Wednesday 14 July
8.00
Registration
9.00
Day one chairman´s opening remarks
Raul Ferro
Content Development Manager
BUSINESS NEWS AMERICAS (Chile)
9.15
Keynote: Ecopetrol´s current and future project and investment plans
Speaker
Javier Genaro Gutiérrez Pemberthy
President
ECOPETROL (Colombia)
9.45
keynote: Global overview of the energy markets in relation to the Andean and Central American region
Speaker
Luis Giusti
CEO
ALANGE ENERGY (Colombia)
10.15
Policies in Andean and Central American countries
Presentation: Petrobras´ environmental position in Colombia
and technology advances
- Social and environmental responsibility
- Employing Brazilian deepwater technologies in the Caribbean-Colombian
- Public policies: a balance of results
Speaker
Clovis Francisco Santos
Gerente de Exploración y Producción
PETROBRAS Colombia (Colombia)
10.45
Morning break
11.15
Presentation: Energy policies in populists regimes: The energy geopolitics of Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela
Speaker
Alberto Cisneros Lavaller
CEO
Global Business Consultants (Venezuela)
11.35
Presentation: Overview of the tax & legal environment to do business in the Andean region
- What are the key tax rules to consider when investing and operating in the Andean and Central American region?
- How to protect your investments?
- New trends
Speakers
Eduardo Rocha Perez
Partner
Deloitte (Colombia)
Pedro Sarmiento Perez
Director Partner T&L
Deloitte (Colombia)
11.55
Presentation: Shale gas play worldwide and its impact on the region
- Will shale alter the way the natural gas industry is moving?
- U.S. and other developments
- The decoupling of pricing between oil & gas
- Impacts on the region from the shale gas movement
Speaker
Alvaro Ríos Roca
Socio Director para America Latina
Gas Energy y DI International, (Bolivia)
12.15
Panel discussion: Opportunities and challenges of regional energy policy and the global climate change negotiations on Greenfield/Brownfield projects in the near term
- Impact of Copenhagen and future Climate related global negotiations on the carbon market & renewable energy investments
- Given the acknowledged uncertainties, how does the financing/investment community value this environmental asset (GHG reductions/offsets)? Is it a long-term asset? How does it add value to your current or future pipeline of projects today?
- What is the view of active principal industry players (not negotiators) that make projects happen?
Speakers
Jorge Barrigh
Managing Director
NATSOURCE (Panama)
Eduardo Reyes
Executive Director of Operation
GLOBALLY GREEN ENERGY CONSORTIUM (Panama)
Francisco Charry
President
EB&T (Colombia)
John Paul Moscarella
Senior Managing Director
EMERGING ENERGY & ENVIROMENT LLC (United States)
13.00
Networking lunch
14.00
Electric power investments and developments
Keynote address ISA´s current slate of planned interconnecting plans and investments in Bolivia, Colombia, Perú, Brazil and other countries in the region
Speaker
Luis Fernando Alarcón Mantilla
CEO
ISA (Colombia)
14.30
Case study: TermoPalermo S.A. E.S.P.
- Firm energy obligations “Firm Back Up” in the Colombian energy sector
- Secondary market security rings enhancement for firm energy obligations
- Financial/Operative derivatives for the firm energy obligations
Speakers
J.M. "George" Castellanos. EMBA. JD.
President
ININCORP
Roberto Serrano
Vice President
Central American Bank of Economic Integration
Carlos Lopez
Regional Director
PIC-Marubeni Energy Group
15.00
Lessons learned from El Nino and challenges ahead
Panel discussion: Challenges and opportunities in the power generation business in Colombia
- Lessons learned with El Niño and the gas supply issues in Colombia
- Colombia´s exports to neighboring countries
- Long term impacts of the regulatory measures taken to mitigated the effects of El Niño over the electricity sector
- Long term challenges of Colombian expansion plan and its potential impact on the market
- Analysis of demand scenario due to increased interconnection with other countries
Speakers
Federico Echavarria Restrepo
General Manager
AES Chivor & Cia S.C.A. E.S.P (Colombia)
Pablo Hernan Corredor A
CEO
XM Compañía de Expertos en Mercados (Colombia)
15.30
Speed Networking and refreshment break
Speed Networking is a unique feature of all Business News Americas events. It will provide all attendees and speakers an opportunity to meet one-on-one over the course of a 30 minute session.
16.15
Energy integration & transmission line expansion
Panel discussion: Interconnection in Central America: an update on Siepac
- Electricity supply and demand scenario in Central America
- Siepac´s evaluations of natural gas
- What are the benefits and indirect environmental and social impacts of the project?
- Will Siepac create a competitive energy market in the region, and will it attract additional foreign investment in power generation and transmission systems
- Will Siepac make electricity cheaper for consumers in Central America?
- What are the regulatory and financial hurdles of SIEPAC in the next 3-5 years?
Speakers
Abraham Abdala Bichara Handal
CEO
AES El Salvador (El Salvador)
Edgardo Alfredo Calderon
Gerente de la UE
SIEPAC (Costa Rica)
Vahid Sadeghpour
Commercial Vice President
CUTUCO (El Salvador)
17.00
Presentation: Guatemala´s 2008-18 transmission line expansion & new tender to award 700MW-PPAs with focus on renewable sources
- What sort of investment will be required to build out the plan?
- Update on the interconnection with Mexico and the Siepac grid
- When will commercial operations begin?
- What are the expected benefits, opportunities and obstacles of the plan?
Speaker
Carlos Colom Bickford
President
CNEE (Guatemala)
17.30
Case study: Power generation in Mexico
- Challenges and opportunities in the market
- Intergen´s 5 year plan in Latin America
- Analysis of risk profile in the power generation market
- Joint venture and asset swap opportunities
Speaker
Frank Thiel
Vice President and Regional General Manager - Mexico
INTERGEN(Mexico)
18.00
End of conference day 1
18.15-
20.00
Reception
Foyer/Exhibition Area
For speaking opportunities, please contact Kenneth Bauco at (56) 2 941 0308 or
kbauco@bnamericas.com
