Gabrielle Finger is Commercial Manager for Storegga (Houston, TX) working on Carbon Capture and Sequestration projects globally.

Previously, Gabrielle was Senior Commercial Advisor for Chevron New Energies (Houston, TX) working on Carbon Capture and Sequestration projects along the US Gulf Coast, focused on the Bayou Bend Project in the Golden Triangle region. Prior to the Chevron-Noble merger, Gabrielle worked as an international commercial advisor at Noble Energy for 10 years, working on various west Africa assets in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, focused on monetizing the Alen gas field through the EG Gas Mega Hub and the Yoyo-Yolanda cross border development. Commercially, Gabrielle has negotiated a wide range of agreements, including farmout agreements, unitization contracts/bilateral treaty, joint operating agreements, condensate/LPG/LNG sales agreements, joint venture agreements, capture and sequestration agreements, and various government granting instruments.

Gabrielle is a graduate of the Emerging Leaders Program at Chevron(2023), has an MBA from the University of Houston, and a BA from Washington University in St Louis. She is fluent in Spanish, knows enough French to be dangerous.

Gabrielle is the current Vice President of New Energies for AIEN.

Eric Fry is the Vice President of Education for the Association of International Energy Negotiators and a founding Director of its Foundation.  He was most recently engaged as a Senior Business Advisor for Lapis Energy in Dallas, a CCS solution developer. He also has served as an Executive in Residence for the Energy Management Program at UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business and has 40 years of experience in the domestic and international upstream oil and gas business. Prior to the UT engagement, he was with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation as Director, International Negotiations where he led a negotiations group, responsible for all non-U.S. negotiation activities within Anadarko’s international exploration portfolio. Previous to his experience at Anadarko, he was Director of Worldwide Negotiations for Pioneer Natural Resources, responsible for negotiating business development and commercial transactions relating to Pioneer’s international and domestic portfolio, including a three-year stint with Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation as Manager of Business Development.  He started with a 12-year career with Phillips Petroleum, working first as a Landman, and later as Senior International Negotiator, and Commercial Team Leader for the Unitization of the Bayu-Undan Fields (later to become the Darwin LNG Project).  He has conducted negotiations and performed business development activities in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.  Mr. Fry graduated from the University of Texas, graduating with degrees in Finance and Petroleum Land Management.  Since joining the AIPN in 1989 (now AIEN), he has held many Committee and Officer Positions and was AIEN President 2000-2001. He has been instrumental in initiating and participating in the AIEN Student Outreach Program for over twenty-five years, along with conducting many AIEN Faculty Presentations at various conferences and workshops.

Harry Sullivan is an International Energy Attorney based in Dallas, Texas, where he is an Executive Professor at Texas A&M School of Law and an Adjunct Professor at SMU’s Dedman School of Law. He also is an Assistant General Counsel for Kosmos Energy in their West Africa exploration activities. His previous experience includes fourteen years as Senior Counsel-International in the International E&P Legal Group of ConocoPhillips, Of Counsel with Thompson & Knight LLP, fifteen years as Chief Counsel-International and Senior Counsel for Atlantic Richfield Company and five years as Senior Counsel for Sun Oil Company. Mr. Sullivan has a J.D. degree from Louisiana State University School of Law and an LL.M. degree from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in the states of Louisiana and Texas and before the Supreme Court of the United States, and he is Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law in Texas. He is also admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales. His practice and experience focus on the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry, both in the U.S.A. and internationally.

David H. Sweeney is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Houston office and is head of the oil and gas group. He advises clients on a broad range of oil and gas, coal, and other natural resource, infrastructure, service, and corporate transactions. His engagements include more than US$100 billion of transaction value, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity finance and capital deployment, operational matters, and financial restructurings, spanning the entire natural resource value chain in over 30 countries.

David is a frequent author and speaker on oil and gas topics and has written a comprehensive book on world-wide joint operating agreements and another on worldwide farmout, participation, and similar agreements. He is the past chair of the Institute for Energy Law’s Young Energy Professionals group and the Association for International Energy Negotiators’ Young Negotiators Group and has served on the Executive committee of the Institute for Energy Law.