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For a list of SEAAOC 2007 speakers click here

Confirmed SEAAOC 2008 speakers include

               

The Honourable Paul Henderson MLA Chief Minister Northern Territory Government
                                                   



 Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services
Minister for Major Projects and Trade
Minister for Climate Change
Minister for Territory-Federal relations and Statehood
Minister for Multicultural Affairs

Paul Henderson was appointed a Minister in the Northern Territory's first Labor Government following the party's historic election win in August 2001. He was appointed 26 November 2007 as Labor's second Chief Minister.

That appointment included the two important new ministries of Climate Change, and Territory-Federal Relations and Statehood.

He was elected as the Member for Wanguri, in Darwin's northern suburbs, in a by-election in 1999 and has held the seat in two consecutive Northern Territory elections in 2001 and 2005.

Mr Henderson has driven a number of the major projects and reforms implemented by the Government since coming to office, including:

  • a comprehensive review and four-year reform program in the NT Police Force, including its largest ever resource boost;

  • the establishment of Local Industry Participation Plans requiring developers of major projects such as Darwin's LNG Plant to use local companies;

  • significant reforms to Government procurement practices to support small business in the Northern Territory, including an emphasis on 'value for money' in awarding tenders and the establishment of an independent Procurement Council;

  • secured the NT as a Development Partner within the BIMP-EAGA trading group in South East Asia to the benefit of Territory importers and exporters;

  • support measures for Australian Defence Force families and integration of the Defence presence in the North with the Territory community; and

  • the introduction of Middle Years teaching as part of the first significant overhaul of the Territory's secondary education system.

Born in 1962 in France while his father was stationed there with NATO, Paul was raised in the United Kingdom. After completing school, Paul gained qualifications in marine engineering and began working as a marine fitter in a Southampton shipyard.

After working as a fitter at EZ Mines in Tasmania for a year, Paul was lured to the Northern Territory in 1983 by its great climate and job opportunities.

He worked as a fitter in the shipping and mining industries before taking up a new career as an IT operator, moving from a trainee in 1985 to Computer Support Manager for the NT's Health Department from 1996 to 1998.

Mr Henderson has been active in the Australian Labor Party Northern Territory since 1987, including serving as the Vice President of the NT ALP from 1997 to 1999.

Mr Henderson married his wife Stacey, an IT Project Manager, in 1989. They have three children - Alasdair (13), Liam (11) and Isabel (7).

Mr Henderson is an avid supporter of the St Kilda AFL Club and is patron of the Darwin Golf Club and Casuarina Junior Soccer Club, and Vice Patron of the St Mary's Football Club. He is also patron of the Hakka Society and Chinese Timorese Association.

Mr Henderson's previous ministerial portfolios include:

  • Business (August 2001 - August 2006)

  • Police, Fire and Emergency Services (October 2002 - August 2006)

  • Resource Development (August 2001 - December 2003)

  • Regional Development (July 2005 - September 2006)

  • Asian Relations and Trade (August 2001 - July 2005)

  • Energy (November 2001 - October 2002)

  • Defence Support (October 2001 - August 2006)

  • AustralAsia Railway (August 2001 - October 2002)

  • Communications (December 2003 - July 2005)

  • Employment Education and Training (2005-2007)

  • Tourism (2005-2007)
   

The Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Tourism, Australian Government
                                                  

Martin was born in Sydney in 1953 and was educated at St Patrick's, Strathfield. He has a Bachelor of Economics degree (Hons) from Sydney University.

Martin was elected to Federal Parliament as the Member for Batman in 1996 and became Shadow Minister for Employment and Training. In 1997, he assumed the added responsibility of Population and Immigration and Assistant to the Opposition Leader on Multicultural Affairs. He was re-elected to the Shadow Ministry on 22 November 2001.

Previously, Martin was President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) after working for the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia since 1975. As president of the ACTU, Martin was a member of advisory councils and foundations including the Social Security Review, the Economic Planning Advisory Council, the National Labour consultative Council and the Advance Australia Foundation.

Martin and his wife Patricia have two children.

Martin was previously the Shadow Minister for Transport, Roads and Tourism.
 

 
   

Luluk Sumiarso, Director General of Oil and Gas, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia
                                                  


 

 
   

Belinda Robinson Chief Executive APPEA
                                                  



Belinda joined APPEA on 18th July 2005 as its Chief Executive. She has come to the industry from A3P, the Australian Plantation Products & Paper Industry Council, where she was the Chief Executive Officer tackling issues such as resource security, energy policy, manufacturing industry policy, trade policy and climate change. Belinda has spent 9 years with the Commonwealth Government including 6 years at senior and senior executive positions within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet responsible for a range of resource, primary industries and environment policy issues. Belinda has also worked in a variety of resource planning roles in State and local governments. She holds three degrees including a Master of Environmental Law from the Australian National University.
   

Chris Hart, Managing Director, MEO Australia
                                                  



Christopher Hart commenced his involvement in the upstream oil and gas industry in the late 1980's. Over the past sixteen years he has been actively involved in the industry, serving as both director and executive director for a number of junior companies, including Bass Strait Group NL, Octanex NL, Cue Energy Resources NL and Natural Gas Australia Ltd., and consulting directly to various oil and gas companies including Cue Energy and Boral Energy Ltd.

The primary focus of Mr. Hart's activities is in the area of gas marketing and the identification of the most appropriate mechanism for the commercialisation of various gas resources.

Mr. Hart co-founded Timor Sea Petroleum in 1994 (which has now become MEO Australia Ltd), the original tenement holder of the Evans Shoal gasfield, and he has been instrumental in developing the Company's gas-to-liquids projects.

Over the past nine years, Mr. Hart has been principally involved in formulating and developing the strategies for the commercialisation of regional gasfields in the Timor Sea including the potential gas resources in the Company's permit, NT/P68. This activity primarily related to the development of offshore GTL production concepts, including the Tassie Shoal Methanol Project and the Timor Sea LNG Project.
   

Cheryl Cartwright, Chief Executive, APIA
                                                  

 

 
   

Eros Agostinelli, Managing Director, ENI Australia
                                                  

 
   

Andy Jacob, Chief Operating Officer, Coogee Resources
                                                  

Mr Jacob has over 25 years experience as an engineer in the oil and gas industry working in the UK, Netherlands, Arabian Gulf, Italy, Singapore and Australia. Mr Jacob has held positions in the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies, Wharton Williams Taylor and was the Vice President for Bluewater Offshore Production Systems. Mr Jacob was relocated to Western Australia in 1991 with Dawson Brown and Root as Manager Engineering Projects. Mr Jacob held senior management roles with several companies before joining Newfield International (Australia) in September 1999.

 
   

Ian Tchacos Chief Executive Officer Nexus Energy
                                                  



Nexus Energy's Managing Director Ian Tchacos is a petroleum engineer with over 20 years international experience in a range technical and commercial roles, from exploration and development operations to marketing and energy finance.

Prior to joining Nexus Ian held a number of senior managerial positions in a range of junior and mid sized oil companies key accomplishments include:

  • Building a $250 million asset base with Hardy Petroleum

  • Gas Marketing Representative for Harriet Joint Venture

  • Non Operators representative for Bayu Undan Gas Project

  • Responsible for divestment of Bond Corporations $1.4 billion energy assets

Since Ian's appointment as CEO of Nexus in August 2002, the company has undergone a substantial growth period, securing a quality portfolio of exploration and appraisal assets in the Gippsland, Browse, Bonaparte and Vlaming basins. Ian also finalised the company's recent acquisition of the Echuca Shoals gas discovery.
Under Ian's stewardship Nexus will progress the appraisal and development of the Crux gas condensate field and Longtom gas discovery as well as drilling 5 exploration prospects.
Nexus' strategy is to secure highly prospective exploration acreage at high equity levels with a view to gaining leverage from its technical and commercial skills. Under this strategy Nexus' market capitalisation has grown from A$2 million to a current A$ 137 million in the last 3 years.

 

 
   

Robin Antrobus, Vice President External Relations, ConocoPhillips
                                                  

 
   

Sean Kildare, General Manager External Affairs, INPEX Browse
                                                  

 
   

Peter Strachan, Independent Analyst
                                                  

 
   

Peter Botten, Managing Director, Oil Search Limited
                                                  

 
   

Tony Regan, Consultant, Nexant (Singapore)
                                                  


Tony Regan is a Singapore based senior consultant with Nexant, a US chemicals, power, oil and gas consultancy. Tony focuses on the gas market in Asia Pacific.

Tony has extensive international oil and gas experience, much of it gained during 25 years with Shell International where he held a broad range of supply, logistics, trading and new business development roles. With Shell he developed several new businesses and held senior management positions in Europe and Asia. He has over 15 years experience in the Asia Pacific gas market and early accomplishments include the first spot sales of LNG in Asia when he placed cargoes from Australia and Brunei into Korea in 1993. He has been an oil and gas consultant since 1998.

 
   

Paul Tyrrell, Chairman, Onshore Gas Development Taskforce
                                                  

 

 
   

Arthur Dixon AM Independent Consultant
                                                  

Arthur Dixon AM graduated as a chemical engineer from Melbourne University and has had more than 40 years with Shell. For 25 of those years, he was associated with Liquefied Natural Gas. Inter alia, he has been Project Coordinator, General Manager Marketing, a Director of Shell International Gas, Brunei Shell Tankers and Australia LNG Ship Operating Company (ALSOC) and was the inaugural President of the North West Shelf LNG marketing company, Australia LNG Pty Ltd.

Arthur is Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Natural Gas Management, a joint venture between the Business Schools of the University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology.

In 2008, Arthur was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.

 
   

Paddy Crumlin, National Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia
                                                  

 

 
   

Penny O'Neill Head, Customs and Excise Deloitte Australia
                                                 



Penny leads Deloitte's National Customs and Excise practice, providing specialist customs advice to both public and private sector organisations involved in importing and/or exporting goods.

Penny has more than 20 years experience in the customs industry, having commenced her career with the Australian Customs Service. Penny's core focus is now advising clients on:

1 project management relating to imported capital equipment
2 supply contract conditions relating to imported goods
3 tariff classification of goods
4 concessional entry of goods
5 valuation of imported goods
6 disputes relating to imported goods.

Over the last ten years Penny has obtained savings (of duty) for major projects in excess of $70 million through strategic planning and review of import schedules, and utilisation of concessional and other customs legislation to achieve optimal results for her clients.

Penny was involved for over 18 years in the training of Customs Brokers throughout Queensland. This education role included designing and teaching course material and also authoring course content for distance education customs students around the State.

Penny is a skilled negotiator and has frequently succeeded in winning difficult cases for her clients. She develops and implements complementary information systems to enable maximum savings to be obtained.
   

Dr Eric Lilford, Senior Partner, Ernst and Young
                                                  

 

 
   

Susan O'Rourke, Partner, Clayton Utz
                                                  

'Australian Legal Business' ranked Susan O'Rourke second in their 2005 'Hot 40' list of Australia's finest dealmakers. She is described as "a legal powerhouse" who is a "leading light in the energy and resources sector".

Susan O'Rourke is a Partner in our Corporate Advisory/M&A Group in the Sydney office, specialising in the energy and resources sector. Susan's expertise is energy and resources, project finance, infrastructure, major projects, acquisitions and privatisations. Her experience lies in large legally and commercially complex cross border transactions with particular emphasis on oil, gas, LNG, petrochemicals and pipelines.

She has over 25 years experience advising business in Australasia and has handled some of the regions most significant matters.

She has broad industry experience including power, coal, metals and mining, water, satellites, telecommunications, rail, aircraft, ships and toll roads. These transactions have a wide geographic spread including Japan, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Middle East, USA, Europe and Australia. Susan's clients benefit from her range of experience, commercial judgement, industry knowledge, creative problem-solving and project management skills. She lived and worked in Asia for part of her career.

 
   

Dr. Duncan Seddon
                                                  

Dr. Duncan Seddon, a consultant to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, has been involved with then production and use of transportation fuels and commodity chemicals for over 30 years. He has a particular interest and expertise in clean fuels, the use of gas derived chemicals in the transport fuel sector and in Gas to Liquids technology and processes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

 
   

Peter Dighton
                                                  

Peter Dighton is a lawyer, commercial advisor and company director in the petroleum sector. He has specialised in LNG projects for the last 15 years. Peter was the corporate lawyer for the Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction project (ADGAS) for 6 years and has since worked on LNG projects in Australia, Qatar, PNG, India and Yemen. Peter is a senior commercial advisor to Flex LNG, which is a floating LNG company specialising in monetising stranded gas.

 
   

Trym Tveitnes
                                                  

Trym Tveitnes is one of the founders of FLEX LNG and has been CTO of the company since 2006. Mr. Tveitnes joined FLEX LNG from a  consultancy in Bergen, Norway, which is specialised in onshore gas transportation and distribution. Prior to this he worked for the ship owning company Höegh LNG in Oslo, with main focus on concept and business development within floating LNG terminals and Arctic LNG transportation. Mr. Tveitnes has also experience as senior engineer at Det Norske Veritas working on technology qualification for large LNG carriers and floating LNG import terminals. Mr. Tveitnes holds a Master of Science-degree in naval architecture and a PhD in hydrodynamics from the University of Glasgow.

 
   

Frank Tudor
                                                  

Frank Tudor has held various senior management roles over the last 25 years in the European, Asian and Australian oil, gas and power industries with BP, Woodside and most recently Horizon Power. He has held various roles through operations to commercial management in the North West Shelf LNG Project (both with BP and Woodside), led project structuring and commercial development work for BP's PNG LNG project plans and led business development and LNG marketing efforts for Woodside's Australian gas interests in China. He is currently the GM for Commercial and Strategy in Horizon Power which is the newly formed vertically integrated regional energy provider to the booming regional part of WA. Frank is also a part-time lecturer in oil and gas economics, marketing and legal frameworks at the University of Western Australia and a Vice-President of the WA Branch of the Australia China Business Council.

 
   

Brendan Doyle
                                                  

Brendan Doyle is a senior consultant with BTS Australasia Ltd. Brendan's varied work career is now up to its 30th year and includes managing several organisations at the CEO level.

Brendan is currently involved on projects within the Oil & Gas Industry with clients such as Oil Search and Woodside Energy. These projects have included the development and delivery of discovery/ experiential learning programs to support strategic initiatives. Globally BTS has been working with British Gas for a number of years and this knowledge and experience continues to be leveraged locally.

 
   

 
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