19th World Petroleum Congress to take place in June

24 Mar '08

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The next plenary session will be chaired on Wednesday, July 2nd, by H.E. Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister&Minister of Energy and Industry of Qatar the host country to the 20th World Petroleum Congress, and will also feature Ms Linda Cook, Executive Director of Gas and Power. The topic to be discussed will be Natural Gas: An Emerging Global Commodity.

The fifth plenary session, Advancing Sustainability in the Oil and Gas Industry, will also be held on that same day. The following personalities have already confirmed their participation: Mr. Francis Saville, Chairman of the Board, Nexen Inc; Mr. William Hogan, Professor of Global Energy Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and Mr. Helge Lund, President and CEO of StatoilHydro.

Plenary sessions 6 and 7 will be held on the final day of the Congress, Thursday, July 3rd. Plenary 6 will deal with Accessing Reserves and Investing in Infrastructures. Keynote speakers will be Mr. John Watson, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Development, Chevron Coorporation; H.E. Shri M. S. Srinivasan, Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in India; and Mr. Sergio Gabrielli, President of Petrobras.

The 7th plenary session, Societal Expectations of the Oil and Gas Industry, will be the last of these morning plenary sessions, with the participation of Mr. James J. Mulva, Chairman, President and CEO, ConocoPhillips; Mr. Andrew Gould, Chairman and CEO, Schlumberger; and Ms Huguette Labelle, Chairperson of Transparency International.

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