RIO OIL & GAS 2016

Andy Brown was appointed to the Executive Committee of Royal Dutch Shell in April 2012. He is responsible for Shell’s global Upstream business, which includes the exploration and production of oil and gas from conventional, shale and deep-water sources.
Andy joined Shell after completing his degree in Engineering Science at Cambridge University. Between 1984 and 2000, he worked in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Italy, Brunei and Oman in engineering and project management roles.
In 2000, Andy was Senior Advisor for the Middle East and Former Soviet Union to the Vice Chairman of Shell before becoming Private Assistant to the Chairman of Shell in 2001. From 2002 to 2012, he led the successful delivery of the $18 billion pioneering Pearl GTL gas-to-liquids project as Managing Director and Country Chairman. In 2009, he was additionally appointed Executive Vice President Qatar with responsibility for all of Shell’s upstream business in Qatar including the Qatargas 4 LNG project. From 2012 to 2015 Andy was Upstream International Director, responsible for the global upstream and integrated gas businesses excluding the Americas.
Andy was awarded an OBE in the 2012 New Year’s Honours List for his services to British-Qatari business relations. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and a Trustee of the Shell Foundation.

Mr. Augusto Salomon is the Executive President of the Brazilian Association of Piped Gas Distributors - ABEGÁS, and has worked in the gas market since 1992, when he founded GAS BRASIL – a B2B networking site for natural gas sector. He has a degree in Computer Science, and a MBA's in Project and Business Management. He is a co-founder of pioneer in Brazil "Syspro Engeneering & Holding”, a developer of wireless communication technology company. He was a Project Manager at the Center for Development Research Informatics and Automation, an arm of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federal Government for the state-of-the-art software development and technology exporter. Since 2006, he has been working for ABEGÁS, representing all piped gas distributors in the country, helping in the improvement of political agendas that benefit the gas industry.

Economist, MSc in Business Administration from Coppead and DSc in Energy Planning for PPE / COPPE. BNDES employee and former head of the Chemical Industry Department.

He joined the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers in January 2016, after spending more than 30 years working at Schlumberger, on four continents. He became the company’s UK chair in 2005. He has also served as chair of the UK’s Oil and Gas Industry Council and was co-chair of the industry trade association, Oil & Gas UK. The executive director remains chair of OPITO International, the upstream oil & gas skills organization. Gordon graduated from the University of Glasgow with a B.SC. Hons in Civil Engineering and holds a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot‐Watt University.

He held the Vice Presidency of BG BRAZIL in the area of Corporate Affairs and Government from 2010 to 2013. Member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee CEBRI and also World Bank consultant since 1980. He has taught in the Master Program in Planning at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and ws president of the Brazilian Section of the American Chamber from 2011 to 2013. Graduated in Construction Engineering from UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, he got a Master Degree in Planning from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is specialized in Urban Planning and Economic.