Speakers

• Professor Richard Auty - Feature Speaker
• Mr. Ewart Williams
• Professor Paul Stevens
• Ms. Valerie Mercer-Blackman
• Mr. Matthew Genasci
• Mr. Hunter Munroe
• Mr. Jason Joseph Cotton
• Dr. Wayne Bertrand
• Mr. Mark Regis
• Mr. Steven Greenleaf
• Mr. John Andrews
• Mr. Peter Mitchell

Dr. Wayne Bertrand - Session 3 - Regulatory Regime in Hydrocarbon Based Economies

 

 

Wayne Gerrard Bertrand (P. Geol) retired in 2008 as President-Operations at the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Petrotrin). He is now a Distinguished Fellow in Practice (Petroleum Studies) and Head of the Petroleum Studies Unit in the Faculty of Engineering at The University of the West Indies. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Geology from the University of the West Indies in 1969 and a M.Sc. in Geology from the University of British Colombia in 1972. He has 39 years experience in the energy industry holding positions from Senior Geologist at Shell Canada Limited to President-Operations at Petrotrin.  Along the way he has served in several technical, managerial and leadership positions in all phases of the Petroleum Value Chain.

 

He has also been the Petrotrin Visiting Fellow and initial Program Coordinator of the B.Sc Petroleum Geoscience Program at the University of the West Indies (2001-2004) and Convenor of the Academic/Industry Committee for this programme (2001-2008). He has published and/or presented over thirty (35) papers both locally and internationally. He has held several corporate Directorships and is currently a Director of Neal and Massy Energy Ltd , Voyager Energy (Trinidad) Ltd, Niko Resources (Trinidad and Tobago) Ltd and is Chairman of Ventrin Petroleum Co Ltd.

 

Wayne is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG), the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago (GSTT), the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) and was the Petrotrin representative on several business organizations and on ARPEL. He was presented with the SPETT Distinguished award in 1995 and 2005, and was made an Honorary Member of the GSTT in 2002.  In 2006, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from GSTT, and in 2008 received the SPEI Regional award (Latin America and the Caribbean) for Production and Operations.   In 2007 January, he was appointed Chairman of the Occupational Safety and Health Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, for a three (3) year term ending 2010 January.

 

Wayne is married to Aimee for the last 42 yrs.