MOZAMBIQUE GAS SUMMIT TO BE HELD VIRTUALLY ON 28-29 OCTOBER 2020

H.E Valige Tauabo

Governor

Cabo Delgado Province

Estêvão Pale

Chairman & CEO

ENH

Carlos Zacarias

President

INP

Carlos Joaquim Zacarias is the Chairman of the National Petroleum Institute, the regulatory body for upstream petroleum activities in Mozambique. He assumed the role in August 2015 and quickly had to led the negotiation of the Legal framework for the Rovuma Basin projects including approvals for Coral South FLNG, Golfinho/Atum and Rovuma LNG Plan of Developments.

As Chairman, Zacarias is focused on establishing a stable, predictable and attractive regulatory framework for foreign investment, in line with international standards and at the same time ensuring that the natural gas production projects being implemented in Mozambique generate added value for the national economy, catapulting other sectors of activity, allowing to catalyze and maximize the participation of nationals throughout the value chain and life cycle of natural gas projects.

Zacarias has an extensive expertise in a wide array of strategic, exploration, safety and regulatory matters of the petroleum industry as a result of his executive and management experience.

Over his 16 years at INP, he served as Vice President for Projects and Development, where he dealt with the promising and growing gas production and transport industry of Mozambique from 2005 until 2008, when he was appointed Vice President for Exploration, supervising and monitoring all exploration activities that led to the largest discoveries in Rovuma Basin, so far.   

Prior to joining INP, Zacarias held management positions at the National Directorate for Coal and Hydrocarbons (DNCH) at a technical department responsible for supervising petroleum and coal activities, where he was involved in the revision of the legal package, exploration activities and implementation of Pande/Temane Gas Project.

Zacarias holds a master degree on Petroleum Geology from the Petrochemical Institute of Baku, Azerbaijan.

Henrique Cossa

Advisor to the Minister & Coordinator, Multi-Sectorial Local Content Task Force

Ministry of Mineral Resources & Energy (MIREME)

Dra. Luisa Diogo

Chairman

Absa Bank Mozambique

Antonio Saide

Chairman

FUNAE

Victor Tivane

Local Content Director

ENH

Víctor B.L.Tivane  is a Mozambican investment and business development consultant with more than 15 years experience in promoting investment and developing SMEs (Matching Grant Schemes, Linkages and Industrial Parks).

Currently is the Director at National Hydrocarbon Corporation at the Local Content Division. As the Director of this Division, the main role is to lead and coordinate the company policy operationalization regarding the local industry promotion and development, employment creation and acceleration of skill and technology transfer.

The last position was a Consultant at the World Bank Competitiveness and Private Sector Development Project for Mozambique (PACDE).

Víctor Tivane has worked at the Investment Promotion Centre, in the preparation and implementation of Industrial Parks in Mozambique and advisor for foreign and domestic firms, in matters of investment; as adviser during the implementation of Aluminium Smelter (MOZAL); and as the Manager of the Linkages Program Office at the World Bank Enterprise Development Project using tools such as Matching Grant Schemes and Supplier Development Program.

Natalia Camba

Head of Local Content

INP

Natalia is currently the Director of Supervision and Safety Director at National Petroleum Institute, and she is a Chemical Engineer and holds a Master Degree in Project Management of Oil & Gas Industries with specialization in Economics of Oil, Gas and Energy.

She was involved in elaboration of documents related with Gas Development such as Mozambique Gas Master Plan, Tariff Methodology for the piped-gas industry in Republic of Mozambique, Strategy for Market Development and others related with the Projects and development of gas in Mozambique.

Natalia was involved, at the incipient phase of Mozambique LNG Project, as Engineering Technical Assistant, with a general-purpose position aiding all the Delivery Groups , HSE Lead on Project Safety Case and help the interface management of various project contractors also follow-up communications Liaison with Government Regulatory groups within Mozambique.

She acted after as Advisory of Environmental Impact Assessment team in the Mozambique LNG Project , leading  with issues associated with EIA and Resettlement Action Plan, and guide the team with information necessary to meet the Mozambique Government and local communities’ needs.

Natalia is also a lecture of Petroleum Geopolitics& Ethics in the Oil &Gas Business MBA at ISCTEM (Higher Institute of Science and Technology of Mozambique).”

Titos Nhabomba

Commercial & Marketing Director, Domestic & Regional Markets

ENH

Amad Valy

Executive Director

Cabo Delgado Port (PCD)

Kwasi A. Agbley

Advisor to the Board of Directors

African Renaissance Pipeline Ltd

Robin Sutherland

Chief Operating Officer

Anglo Eurasia Power Africa LLC

Robin is Chief Operating Officer of Anglo Eurasia Power Africa LLC, a consulting firm focussed on assisting African countries to maximise the value of their considerable natural resources to power economic growth while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He received a BSc degree in Geophysics from Edinburgh University and has since held a variety of technical and business leadership roles in Africa. He joined Energy Africa in 1997 and subsequently led Tullow’s exploration team during the discovery and appraisal of the Jubilee and TEN fields in Ghana. Since leaving Tullow Robin has focussed on the conceptualisation and execution of projects designed to reduce the significant impact of climate change on Africa.

Zayra Romo

Senior Energy Specialist & Country Portfolio Leader

The World Bank

Zayra Romo is a power engineer with over 20 years of experience working on energy sector reform, regional energy trade, public-private investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. She has led major analytical work on energy sector reform and energy access in Africa and development of low-carbon strategies for Mexico.

In her current role based in Maputo, she coordinates the World Bank infrastructure portfolio for energy, transport  and ICT for Mozambique, Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros and Seychelles and leads energy sector engagement in Mozambique.  Prior to joining the Bank as a Young Professional in 2009, she worked for Électricité de France in Mexico.

Zayra has a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a Master of Science in Energy Conversion and Management from the University of Offenburg in Germany. She has undertaken post-graduate research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and MIT in Cambridge.

Thierry Clement

Business Development Manager

GTT

Thierry Clément is currently working in GTT as Business Development Manager for Africa, Italy and Northern Europe areas. Thierry is involved in LNG shipping, LNG offshore, small scale LNG and LNG fuel markets.

Thierry has around 20 years’ experience in the LNG industry. Before assuming his current position, he occupied various positions in GTT including Head of Liquid Motion Department, Project Manager in charge of the relations with Shipbuilding Yards in Far East (China, Korea, Japan) and Business Development Manager for China and Australia areas.

He has been involved in many studies and projects related to LNG shipping and LNG offshore (FLNG and FSRU) industries.

Thierry graduated from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN) with an Engineering Degree in Hydrodynamics and Fluid Mechanics.

Lourenço Sambo

Executive Director

APIEX

Director General of the Investment & Export Promotion Agency (APIEX - Mozambique), since June 2017. Before that he was Director General of the Investment Promotion Centre – CPI, from July 2010 to June 2017 and Economic Adviser to the Minister of Planning and Development of the Republic of Mozambique from June 2006 to July 2010.
Graduated from Eduardo Mondlane University in economics, he holds a Master’s Degree in Agriculture Business Management.
Among many studies, he conducted a study sponsored by the Friederich Ebert Foundation on the social and macro economic impact of deeper SADC regional integration in Mozambique as well a survey on the perception of the national business community and non-state actors as a complement to the study, published in South Africa by SAIA from WITS University namely the “REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA”, Vol 2, on Deepening Integration in SADC – Rapid Changes in Mozambique to Meet SADC Targets.
He also participated in the study on the reengineering of CPI in 1996 which culminated in the drafting of CPI’s first Strategic (1997-2000) as well as in the formulation of several proposals of studies and interventions crucial for the development of business and of the entrepreneurial sector in Mozambique requested by different public entities.

Joaquina Gumeta

Director General

IPEME

Simone Santi

President Oil & Gas Energy & Mineral Resources

CTA

Simone Santi has more than 22 years of experience in the Mozambican market, specialising in the African private sector, specifically Mozambique; supporting SMEs in developing markets; training, supporting, mediating and facilitating projects in areas of territorial marketing and direct foreign investment.

Managing local development projects, particularly where interaction between the public and business administration is foreseen.

Extensive experience with NGOs and financial agencies, partucularly with DFI CE-CPLP, World Bank, BAD, European Bank, Cepagri, CCMI.

Julio Sethy

President

Conselho Empresarial Provincial de Cabo Delgado (CEP CD)

Florival Mucave

President

Mozambique Oil & Gas Chamber

1995, Articled clerk with Schellemberg Wittmer Law firm in Geneva Switzerland.

1996, Articled clerk with Linklaters Law Firm in London, United Kingdom.

1997-1998, World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Junior Legal Affairs Officer, dealing with trade disputes, the implementation of the General Agreements on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) and technical assistance to Developing Countries.

1999, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland, Legal Trade Officer, dealing with International trade agreements and the sustainable exploitation of natural resources in Developing Countries.

2000-2001, Diamond Trading Company (DTC), a subsidiary of the De Beers Group, in London, United Kingdom as Senior Legal Counsel dealing with Competition and Anti-Trust matters pertaining to DeBeers negotiations with the European Competition Commission (DG4) as well as negotiations of new diamond concessions in Angola, Russia and Canada.  

2001-2003, De Beers Group Services, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, as Head of the Department responsible for contracts and negotiations in Southern Africa.

2004-2008, DeBeers Group Central Africa, based in Luanda, Angola, in charge of DeBeers Legal and Commercial Division for Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Central African Republic.  

2009-2011, DeBeers Group International, based in Johannesburg, Director for Strategic Growth and New Business Development in Africa.  My Division ascertained the commercial sustainability of new diamond projects and the expansion opportunities in Africa.

2011, After 12 years with the DeBeers Group, pursuant to my request, I became an International Consultant for the DeBeers Group in Africa, based in Johannesburg.

2012-2015, Senior Independent Consultant for the De Beers Group and Anglo-American PLC in Africa.

2015-Founded Genese Oil & Gas Mozambique, an Oil & Gas Consulting Company aimed at providing Legal and Corporate Finance services to Oil and Gas companies operating in Africa.

2015-2019, Through Genese Oil & Gas, I provided Legal services to Empresa Mocambicana de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH), which I assisted in their negotiations with Anadarko, ENI, Galp and sub-sea 7, amongst others.

Currently President at the Mozambique Oil & Gas Chamber.

Taciana Peão Lopes

Founder & Managing Partner

TPLA

Anicha Abdul

Managing Director

EP Management & Consulting Services

Anicha Abdul, is a co-founder and Managing Director of EP Management Consultancy Services. She has exceptional expertise in HR solutions for specialized industries such as in Oil and Gas, Mining and FMCG. She has spearheaded the placement over hundreds of employees, locals and expatriates in mega projects in Mozambique over the past 10 years.  She has extensive skills in conflict management, immigration, and contracting and human capital management. Anicha is a certified Leadership Coach and Trainer through John Maxwell Team. An organization focused on raising effectiveness of world leaders. Prior to joining the entrepreneur world, Anicha worked in a Mining Company and an International Tax Firm. She is the founder of a group of companies NEESH, which comprises of supply of specialized work wear ensuring that health and safety standards are met, Accounting and Tax consulting. She recently initiated the development of a social economic women empowerment project with the objective to get more women businesses involved in the mega projects.  Anicha is passionate and actively involved in the empowerment of women in business in Mozambique.

Jocelyne Machevo

External Relations Manager

Eni

Jocelyne Machevo is a young award-winning mozambican energy professional with an expertise in LNG projects in Mozambique. She has been part of Eni, an international energy company, for over 8 years having joined as a Civil Engineer and, thanks to her professionalism and commitment, she was later appointed External Relations Manager at Eni Rovuma Basin, Eni subsidiary in Mozambique, being the first woman and the first Mozambican to hold a management position in the Company.

She holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering degree from ISUTC, and a master´s degree in Economy and Management of Energy and Environment from Eni Corporate University in Milan, Italy.

Jocelyne decided to devote her work in the energy industry because she believes that through the creation of comprehensive and sustainable energy strategies, the Country´s giant gas reserves are essential to solve the local energy challenges, as well as accelerating progress towards a sustainable energy future.

Throughout her career, Jocelyne has exhibited exemplary performance, winning the 2017 Outstanding Mozambican Woman in Gas & LNG Award by Mozambique Gas Summit and the 2019 Power Play Rising Star Award powered by ExxonMobil. With 29 years old, she has become a reference amongst the young professionals in the industry and seen as an emerging leader. She has also been nominated to be on the 2020 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40, Global List.

She is also a vocal advocate for women inclusion in the energy sector in Mozambique and worldwide, as well as youth engagement in leadership. Currently, she is the a member of Mozambican Women in Energy (MWE) and ambassador for Power Play, initiatives that aim to celebrate the women who are playing key roles in this important industry and promote the efforts to create a more diverse and sustainable energy future.

António Jopela

JV O&M Mechanical Engineer ENHL

TechnipFMC Mozambique Lda

António Jopela is currently an Operations & Maintenance Mechanical Engineer working in Coral South FLNG Project.

He served in the same project as Local Content Officer and also worked within the rotating equipment and construction departments of TechnipFMC as Mechanical Engineer.

António holds a MSc in Project Management for Environmental and Energy Engineering from Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT - France) and BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM - Mozambique).

Pat Roberts

Managing Director

LNG Worldwide Ltd

Since 2005 Pat has been the Managing Director of LNG Worldwide Ltd, a consulting company offering advice, support and training in all areas of the LNG commercial supply chain. Previous to that Pat has 24 years of experience with the Shell Group of companies both in oil and natural gas.

Her direct experience in LNG is in the area of developing and implementing LNG strategies for new market entrants and companies seeking to strengthen partnerships with LNG producers. This includes working in all commercial areas across the LNG value chain.

Her work has included working with governments, NOCs, IOCs and utilities and she has advised on structuring and optimising LNG supply portfolios. Coupled with her commercial experience is also a strong grounding in fundamental market analysis and strategic planning.