Summit Day One

Alvaro Massinga

Vice President

CTA

Omar Mithá

Chairman & CEO

ENH

Omar Mithá was born in Mozambique in 1967, he holds degree in Economics from Eduardo Mondlane University (1992, Mozambique) and Post-Graduate Degree in Management from ISCTE (2005, Portugal).

He  holds the position of CEO/Chairman of ENH, the NOC from the Republic of Mozambique, since August 2015. He is also Chairman of ENH Logistics and Non-Executive Board Member of Matola Gas Company (MGC) and Portos de Cabo Delgado (PCD). Until August 2015 was the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. Before joining the Government, from 2008 to 2013 he was the former Chief-Economist and in charge of the Investment Banking of Millennium BIM dealing with credit for large projects, advisory, project finance and research. Prior to that, from 2006 to 2007 was an Investment Officer at the IFC office in Maputo. Between 2000 and 2005 he was working as a consultant to the World Bank on behalf of International Development Ireland to develop SME´s through a matching grant scheme for technology transfer. Previously he worked for Ernst & Young as a consultant, and was the Manager and Advisor of several companies between 1992 and 1996. He has been a lecturer at the local university for a couple of years.

H.E. Augusto de Sousa Fernando

Deputy Vice Minister - Mineral Resources & Energy

Republic of Mozambique

Augusto de Sousa Fernando, Electrical Engineer Deputy Vice-minister of Mineral Resources and Energy November 2016.

From August 2015 to November 2016 he was Director of Technical Unity for Project Implementation at Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy with role of ensuring the preparation and implementation of Large Scale Projects in Mozambique. Before this position February to August 2015 he was Regional Market Director at Norconsult Mozambique, a Norwegian Consultant Company with more than 30 years in Mozambique.

Form 1992 EDM Executive Chairman since March 2012. From November 2005 up to March 2012 he was Executive Board Member responsible for Generation, Transmission and Market Operator. His initial position was Protection Engineer later on System Planning and Protection Manager. He was part of the EDM and Eskom team that did the planning of the MOTRACO transmission system, which supplies power to MOZAL Aluminum Smelter in Mozambique.

From 2002 to 2005 he was a Transmission Director responsible for the Operation and Maintenance of the 66 up to 400 kV transmission grid in Mozambique with more 3500 km of lines and 3000 MVA of power transformers.

On the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) he was the Chairman of the Telecommunications Working Group and later on the Management Committee Chairman

Since April 2010 he is Chairing the Institute of Engineers of Mozambique.

MODERATOR: Martin Hutchison

Managing Director

Energy Resources Consultancy

H.E. Celmira Frederico Pena da Silva

Governor

Province of Cabo Delgado

Omar Mithá

Chairman & CEO

ENH

Omar Mithá was born in Mozambique in 1967, he holds degree in Economics from Eduardo Mondlane University (1992, Mozambique) and Post-Graduate Degree in Management from ISCTE (2005, Portugal).

He  holds the position of CEO/Chairman of ENH, the NOC from the Republic of Mozambique, since August 2015. He is also Chairman of ENH Logistics and Non-Executive Board Member of Matola Gas Company (MGC) and Portos de Cabo Delgado (PCD). Until August 2015 was the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. Before joining the Government, from 2008 to 2013 he was the former Chief-Economist and in charge of the Investment Banking of Millennium BIM dealing with credit for large projects, advisory, project finance and research. Prior to that, from 2006 to 2007 was an Investment Officer at the IFC office in Maputo. Between 2000 and 2005 he was working as a consultant to the World Bank on behalf of International Development Ireland to develop SME´s through a matching grant scheme for technology transfer. Previously he worked for Ernst & Young as a consultant, and was the Manager and Advisor of several companies between 1992 and 1996. He has been a lecturer at the local university for a couple of years.

Augusto E. Macuvele

VP - Exploration

INP

Augusto Eugénio Macuvele has been the Vice President Exploration of the National Petroleum Institute since August 2015. From July 2014 to August 2015 he worked as Mining Specialist for the World Bank-funded Minining and Gas Technical Assistance Project (MAGTAP).

Between 2010 and 2014 he was Executive Director of Deep South Mining (Pty) Limited and Consultant with Geomac Consulting, from 2002 to 2009. He held technical and managerial positions at the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Namibia as Chief Geologist from 1996 to 2002 and Interim Mining Commissioner between 1998 and 2001. He was a Lecturer at Eduardo Mondlane University from 1988 to 1996 and held the position of Head of the Department of Geology of the University from 1990 to 1992. He holds a Masters degree in Economic Geology from the Technical University of Freiberg and a PhD in Geology with emphasis in Sedimentology from the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), both from Germany.

Jos Evens

Lead Country Manager, Mozambique

ExxonMobil

Jos Evens has spent more than 30 years with ExxonMobil.  He joined ExxonMobil Mocambique Limitada as Production Manager and Mozambique Lead Country Manager in August 2017. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Gas & Power Marketing, for ExxonMobil Qatar Limited. Mr. Evens studied Commercial Engineering and Engineer Enterprise Information Systems at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Mr. Evens began his career with Exxon in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1984. Since that time, he has undertaken a range of operational, supervisory and managerial assignments for Exxon and subsequently ExxonMobil. He has served in various capacities in operations, customer service, business development, and planning functions within Fuels Marketing and Gas Marketing while working in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

John Bretz

Country Manager

Anadarko

John Bretz has more than 30 years of experience in the energy industry, upstream, midstream, marketing and trading.  He began his career in New Orleans, Louisiana with Gulf Oil and Chevron. His prior experience includes roles with Duke Energy, Union Pacific Resources and Natural Gas Clearing House. John also served as Commercial Manager and Vice President for Anadarko Energy Services Company. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and an MBA, both from Tulane University.  He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Asia Society, past Chairman of the Board of the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston and currently serves on the Board of the Tulane Energy Institute.

Jerome Milongo

Vice-President Greenfield LNG Origination, Africa

BP

In his current role at BP, Jerome Milongo is responsible for the supply and trading business’s Greenfield LNG Origination activities in Africa. In this role, Jerome secures access to new markets, develops integrated LNG projects, and negotiates LNG Sale and Purchase Agreements.

 Prior to this position, over the course of a decade-long career with BP, Jerome held various commercial jobs in the natural gas and LNG value chains. Highlights include managing BP’s commercial operations in the Isle of Grain regasification terminal, and negotiating the first offshore LNG ship-to-ship term supply deal in the world.

Jerome holds an MSc from Ecole de Mines in Paris, and an MSc in Energy Economics and Management from the French Petroleum Institute (IFP School).

Alessandro Nanotti

Commercial Manager - Mozambique Program

Eni S.p.A.

With more than 10 years of experience in the industry, having covered mainly business negotiations and commercial roles, I have been involved in major gas and LNG projects of Eni worldwide (Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, China and Kazakhstan). In 2013 I joined the Mozambique Program with responsibilities as commercial manager and lead negotiator overseeing and supporting in the definition, configuration, negotiation and implementation of the commercial structure and all related agreements of Eni’s projects in the Country, including the Coral South Project.

Filippo Gotti

VP LNG Mozambique

Eni Midstream Gas & Power

Filippo is currently in charge of LNG marketing activities for the Eni operated projects in Mozambique based in London.

He joined Eni S.p.A. in 2009 as executive assistant to the head of the Exploration and Production Division and thereafter took on a variety of managerial roles within E&P, including leading the business development effort in Eastern Europe (2011-12) and new initiatives in the Africa & Middle East region (2012-13). He started his career in Investment Banking and Private Equity at Lehman Brothers in Rome, London and New York.

Filippo holds an MA in Economics and Economic History from the University of Edinburgh.

MODERATOR: Paul Eardley Taylor

Head - Oil & Gas, Southern Africa

Standard Bank

Paul Eardley-Taylor is responsible for Standard Bank’s Oil & Gas sector coverage activities for Southern Africa, across upstream, midstream, downstream, services and process industry clients.

Paul has 18 years of energy corporate and investment banking experience, covering the Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities and Renewables & Carbon sub-sectors, and has been based in Africa for over 8 years.  Paul has extensive experience of the SA/Southern African energy environment, as adviser, banker and financier.

Prior to joining Standard Bank in 2009, Paul worked for HSBC for over 10 years and gained extensive experience of transactions across EMEA and select global markets in Asia/Australasia.

Paul holds degrees from Birmingham University; London University and a MBA from Henley Management College.  Paul is a Fellow of the Securities & Investment Institute, a member of the Energy Institute and has completed Harvard Business School’s Global Energy Seminar.

Paulo Manjate

Director of Licensing & Foreign Exchange Control

Bank of Mozambique

Melanie Lovatt

Finance Advisor, Business Intelligence

Poten & Partners

Melanie Lovatt is Finance Advisor at Poten & Partners’ growing business intelligence division and is the team leader on the company’s LNG Finance in World Markets quarterly report. She is also a regular contributor to the company’s monthly commercial report, LNG in World Markets. She focuses financing of liquefaction, regasification, and shipping sectors in order to further the understanding of structures used and the sources of both debt and equity. Prior to joining Poten, Melanie was Editor at Middle East Economic Survey (MEES). Melanie has a Bsc degree in Geology from the University of Hull in the UK.

Ivan Pereira

Executive Director

Mozambique Stock Exchange

George Lenon Ibraimo Mandawa

Deputy Director of Corporate Banking

BCI

Vasco Nhabinde

Director of Directorate of Economic and Finance Studies

Ministry of Economy & Finance

Vasco Correia Nhabinde is currently the Director of the National Directorate for Studies and Policy Analysis (DNEAP) within the Ministry of Planning and Development. Previously, he was the Head of Department and Executive Director of the Centre of Studies in Economics and Management at the Faculty of Economics of the Eduardo Mondlane University. Educated in Mozambique, he did his Master (2000) in Italy on Economics of Regulation and PhD (2007) in South Africa on Economics. He worked as Chemical Analyst in the Department of Sanitary Engineering of the Eduardo Mondlane University for seven years. In the period going from October 1998 to September 1999 he worked for the National Directorate of Water Affairs. He has been involved in several researches on retirement funds, Government consumption, etc. He was also involved in market oriented studies such as market studies, revenue forecasting, and policy analysis, among others.

MODERATOR: Martin Hutchison

Managing Director

Energy Resources Consultancy

Tavares Martinho

Executive Vice President for Exploration & Production

ENH

Born in Nampula in 1969; he has 19 years’ experience in oil and gas industry as exploration geologist. In 1996 concluded the course of Geology at University Eduardo Mondlane. Joined ENH in 1995 as geologist until 2008, from 1996 to date he was submitted to several courses related to petroleum geology. From 2000 to date he has been teaching tectonics, general geology and petroleum geology at University of Eduardo Mondlane as part time. During the time at ENH he was appointed in 2002 as labor representative in the board of directors and 2008 appointed as exploration Director as part of executive members of board of directors until 2013, now (2014) he has been appointed as executive member of board director for commercial, marketing, and new ventures. He participated actively in the establishment of several projects for oil and gas exploration in Mozambique. His actual task is to market and sell the huge amounts of natural gas discovered in the Rovuma Basin and the industrialization of Mozambique through development of local market. During the last ten years he developed skills as industry liaison, as well as informing local communities about the exploration and production activities in Mozambique.

James Tait

Head of Win It

TechnipFMC

Filippo Bellan

Account Manager

Siemens/Dresser-Rand

More than ten (10) years of experience in the Oil & Gas sector with a strong background in rotating equipment with more than five (5) years of direct engagement in the LNG market covering different sales roles.

Deep market knowledge development and customer intimacy working with all the major Oil&Gas companies in Europe and Asia all along the career path from Application Engineer to Corporate Account Manager.

International experience with three years (2013-2016) spent in London (UK) as Project Development Manager and international assignment (2007-2009) in Doha (Qatar) as Commercial Manager.

Problem solving attitude, good communication skills and used to work in a dead line driven environment with experience in managing and coordinating multicultural and multinational team.

Ricardo Aboud

Director, East Africa

Baker Hugues a GE Company

Ricardo Aboud has a BSc in Civil Engineering, with specialization in Soil Mechanics, graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in 1983. He has spent the last 30 years in the oil industry, having been involved in several oil & gas projects in more than 25 different countries, in all regions of the world, in engineering, business development, and management roles. He was an SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Director of Brazil Session (2005-2006) and the Secretary of SPE Session in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2001- 2002. Aboud is an author of numerous technical papers and magazine articles and has served on the technical committees of many SPE conferences and workshops. He was the Distinguished Lecturer on cementing in the 2006 VI Seflucempo Conference in Isla Marguerita, Venezuela, and a worldwide SPE Distinguished Lecturer in deep-water cementing (2001-2012). He was also the President of the Brazilian Association of Service Companies, with 22 major international service companies, between 2006 and 2007. He joined GE Oil & Gas in April 2013, as Commercial Leader for East Africa, and is based in Maputo, Mozambique.

William Schmidt

LNG Technology Manager

Air Products

Mr. Schmidt is responsible for managing the Process Engineering Technology for LNG. This includes developing and maintaining the process design standards and methods, technical risk management, field support, and troubleshooting. Mr. Schmidt has 37 years of process engineering experience, including LNG, air separation, non-cryogenic gas separations, and computer model development. He is a co-inventor on 11 US patents and has 36 external publications. He holds degrees in Chemical Engineering degrees from Case Western Reserve University (B.S.) and Lehigh (M.S.).

Hilda Yarnack

Energy Economist

Ms. Hilda Harnack is an Extractive Industries specialist with 28 years of professional experience. She has a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Florida and a M.Sc. in Energy Economics (primarily Oil & Gas) from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, CEPMLP at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

From 2008 to 2016, she was consultant at the Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Department of the World Bank. She assisted governments of several African and Latin American countries implement EITI as well as developed technical assistance projects aimed at improving contract supervision and extractive sector management in general. Earlier, she was a country Economist for three African countries at the Bank. She also served as Country Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank earlier in her career. She was a member of the IDB Inspection Panel during 2000-2005.

While living in Nicaragua, she advised the Nicaraguan Energy Ministry on the negotiations of licensing agreements with international oil companies during the first and second licensing rounds; and revised the concession contract and the hydrocarbons law. Ms. Harnack lived and worked for extended periods in Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Nicaragua, and currently in Mozambique.

Melanie Lovatt

Finance Advisor, Business Intelligence

Poten & Partners

Melanie Lovatt is Finance Advisor at Poten & Partners’ growing business intelligence division and is the team leader on the company’s LNG Finance in World Markets quarterly report. She is also a regular contributor to the company’s monthly commercial report, LNG in World Markets. She focuses financing of liquefaction, regasification, and shipping sectors in order to further the understanding of structures used and the sources of both debt and equity. Prior to joining Poten, Melanie was Editor at Middle East Economic Survey (MEES). Melanie has a Bsc degree in Geology from the University of Hull in the UK.

Jennifer Garvey

‎Independent Consultant - Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure

Jennifer Garvey has practiced legal advisory in the mineral, petroleum, energy and public infrastructure investment sectors in Mozambique since 1986, in government (Mireme), tax and legal advisory (KPMG) and then as chief legal counsel in ICVL Mozambique (previously Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique) participating in the strategy and execution of the projects’ evolution through exploration, development and construction and operation including community resettlement and environmental assessment as well as mine operations. Most recently, she is doing consultancy in renewable energy, mining and petroleum sectors.

Prof. Dr Alberto Tsamba

Coordinator of the Regional Centre for Studies of Engineering in Oil & Gas

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

Mr Tsamba is a senior lecturer at the faculty of Engineering at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, with 33 years of working experience. He also served as Dean of the Faculty, from 2012 and 2016, and during this period he led the design and implementation of the first training ever in Petroleum Engineering and Hydrocarbons Processing Engineering, as well the design and establishment of the East Africa Regional Centre of Excellence in Oil and Gas Engineering and Technology studies (CS-OGET). During this period, he also served as member to the Petroleum Engineering Post-Graduate Program Sponsorship Committee, at UEM.

Among other, he holds Memberships to the following entities: 

SPE: Society of Petroleum Engineers

ICSU-ROA: International Science Council-Regional Office of Africa (Steering Committee), where he leads the Sustainable Energy Consortium

OrdEM: Mozambique Engineers Association

Patricia Quirino

Head of Tax Mozambique (Rest of Africa)

SASOL

Patrícia Quirino is a Tax Lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience in both Tax and Legal roles having worked for various jurisdictions in Africa, being in particular an expert on Mozambique tax and oil & gas legal framework.

Patrícia has a Law Degree from the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane followed by post grad specialization which includes IBFD courses in both International Tax and Oil & Gas, in Holland and Singapore.

In August 2013 Patrícia concluded a Certificate in Finance at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa. Patricia’s current  position is Head of Tax Mozambique (Rest of Africa) at SASOL  where she is responsible  for all tax matters relating to Sasol’s various activities in Mozambique as well as for Sasol projects in other African jurisdictions.

André Vasconcelos

Mamba Onshore Technical Coordinator

ENI