Speakers

Bill Daughdrill, principal environmental scientist, Ecology & Environment, Inc.

Prior to joining Ecology & Environment, Lieutenant Commander (ret.) Daughdrill was the Chief of the Commercial Vessel Safety Branch of the United States Coast Guard's (USCG's) Eighth District Office in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has assisted in the regulatory filings for three of the eight proposed offshore LNG terminal projects in the United States. Daughdrill will review (1) the strengths and weaknesses of the current United States offshore LNG regulatory system, (2) how this system relates to what is evolving overseas, and (3) important lessons learned from the three offshore LNG terminal projects on which he has worked.

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Kyle Crake, director, Fuel Strategy and Origination, Progress Energy

Kyle Crake is the Director of Fuel Strategy and Origination, where he is responsible for developing the utility fuel and emissions strategy and implementing long term supply, storage, and transportation transactions in gas and coal. He joined Progress Energy in 1995 to start up Carolina Power and Light's wholesale power business. He became the Vice President of Wholesale Power in 1997. After the merger with Florida Power Corporation in 2000, he became Vice President of the Energy Trading Department. In March 2002, he became Vice President, Merchant Commercial Operations in Progress Ventures. In September 2002, he was named Senior Vice President, Finance and Business Development in Progress Fuels. In September 2003, he became President of Progress Materials, Inc. In 2005, he was named Director - Fuel Strategy and Long Term Origination in the Regulated Fuels Department while retaining the duties as President - Progress Materials, Inc. Prior to joining Progress Energy, Kyle worked for ARCO/Vastar in the marketing organization in physical trading, origination and business development.

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Dana A. Grams, senior vice president, business development, AGL Resources

Dana Grams serves as senior vice president, business development AGL Resources Inc. (NYSE: ATG).

Based in Houston, Dana leads the company's daily commercial development activities and has responsibility for identifying and pursuing asset projects that extend AGL Resources' current natural gas businesses. He also has responsibility for the operations of Jefferson Island Storage and Hub (a high deliverability salt dome storage facility in Southern Louisiana) and Pivotal Propane of Virginia (a three million gallon cold storage propane air peaking unit in Virginia). Initially, he will work to improve the economics of reliability in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States where AGLR operates three major natural gas utility companies, in Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee.

Beginning in 2001, Dana was instrumental in forming Sequent Energy Management, AGL Resources' asset management and optimization business. As vice president of asset management, his duties included acquiring natural gas supplies and optimizing natural gas assets for AGL Resources' utilities.

Dana has broad experience in reservoir engineering, pipeline operations, natural gas transportation logistics, and financial trading and arbitrage.

He joined Sequent after leaving Coral Energy Resources in Houston, where he was a vice president and had worked since 1995 as a senior manager in trading and e-commerce operations.

Before Coral, Dana was manager of natural gas trading at Phibro Energy USA from 1990 to 1995. He began his energy career in 1980 as a reservoir geologist at MidCon Services/Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, where he became district manager for Houston and New Orleans.

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Bruce H. Hughes, director, Business Development, Southern Natural Gas Company

Bruce H. Hughes is director of Business Development for Southern Natural Gas Company, a subsidiary of El Paso Corporation. In his current position, Mr. Hughes is responsible for business development projects across the southeast.

Mr. Hughes has approximately 30 years of experience in the pipeline industry. He began his career in 1976 with Birmingham based Sonat, Inc. Sonat (which merged with El Paso in 2000) was a diversified energy holding company which owned, among other subsidiaries, Southern Natural Gas Company. During his tenure at Southern Natural, Mr. Hughes has held a number of management positions with financial, regulatory and gas supply responsibilities.

In his current position as Director of Business Development, Mr. Hughes has developed natural gas supply and expansion projects across the southeast U.S.

Mr. Hughes received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alabama. He is married and has two daughters, 18 and 12 years of age.

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Mike Juden, McKinsey & Company

Ned brings over forty years of LNG and gas processing experience to the podium in engineering studies, conceptual process design, start-up, fabrication, project engineering, and project management. Fields of experience include LNG, refinery, gas liquids recovery, offshore, petrochemical, and gas treating facilities.

Before joining Mustang in December 2003, Ned worked for Bechtel Global Gas Group where he was Project Director for the Darwin LNG facility, responsible for engineering, procurement, and construction. Prior to that, he was the Project Manager for the Atlantic LNG Trinidad facility, responsible for overseeing engineering, procurement, and construction management.

Ned has a degree from Rice University in Chemical Engineering, is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas, and holds numerous patents - most recently a series of patents under the moniker, LNG Smart™ which offer new design products and services for LNG liquefaction, storage and regasification facilities to support gas commercialization in remote oil and gas fields.

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Richard Lammons, Gulf of Mexico venture manager, Chevron

Richard Lammons is Venture Manager in Chevron Global Gas' International Marketing and Business Development (IMBD) organization based in Houston, TX. IMBD is a global service organization which provides global perspectives on gas markets, commercial expertise in market development, and coordination of large gas development projects across the full value chain.

Currently Richard's role is the management of commercial, regulatory and technical issues associated with the development of Chevron's LNG regas terminal opportunities located in the Gulf Coast region.

Richard's tenure with Chevron has centered on business development and project management in the domestic and international upstream business, technology for deepwater floating and subsea developments, and Latin America downstream business units.

Richard is a native of Mississippi and graduate of Mississippi State University and received his Bachelor of Science degree in structural engineering in 1977.

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Bob Nimocks, Zeus Development Corporation

Zeus Development Corporation is an integrated business development company focusing on gas development and upstream technology. The company has completed recent multi-client research in the areas of CNG ocean transport, associated-gas-management strategies, West Coast LNG terminals, undersea power transmission, and offshore LNG terminal feasibility. The company also publishes several periodicals, including: Remote Gas Strategies (monthly), LNG Express (monthly), World LNG/GTL Review (annual); and Upstream CIO (monthly) as well as numerous single issue white papers and special reports.

Prior to founding the company 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).

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Betsy Spomer, VP, Regional Business Development, North America, Caribbean and Global LNG, BG North America

As BG North America, Caribbean and Global LNG's Regional VP - Business Development, Betsy has responsibility for all aspects of business planning, new projects, continued strategic growth and development for the Region.

Betsy joined BG Group in 2001 as Chief Executive Officer of BG LNG Services, the US subsidiary formed to manage BG's Lake Charles position. Due to rapid growth in BG's North American business, BG in 2004 announced the formation of a new region covering North America, the Caribbean and Global LNG.

Prior to joining BG, Betsy held executive leadership positions with Amoco and then BP focusing on business development. Betsy graduated with a B.A. in Economics and History as well as an MBA from the University of Colorado.

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Brad Williams, VP Gas Projects, FPL Group Resources

Mr. Williams is the Vice President of Natural Gas Projects for FPL Group Resources, LLC in Juno Beach, Florida. This effort is focused on identifying and evaluating natural gas opportunities for FPL Group including storage, LNG and infrastructure ownership.

Mr. Williams has been working in the energy industry for over 20 years with a variety of companies. His experience includes the entire energy chain: E&P, pipeline transmission, direct sales and energy trading, risk management, power project development, regulatory changes, industry restructuring as well as international activities in these areas.

Mr. Williams began his career with Transco, the gas pipeline, and was an player in the transition of the gas industry from a utility ratebase structure to an open access competitive marketplace. He worked for Mobil Oil in the U.S., Europe, and Asia mostly operating in new competitive markets including the LNG trade. Mr. Williams worked for Enron for five years in a variety of positions working on developing assets and marketing/trading energy products in the U.S. and overseas. After three years with Dynegy as VP of Power Development, he moved to Entergy for three years as Sr. VP of Business Development to help push Entergy's move into the competitive power market. Mr. Williams has returned to the natural gas arena with FPL Group to help bring new gas supplies to Florida and pursue natural gas opportunities on the unregulated side of FPL Group outside of Florida.

Mr. Williams graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1981.

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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.

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