Christopher Peponis, is a Partner of Latham & Watkin. 

Mr. Peponis advises clients on project development and transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors, including liquefied natural gas (LNG) and small-scale LNG, gas-to-power, gas pipelines, biodiesel, petrochemicals, natural gas liquids (NGLs), hydrogen, renewable power generation, and shipping.

He leverages extensive global LNG and maritime experience and a background in chemical engineering to help clients navigate greenfield and brownfield LNG liquefaction projects, floating liquefaction, and onshore and offshore (floating storage unit (FSU) and floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) regasification terminals.

Before joining Latham, Peponis worked as a catalytic cracking and hydrofluoric acid alkylation process engineer, commodity trader, and in-house counsel for Shell, in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the US.

Stephen Thompson, is Global Head of LNG, Natural Gas, & Clean Fuel at Poten & Partners. 

Mr. Thompson is responsible for its LNG, natural gas, and clean fuel advisory services, spanning commercial, markets, technical and marine. He joined Poten in 2005 as a senior consultant in New York and was its Asia Pacific Manager from 2011 to 2018.  

Before joining Poten, he was Exploration & Production Manager for Chevron in Colombia, and Fiscal Manager for Texaco in Angola. He has post-graduate degrees in Law & Diplomacy (Fletcher School, Tufts University) and International Business Studies (Moore School, University of South Carolina). 

Rafael Segovia, is CCS Commercial Manager at Shell plc.

Mr. Segovia has recently joined the Shell LNG Trading business as an Account Manager. He is responsible for originating, negotiating and closing purchases & sales opportunities with customers and suppliers in the Americas region. Rafael joined Shell in 2013 as an experienced hire after finishing his MBA at Kellogg. He has a comprehensive background in LNG, spanning from project screening and development, agreements negotiation, LNG operations and JV governance.

His journey in LNG began almost two decades ago as a project engineer during the construction of the Peru LNG Plant. After construction, he became the Shipping Coordinator for PLNG and account manager for the SPA, managing the plant’s LNG offtake and leading the interface between plant operations and the offtaker. When joining Shell, he led the commercial governance of Shell’s 20% equity in the NOV and led the downstream LNG business in Peru from inception. He started his career in Upstream, managing the sales of NGL’s in the Americas. In the past three years as the commercial manager for CCS-US, he has spearheaded the origination and business development efforts by maturing the CCS customer funnel, deploying innovative and creative commercial constructs.