Speaker Program
Many prominent speakers addressed the Conference. Speakers came from a
range of energy sectors within Western Australia, the Eastern States
and overseas.
The Conference presented a series of interesting and
enlightening presentations and panel sessions addressing diverse and
pertinent topics including:
Upstream Gas Issues:
Panel Session to discuss
WA's experience with pressure on gas
supplies and recent rapid increases in natural gas prices. Find out
from WA’s leading gas supply and exploration companies how they see
the gas supply situation in WA and how it may be impacted by
exploration potential and international forces. Speakers include
Gary Jeffery, Executive Director, Arc Energy, Reinhardt Matisons,
President - Marketing, Woodside, and Geoff Hegney, Vice President -
Gas Marketing & Commercialisation, Chevron Australia.
Carbon Capture and Storage - What are the big issues and
opportunities facing the Energy Industry?: Keynote Address by
Professor John G. Kaldi, Chief Scientist, Cooperative Research
Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies, Australia School of
Petroleum, University of Adelaide Australia. Fossil fuels such as
coal, oil and natural gas, currently supply around 85 per cent of
Australia’s energy needs, and will likely continue to do so for many
years to come. However, the burning of fossil fuels is a major
source of CO2, the gas most blamed for the increased concentration
of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. There are a host of
technical, social, environmental and economic ramifications to the
adaptation of GHG reduction strategies. This talk addresses carbon
capture and storage (CCS).
Walking the electricity market tight rope - Australian and overseas
electricity
industry restructuring:
Keynote Address by Hugh Outhred, Professorial Visiting Fellow,
School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales.
Advanced Meters:
International Keynote Address by Paul
Atkins, Solutions Manager, Advanced Metering Services
Western Australian Energy Policy: Presentation by
James Pearson, Chief Executive Officer, Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.
PV or NPV - Encouraging householders & small business to invest in
renewable energy use:
Presentation by Ray Wills, Sustainable Energy Association of Western
Australia.
Plug and play – the impact of hybrid electric vehicles on
electricity supply systems:
Presentation by Richard Hunwick, Hunwick Consultants Pty Ltd.
Coal 21:
Presentation by Ralph Hillman, Executive Director, Australian Coal
Association.
The Energy and Resources Boom Transforming Western Australia:
Presentation by
Reg
Howard-Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Chamber of Minerals and
Energy.
Delivering customer expectations:
Panel Session including Jim Mitchell, Managing Director, Synergy;
Rod Hayes, Managing Director, Horizon Power; Victor Browner, General
Manager, Alinta; Steve Gould, General Manager - Retail, Landfill Gas
& Power; and Tim Bult, Managing
Director, Wesfarmers Energy.
Getting it there – the challenges of energy infrastructure from an
owner, regulator & policy maker’s perspective:
Panel Session including Doug Aberle, Managing Director, Western
Power; Stuart Hohnen, Executive Chairman, Dampier to Bunbury
Pipeline; Lyndon Rowe, Chairman, Economic Regulation Authority; and
Jason Banks, Coordinator of Energy, Office of Energy.
The right mix:
Panel Session including Shirley In’t Veld, Managing Director, Verve
Energy; Wayne Trumble, Executive General Manager, EGM Power
Generation, Griffin Energy; Allan Dawson, Chief Executive Officer,
Independent Market Operator; and Richard Harris, General Manager
Development, Aviva Corporation.
Keynote Address: Thys Heyns,
Managing Director, Kwinana Oil Refinery, BP Australia
Pty Ltd. What does the 2008 BP Statistical
Review of World Energy tell us about global energy trends? What is
happening to energy consumption, production and pricing around the
world? What conclusions can we draw for the WA economy in the years
ahead? Hear answers to these questions and more as BP presents a
global energy perspective.
