Bill Bishop, V.P. Engineering, Conversion Gas Imports

Bill Bishop is V.P. Engineering with Conversion Gas Imports, LP. He holds several patents on the vaporization and storage of LNG as well as patents on marine transport of CNG and on solution mining. He is the former V.P. Engineering of PB-KBB, Inc., a company involved in solution mining and hydrocarbon storage, where he was responsible for the solution mining of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Prior to that Bill worked with the Aerospace Corp. on ICBM heat shield design. He has degrees in Geology and in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in fluid flow.

William T. Hogarth, assistant administrator for fisheries, NOAA

Dr. William T. Hogarth was appointed the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in September 2001. He oversees the management and conservation of marine fisheries and the protection of marine mammals, sea turtles and coastal fisheries habitat within the United States exclusive economic zone. The National Marine Fisheries Service protects and preserves the Nation's living marine resources through scientific research, fisheries management, law enforcement, and habitat conservation. His focus is on rebuilding and sustaining fisheries and protected species to their long-term potential and maintaining a delicate balance of achieving multiple objectives that produce the greatest benefits to the Nation. The agency's budget for fiscal year 2006 is $784 million and employs over 2,800 employees in 6 regions, 6 science centers and 12 laboratories in 15 states. The agency's headquarters is in Silver Spring, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C. Dr. Hogarth's background and experience has focused on a wide range of environmental, scientific, and marine policy issues. He also serves as the United States Government Commissioner and Chairman for the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas and the International Whaling Commission.

Jens P. Kaalstad, president, Advanced Production and Loading Inc.

Jens P. Kaalstad is the President of Advanced Production and Loading Inc. and has over 20 years experience in the shipping and offshore industry. He graduated with a MSc in Naval Architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1983 after also serving one year at MIT, Department of Ocean Engineering in 1980-81.

Jens joined and helped establish APL Inc in Houston in September 1997 where he first served as Technical Director until August 1999. He has been very actively involved in the development of APL's new Deepwater Offloading systems and the Energy Bridge - Worlds first Offshore LNG Terminal project.

Prior to joining APL Inc., he was with Aker Marine Contractors for 10 years where he was responsible for or involved in marine operations and installation activities on numerous offshore projects around the world.

Jens P. Kaalstad started his career with Kvaerner Ship Equipment division designing Cargo Hatch covers and self-unloading systems and he worked as onboard computer system consultant with Data Ship A.S. before joining the Norwegian offshore industry.

Tony LaValle, president, Chicago Power & Process

Tony LaValle has been with Chicago Power & Process since 1991 and has sixteen (16) years of heat transfer experience.

CP&P's main focus is tied to the LNG vaporizer industry. The company is presently has orders for Shell & Tube LNG vaporizers for Freeport LNG, Cove Point and Excelerate Energy.

Tony has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Buffalo, New York and is a License Professional Engineering.

Dreas Nielsen, Exponent

Mr. Dreas Nielsen is a Managing Scientist in Exponent's EcoSciences practice. He specializes in the management and analysis of environmental data, primarily related to marine and estuarine environments. Mr. Nielsen's principal technical interest is in biological responses to chemical contaminants and other stressors. His approach to scientific topics focuses on analytical and quantitative methods, with an emphasis on statistics, modeling, and computer applications. Mr. Nielsen has carried out, participated in, and managed the collection and analysis of biological, physical, chemical, and geographic data from sites throughout the United States. These sites include marine and estuarine sites on the east, Gulf, and west coasts, including Alaska; freshwater sites around the Great Lakes; and terrestrial sites throughout the United States. Potential impacts at these sites have been associated with heavy manufacturing, petrochemical manufacturing, wood treatment, wood pulp and paper production, shipbuilding, mining, and smelting. Mr. Nielsen's experience with these sites has covered a broad range of contaminants, media, exposures, and biological responses.

Joe Nelson, manager, Mustang Engineering

Joe Nelson has thirty-eight years total experience in design engineering, quality assurance, construction, project engineering, and project management. His fields of experience include LNG plant/ transportation/regasification, refinery/petrochemical industries, pipelines (onshore and offshore), oil production facilities (onshore and offshore), and nuclear/coal-fired power plants. He started his career with CBI building Aluminum LNG tanks aboard new LNG carriers in Genoa Italy. He worked for Bechtel for 17 years where he worked on grass roots LNG facilities. He currently serves as Mustang's Midstream Engineering Manager. Joe is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas and holds several U.S. mechanical patents.

Bob Nimocks, president, Zeus Development Corporation

Zeus Development Corporation is an energy research firm that focuses on world gas development. The company commonly serves manufacturing and oilfield service clients evaluating markets for their products and services in the LNG, GTL, methanol, DME, IGCC and gas-export-related markets. Zeus publishes a number of market-related periodicals, including the www.LNGExpress.com, www.SyngasRefiner.com and www.GasMonetizer.com and organizes workshops, conferences and training programs.

Prior to founding Zeus in 1991, Nimocks was vice president of corporate development for Elders Resources North America, the North American division of an international energy and natural resources company with substantial natural gas production. He earned an MBA from Harvard University (1987), served in the management consulting division of Accenture (1981-84) and obtained BS and BBA degrees from Mississippi State University (1981).

Lars Odeskaug, president, TORP Technology

Lars Odeskaug has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland 1976. He started his career with Brown & Root, and worked on various projects in the North Sea until 1987. He formed his own company and did consulting work within project management in the oil and gas business from 1987 to 1993. In 1993 he joined APL in Norway, and was the Project Manager for the Heidrun STL Project, before he became the President of Hitec Marine in 1994. In 2002 he incorporated Remora Technology and moved to the United States. Today he is the CEO of TORP Technology in Houston.

Rich joined the Suez/Tractebel group in 1999 and has held various positions over the past 6 years within the North America business units. His areas of responsibility have been focused on Sales, Marketing, Trading, Portfolio Management and Business Development.

In his current role as Vice President, Market Development for SUEZ LNG North America, Rich's responsibilities include the development of new business ventures for the New England and Northeast US LNG business, including new products and services for existing markets, as well as the development of new business opportunities.

Prior to joining Tractebel, Rich began his career in the energy industry working for Coastal Gas Marketing Company in their Northeast sales, marketing and trading group. Rich remained with Coastal until joining the Suez group in 1999.

Rich received degrees in Economics and Spanish; both from Boston College.

Currently, Rich is managing all aspects of the development of SUEZ's proposed $900 million Neptune offshore LNG terminal.

Dr. Craig Swanson, principal, Applied Science Associates

Dr. Craig Swanson is a founder of and principal at Applied Science Associates, Inc., Narragansett, RI. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in Ocean Engineering. He has been actively involved in the development and application of hydrodynamic, constituent transport, water quality, sediment transport and hazardous material spill computer models for rivers, lakes, estuarine, coastal and shelf use. Model application areas and associated field programs have included sites in both marine and freshwater environments.

Dr. Swanson has directed the application of these models to solve many types of surface water problems. These include assessing the potential impacts of suspended sediment plumes from construction of onshore and offshore LNG terminals, pipelines and cables; and impacts of thermal plumes from LNG regasification operations and electrical generation facilities on the temperature distributions in receiving waters. He has also assessed the impacts of waterfront construction on circulation and flushing; dredging and disposal activities on circulation and water quality; discharges from wastewater treatment and desalination plants and other facilities on water quality; and the effects of both land- and water-based nutrient loading on water quality.

Dr. Swanson has appeared as an expert witness in hydrodynamics and water quality before various agencies at hearings as well as in legal proceedings. He has participated as a speaker in many conferences and has spoken often to various technical and lay audiences explaining project results and findings.

John Wolff, director, LNG, Zeus Development Corporation

Prior to joining Zeus Development, he was a partner in Brett & Wolff LLC. He prepared various studies on CNG, LNG and biogas. He prepared an economic assessment and design evaluation for transporting natural gas as either CNG or LNG on the Amazon River for American Commercial Barge Lines and Petrobras. He contributed to Zeus' CNG Ocean Transport Study 2004.

Mr. Wolff had also been the Manager of Business Development for Panhandle Eastern's and then Duke Energy's LNG marketing and sales business that imported LNG at the Trunkline LNG terminal. He prepared models to improve business decisions in the business units that included the affiliated LNG shipping business, the LNG importing/marketing business and the Trunkline LNG terminal. He prepared joint venture agreements and technology assessments to increase the profitability of the Trunkline LNG terminal, including gas processing and cold recovery projects. He helped structure short-term LNG purchase contracts and assessed aspects of the long-term LNG contract between Duke Energy and Sonatrach.

Kent B. Woodburn, ecotoxicologist, Dow Chemical Company

Kent Woodburn is the Technical Leader of the Environmental Toxicology Group at The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan. His responsibilities there include management of activities on all acute, chronic, and life-cycle ecotoxicologic studies, directing bioconcentration and metabolism studies with fish and invertebrate species, and ecological risk assessments. Kent's scientific publications and presentations include papers on the photodegradation of chemicals in aquatic systems, measurement of fish endocrine biomarkers, the bioconcentration and metabolism of chemicals in fish and invertebrates, and ecological risk assessments of biologically-active compounds.

Kent is a native of Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., and he completed a B.S. degree in Chemistry with honors at the University of Maryland in College Park. He then obtained his master's degree in Water Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Florida. He is a member of SETAC and a reviewer for numerous environmental journals.