The 5th CWC China LNG & Gas International Summit

Masato Sasaki

Director, Oil & Gas Division

Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI), Japan

XU Tong

Deputy General Manager

Beijing Gas Group

Zheng Hongtao

President, Energy Trading & Marketing

ENN Group

Dr Hongtao has been responsible for CNOOC’s LNG procurement and trading efforts since 2008, and is one of the pioneers of spot LNG trading as well as short- and mid-term LNG procurement in China. During his over ten-year career in CNOOC, Hongtao has led approximately 10 mtpa of spot and term LNG procurements, and a series of LNG package transactions along the upstream and midstream.

Dr Hongtao has a PhD in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University.

Andrew Walker

Vice President Strategy

Cheniere Marketing Ltd

Dr Andrew Walker is the Vice President for Strategy for Cheniere Marketing. He is located in London and is responsible for the Strategy and Market Outlook of the marketing arm of Cheniere, reporting into the President of Cheniere Marketing Ltd. Until recently (October 2015) he was Vice President for Global LNG, and prior to that Head of LNG Strategy, at BG Group, where he worked for over 20 years before joining Cheniere. During his career in LNG he has been located in Singapore, Egypt, USA and UK and has worked on numerous LNG projects including Atlantic LNG in Trinidad and Tobago, Egyptian LNG, and Dragon LNG in the UK. Dr Walker has a Doctorate in Geology from Imperial College, University of London.

Mabel Leung

President, China Gas Marketing

ExxonMobil (China)

Mabel Leung is currently located in Beijing and has responsibility for business development of ExxonMobil’s LNG activities in China.

Mabel joined Mobil Corporation (now ExxonMobil Corporation) in 1987 and has held various downstream executive positions with a primary focus on Global Strategic Planning and Retail Fuels Marketing for Asia Pacific.  She has taken on various international assignments in both Singapore and the United States, ExxonMobil’s regional headquarters and global headquarters respectively.  Apr 2016, Mabel joined the Gas & Power Marketing organization of ExxonMobil and relocated to Beijing after spending a few months in Houston, Texas.

Mabel holds a Masters in Information Technology from the City University of Hong Kong and a Postgraduate Diploma in E-commerce from Hong Kong University and is married with two children.

Bernard Samuels

General Manager

Shell Energy (China)

Bernard Samuels leads Shell China Gas and LNG team, part of the global Shell Energy trading organisation. Bernard has worked in the Asia-Pacific Gas and LNG business for more than 20 years, with previous assignments in Russia (Sakhalin Energy), Singapore, Australia (Woodside) and Japan, in commercial roles in LNG marketing, New Business Development, Joint Venture governance and Acquisitions & Divestments.

Wang Lei

GM, Natural Gas Department

PetroChina International

ZHU Jianying

Senior Vice President

Towngas

Ali Mohammed Al-Emadi

Commercial & Shipping Marketing Long Term Sales Manager

Qatargas

Tom Earl

Chief Commercial Officer

Venture Global LNG

Tom Earl is the Chief Commercial Officer of VG LNG Marketing, LLC. Tom previously served as Vice President at the international oil company Total, focusing on the development of its global LNG business.

After graduating from City University in London with a degree in Engineering, Tom joined Total’s newly formed gas marketing and trading team in 1998. After various responsibilities within the trading division of the newly combined Total, Elf and Petrofina operations, he managed the natural gas option desk and gas trading desk. Tom successfully led significant commercial negotiations on long-term gas and LNG contracts in countries such as Russia, Norway and Qatar.

In 2006, Tom was appointed Head of Electricity Trading at Total where he led a significant expansion into newly opened power markets across Europe. In 2011, Tom moved to Houston, where he was appointed as head of Total’s North America commodity trading business, including its LNG, gas, power, coal, petcoke and LPG operations. Tom also represented Total in its US LNG liquefaction transactions from 2012 to 2015.

In 2015, Tom was appointed Vice President of Development for Total’s global LNG activities. Tom led Total’s most recent and highly regarded global expansion into new LNG markets. This work has included innovative new LNG terminal projects and new downstream asset transactions across the world.

Mineko Hida

Vice President

Diamond Gas International, Japan Branch

Fu Shaohua

Deputy General Manager

Shanghai Petroleum & Gas Exchange