Opening Ceremony

• Dr. Ramón Méndez, National Director of Energy and Nuclear Technology

• Milton Costa Filho, Chairman of the ARPEL Board of Directors

• Raúl Sendic, President of ANCAP

•José Félix García García, ARPEL Executive Secretary

Conference – “Overview of the Oil and Gas Industry in Latin America and the Caribbean”

Moderator: Ruth Potopsingh, Group Managing Director Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ)

• Fareed Mohamedi, Partner & Head of Markets and Country Strategies Group (PFC ENERGY)

Conference – “ARPEL and Sustainable Development”

Moderator: Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri, Deputy Director of the Media General Division (RepsolYPF)

• José Félix García, ARPEL Executive Secretary

Panel – “Regional and Global Energy Security”

Moderator: Irani Varella, Chairman PETROBRAS Uruguay

•James Burkhard, Managing Director (CERA’s Global Oil Group) )

•Carlos Florez, Executive Secretary - Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE)

•Peter Fontana , Vice-president for Latin America (Weatherford)

•Gary Ward, Western Hemisphere Director (United States Department of Energy - DOE)

Conference – “Human Rights and Ethics in the Oil & Gas Industry”

Moderator: Tomás Hess, Public Affairs Director, (ExxonMobil Latin America)

• Víctor Rodriguez Rescia, Director, Human Rights Center for the Americas (Chicago DePaul University)

Lunch – Luncheon speech: Promotion of the 2009 Uruguay Round

•Héctor De Santa Ana, Exploration and Production Manager (ANCAP)

Panel “Corporate Governance and Transparency”

Round Table 1“Health Risk Management”

What are we doing regarding risk prevention? Normative and management issues

Moderator: Alfonso Morales y Favela, Advisor on Occupational Health to the Deputy Director of Operational Discipline, Safety, Health and Environmental Protection (PEMEX)

• Eucaris Alzate Parra, Thematic Leader on Occupational Health (ECOPETROL)

• Manuel Cordido, Regional Coordinator Industrial Hygiene for America South (ExxonMobil)

• Francisco Bogado, Environment and Hygiene Manager (Total)

• Marco García Sáenz, Medical Services Coordinator (RECOPE)

Round Table 2“Physical Integrity of Industry Facilities”

Best practices and assessment of an efficient management of the reliability of facilities. Design of facilities, processes and operations integrity.

Moderator: Hermann Ubbenjans, Manager Production and Development (Wintershall)

• Ji Hoon Hyun, Safety and Environment Manager (Hyundai Engineering)

• Juan Carlos Villegas, Head of the Operational Reliability Department (ECOPETROL)

• Anibal Fernandes Junior, Operational Manager of the Guanabara Bay Terminal (PETROBRAS)

• Guillermo Camacho, Corporate Deputy Director of Operational Discipline, Safety, Health and Environmental Protection (PEMEX)

• Federico Ernst, Head of Integrity (YPF (RepsolYPF Group))

Round Table 3“Social Responsibility and Value Chain – Suppliers and Contractors”

How to add value supporting the capacity building of socially responsible suppliers.

Moderator: Marcela Fajardo Adárraga, Corporate Planning Advisor (ECOPETROL)

• Paulina Beato Blanco, Advisor (RepsolYPF)

• Jorge Melo Vega, General Manager (RESPONDE)

• Luis Fernando Nery, Social Responsibility Manager (PETROBRAS)

Round Table 4 “Biofuels in the Energy Sector”

Sustainability in biofuels production. Issues related to: operations, logistics and environment, health and safety. Technological advances. Present status and trends in biofuels specifications.

Moderator: Ernani Filgueiras, Supply and Petrochemicals Manager (IBP)

• Federico Ganduglia, Responsible for the Agro-energy Agenda (Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Argentina)

• Analía Acosta, Direct Sales and Aviation Department (YPF (RepsolYPF Group))

• José Guillermo León Florez, Professional Staff, Refining Vice-presidency (ECOPETROL)

• Fabio Rosa de Carvalho, Assistant to the Director of Participations (PETROBRAS Biocombustibles)

• Livia Kosaka, Latin America (International Fuels Quality Center & Global Biofuels Center)