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Special Sessions

The programme of the 20th World Petroleum Congress includes 16 high-level Special Sessions addressing topical subjects in the industry and providing a broad spectrum of perspectives on some of the key issues affecting the global oil and gas sector.

New Session on Tuesday December 6 [Conference Hall, 10h15 - 11h00]
Special Session 17 – Crafting a Sustainable Future: Promoting Pragmatism and Partnership
Mr Khalid A Al Falih, President and CEO, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabia

New Session:

Special Session 17 – Crafting a Sustainable Future: Promoting Pragmatism and Partnership

Mr Khalid A Al Falih, President and CEO, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabia

Monday, December 5^th

Special Session 1 – Business and Community: Partners for Shared Prosperity
Monday, December 5 15:15 - 16:45 Meeting Room 103
Session Chairman	Rhonda Zygocki, Executive Vice President, Policy and Planning, Chevron Corporation, USA
Keynote Speakers	Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Universtity, Kennedy School, USA. Dan Runde, Director of the Project for Prosperity and Development, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), USA. Dafna Tapiero, Community Development Manager, International Finance Corporation (IFC), USA.

Special Session 2 – Technology and Innovations in Upstream
Monday, December 5 17:00 - 18:30 Meeting Room 103
Session Chairman	Prof Yuzhang Liu, Vice President, RIPED, PetroChina, China
Keynote Speakers	Misfir AzZahrani, Manager of Area Exploration Upstream, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia Ashok Belani, Chief Technology Officer, Schlumberger, France S. Bhattacharya, General Manager SSm, NH Asset, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, India John W. McDonald, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Chevron Corporation, USA Priscilla Moczydlower, Manager of the IOR Research Program , Petrobras, Brazil György Palasthy, Director of Integrated Field Applications, MOL Plc, Hungary

Tuesday, December 6^th

Special Session 3 – Transparency and Anti-Corruption Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Industry
Tuesday, December 6 10:15 - 12:15 Meeting Room 103
Session Chairman	The Rt Hon Joe Clark, Former Prime Minister of Canada
Keynote Speakers	Dr. Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María, Minister of Mines & Energy, Colombia Jeremy Carver, Board Member, Transparency International, Berlin, UK Ms Olajobi Makinwa, Head of Transparency & Anti-Corruption Initiatives, UN GC & Head, 10th principle anti-corruption working group, USA Jonas Moberg, Head of the International Secretariat, EITI, UK Karen Schonfelder, Manager, Integrity & Compliance, Nexen Inc, Canada

Special Session 17 – Crafting a Sustainable Future: Promoting Pragmatism and Partnership
Tuesday, December 6 10:15 - 11:00 Conference Hall
Session Chairman	Dr Randy Gossen, President, World Petroleum Council
Keynote Speaker	Mr Khalid A Al Falih, President and CEO, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabia

Special Session 4 – The Safety of E&P Operations in Deep Water
Tuesday, December 6 15:15 - 16:45 Auditorium 2
Moderator	Jack Gerard, President, API, USA
Keynote Speakers	Magda Maria de Regina Chambriard, Director of Operations, National Agency for Oil, Natural Gas & Biofuels, Brazil Rob Cox, Technical Director, IPIECA, UK Michael Engell-Jensen, Executive Director, OGP, UK Richard Morrison, Head of Global Deepwater Response, BP, USA

Special Session 5 – Social Responsibility
Tuesday, December 6 15:15 - 16:45 Meeting Room 103
Session Chairman	H.E. Sheikh Hamad Bin Jabor Bin Jassim Al Thani, Director General, General Secretariat for Development Planning (GSDP), Qatar
Keynote Speakers	Mr. Suleiman Jasir Al Herbish, Director General, OPEC Fund for International Development, Austria Bekele Geleta, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. K S Jamestin, HR Director, ONGC, India Robert Rooney, EVP Legal & General Counsel, Talisman Energy Inc., Canada

Special Session 6 – WPC-IPIECA Oil and Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting
Tuesday, December 6 17:00 - 18:30 Meeting Room 103
Session Chairman	Bill Boyle, Senior Advisor, IPIECA and OGP, UK
Keynote Speakers	Aron Cramer, CEO, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), USA Brett Doherty, Vice President, Health, Safety, Environment and Quality, RasGas, Qatar Kelly Kowalchuk, Vice President of Health, Safety, Environment & Social Responsibility, Nexen inc., Canada Paul P. Krishna, Environmental Programmes Manager, ExxonMobil, USA

Wednesday, December 7^th

Special Session 7 – WPC-IGU Gas Forum: Global Gas Supply and Demand
Wednesday, December 7 10:15 - 12:15 Auditorium 1
Session Chairman	Alan Page, Global Energy Utilities & Mining Leader, PWC, USA
Keynote Speakers	HE Leonid Bokhanovsky, Secretary General, Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), Qatar Acad. Anatoly Dmitrievsky, Director, Oil & Gas Research Institute, RAS, Russia Ieda Gomes, Vice President for New Ventures and INGL, BP, UK Datuk Rahim Hashim, President, IGU, Malaysia Thierry Pilenko, CEO, Technip, France

Special Session 8 – Information Revolution: Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure
Wednesday, December 7 14:15 - 15:00 Auditorium 2
Session Chairman	Stephan Klein, Vice President Oil & Gas, SAP Middle East & North Africa, UAE
Keynote Speakers	Dr. Riemer Brouwer, Chief Security Officer, CISO, UK Gordon Muehl, Chief Security Officer Architect, SAP, UAE Peter Wilson, Information Risk Manager, Upstream , Shell, UK

Special Session 9 – NPC Fuel Study: Future Transportation Fuels in the US to 2050
Wednesday, December 7 14:15 - 15:00 Auditorium 1
Session Chairman	Gerardo Uria, Director of General Membership, American Petroleum Institute (API), USA
Keynote Speakers	Dr. Stephen Brand, former SVP Technology ConocoPhillips – Demand and Technology, USA Joseph Caggiano, Senior Consultant, Chevron – Supply and Infrastructure, USA Shariq S. Yosufzai, Vice President, Chevron Corporation, USA

Special Session 10 – WPC-IEF Cooperation between ICOs, NOCs and Service Providers
Wednesday, December 7 15:15 - 16:45 Theatre Hall
Session Chairman	Noe van Hulst, Secretary General, IEF, Saudi Arabia
Keynote Speakers	Abdel Hamid Zerguine, CEO, Sonatrach, Algeria Andrew Gould, Chairman, Schlumberger, France Paul Navratil, Energy Leader Middle East, PWC, UAE

Special Session 11 – Technology and Innovations in Downstream
Wednesday, December 7 15:15 - 16:45 Auditorium 2
Session Chairman	Abbas Al-Ghamdi, Research Coordinator, R&D, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Keynote Speakers	Dr Dirk Demuth, CEO & COO, hte AG, Germany R.K. Ghosh, Director - Refineries, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, India Dr Essam Hamad, Sr Researcher, R&D, Saudi Arabia Vladimir Kapustin, General Director, VNIPIneft, Russia José López de Silanes, Chairman, CLH, Spain

Special Session 12 – Female Leadership in the Petroleum Industry
Wednesday, December 7 15:15 - 16:45 Auditorium 3
Session Chairman	Dr Eve Sprunt, Business Development Manager, Chevron Energy Technology Company, USA
Keynote Speakers	HE Deizani Alison-Madueke, Minister of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria Nawal A. Al-Fuzaia, Assistant Under Secretary, Ministry of Oil, Kuwait Hinda Gharbi, President, Schlumberger Asia, Malaysia Burcu Gunal, VC, WPC Youth Committee and Strategy Analyst, TPAO, Turkey Nishi Vasudeva, Director of Marketing, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, India

Special Session 13 – WPC-EI Managing Operational Risk A Senior Executive’s Challenge.
Wednesday, December 7 17:00 - 18:30 Room 103
Session Chairman	Taf Powell, Expert Advisor for Offshore Drilling and Production, European Commission
Keynote Speakers	Saif Al-Naimi, Director, HSE Regulations & Enforcement, Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Mark Corrigan, Vice President for Quality Systems, Schlumberger, France John Martin, Managing Director, Oil & Gas, Standard Chartered, UK Mark Nolan, VP, Middle East / Infrastructure, ExxonMobil Development Company, USA
Special Session 14 – IEA World Energy Outlook
	*CANCELLED*

Thursday, December 8^th

Special Session 15 – WPC-WEC Energy and Mobility
Thursday, December 8 10:15 - 11:00 Meeting Room 103
Session Chairman	Dr. Karl Rose, Rector of Global Studies, WEC, UK
Keynote Speakers	Ayed Al-Qahtani, Project Manager, Scenarios, WEC, UK Joseph Caggiano, Senior Consultant, Chevron Corporation, USA

Special Session 16 – Youth in the Energy Future A View at Difference Scenarios for the Future of Energy and its Impact on the Next Generation
Thursday, December 8 15:15 - 16:45 Theatre Hall
Session Chairman	Alex Forbes, Director, Forbes Communications Ltd., UK
Keynote Speakers	Manisha Bhargava, Senior Officer Petrochemical Projects,Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Mark Blackwell, Analyst - Power & Utilities Investment Banking, CIBC World Markets inc., Canada José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, CEO, Petrobras, Brazil Jakob Thomasen, CEO, Maersk Oil, Denmark Severin Secklehner, Reservoir Engineer, OMV Exploration & Production, Austria Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman and Managing Director, ONGC, India