Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Shell E&P

Rob Ryan, a registered professional petroleum engineer, joined Shell in New Orleans in 1981 and subsequently held positions in various petroleum engineering roles. In 1988, he transferred to Houston as division engineer, overseeing projects in west Texas and New Mexico before being assigned to Shell Oil's business planning and economics group. In 1991, he accepted a position in liquefied natural gas marketing, supply and trading with Shell International Gas in London. After further gas and LNG assignments in Malaysia and Australia from 1993 through 1997, he briefly returned to Houston as new business development manager. In early 1999, he became global gas business development coordinator for Shell International E&P in The Hague, and in early 2002 he moved into a corporate governance role as regional business advisor for North America. In mid-2003 he returned to Houston as vice president corporate affairs for E&P in the Americas region where he is responsible for business planning and strategy; government and external affairs; health, safety, environment and sustainable development.

Ryan is scheduled to speak at 9:15 a.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

Scott D. Sheffield began his career with Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co. in Midland, Texas, where he was the sole staff engineer. He was named chief executive officer of Parker & Parsley in 1984 and was elected chairman of the board in 1991 of the newly listed public company. Sheffield holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Parker & Parsley merged with MESA Inc. to form Pioneer Natural Resources Co. in August 1997 and immediately began building an exploration program to drive the next tier of growth. Sheffield was named president and CEO of Pioneer and was subsequently elected chairman of the board in August 1999. Today, Pioneer is one of the largest public oil and gas independents in North America with more than 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent reserves and an enterprise of $7.5 billion.

Sheffield is scheduled to speak at 9:40 a.m.

President of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.

Steve Marshall's current position is his third assignment related to the company's Alaskan operations in his 28-year career with BP. He is responsible for BP's oil and gas exploration, development and production activities on Alaska's North Slope, as well as its interests in the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and various North Slope oil sale lines.

Prior to becoming president of BP's Alaskan operations in September 2001, he was regional president of BP's United Kingdom upstream business, based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Previously, he was chief of staff for BP Amoco Exploration, based in London.

He served in various Prudhoe Bay operations and engineering functions in Anchorage and on Alaska's North Slope between 1978 and 1986, and as president of BP Oil Shipping in Cleveland between 1996 and 1998, he was responsible for marketing and delivery of BP's North Slope crude oil.

Marshall also has held various other engineering, operations and executive positions with the company in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Marshall is scheduled to give a local industry update at 10:30 a.m.

President of ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.

Jim Bowles began his career with Phillips Petroleum in 1974 and served in a number of positions in Oklahoma, Texas, Montana and Norway.

In 1997, he was appointed president of Phillips' Americas division, and in October of 2004, Bowles assumed his current position of president, ConocoPhillips Alaska.

He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and completed the Kellogg School of Management's Advanced Executive Program in 1999.

He served as a member of the board of directors of KCS Energy from 2003 to 2004 and has held various officer positions on the American Petroleum Institute and the National Ocean Industries Association boards. He currently serves on boards of directors for the Alaska Oil and Gas Association and the Nature Conservancy of Alaska.

Bowles is scheduled to speak along with ConocoPhillips' executive vice president of exploration and production, William Berry, at 10:55 a.m.

Executive Vice President of Exploration and Production for ConocoPhillips

W.B. (Bill) Berry began his career with Phillips Petroleum Co. in 1976 in Houston, and served the company in El Dorado, Arkansas; London; Odessa, Texas and Abidjan, Africa. He was named manager for international exploration and production in China in 1992, and in 1995 was named China country manager, worldwide drilling and production. Berry was recognized by the government of China as one of the 31 outstanding foreign experts in 1996. He became vice president of international exploration and production, new ventures, in 1997 and vice president of exploration and production, Eurasia, in 1998. In 2001, he was elected senior vice president of exploration and production, Eurasia-Middle East, a position he held until the ConocoPhillips merger occurred in August 2002. Following the merger, he served as president, Asia Pacific, until year-end 2002, when he was named to his current position.

A native of Mississippi, Berry was born in 1952. He grew up in Gulfport, Miss., and graduated in 1974 from Mississippi State University with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering. In 1976, he received his master's degree in petroleum engineering. He served on the board of the Beijing International School from 1996 to 1997, and currently serves on the Dean's Development Council at Mississippi State University. He also serves on the Asia Society Texas Board, a regional center for the national Asia Society institution; the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering Board of Visitors; the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas; and the board of trustees for Spindletop International.

Berry is scheduled to speak along with ConocoPhillips' Alaska president James Bowles at 10:55 a.m.

President of Van Meurs & Associates Ltd.

Pedro H. van Meurs is the state of Alaska's lead negotiator in talks with the three major North Slope oil and gas producers on a $20 billion natural gas pipeline project to the Lower 48. Van Meurs has been president of Van Meurs & Associates Ltd. and has provided petroleum consulting services through the firm for 28 years in or with respect to 70 countries in the world. He received his doctorate in economic geology from State University in Utrecht in The Netherlands, where he worked as an assistant professor from 1967 to 1970. From 1970 to 1973, van Meurs headed the International Petroleum Developments division for the Canadian federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. From 1974 to the present he has led his own firm that, worldwide, offers consulting services, provides training sessions and publishes works on natural resources and economic systems. Van Meurs' resume reads like a world atlas index page, detailing the myriad projects he has participated in around the globe. Since 2001 van Meurs has headquartered a new international firm, Van Meurs Corp., in the Bahamas, where he now resides.

Van Meurs is scheduled to speak at 1:15 p.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Associated Builders & Contractors Inc.

Since October 2000, M. Kirk Pickerel CAE has lead the Associated Builders & Contractors Inc., a national trade association of more than 23,000 construction and construction related firms in

79 local chapters. As ABC's senior staff member, he directs a national staff of 80 professionals at the association's headquarters in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Arlington, Va. Prior to his current position, he was ABC's national vice president of member services; and from 1990 until 1999, he was president of the ABC Southeast Pennsylvania chapter. He joined ABC in 1983 as membership director of its Virginia chapter.

Pickerel also serves as a trustee and president of the Trimmer Education Foundation, a nonprofit foundation to promote training and management education within the construction industry. He also serves as a director of the for-profit ABC Services Corp. and is publisher of its monthly magazine, Construction Executive.

Prior to his career at ABC, Pickerel was a Baptist minister. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond in Virginia with a degree in English and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., where he received a master's degree in religious education. He is active in University of Richmond alumni activities, and established an annual scholarship there in 2004.

Pickerel is scheduled to speak at 1:40 p.m.

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada

Cheryl Knight has more than 20 years of experience in various human resources disciplines within a range of business settings across Canada. Her industry experience includes petroleum, financial, transportation and post-secondary education. Knight holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's of education degree in counseling.

The Petroleum HR Council represents the primary sectors of the upstream petroleum industry in Canada, exploration and production, service industries, pipeline transmission, gas processing, and heavy oil and bitumen mining, extracting and upgrading.

Knight is scheduled to speak at 2:05 p.m.

President of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association

As president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), David MacInnis is responsible for the day-to-day operations of CEPA, including recommending policy direction to achieve the goals and further the mission of the association. A journalist by profession, MacInnis has also worked in the Government of Canada, first in the Prime Minister's Office, and later as senior advisor to then Minister of Natural Resources Canada, Ralph Goodale. He has also worked for the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, serving as vice president of public affairs with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. MacInnis is a recipient of the Institute of Corporate Directors professional designation for Canadian directors, and is a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Centre for Energy Information, the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada and EnForm, a petroleum industry institute created to enhance employee safety and deliver training programs.