2009 Oil and Gas Technology Leaders

Energy Hot Topics Series: Tomorrow’s Technology Today – 2009 Oil and Gas Technology Leaders

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Deadline for submission: 1 February 2009

Please submit via email to Abstracts@WorldOil.com

Gulf Publishing invites you to submit an abstract for review for the upcoming Energy Hot Topics Series – Tomorrow’s Technology Today: 2009 Oil and Gas Technology Leaders. This conference will discuss leading edge, breakthrough technologies and technology-related business issues in the following areas:

• Recent technology advances that may significantly impact/change the industry

• Key business issues related to technology development (impact of down market, etc.)

• The new horizon in oil and gas technology – what’s next?

• Unconventional resources and outlook for continued investment

Submitted abstracts should be approximately 250 words in length and include all authors, affiliations, pertinent contact information and proposed speaker. Presentations should be non-commercial in nature and appeal to management from operating and service companies, investors, academia, and decision makers in technical fields.

Selected papers may be candidates for publishing in World Oil magazine. Please e-mail Events@GulfPub.com for more information.

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Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Lawyers

law2.jpgby Liz O’Donnell (Boston)

Women lawyers continue to struggle for equality at work such as equal pay and equal opportunities to make partner. Every generation makes a few more cracks in the glass ceiling for the one that follows. In fact, this fall, women are expected to surpass the number of male students entering law school. But the generation behind them, have other plans.

Gina Hayes, a patent and trademark attorney, thinks her daughter Amber would make a great lawyer. “The way her mind is, she’s real detailed. She definitely reminds me of me,” says Gina of her 11-year-old daughter.

The eleven-year-old girl only has eyes for horses. She has spent several summers riding and caring for horses at the Fox Chase Farm in Virginia. When she grows up, she wants to be a veterinarian. She is a strong rider and working toward becoming a jockey.

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Voice of Experience: Aileen Blake, Executive Vice President and Corporate Controller, Northern Trust

Blake_Aileen_2004_1_.jpgby Liz O’Donnell (Boston)

“A couple of jobs I took along the way weren’t jobs I had my sight set on,” says Aileen Blake, Executive Vice President and Corporate Controller for Northern Trust, “but someone I trusted said they would be good opportunities. At the end of the day, those opportunities opened doors for me.”

For the most part, Blake has followed a direct and proven path. She studied accounting and business in college, took the CPA exam, and became a public accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. From there she held several jobs at major consumer packaged goods companies including Quaker Oats and Pepsi, did a stint overseas, and got an MBA from Kellogg School of Management.

Despite this classic pedigree, Blake tells her junior staff to always keep their considerations broad. “Think about the kinds of experiences you want to get and the kinds of tools you want to add to the tool kit,” she says. She believes that even challenging experiences can support a career trajectory.

“When I went to work in the UK, I was only six years out of college,” she says. “I was thrown into a challenging situation. There were cultural things that I didn’t get.”

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In Case You Missed It: News Round-up

martin.jpgContributed by Martin Mitchell of the Corporate Training Group

In case you were too busy to have kept up with all the news, contributor Martin Mitchell has gathered some important market events from last week to help you start this week well informed:

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Abu Dhabi-based Aabar Investments is to take a 9.1% stake in Daimler, the German car manufacturer. The deal will see Aabar pay a total of €1.95bn, €20.27 per share, and Daimler will increase it number of shares in issue by 10% to facilitate the investment.

  • Canadian oil company Suncor Energy is to buy rival Petro-Canada for C$19.6bn (£11bn) in an agreed all-share deal, creating North America’s 5th largest oil and gas producer. CIBC and Morgan Stanley advised Suncor, RBC and Deutsche advised Petro-Canada.

  • UK oil and gas company BG Group has won control of Australian group Pure Energy. 70% of the target’s shareholders have said yes, in a deal that could cost BG A$1.03bn (£497m).

  • Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is preparing to take a significant stake (estimated at 10%) in Aspen Pharmacare of South Africa. Aspen has a market capitalisation of R17bn (£1.23bn).

  • The Australian government cited national security concerns as it blocked a A$2.6bn ($1.8bn) bid by China’s Minmetals for Oz Minerals. Oz Minerals has a flagship asset located in a military zone in South Australia. Read more

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International Corporate Citizenship Conference

Corporate Citizenship: Leading Change, Finding Opportunity

How can recent gains in corporate citizenship be sustained during this enormously challenging economic time?What are the best corporate citizenship practices during a recession? What opportunities does the economic downturn present? These are no ordinary times. And so the 2009 International Corporate Citizenship Conference will be no ordinary conference. Now, more than ever, we will focus with laser-like precision on how companies can restore trust, rebuild brand equity and re-establish relationships with investors, customers and employees.

To register, click here.

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“Opt Out” or Pushed Out: Are Women Choosing to Leave the Legal Profession?

“Opt Out” or Pushed Out will address the controversial phenomenon described by some as “opting out,” the supposed trend of professional women leaving the workplace to devote their energies to family care-taking, full time. This conference will focus on the dynamics of the “trend” within the legal profession, inviting legal practitioners, professional students, and scholars to critically assess the structural, institutional, and societal reasons why women lawyers may be departing from the workplace.

It will also devote significant energy to the experiences of men and how they may be similar to – or different from – those of female attorneys. Conference panels will touch on topics of parenthood, social expectations that treat men and women differently, and how the legal field can learn from other professions that have begun to accommodate the reality of male and female professionals’ multi-faceted lives.

Men and women in the legal profession — practitioners, students, and scholars — will come together to critically assess the structural, institutional and societal pressures that affect all attorneys and have made balance particularly elusive for women. The aim is to generate concrete goals and methods for improving the structure of the workplace and social perceptions of the occupational choices that attorneys make.

Speakers Include:

  • E.J. Graff, Senior Researcher at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and head of the Gender and Justice Project
  • Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and author of Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
  • Leslie Bennetts, author of The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much
  • Pat Gillette, Founder of the Opt-In Project
  • Wendy Schmidt, Principal, Deloitte and former national leader of Deloitte’s U.S. Women’s Initiative Network (WIN)
  • The Honorable Nancy Gertner, Judge, U. S. District Court, District of Massachusetts and member of the Equality Commission
  • Francine Deutsch, Professor of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College

Registration is FREE for Yale students, faculty, and staff, only $10 for students from other schools, and $35 for the general public. Click here to register.

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Passions: The Art of Cheese

iStock_000005344264XSmall_1_.jpgBy Heather Chapman (New York City)

Mixing personal finance and cheese isn’t the usual combination, but Paula Harris, co-founder of WH Cornerstone Investments, is managing to mix the two nicely. At first spending her days in human resources before moving to the business development side of her business, Paula is still able to find time to peruse interests outside the office. Active in her community, Paula is the president of the board of directors for the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra and currently holds a seat on the Executive Committee of the board of directors for the South Shore Chamber of Commerce.

In addition to those commitments, she serves on Bridgewater State College’s School of Business Advisory Council, is the founding Director of the Boston-based Downtown Women’s Club’s South Shore Chapter. And yet she still has the time and energy too not only make her own cheese but to teach others how to do it as well.

Cheese-making wasn’t something that Paula had a life-long interest in, although she says she has always been a fan of good cheese. “A few years ago, I was involved in [successfully] protecting the O’Neil Dairy Farm from being developed. As I became more involved in the project, I realized that the future of profitable dairy farming comes from making products with milk versus selling raw milk. I have always loved good cheese, so I decided it would be fun to find out how to make it.”

Focusing her attentions on finding a credible instructor in the cheese-making process, Paula turned to the Internet, where she caught a lucky break. “I found [out] that there was a very well-known teacher—Ricki Carroll—based right here in Massachusetts.” Signing up for a weekend class, Paula was then challenged to teach a course by the woman who organized the local adult-education programs. Rising to the challenge, Paula agreed to teach the course before she’d even learned the first thing about cheese-making.

Falling in love with this art, Paula has turned this interest into a full-blown passion, sharing her knowledge with others who are interested in learning how to make their own cheese. She teaches a few courses each year, in addition to private demonstration parties, and doing a yearly demonstration on Farm Days at the Historic O’Neil farm.

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Survival in the City

survival.bmpby Elizabeth Harrin (London)

Women from every field of technology joined together last week at the new Deloitte office in New Street Square, London to talk about the issues of the credit crunch and cancer.

The Survival in the City event was organized by womenintechnology, a careers and networking forum for women working in the technology profession in the UK. The event paired the twin topics of cancer and the current economic downturn – two issues that would not normally be placed in the same discussion. However, the evening was cleverly framed to draw the two strands together.

Joanna LeVannis, the Deloitte account manager in the corporate supporter team at Cancer Research UK (CRUK), opened the evening by explaining about the partnership between CRUK and Deloitte. Staff members at Deloitte have chosen CRUK and the NSPCC as their two preferred charities, and Deloitte employees in the UK have raised £600,000 for CRUK alone so far – £100,000 over their Year 1 target.

Joanna thanked the hardworking community investment team at Deloitte, especially the 50 charity champions across the London campus who she said volunteered tirelessly above and beyond their day jobs to work to raise funds. She explained that she had seen them develop their skills in other areas such as making presentations, so she knew that they were benefiting from their work as much as the charity. The donations made by Deloitte employees have paid for a mobile health awareness unit, staffed by experts, which travels to areas with high incidence of cancer but low awareness of the lifestyle changes than can prevent half of all cancers. The latest initiative is to work in partnership with Deloitte on a brand new health message scheme: Deloitte staff will be trained to talk to colleagues about cancer prevention. This supports the aims of CRUK and also the strong commitment Deloitte has to the welfare of its staff. Read more

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2009 Salute to Women’s Business Enterprises: The Bridge to Quality

WBENC’s annual Salute to Women’s Business Enterprises: The Bridge to Quality highlights the contributions of WBEs to the United States economy and pays tribute to the 14 WBE Stars representing our organizational partners nationwide. Educational workshops

for more information visit:

www.wbenc.org

or contact

padams@wbenc.org

202-872-5515, ext. 8020

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The Global Private Equity Imperative

Recognizing the diverse and intricate challenges of the global economy and the opportunities presented to private equity investors, Thunderbird is pleased to host its 5th Annual Global Private Equity Investing Conference.

Some featured panels are:

Alternative Energy Investing Workshop
Moderator: John Moran, Director for Business Development & Client Relations, Overseas Private Investment Coroporation (OPIC)

Panelists:
H. Jeffrey Leonard, Chairman, Global Environment Fund
Nicolas Parker, Executive Chairman, Cleantech Group LLC

Corporate Venture Workshop
Moderator: Erik Sebusch ’01, Portfolio Manager-Alternative Investments, UPS Investments

The Globalization Imperative
Joseph Quinlan, Managing Director & Chief Market Strategist, Bank of America Investment Strategies Group; TPEC Advisory Board Member

Introduction by: F. John Mathis, PhD, Director, Thunderbird Global Financial Services Center; Professor of Global Finance

The Potential Threat of New Regulation on Global Private Equity
Douglas Lowenstein, President, Private Equity Council

Introduction by: Larry K. Mellinger ’68, Private Equity Advisor, LKM Advisors, LLC; former Head of AIG Global Private Equity; Vice Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board

The Impact on Returns of Global Investing
Moderator: Jarl Kallberg, PhD, Professor of Global Finance, Thunderbird School of Global Management

Panelists:
Amit Ratanpal, Head of Fund of Funds (Private Equity), ICICI Bank Ltd.
Jesse Reyes, Managing Director, Bear Stearns Private Funds Group (A J.P. Morgan Company)
Emmanuel Roubinowitz, Managing Director, Fondinvest Capital
Maninder Saluja, Co-Head, Emerging Markets Private Equity Group, Quilvest

Fireside Chat: Distressed Debt Opportunities
Moderator: Larry K. Mellinger ’68, Private Equity Advisor, LKM Advisors, LLC; Former Head of AIG Global Private Equity; Vice Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board

Register here

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