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MARITIME TRANSPORTATION OF ENERGY

FROM RUSSIA & CENTRAL ASIA

- CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES -
 

10 & 11 OCTOBER 2005
Grand Europe Hotel

ST. PETERSBURG- RUSSIAN FEDERATION

 


 


10 & 11 OCTOBER 2005

Grand Europe Hotel

ST. PETERSBURG- RUSSIAN FEDERATION

 

     
   

Monday 10 October

     
08.30   Registration
 
    Welcome & Opening
 
09:30  

The Conference Chairman
Michael Grey
Columnist, Lloyd's List

 

09:40 The Organising and Supporting Organisations
Jannis Kostoulas
Managing Director Mare Forum

Peter Swift
Managing Director INTERTANKO

Sergey Burima
General Manager Chartering, Fleet Management and Operations, Sovcomflot

Vladimir I. Evenko
Vice Director General, Head of Classification Division
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
 

session 1

Energy for the world
Themes to be discussed:
Global energy needs - demand & supply for Russian energy- producers problems - consumers needs - status of oil - future of gas.

 
10:10  

Global Energy Needs and Russia's Role on the World Stage
Iain Shaw
Managing Director, Braemar Seascope

 

10:30  

Growth Dynamics of Gas Shipping
Debbie Turner
Gas and Chemicals Research, Braemar Seascope

 

10:50 Russian Oil Movements
Erik Ranheim
INTERTANKO
 
11:10  

Discussion between speakers and audience participants

discussion panelists:
Tom Fenel, Director and Owner, Alexia Shipping Ltd

Julian Bray, Editor in Chief, Lloyd's List

Iain Shaw, Managing Director, Braemar Seascope

Sergey Burima, General Manager Chartering, Fleet Management and Operations, Sovcomflot
Debbie Turner, Gas and Chemicals Research, Braemar Seascope

Erik Ranheim, INTERTANKO
Representatives from invited Energy Demand and Supply Companies
Transneft - Lukoil - Gazprom - Rosneft - Sibneft - Chevron - Kazmunaigaz - Europetroleum - Lia Oil -Transtec .

 

12:00 Lunch hosteb by BUREAU VERITAS

Session 2

Transportation the key

Themes to be discussed:
Port & terminal development - pipeline potential - ship availability - research needs
 

14:00    Ship availability
Sergey Frank
President and CEO Sovcomflot

 
14:20   

Pipelines potential
Mikhail Perfilov
Director of Business Development CIS and Baltics
Fearnleys A/S

 

14:40   

Port & terminal developments
Henrik Falck
Managing Director, Barwil Russia
 

15:00 

discussion
 

15:40 break

Session 3

Developing safe shipping - research imperatives
Themes to be discussed:
Ice research - ship design - port development
- the Polar routes - Icebreaker  provision
 

16:10 Artic LNG Tankers
Rob Tustin
Busan Office, Lloyd's Register
 
16:20 Tanker operations in the Arctic: Risk Management
Jan Koren
Business Director Tankers, DNV 
 
16:30 discussion
 

17:10

end first day
 

18:30    reception hosted by Braemar Seaspope

19:30 Dinner hosted by



 

Tuesday 11 October

Session 4

Challenging waters -
ship operations

Themes to be discussed:
Regional challenges- inland shipping - building
better ports- training ice experts - shipping quality - investing in safety
 


Shipoperations
09:00  

Manolis Vordonis
Executive Director, Thenamaris
 

09:15   

Sergey Popravko
Chief Operating Officer Sovcomflot

 

09:30  

Kjell Landin
Marine Representative, ChevronTexaco

 

09:45   

Ake Rohlen
Stena Bulk Vice-President and Head of CIS Representative office

 

10:00 

The Human Element
Capt. Ivan Stepanovich Petruk
Deputy General Manager Maritime Safety and Crewing, Sovcomflot
 

10:15 discussion
 
11:15    break

Session 5

Financing the Russian Renaissance
Themes to be discussed:
Long-term capital needs - political risks - issues of governance - legal and taxation background - role of foreign investor

 

11:40 Introduction by the session chairman
John Guy
Partner Merlin Corporate Communications

 
11:45 Financing the Russian Shipping
Steven Fewster
Director ING Bank
 
12:00 Legal and Taxation background
Gavin Stoddart
Manager Director, Moore Stephens CIS Limited

 
12:15 discussion

discussion panelists:
Ingmar Loges
Director HypoVereinsbank AG
Sergey Frank
President and CEO Sovcomflot

Ake Rohlen
Stena Bulk Vice-President and Head of CIS Representative office

Julian Bray, Editor in Chief, Lloyd's List
Dagfinn Lunde, Member of the Board of DVB Bank and CEO of the Shipping Division
Geert Dokter
Managing Director, MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Steamship BV
John Guy
Partner Merlin Corporate Communications
Sergey Burima
General Manager Chartering, Fleet Management and Operations, Sovcomflot

Kjell Landin
Marine Representative, ChevronTexaco

 

13:00 Lunch hosteb by LLOYD'S REGISTER

Session 6

Investing in Ice-class tankers-trade and LNG
Themes to be discussed:
Forecasts-Building strong ships-financing methods

 

14:15   

Introduction by the session chairman
Sergey Burima
General Manager Chartering, Fleet Management and Operations, Sovcomflot

 

14:20   

Forecasts in Ice-class tankers

Colin Cridland
Director Research, Braemar Seascope

 

14:30   

Buiding LNG vessels
Admiral Robert E. Kramek, USCG (Retired)
President and Chief Operating Officer, ABS

 

14:40  

Financing methods and opportunities
Dagfinn Lunde
Member of the Board of DVB Bank and CEO of the Shipping Division

 

14:50 Entering in the LNG Business
Antonis Vordonis
MARAN GAS MARITIME
 
15:00 

discussion

 

discussion panelists:
Sergey Frank
President and CEO Sovcomflot
Geert Dokter
Managing Director, MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Steamship BV
Steven Fewster
Director ING Bank
Sergey Burima
General Manager Chartering, Fleet Management and Operations, Sovcomflot

Colin Cridland
Director Research, Braemar Seascope

Admiral Robert E. Kramek, USCG (Retired)
President and Chief Operating Officer, ABS

Dagfinn Lunde
Member of the Board of DVB Bank and CEO of the Shipping Division

Rob Tustin
Busan Office, Lloyd's Register

Julian Bray, Editor in Chief, Lloyd's List

 

15:40    break

Session 7

Oil and troubled waters - environmental concerns
Themes to be discussed:
Coastal states - regulations - sensitive seas - political pressures - prevention and response -
a super-safe regime

 

session chairman
Michael Grey
Columnist, Lloyd's List
 
16:00   

Igor Ponomarev
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the IMO

 

16:10   

Peter Swift
Managing Director INTERTANKO

 

16:20   

Christian Breinholt
Director Danish Maritime Authority

 

16:30 Robert C. North
Rear Admiral, U. S. Coast Guard (Ret.)
President, North Star Maritime, Inc.
 
16:40 discussion
 
17:10  

Session 8
A focused Agenda for Policy Makers from Government & Industry

General discussion

 


18:00
   

Synthesis

The Conference
Chairman
Michael Grey
Columnist, Lloyd's List
 
18:10
19:00
Drinks



[This forum is organised as back to back with the Russian Maritime Registry of Shipping annual conference
 


 

which will take place following Mare Forum’s conference on 12 & 13 of October in St. Petersburg.]
 

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