Panel discussion: The shape of things to come

Ali Moore has more than 30 years experience as a journalist and broadcaster, working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia’s Nine Network, and for the BBC’s global news network, based in Singapore. She has covered major news and current affairs events across the region, including as the ABC’s China Correspondent in Beijing. Ali is a former Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, producing and presenting the This is Not A Drill series of hypotheticals with Asialink, the ABC and the Wheeler Centre. She is now a freelance broadcaster and journalist, and regular program host on ABC Radio Melbourne.

Tony Nunan was appointed Executive Vice President Integrated Gas Australia and Country Chair for Shell Australia in January 2020. With degrees in Land Resource Science from the University of Queensland and Law from the University of New England, Tony joined QGC as Legal Counsel in 2008. He also served as General Manager Land and Community, Vice President Asset Management and Vice President Operations for BG Group following its acquisition of QGC. Tony assumed the role of Managing Director QGC in 2015, as the business commenced production operations. Following Shell’s combination with BG Group, he was appointed Vice President East for Shell Australia before assuming his current role as Executive Vice President Integrated Gas Australia and Country Chair.

Kahina is the Emissions Management business director, a new venture Schlumberger launched in May 2021 to support Energy customers to monitor and reduce their methane and routine flare emissions. Prior to this role, she held the position of marketing and strategy director Digital and Integration following the formation of this fast-growing division of Schlumberger in July 2020. She was the natural choice for the role, having previously been vice president of marketing for the Schlumberger software product line, since January 2017, and executive communication manager for the executive management of Schlumberger Limited, since 2015. Between 2008 and 2015 Kahina was posted internationally to a variety of management and strategic roles within the organisation. She joined Schlumberger in 2008 following a varied career in technical and business consulting positions. Kahina holds an Associate degree in Mathematics, a Master and Engineering degree from Institut d’Optique, and a Doctorate in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique, France.

Mr Gallagher joined Santos as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer on 1 February 2016, bringing more than 25 years’ international experience in oil and gas operations. Mr Gallagher is a member of the Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability Committee and is also a Director of Santos Finance Limited. In 2019, he was elected Chairman of the Board of the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA). Mr Gallagher commenced his career as a drilling engineer with Mobil North Sea, before joining Woodside in Australia in 1998. At Woodside, Mr Gallagher led the drilling organisation through rapid growth, delivering several Australian and international development projects and exploration campaigns, before leading the Australian oil business. Then, as CEO of the North West Shelf Venture, he was responsible for production from Australia’s first-ever LNG project, which underpinned a new domestic gas market, fuelling the mining sector and other industries in Western Australia. In 2011 Mr Gallagher joined ASX listed Clough Limited as CEO and Managing Director where, over four years, he transformed the business and delivered record financial results. He oversaw the development of innovative programs to improve safety and drive productivity and executed an international expansion strategy. Following the successful turnaround at Clough, Mr Gallagher led the eventual sale of Clough Limited to their major shareholder Murray and Roberts. Since joining Santos Mr Gallagher has restructured the company and implemented the Transform Build and Grow strategy focussed on five core asset hubs, significantly reduced costs and instituted a disciplined operating model, strengthened the balance sheet and improved production. Under Mr Gallagher’s leadership, Santos is now focussed on a long-life portfolio of natural gas assets with some exciting oil and liquids opportunities and is progressing a world-leading carbon capture and storage project in the Cooper Basin that can be an enabler for a transition to a future hydrogen business. The company is well positioned to deliver significant growth and sustainable returns to shareholders throughout the commodity price cycle.

Dr Patrick Hartley is the leader of CSIRO’s Hydrogen Industry Mission. In this role he is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of a major new national research initiative which was launched in May 2021, focussed on delivering research, development and demonstrations which enable the scaleup of Australia’s domestic and export hydrogen industries. In 2018, he established CSIRO’s Hydrogen Energy Systems Future Science Platform. This major initiative focusses on addressing research challenges which underpin the development of hydrogen energy value chains in Australia. During this time, he co-led the formulation of CSIRO’s National Hydrogen Roadmap, and, with the Chief Scientist of Australia, the briefing paper Hydrogen for Australia’s Future which was presented to the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) Energy council in August 2018. From 2014–2019 he led the Oil, Gas and Fuels research program within CSIRO’s Energy Business Unit. The program comprises 85 research staff and students working on applied research projects which span the energy resources value chain, with a particular emphasis on the sustainable development of Australia’s petroleum resources and on the associated challenges of large scale carbon dioxide storage. Patrick graduated with a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 1994, and was subsequently awarded a research fellowship from the Royal Society, London, which allowed him to take up full time research fellowship roles at the University of Melbourne from 1994 to 1998, when he joined CSIRO as a research scientist. Since then, he has led research teams working with national and international large corporations and SMEs to develop new technologies for applications in drug delivery, energy storage, water treatment and petrochemical recovery. He has co-authored more than 90 peer reviewed publications almost all in collaboration with university and/or other research institution partners. Patrick has occupied senior research management roles in CSIRO since 2006, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He holds an Adjunct Professorship at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Iman Hill was appointed Executive Director of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) in December 2020. She also serves as a non-executive Independent Board Director of Oil Spill Response Ltd. (OSRL) and as a non-executive Director on the Board of United Oil and Gas. Iman is a petroleum engineer with 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry with extensive global expertise in the technical and commercial aspects of the petroleum business, in particular field development, capital projects, and production operations. Iman’s experience has been gained in the Middle East, North and West Africa, South America, the Asia Pacific region, and the North Sea in a number of diverse settings from onshore to ultra deepwater. She began her career with BP, and worked in a variety of technical positions before becoming a Senior Reservoir Engineer. In 1995, she joined Shell International, where she held positions such as Senior Regional Adviser Africa to the E&P CEO and the Chairman of Shell, as well as GM Shell Egypt and Chairwoman of Shell Companies in Egypt. As Senior Vice President Brazil, Iman also led BG Group’s first ultra deepwater development of the super-giant Santos Basin pre-salt fields. Additionally, at BG, as SVP Developments and Operations, Iman was responsible for driving top quartile performance in operations and well engineering. Iman has also held the positions of VP Africa at Sasol and Technical Director, GM UAE and President Egypt for Dana Gas, where she also ran the one of the Egyptian join ventures in her role as Managing Director and board member of the Egyptian Bahraini Gas Derivatives Company. She is Egyptian and a mother of five.