pricing and analysis service. Read less

Marco joined Saras Group in 1993 after a brief experience at Olivetti, where he held a number of roles in the trading and financial field. He initially served as Corporate Finance Manager and then moved on to the role of Investor Relations Manager. He later took up the role of Supply and Trading Director, with responsibilities overarching the entire supply chain. In 2015, Marco became Saras Trading’s Chief Executive and three years later, he was appointed the company’s Chief Commercial Officer. Read less

Vanessa Viola is the Senior Vice-President of Latin America at Argus. She rejoined Argus in 2011 as our Brazil Country Manager and is now working to expand the company’s business across Latin America. Vanessa initially joined Argus in 2001, working as Deputy Editor of the Argus European Products report and Editor of the Argus International LPG report before leaving in 2005 to work as an LPG broker with Gibson in London. Prior to her assignments in the UK, Vanessa worked as a political and financial correspondent for Reuters (Brasilia, Sao Paulo), as a financial reporter for Brazil’s leading news agency Agencia Estado and as a press relations officer with energy engineering company Asea Brown Boveri, also based in Sao Paulo. A graduate from Brazil’s Casper Libero University with a BA in social communications, Vanessa has a master’s degree in international journalism from London’s City University. In addition to Portuguese and English, she is fluent in Spanish. Read less

Eliah Ebsan has 12 years of solid experience in Sweet Crude trading with strong understanding of the Brazil, Waf and Asia markets. He worked as Crude Trading Manager in Petrobras Singapore office developing pre-salt crude grades into Chinese teapots refineries. Currently He is charge of PetroChina's Crude Oil trading flow of LatAm sweet crude grades and Buzios and Mero exports of PetroChina. Read less

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