The Executive Panel
What?
One hour in the company of some of the industry’s most influential decision makers.
After a brief opening statement from each of the panel members, the floor will be open to questions from the audience on any subject.
To help the proceedings flow, they will be facilitated by Nick Amott, a member of the GPA Europe Management Committee.
To help the shy and the timid, questions can be posed via an on-line app. The seriously timid can even remain anonymous.
Meet Your Facilitator
Professor Nick Amott
Senior Fellow and Process DIrector, Fluor Ltd.
Professor Nick Amott is a Fluor Senior Technical Fellow and Process Director with Fluor Ltd in the UK. Nick has been with Fluor for 37 of his 41 years in the Industry. He is an experienced Process Manager on “mega” Projects, specialising in Oil & Gas Production facilities around the world for many Clients including a recent major sour Oil & Gas Project.
Nick is a Director of GPA Europe and a Fellow of the IChemE. Through his interest in higher education, both in the UK and Kazakhstan, he is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey.
Meet Your Panel
Ed Daniels
Executive Vice President of Strategy and Portfolio, Shell
Ed Daniels is Executive Vice President of Strategy and Portfolio.
Ed’s career spans roles in Shell’s upstream, integrated gas downstream and projects and technology businesses.
His previous job was Executive Vice President for Commercial and New Business Development in the upstream and gas businesses.
Ed joined Shell in 1988 after graduating in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. He completed an MBA with Henley Business School, in 1995.
Alain Poincheval
Managing Director, TechnipFMC
Senior Vice President of Paris Operating Center within EMIA (Europe, Middle East, India, Africa)
Andy Lane
Head of Business Development – Gas Value Chains,
BP
With an engineering degree from the Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble (France), Alain Poincheval has more than 30-year experience in the oil and gas industry at TechnipFMC.
He started his career as a Process Engineer in the natural gas treatment. After 14 years in this field, Alain occupied positions of Project Management, in Subsea and Offshore, becoming Fellow Executive Project Director of the largest subsea field development project (Pazflor- Angola) and Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas unit (FLNG).
Since September 2017 Alain has held the position of Senior Vice President of Paris Operating Center and Managing Director of Technip France.
Andy Lane joined BP in 1986 and has worked in a variety of technical and commercial roles in the Exploration & Production, Gas & Power and the Trading parts of the company in the UK N Sea, Alaska and Australia LNG.
Since returning to the UK, Andy has been responsible for the development of BP’s LNG business in Europe, Middle East and Africa, it’s downstream Gas marketing and trading businesses in Europe, including long term contract price reviews and business development across Russia, the Caspian, Europe and Africa. Andy was responsible for gas transportation and sales from giant Shah Deniz project in Azerbaijan and was the Chairman of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline company (TAP).
Andy currently leads BP’s Business Development activity in the Upstream Exploration & Production division across all its major global Pipeline Gas and LNG Value Chains including; Asia Pacific LNG, Middle East, North and West Africa, Caribbean and Alaska.