Steering Committee

Kamran Javed

General Manager, LNG Business

JERA Energy America

Kamran is the General Manager, LNG Business with JERA Energy America LLC having joined full time in July 2017 whose main remit is to help manage the offtake from Freeport LNG Train 1 and any other LNG business in the USA.  His career spans the oil and gas value chain with prior experience at ConocoPhillips, Chevron and RasGas starting from 2000.  Kamran’s experience in LNG is gained from prior roles at ConocoPhillips in the Atlantic & Pacific Basin LNG Marketing Business Unit and as a Short-Term Marketer at RasGas.

Juan Oliva Vasquez

Head of Gas & Fuels LatAm

ENEL (Chile)

Industrial Civil Engineer and Master in Business Administration, both titles from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. With complementary studies in areas of Applied Economics, Project Evaluation, Energy Power Market and Oil & Gas Industry.

Professional with 20 years of working experience in business areas of power generation, transmission and trading companies, in Chile and Argentina. Wide expertise in the energy and natural gas markets in Latin America.

Since 2009, he has worked as Head of Gas & Fuels Latam of Enel Chile, responsible for the gas operations of the Enel group in Latin America. As a representative of Enel, he has participated in the origination, development and commercial operation of the LNG business in Chile, as manager of the all company´s business related to the Quintero LNG Terminal and also as a member of the board of the companies GNL Chile and GNL Quintero.

Kasciandro Senem

Gas & Power Manager

Petrobras America Inc.

Kasciandro is the Gas & Power Manager of Petrobras America responsible for LNG negotiations in the Americas and natural gas trading in the U.S. Kasciandro initiated in the LNG business in 2008/09, the same years that Petrobras started an intense commercial activity in the LNG business. He coordinated the short-term LNG planning and trading of the company during the peak demand years and also worked as Interim LNG Trading Manager in the first half of 2015. In his last position as Gas & Power Business Development Manager, he led the development of the initiative to allow third party access to the Petrobras regas terminals.

Pat Roberts

Managing Director

LNG-Worldwide Ltd

Pat Roberts is an Associate Director of CWC's gas portfolio and is actively involved with the Steering Committee in the design and running of the LNG series of conferences. Pat is also active with CWC School for Energy and its training courses. Pat has seven years' experience as an independent consultant as Director of LNG Worldwide Ltd. She works with several key industry players as well as new entrants in the global gas and LNG markets. This covers the full commercial gas supply chain from strategy and market fundamental analysis to assisting with negotiating commercial agreements. Prior to independent consulting, Pat worked for the Shell group of companies for 24 years in their global oil and gas commercial divisions, culminating with a role as General Manager of Shell's international LNG business in the Atlantic Basin.

Jason Feer

Head of Business Intelligence

Poten & Partners

Jason Feer is the Global Head of Business Intelligence at Poten & Partners

Prior to joining Poten in 2014, served as COO Americas for Argus Media based in Houston starting 2011, and from 2003 through 2011 as the head of Argus’ Asia Pacific business, where he was responsible for managing Argus’ business East of the Suez Canal. In this role, he oversaw the development of new products focused on petroleum, LNG, LPG, coal, base oils, biofuels and other products.

With more than 25 years’ experience in global energy markets, Jason has worked in Asia, Latin America, Europe and the US. His specialties include markets, project development and the politics of oil.

He is a frequent commentator on oil affairs and has appeared on CNBC, the BBC and other television and radio outlets.

Jimmy Straughan

Chief Commercial Officer - LNG Americas

BP

Jimmy Straughan is the Chief Commercial Officer of BP’s LNG Americas organization.  He is responsible for business development activities throughout the Americas and he is a member of BP’s global LNG leadership team.   He currently serves as Vice Chairman on the board of directors for the Center of LNG (CLNG). 

Jimmy has a Chemical Engineering degree from Texas A&M University and he has over 33 years of experience in the oil & gas industry.  He has spent the past 18 years  focused on LNG.             

Esteban Papanicolau

Executive Director

GasPorto International LLC (El Salvador)

Esteban Papanicolau is Executive Director of Gas Porto International LLC, an advisory company based in Houston and focused in LNG project development.

Esteban has more than 25 years experience in the energy sector, with an active participation in the natural gas expansion cycle in the 1990s in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Bolivia and Brazil working for key international players in the energy field.

Since 2013, Mr. Papanicolau is based in Houston and is part of the original development team of Energia del Pacifico LNG to Power Project in El Salvador, and Rio Grande LNG to power and market in Brazil, being responsible for the LNG long term supply contract of the project as well as assisting in the discussions with Lenders, EPC Contractors, FSU/FSRU providers and potential strategic investors.

Ken Culotta

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Ken Culotta is a partner in the Houston office of King & Spalding and a founding member of the firm’s London affiliate, King & Spalding International LLP.  He is the leader of the firm’s Global Transactions Practice Group, and a member of the Latin America Practice.  Mr. Culotta represents a broad spectrum of energy and natural resource industry clients, with a focus on LNG and CNG concerns, and oil, gas and NGL producers and transport and storage providers.  His practice focus includes cross-border projects and transactions, and the unique public and private law issues involved in structuring, documenting and negotiating these transactions. 

Guy Dayvault

Principal

Energy Deal Solutions LLC

Mr. Dayvault is a commercial consultant in LNG marketing and natural gas. Through Energy Deal Solutions LLC he provides commercial advisory, structuring, negotiating and strategic planning services to the LNG industry.  His past clients have included Jordan Cove LNG and the Qatargas Americas Liaison Office in Houston as well as various upstream E&P clients, and Asian LNG buyers.  Before forming Energy Deal Solutions, LLC, Mr. Dayvault led the LNG Commercial Development team for Gazprom Marketing & Trading USA and had various commercial and financial modeling roles at Marathon, Enron, and Glencore.  He began his career with ten years at Chevron. Mr. Dayvault has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University, an MS in Petroleum Engineering from University of Southern California, and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification.

Juan I. Pareja

Manager Business Development, LNG Americas

Shell

Juan I. Pareja, Manager Business Development, LNG Americas, leads the identification and capture of LNG opportunities in established and emerging markets.  Juan has held various management roles in Finance, Competitive Intelligence, Upstream Business Development, LPG Trading, LNG Trading covering Asia-Pacific, Middle East and India and the Americas.  Juan earned a dual bachelor’s degree in economics & management and psychology from Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1992 and a master’s degree in business administration in finance and business strategy in 1995 from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.