Larry Robey is an experienced international fuel strategist, negotiator and independent power specialist. Mr. Robey has over 24 years of industry experience in professional and management roles and as an independent consultant for large energy companies. His employers have included British Petroleum (now BP Amoco), Superior Oil and, most recently, the leading IPP company, CRSS, Inc., now known as Tractebel Power, Inc. His early career was spent working for E & P companies on major transactions including gas contract negotiations, end-user and LDC market development and a variety of commercial oil and gas matters including price renegotiations, take-or-pay negotiations, gas processing, gathering, firm transportation commitments, litigation, and export and import permitting. He participated directly in large oil and gas and pipeline acquisitions, international exploration and development joint ventures and property divestitures. For BP Exploration, Mr. Robey served as the in-country commercial manager for a $150 million joint venture oil and gas development in British Columbia, Canada and resided in Calgary, Alberta for two years.

For CRSS his responsibilities included developing all fuel and feed stock strategies for gas and oil-fired power and industrial energy projects. Mr. Robey implemented those strategies by arranging and negotiating agreements for long-term supply, transportation, storage and back-up fuels when appropriate. Mr. Robey’s strategy of utilizing an adjacent gas storage field, in conjunction with firm capacity sharing, formed the basis of a CRSS proposal for the first fully dispatchable power plant in the Northwest US. As a result, the Bonneville Power Administration, an agency of the US federal government, awarded an option development agreement to CRSS for a 500 MW facility. Mr. Robey functioned as lead project developer for a variety of major domestic US and international IPP projects in the Middle East, the Far East, Africa and South America. Mr. Robey traveled extensively in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1995 identifying and assessing potential independent power opportunities and the regulatory and market environment in the Kingdom.

Since initiating his consulting practice in late 1995, Mr. Robey has assisted clients with the acquisition of interests in five major gas-fired power generation facilities totaling over $600 million and the acquisition of oil and gas reserves and a gathering system exceeding $40 million. For one client, Mr. Robey identified and then negotiated an option to lease an idle 65 mile pipeline to access lower cost wellhead gas supplies for an existing cogeneration facility and potential merchant capacity. Mr. Robey has conducted numerous studies and developed fuel strategies for merchant power plants and industrial energy facilities. Mr. Robey has identified candidates and solicited competitive long term energy tolling/power marketing proposals for proposed merchant power plants. Recently, Mr. Robey was responsible for the strategy and fuel supply arrangements for two merchant plant projects in Texas totaling over 1200 MW. For another recent client he developed fuel and long term firm transportation arrangements in support of 20 year tolling agreements at two 810 MW power plants under construction in Mississippi.

Mr. Robey has consulted for American National Power, BP Amoco, Boan Contracting, CHI Power, Citicorp, Citizens Power, Destec Energy (now known as Dynegy), Duke Energy, Edison Mission, Gateway Energy, Hoechst Celanese, Koch Power, NRG Energy, PG&E National Energy Group (formerly US Generating), Pierce Junction Petroleum, Proler International, UMC Petroleum (now known as Ocean Energy), UtiliCorp and Tractebel.

Mr. Robey organized the predecessor to BP's independent US gas/power trading group, Standard Gas Marketing Co. and served as its first vice president. He was elected to represent over 150 oil and gas producers to the Audit Committee of the largest Canadian natural gas aggregator/marketer. He was a founding member and served on the Executive Committee of the Gas Industry Standards Board (GISB). He served as a representative to the Fuel Managers Association, the US IPP industry's fuel trade association.

Mr. Robey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas.

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