Today APPEA brings you a sneak peek of the high calibre international presenters featuring at the Darwin APPEA Conference.
Rick Wilkinson, Vice President Gladstone LNG & Queensland
Rick Wilkinson is responsible for leading the upstream activities for the Gladstone LNG project, and integrating the downstream to oversee the total GLNG business. Rick was formerly Vice President Commercial.
Before joining Santos in 1997 as General Manager Southern Australia, he was Group Manager Energy Retail for the Victorian Gas and Fuel Corporation, responsible for energy trading, customer relations, marketing and sales. He has also held various engineering, strategy and management positions with Schlumberger, McKinsey & Co and Pilkington Glass.
HON. Richard Court, AC
Richard Court was Premier and Treasurer of Western Australia from 1993 - 2001. He retired from Parliament after nineteen years as the Member for Nedlands.
His Government led the LNG marketing push into new markets, the successful deregulation of the Western Australian gas markets and the successful privatisations of the SGIO, BankWest, AlintaGas, Westrail Freight and the DBNG pipeline.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The University of Western Australia, he worked in the United States to gain further management training.
On his return to Western Australia he started a number of small businesses in fast food and boating.
Appointed Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia in June 2003 for service to the Western Australian Parliament and to the community, particularly the indigenous community, and in the areas of child health research and cultural heritage and to economic development through negotiating major resource projects including new gas markets furthering the interests of the nation as a whole.
Dr Fesharaki
In an APPEA first you can listen online to our Chief Executive, Belinda Robinson talking exclusively with Dr Fereidun Fesharaki, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FACTS Global Energy.
Dr Fesharaki tells us "this is an unusual year in all of the past 30 years that I have been looking at this market I have never seen the situation like this where the features in front of you, the low oil prices provide hesitation for some people to proceed, there are fears about the credit availability but it is pretty clear that the new technology at new frontiers are going to yield substantial revenue for those who are able to access the credit and access a level of bravery in investment decision making".
Dr Fesharaki discusses what he believes are the top 3 issues that are going to affect Australia's future role in supplying oil and gas to the Asia Pacific region.
Dr Fesharaki will be talking about 'the Asian oil and gas markets in a global context - fear, hope and recovery outlook' on the first day of the APPEA conference in Darwin (1st June).
Michiel Soeting, Global Energy and Natural Resources Leader, KPMG
Michiel is Global Chairman of KPMG's Energy and Natural Resources Group and Global Lead Partner for one of the firm's major advisory clients, Royal Dutch Shell. Michiel has an extensive understanding of major international oil and gas operations and the key operational and strategic challenges facing the broader oil and gas industry.
Bob Keiller, Chief Executive Officer, Production Services Network
In May 2002 Bob became head of UK operations for the Production Services division within Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR). Bob re-focussed the business, assessing key strengths, divesting non-core assets and improving tender success from one in ten, to nine in ten. Following this success, Bob was made Global MD of the Production Services division in 2004.
Recognising that business model for Production Services differed from the rest of KBR, (it was less capital-intensive and had a lower risk profile), Bob saw the opportunity to spin out the division. Bob secured over $400m (US) of funding from the Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance and on 1st May 2006 created PSN through an award-winning $280million (US) management-buy-out.
Since the origination of the deal, Bob has overseen a 20 per cent growth in the business with EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) several million dollars ahead of plan. PSN has also created over 2500 new jobs globally and now employs a network of 8,500 people, working in over 20 countries, across five continents. Bob's charismatic leadership style, technical operational experience and outstanding commercial acumen has lead the creation of a company with turnover over $1 billion and an order book worth more than $2 billion.
Richard Court was Premier and Treasurer of Western Australia from 1993 - 2001. He retired from Parliament after nineteen years as the Member for Nedlands.
In an APPEA first you can listen online to our Chief Executive, Belinda Robinson talking exclusively with Dr Fereidun Fesharaki, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FACTS Global Energy.
In May 2002 Bob became head of UK operations for the Production Services division within Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR). Bob re-focussed the business, assessing key strengths, divesting non-core assets and improving tender success from one in ten, to nine in ten. Following this success, Bob was made Global MD of the Production Services division in 2004.
