RIO OIL & GAS 2016

Chemical Engineer graduated by UFRJ Chemistry School and with a Doctor Degree from COPPE/UFRJ. He wrote several books and 84 articles in scientific journals. Szklo advised 85 doctoral dissertations and master's theses on energy efficiency issues, energy sources, cogeneration, biofuels, oil refining and oil and oil products market. In the last five years, he was granted twice with Giulio Academic Merit Massarani award by the Institute Alberto Luiz Coimbra of Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE / UFRJ) to their teachers.

Responsible for the Schlumberger Research, Engineering, Manufacturing, Technology Lifecycle Management, Software Technology, and Information Technology. Since 2013, he has also led the Marketing, Sales and Account Management functions for Schlumberger. Belani studied electrical engineering in India and holds a graduate degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.

He is a former federal regulator with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now, his practice focuses on representing financial institutions, public and private companies, accounting firms, and their boards of directors, audit committees, directors, officers, and employees in domestic and international securities enforcement actions and litigations, white collar criminal defense, derivative actions, internal investigations, congressional investigations, complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, and crisis management. Claudius has extensive experience in handling delicate high-profile matters that require concurrent representation in the civil, criminal, and political spheres.

Felipe has been with BP since 2006 and has more than 20 years’ experience in the industry.

He currently holds the position of Regional President Latin America, comprising all of BP’s upstream businesses and shareholdings in the countries of Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, and Argentina, with the heads of each of these countries reporting into the regional president Latin America. Within this region, Felipe is accountable for overseeing all E&P access, development and production operations.

In his prior role, Felipe was Chief Commercial Officer for BP’s Integrated Supply & Trading business (IST), where he headed the Commercial Development group leading business development across the gas value chain. In addition to working with IST regional businesses he also supported the Upstream business providing guidance for gas/LNG marketing. His business portfolio included Guangdong Dapeng LNG import terminal JV and Shenzhen Dapeng LNG trucking JV in China and India Gas Solutions (India downstream gas marketing JV).

He is currently responsible for the concept and execution of production development projects in Lula field, located at the Brazilian presalt area, where ten Floating Storage and Offloading Systems must operate. Six of them have been already in operation, processing from 100 to 150 kbpd, demanding capital expenditure of more than U$ 40 billion. The engineer has experience in managing and approving upstream projects, and has formerly been corporate general manager for production development projects in Petrobras, with the role of improving the Upstream Projects Design, Sanction & Execution framework. Flavio also worked in business development em divestiment activities. He got a bachelor degree from Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME).