Conferência Argus Rio Crude

Todd Dillabough

CEO, Ocean Point Terminals

Todd has 40+ years of experience in the energy operations and financial restructuring sectors. He has served worldwide for Texaco, ExxonMobil, BNP Paribas and more. Todd has led two Exploration and Production companies as President and CEO and has a bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Calgary.

Gustavo Hooper

Head of Trading & Shipping, PRIO

Gustavo Hooper is head of trading and shipping for Prio, the largest independent oil and gas production company in Brazil. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the sector, with international roles in multinational companies such as Shell, Raizen, Sinochem and PetroChina. Gustavo has a master’s degree from PUC-Rio and a BSc degree in economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Salamanca University in Spain. He is also a graduate of the Coppead Business School in Rio de Janeiro.

Vanessa Viola

Executive Vice President, Latin America, Argus

Vanessa Viola is the Executive 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.

Tom Reed

Vice-President, China Crude and Products, Argus

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.

Matt Smith

Head Analyst- US, KPLER

Matt started his career at Royal Bank of Canada in London, England, working his way up to portfolio manager in the investment management team. He then moved to the US and spent 8 years as a Global Commodity Analyst at Schneider Electric / Summit Energy, before becoming Director of Commodity Research at ClipperData for 6 years, leading a team of analysts across a variety of energy commodities.
Matt joined Kpler in September 2021, and as Head Analyst, US, he is focused on producing research and providing counsel to key clients on the energy market.

Bruno Amorim

VP- Energy, Transportation & Infrastructure-Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs

Matt Oatway

SVP North America, Argus

Alipio Ferreira

Vice President- Crude Oil Trading Brasil, Petrochina

Alipio Ferreira is a Petroleum engineer with a master’s degree in Administration, from Coppead-UFRJ. He currently serves as the Crude Vice President at PetroChina Brazil International Trading. With extensive experience in the oil industry, Alipio has held key positions both in Brazil and internationally. Notably, he has contributed to exploration and production, crude and products trading, distribution, and petrochemicals. His career spans roles such as Petrobras America Downstream VP, Petrobras Singapore Managing Director, BR Distribuidora Director, and Petrobras Head of Global Crude and Products Trading.

Samir Awad

Director of Trading, PPSA

Holder of an Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) in 1982, with a Master´s degree in Subsea Engineering (Cranfield University and Insead Business School), in England, and Postgraduate Certificates from Stanford (USA) and Insead Business School, in France, Samir Awad began his professional career at Petrobras, where he worked for over 30 years. Among the various activities carried out at the company, the engineer served as CEO of Petrobras Nigeria Ltd. (1999-2006); executive manager for the Americas, Africa and Asia, managing E&P and downstream projects in 17 countries (2007-2009); and CEO of Petrobras Netherlands BV. (2009-2016).

Samantha Hartke

Head of Market Analysis-Americas, Vortexa

Samantha is Head of Market Analysis for the Americas region at Vortexa, driving market analytics and research strategy from our Houston office. She holds extensive experience analysing natural gas liquids markets, light ends, petrochemicals, as well as crude and natural gas trade flows across multiple geographies. Having observed the North American crude, refined and petrochemical space for close to 20 years, Samantha combines her proven track in research to produce special market reports and analysis briefings, offering a comprehensive overview of the North and Latin Americas markets at Vortexa. Samantha is a Northwestern University graduate with a MSc degree in Journalism, following her Bachelor’s degree from the Nanyang Technological University Singapore in Communication Studies.

Alex Ikonomopoulous

Chief Operating Officer, Posidonia Shipping

Alex Navarro Ikonomopoulos is the company’s Chief Operating Officer. He is responsible for the QHSE department, the operation of ships and transportation of different cargoes, and special projects, such as wind equipment and projects for the Oil & Gas industry. He has extensive experience in managing and operating commercial transportation, especially in Brazil, and expertise in developing business between local and foreign companies. Alex has a degree in Foreign Trade from Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina and specializes in shipping company management operations, risk management, and integrated management systems (ABS). Since 2003 he has been working with container transshipment and ship operations in Brazil and South America. Previously he was the head of Kadmos Shipping, specialized in ship agency and shipowner representation.

Pedro Lorenzo

Commercial Manager, ANCAP

Mike Corley

Managing Director, Mercatus Energy

Mike Corley is the founder and Managing Director of Mercatus Energy. He founded Mercatus with a vision to build the leading boutique advisory firm focused on energy commodity markets. Prior to founding the firm, Mike held various roles in trading, risk management, quantitative analysis and derivative marketing at leading energy trading companies, institutional brokerage firms and strategy consulting firms.

The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, BBC, Argus, OPIS, Platts, and S&P Global Commodity Insights, among many others, have featured his insights. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has lectured at prominent universities around the world. Mike earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Oklahoma.

Jesus Rodriguez

Lead Crude Trader, Equinor