Renewed energy in Asia’s upstream

Gero Farruggio joined Rystad in November 2017 and is responsible for the overall business in Australia and Rystad’s global renewable energy offerings. Gero brings over 20 years of industry and community service experience, including directorship, senior management, consulting and advisory roles. Gero is Head of Rystad Australia and the cofounder of Sustainable Energy Research Analytics – A Rystad Energy Company, based in Sydney. Gero is a member of the editorial board for Ecogeneration magazine, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a mentor for EnergyLab, the Sydney-based clean energy accelerator. Gero started his career at Schlumberger, where he demonstrated the commercial value of geosteering technology in Venezuela and Nigeria, publishing a selection of papers on innovations for the optimisation of horizontal oil wells. Gero then spent 16 years at Wood Mackenzie, as Director of Wood Mackenzie Australia Pty Ltd and responsible for Americas and APAC Upstream research. In November 2017, Rystad Energy acquired Sustainable Energy Research Analytics (SERA), where Gero was Managing Director specialising in renewable energy research and advisory. Gero graduated in mechanical engineering (MEng, ACGI) from Imperial College London and has an MBA from Edinburgh University.

David Dixon has an undergraduate degree in Petroleum Engineering, with a Masters of Photovoltaic Engineering from the University of New South Wales. David has 6 years’ experience in the energy (upstream and solar) industry, with Shell, Woodside and Solgen Energy. David’s roles have included production technologist at Shell working on the development of the Prelude and Concerto wells supplying gas to Prelude’s floating LNG, completions engineer on key Australian oil and gas projects, including Browse, Enfield and Pluto, and engineer at Solgen working on commercial solar. David works as a renewables analyst covering the Australian Market and is based in Rystad’s Sydney office.