Oil Storage Virtual Conference

Bert has always been involved in advising and arranging multiple financings for large projects and corporates in the Energy sector. In the Storage space his team has financed various transactions with Vopak, Oiltanking, Varo, Puma, Gunvor, Vesta and many financial infrastructure players and local storage companies.

Prior to starting at ING in 2005, Bert has had similar responsibilities at Shell, EBRD and ABNAMRO -including policy and strategy discussions.
Currently Bert is member of the ING Energy Sector Management Team. Bert holds an MBA from INSEAD and a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Twente.

Eduard Ruijs is a Managing Director in the Global Energy & Power Infrastructure funds, which currently manage $8 billion for investment in the power, midstream, utility and other areas in the energy sector across two 15-year funds. BlackRock acquired the Funds in 2017, which were created and built at First Reserve, a private equity firm that has been investing in exclusively in the energy sector since 1983. Mr. Eduard Ruijs is leading the London team responsible for investment origination, execution and exit strategy, focusing on the energy infrastructure sector in EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

In February 2019 the London team entered into a landmark infrastructure partnership with KKR and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to form a new entity – ADNOC Oil Pipelines, in which BlackRock and KKR will collectively hold a 40% interest. It will lease ADNOC’s ownership interest in 18 pipelines transporting stabilized crude oil and spread across ADNOC’s offshore and onshore upstream concessions for a 23-year period.

At First Reserve, Eduard Ruijs was a Managing Director of the European Energy Infrastructure team and led its investments in the First Reserve energy infrastructure funds. Prior to joining First Reserve in 2011, Eduard was an Investment Director & Partner with NIBC Infrastructure Partners, a Europe focused infrastructure fund manager, where he executed several investments in the renewable energy and midstream sectors, and served on the Boards of those companies. Prior to NIBC, he was a senior Principal with Boston Consulting Group's Energy Practice in London, and a Manager with A.T. Kearney Ltd, where he also advised mostly energy clients. Eduard Ruijs earned a M. Juris in Law and Economics of Oxford University where he was a Chevening Scholar, an MSc (Drs) in Economics and MA (Mr.) in Law from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, a Bachelor in Business Administration of Nijenrode University in the Netherlands, and obtained an Executive MBA from Michigan Business School as well as graduated from the government sponsored Japan Prizewinners Programme at Leiden University.

M. Nicolas J. Firzli is director-general of the World Pensions Council (WPC), the global think-tank & asset owners association. He is a graduate of Canada’s McGill University (Statistics & Financial Economics), an alumnus of the HEC School of Management (MBA Corporate Strategy & Marketing) and the University of Paris Law School (LL.M. Corporate Law, summa cum laude) and has conducted research at the University of Louvain (UCL) Doctoral School of Economics and Management in Waals Brabant.
Mr. Firzli is co-chair of the World Pensions Forum (WPF) held annually in a G12/EU capital, coordinator of the G7 Pensions Roundtable held on the sidelines of the G7 Summit, co-chair of the Singapore Economic Forum (SEF APAC+ Summit) and cofounding-member & advisory councillor of the World Bank Group Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF).
He has chaired the main Asset Owners Roundtable of the 2015 Climate Change Conference (Paris COP 21 Summit) and (co)authored and helped develop key notions such as “Modern Trusteeship and Fiduciary Capitalism”, “The SDG–Driven World Economy”, “The Pension Wealth of Nations”, “Sustainable Finance Shifting the Trillions”, “The Geoeconomic Century” and “Infrastructure as an Asset Class”

Find out more: https://worldpensions.org

James Preciado is the Director of Integrated and International Analysis at the Energy Information Administration (EIA). He oversees production of the Short-Term Energy Outlook, Annual Energy Outlook, and the International Energy Outlook. James has been with EIA for 11 years and has a background in petroleum market modeling and financial market analysis. He holds a Master’s of Science in Financial Engineering from Claremont Graduate University.

Dr. Fahad M. Alturki is Vice President of Research at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC). He was also the Chair of T20 Saudi Arabia 2020, a G20 engagement group.

Fahad is a board member of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) and an independent member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Energy Efficiency Center and the General Authority of Statistics. He is also a founding board member of the Saudi Financial Association. He was the chief economist and head of research at the Jadwa Investment Company.

Fahad has over 20 years’ experience in economics, including as the chief economist at Barclays Saudi Arabia, an economic specialist at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, and an economist at the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from King Saud University and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Oregon.

As CEO of Matrix Global helped develop the energy market’s first derivative on oil storage capacity. Over the past five- and half-years Matrix’s auction programs have sold over 500 billion barrels of storage capacity. The majority has been at the LOOP facility in the U.S. Gulf Coast, but a significant volume has also been auctioned in Cushing Oklahoma, the delivery point for WTI the most liquid physical commodity in the world. Just recently, Matrix ran the first of its kind auction for refined product term storage, at the Oiltanking Copenhagen facility.
An expert in understanding the relationship between derivative risk products and their application to the physical market, Mr. Redoglia brings more than 35 years of financial product and new technologies development to Matrix Global.
Beginning his energy career in 1980 as an analyst in the Refining and Marketing Group at Tosco Corporation, Mr. Redoglia progressed to an energy specialist with the London-based broker-dealer Agra, Gill & Duffus. In 1985, he started his 17-year tenure as a senior vice president with Merrill Lynch, the industry leader as measured by cleared contracts on NYMEX futures and options. Merrill Lynch operations sold to ABN AMRO in July 2000, and Mr. Redoglia worked as co-managing director in charge of reorganizing London operations. This career track placed him at the inception of every major energy contract developed, going back to NYMEX WTI, IPE Brent and the abandoned LLS CBOT contract. This experience enabled him to participate in how the industry dealt with these new risk products and discuss their utilization as a means to manage risk.
For the past 12 years, Mr. Redoglia has served as a director with Global Energy Horizons to assist energy and natural resource companies with commercializing new technologies.
He holds a B.A. in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Series 3 and 65 qualified by the NFA.