Ben has over 35 years’ experience including periods spent in senior management roles as well as in consulting, focused especially on Europe and Africa but including most other regions of the world. His expertise spans oil markets and trading, commercial, refining, tanker shipping and infrastructure.
His career has included seven years as Head of Oil Marketing at Africa-focused Tullow Oil and previously fifteen years at Enterprise Oil, as well as earlier roles in oil trading and refinery supply co-ordination at BP. He also spent a decade in consulting, including as Vice President, Downstream Consulting and SME for oil infrastructure at Wood Mackenzie.
Ben has managed and executed downstream consulting projects on transaction support, market reviews, government policy support and oil marketing strategy and business process reviews, as well as providing expert witness and training and development services.
Examples of Ben’s experience include:
Oil Marketing:
Price Risk Management
Oil Pricing and Valuation:
Oil Refining Economics
Oil Logistics and Infrastructure:
Oil Industry Training:
Although David’s first degree was in geology he has an MBA from the London Business School and is highly numerate. He is particularly skilled in the valuation of traded options and the real option modelling of assets including embedded options that are frequently over-looked by asset owners. His knowledge of derivatives and complex strategies is formidable. Bu,t David also has hands on physical trading experience in the Atlantic Basin as a “relationship” trader.
His recent US Gulf Coast experience puts him in an ideal position to participate in the debate of the evolution of the Brent benchmark pricing basket to include WTI Midland.
Following several years trading crude oil and refined products for BP, he held senior management positions in BP’s crude oil and refined product trading teams for ten years, gaining extensive knowledge of both physical oil and derivative markets.
In his career Grahame has also worked as Commercial Director of BP Shipping, served on the shareholder committee of BP’s ROG refining joint venture with Rosneft, served as a director of BP’s Nigermed joint venture with NNPC and spent several years in international business development and origination roles.
Grahame has extensive experience of entrepreneurial oil trading, oil supply and crude oil marketing as well as price and operational risk management within large complex trading operations.
Grahame also played a material role in the evolution of the Brent or BFOE market over the last 15 years.
Lindsay has extensive knowledge of the key financial matrices from OTC Derivatives (bilateral and exchange cleared) to direct futures execution
Lindsay worked for Goldman Sachs in their commodity group for 17 years in both in London and Singapore. Prior to he worked for Lehman Brothers, AIG and Drexel Burnham as an OTC derivatives sales person or a futures broker. Most recently he worked at Mercuria in London.
