Nadia Martin Wiggen is Partner in energy and commodities at Pareto Securities. She has 15 years of experience in commodities as an analyst, originator and trader. She began her commodities career at Morgan Stanley London as an analyst across oil liquids, gas, power, coal, renewables, emissions, agriculture, metals and freight before expanding to origination in power, renewables and oil liquids. Next, she joined Phibro and became an analyst trader for Andy Hall, known as “God” amongst oil traders. After six years, Nadia moved to Oslo and joined Rystad Energy, where she was SVP and Head of the Markets Team, spanning oil, gas, and renewables, and travelled extensively across North America, Asia, and Europe to present market views. She was also product manager of Rystad Energy’s Oil Market Analytics service, onboarding renowned oil traders, refiners, producers, and investors. Currently, Nadia advises companies and institutional investors within the commodities space, focusing on energy and security for Pareto Securities.

Nadia holds an MSc degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and a BSc from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service where she specialized in post-Soviet economics, security, and politics. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute as part of her studies in foreign service.

Torbjørn Kjus has more than 20 years of experience in analysing the global crude and refined products markets. He worked 6 years as an oil analyst and trader in Norsk Hydro in Oslo and BP trading in London before he took up his role as Chief Oil Analyst in DNB Markets in Oslo in 2007. He held this position for 11 years but has since January 2019 worked as Chief Economist in Aker ASA. Torbjørn was by Norwegian institutional investors ranked as the number 1 financial analyst independent of sector when he left DNB in 2018. For the oil & gas sector Torbjørn was ranked as the number 1 financial analyst the last 4 years he worked for DNB. In a normal year Torbjørn executed 200-250 presentations on the oil and gas market to investors and oil industry worldwide and was frequently quoted in media such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Platts, Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, etc. He regularly briefed the US Treasury in Washington on the global oil market and provided consultations about the market to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum, the Norwegian Pension Fund (NBIM) and to the Norwegian Central Bank. Oil legends like Ray Hunt, Olav Refvik and a numerous hedge funds in London/New York/Singapore have leaned on Torbjorn to interpret the global energy space, in addition to oil producers and oil consumers worldwide.

Damien is head of Energy within the Commodities Research team. He conducts research on commodity market dynamics in the context of corporate risk management, short and long-term commodity investment strategies and asset allocation. In addition to oil and gas, Damien also covers the agriculture markets and previously covered gold.
Before focusing on commodities, he was a strategist in the European Options Research and Portfolio Strategy teams for three years. Damien joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 as an associate and was named managing director in 2013. Prior to joining the firm, Damien worked at BNP Paribas as an equity derivatives strategist. Damien earned an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, and an ME in Industrial Engineering and Economic Systems from the Ecole Centrale Paris, both in 2004

Anders Wittemann
Independent oil & gas management consultant/advisor with Petroleum Engineering background and MBA

Anders Wittemann is an independent E&P strategy and business development consultant with Wittemann E&P Consulting (WEPC) since 2011. Before this Anders was manager of consulting services with Rystad Energy AS, a management consultant with McKinsey and a Petroleum Engineer with Shell International E&P. Anders has an MBA from INSEAD and an M.Eng in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College and NTNU. Anders is an associated oil & gas industry expert with the M&A advisor INFIMA AS and since 2020 a board member of Resoptima AS, the provider of reservoir modeling software.

WEPC works with E&P clients in the North Sea region on an independent basis or in partnership with other consultants. WEPC also publishes its proprietary Norway BD Book to oil companies in Norway.

CFO in Petoro since 2018. Siviløkonom from the University of Agder and specialization in business analyses from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). Extensive experience from various positions within E&P Finance, both in Norway and internationally. Previous employment includes EY, ConocoPhillips and Noreco. Joined Petoro in 2018.

Nikolai Lyngø - CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

• More than 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in Norway and internationally
• Broad background including leadership roles in strategy, business development, licence management and operations in Equinor, Petoro and PWC
• Previous experience includes head of corporate strategy and head of the CEOs office at Equinor
• Master of science in Industrial Economics and Technology Management

More than 30 years of managerial, commercial and technical experience with the oil and gas industry. Has held a broad range of managerial positions in both oil service and exploration and production companies. Experience include VP Engineering and VP Floating production systems Aibel, Managing Director Tullow Oil Norge and currently CEO and co-founder of Pandion Energy

Sverre Skogen has 30+ years experience in the oil and gas industry. He has been CEO at Aker Maritime/Aker Kværner 1997 – 2003, Executive Vice President at PGS Floating Production 2003 – 2005, CEO at AGR Group 2005 – 2012 and Executive Chairman/Chairman at Detnor (now Aker BP) 2013 – 2016. He has also Board and investment positions in various companies in the sector.

Saad Rahim is the Chief Economist for Trafigura, one of the world’s largest traders of oil, metals and other commodities. He is responsible for the company’s views on markets and macroeconomics, including the outlook for Crude Oil, Oil Products and Metals markets, commodity prices, equity and credit markets, and political risk. He is also the Co-Portfolio Manager for the Galena Multistrategy Fund, a commodities-focused macro hedge fund managed under Trafigura’s investment arm.

Prior to joining Trafigura, he was the Chief Economist at BG Group (now Shell), a major integrated oil & gas company, and prior to that Deputy Chief Economist at Chevron Corporation. Before joining Chevron, Mr. Rahim was an international energy advisor with PFC Energy (now IHSMarkit).

Mr. Rahim received BA degrees in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University, and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) for advanced degree work in Economics and Global Energy.

Espen Kvilekval is Global Head of Oil & Gas in DNB, a position he has held since 2010. Mr. Kvilekval has more than 20 years of international energy banking experience from DNB and has previously been leading DNB’s energy teams both in North America and the UK. He is currently heading up DNB’s global oil & gas team from Oslo. Before joining DNB, Mr. Kvilekval worked at the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. He holds a master’s degree (cand.polit.) in economics from the University of Bergen.

Minibio Teodor Sveen-Nilsen
• Equity analyst covering E&P and oil market
• Top ranked E&P analyst in Norway
• Master in economics from Norwegian School of Management (BI)
• Chartered European Financial analyst, AFA, (NHH)
• MBA in Corporate Finance, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

I have worked within the finance sector for the past 12 years, predominantly within equity and credit research. I have been with Arctic Securities, covering the Energy Sector from the credit side since January 2022. Prior to that worked as a credit analyst and on DCM in Nordea from 2015, where the main focus was on the shipping sector. I started my carrier with ABG Sundal Collier in 2010, where I covered Shipping, Oil Services and E&P. My education is from NHH, where I hold an BsC and MsC.

Hugh is an Executive Director at Carlingford in London. Carlingford is a finance arranger for independent oil & gas companies, with a particular focus on debt finance related to acquisitions, project finance, re-financings and working capital. Prior to Carlingford, Hugh’s experience includes working at major global commodity banking institutions including Macquarie Bank, Bank of America and Mitsubishi UFJ. He also brings a global perspective to commodity finance having previously been based in New York, Houston and Tokyo. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and has an MBA from INSEAD.

Spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley, initially joining the global equity research team covering E&P, oil field services, and shipping. Later held key positions advising on institutional, corporate and sovereign derivatives hedging strategies. Senior Vice President and Head of UK with Rystad Energy before joining CTC and building the derivatives, analytics and research capabilities.

Joachim M. Bjerke is a partner and head of the Tax Group in Advokatfirmaet BAHR. Joachim has more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer and advises on a broad range of issues within corporate taxation, including transfer pricing and petroleum tax.

Joachim was also a member of the previous expert tax committee (the Scheel committee) and was involved in the drafting of the proposal for the temporary changes to the petroleum tax act in 2020.

Joachim is cand. jur. from the University of Oslo and has also completed the one-year International Tax Program at Harvard University.

CV
2003 - Partner, BAHR
2000 – 2002 Senior associate, BAHR
1997 – 1999 Associate, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
2000 International Tax Program, Harvard University, USA
1996 Cand. jur., Universitetet i Oslo

Alon Gordon is a Partner in Freshfields’ Global Transaction group, based in London. He advises financial investors and corporate clients on cross-border M&A and joint venture transactions, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Experience

Alon’s experience includes advising:

• Siccar Point Energy and its sponsors, Blackstone Energy Partners and Blue Water Energy, on the agreed sale of Siccar Point Energy to Ithaca Energy for $1.1bn plus up to $360m of contingent payments;
• Neptune Energy, including on its €4.7bn acquisition of Engie E&P International, €400m acquisition of VNG Norge and $250m agreement to acquire Edison E&P’s North Sea assets;
• Occidental Petroleum Corporation on its $57bn acquisition of Anadarko and its sale of Anadarko’s Mozambique assets to TotalEnergies;
• ConocoPhilips, TotalEnergies and Eni on their acquisition of interests in the Teesside oil terminal from Equinor;
• BP on the formation of its retail petroleum and aviation fuels marketing joint venture in India, ‘Jio-BP’, with Reliance Industries;
• OTPP and PSP on their acquisition of interests in a $2bn global renewables portfolio, Cubico Sustainable Investments, from Santander;
• EdF in relation to its UK nuclear project Sizewell C;
• SSE on the £500m sale of its retail energy business to OVO Energy;
• Bulb Energy in connection with its administration;
• OTPP on its acquisition of a 50% stake in Bristol Airport and the syndication of its interests in Birmingham and Bristol Airports; and
• APG, including on its €3bn acquisition of European toll road concessionaire Brisa alongside NPS and Swiss Life and on its Polish fibre joint venture with Orange Polska.

Education
• University of Birmingham, UK (honours degree in law, first class)
• BPP Law School, UK (legal practice course, distinction)
Qualifications
Qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales

Preben assists players within the Energy and Infrastructure space in Norway and abroad. In Norway, he mainly assists Infrastructure investors, E&P, service- and energy companies and private equity sponsors with corporate, contractual and regulatory advice in relation to their operations and M&A. Internationally he assists governments and international energy companies.
Preben Willoch has 20 years’ experience from assisting industry players, both as external advisor and as in-house lawyer. Preben’s work range from new ventures work and Norway introduction for new companies and investors, through development and production phases, cessation and exits. Willoch has been involved as advisor to potential purchasers in most of the major transactions within the upstream related industries over the past ten years.
Internationally Preben has advised energy companies on M&A and new ventures work including evaluation of different jurisdictions for potential entry strategies in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has further advised Governments and State Oil Companies on the structure and implementation of upstream petroleum regulatory framework, host government contract instruments such as Production Sharing Agreements and on contractual matters.
Preben is Senior Vice-Chair of the Oil and Gas Law Committee of the International Bar Association and a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators.

Odd Hoen-Sevje has been an adviser to Erna Solberg in the parliamentary group and in the Prime Minister's office for many years. He also has experience as a private sector adviser. Odd has worked with strategic and operational press work, positioning and message development, as well as crisis management and preparedness.